[2] The stories centered on the activities of Dr. Peter Goldstone (Broderick Crawford) and five medical interns at New North Hospital in Los Angeles.

The series dealt with issues of the day including the racism faced by one of the African American interns.

Most reviews were critical, citing the predictable and formulaic nature of the "new hip cast" of doctors.

In one scene, moreover, they all run down the street, as if they were doing a Pepsi commercial or auditioning for The Mod Squad, but they aren’t.

They are trying to catch a bearded orderly who has slipped poison to a dying patient who wanted to end it quickly.