
Dr. Mark Sloan is chief of Internal Medicine at Community General Hospital -- and sometime consultant to the local police department. When he's drawn into a case, he combines sleuthing and medicine to solve the crime. That crime is usually one his detective son, Steve, is working on as a member of the local police department. Dr. Sloan's medical colleagues, including doctors Amanda Bentley, Jack Stewart and Jesse Travis, are also frequently drawn into his investigations.
When a filmmaker begins using Community General Hospital as the location for an eerie documentary, Dr. Sloan discovers it may be haunted.
Steve wins a dream date on a game show, but the dream ends abruptly when Steve gets shot and his date is killed.
Mark (Dick Van Dyke) goes undercover as a nursing home patient to find out who is murdering the residents. With Barry Van Dyke and Victoria Rowell. Guest star: Charlotte Rae.
Mark battles the Marines to get to the truth behind an apparent suicide outside Steve and Jesse's restaurant.