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fore we got a baby that cried on cue.”) Medic, Moser believes, is blazing quite a few trails. “So far, NBC has been pretty broad-minded about it,” he says. “They’re up against some¬ thing brand-new and seem willing to go along, at least until the roof caves in. I don’t think it will.” The show has been in the works for three years. It had its birth back in the summer of 1951 as “The Doctor,” a one-shot on NBC-Radio, in col¬ laboration with Jack Webb. Moser was one of the original Dragnet writ¬ ers and was, in fact, largely respon¬ sible for the Dragnet format. He left Dragnet two years ago to devote his entire time to Medic. A serious-minded young man, he spent two years virtually living at the Los Angeles County General Hospital, gathering material. Part of Moser’s job was to sell the County Medical As¬ sociation on lending their official sup¬ port to the show, a job which took nine months. “But once they were sold,” he says, “they stayed sold. They’ve cooperated all the way.” An even tougher job was to sell the show to a network. NBC had turned it down once. But it came to the at¬ tention of Worthington (Tony) Miner, whom NBC had hired away from CBS to create new shows. Miner persuaded the network to put $25,000 into a pilot film. NBC liked the pilot, showed it to Dow Chemical Co., which bought it. Medic bears a strong family resem¬ blance to Dragnet, but has no one central character. “There will be no ‘Dr. Friday’,” Moser says drily. Rich¬ ard Boone, however, serves as some¬ thing of a host-narrator and, portray- Jim Moser, left, talks medicine with director Bernard Girard. Tough task: in first Medic, doctor * offered ill patient no hope. Richard Boone: no 'Dr. Friday' here. ing a general practitioner, will appear in roughly one third of the films. “It’s not a documentary show,” Moser emphasizes. “Each story is based on a number of case histories.” Hewing to the line of authenticity, Medic uses real doctors and nurses in almost every episode and does much of its shooting in real hospitals, clinics, doctors’ offices and operating rooms. Researching Medic, according to Moser, has been far tougher than keeping Dragnet authentic. “Catching on to the ways of a cop,” he says, “was child’s play compared to this.” A