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Richard Boone Symbolizes Physicians Of The Nation In TV's Stark 'Medic' In two-part drama, mother (Gloria She finds first night in Husband brings flowers McGhee) has urge to kill her child. mental hospital terrifying. and news about child. Two of the most authentically de¬ tailed shows in TV, Dragnet and Med¬ ic, spring pretty much from the same source. With Jack Webb as its creator and star, Dragnet was written, in its radio and early TV days, by James Moser. In the summer of 1950, Moser also wrote a single radio drama, “The Doctor,” which turned out to be the forerunner of Medic. One of the show’s doctors was an unknown bit player named Richard Boone. Today Boone plays Dr. Konrad Styner, host and frequent star of Medic, which was created and is written by Moser. If Dragnet is authentic. Medic is al¬ most appallingly so. Its recent two- parter on post-partum psychosis dealt with a subject generally considered taboo by the broadcasting industry— the post-birth mental condition of a woman bent on killing her own—or anyone else’s—baby. “There was only one way to do this kind of show,” Boone says thought- ◄ Dr. Styner (Richard Boones oeams at happy ending to stark Medic story. fully, “and that was simply and forth¬ rightly. ^ This Moser is a beautiful writer. He knows how to make the ‘dirty’ words sound like ‘hello’ or ‘goodbye.’ ” The post-partum story, “And There Was Darkness . . . And There Was Light,” was a far cry from the usual TV drama. The chief burden of its telling lay in the face of actress Gloria McGhee, who had to tread a wavering borderline between sanity and insan¬ ity, while her offstage voice told the story of “Frances Dunbar,” a mother of four children, whose own childhood experiences with sex instruction had turned her against her husband and later against her fourth baby. Boone has gained a lasting respect for Moser’s talent —and the medical profession—through his association with Medic. “I suppose,” he says, “that we ac¬ tors seemed just as strange at first to the doctors associated with Medic as they did to us. I think they all wear a protective veneer, a continued