Doc (2001 TV series)

Doc is an American medical drama with strong Christian undertones starring Billy Ray Cyrus as Dr. Clint "Doc" Cassidy, a Montana doctor who takes a job in a New York City medical clinic. It aired from March 11, 2001 to November 28, 2004 on Pax TV.

Doc
Genre	Medical drama
Created by	Dave Alan Johnson Gary R. Johnson
Starring	Billy Ray Cyrus Derek McGrath Richard Leacock Andrea C. Robinson Ron Lea Tyler Posey Tracy Shreve Ruth Marshall Paula Boudreau
Theme music composer	Billy Ray Cyrus
Opening theme	"Stand Still"
Composer	Jack Lenz
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	88
Production
Executive producers	Ken Hanes Marilyn Stonehouse Dave Alan Johnson
Producers	Larry A. McLean George Bloomfield
Production companies	Pebblehut Productions Paxson Entertainment
Original release
Network	PAX TV
Release	March 11, 2001 (2001-03-11) – November 28, 2004 (2004-11-28)

Although set in New York City, the series was shot in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 88 episodes were produced.

Plot summary

Doc follows rural doctor Clint "Doc" Cassidy who has taken a position at Westbury Clinic, a small medical center in New York City. Doc is a young Christian bachelor from the mountains of Montana, who brings his small-town values and ideology to an environment that seems to lack familiarity with them.

Supporting characters include the doctors, nurses and other staff of Westbury Clinic; a 10-year-old orphan, Raúl García; and a young couple, Nate and Beverly Jackson, who live in the same apartment building as Clint.

Themes

Each episode has three interconnecting plot lines; the predominant plot line follows Clint and his involvement in the lives of his patients. Another plot line involves Clint's relationship with his clinic coworkers, and the third involves the Jackson family. In later seasons, the Jackson family plot line or the clinic plot line is occasionally left out in preference to the predominant Clint one. The plot lines are then resolved at the end of each episode, when Clint writes an email to his guardian, Doc Johansson, back in Montana.

Characters

Westbury Clinic

• Dr. Clint "Doc" Cassidy (Billy Ray Cyrus) is a kindhearted doctor from Montana who has moved to New York to work at Westbury Clinic, a medical center adjacent to the local hospital. He initially left Montana to be with his girlfriend Samantha (Claudette Mink), but he breaks up with her in the pilot because they're from different worlds. Clint has a love for God and for people, making him a popular doctor at the clinic. He often likes to insert some bits of wisdom from Montana into the clinic team's activity. It is mentioned in some episodes that Clint's parents died when he was young; he was taken in by his hometown's doctor, Doc Johansson. This adoption leads to Clint's love for medicine. He is the show's main character.
• Nancy Nichols (Andrea C. Robinson) is a young nurse who is smart, energizing, and a bit vain. She possesses good bedside manners, common sense, and a sharp wit. She isn't afraid to speak her mind. Nancy's parents divorced when she was 12, and Nancy had a touching reunion with her mother, who had cancer at the time. This reunion, and the mother eventually succumbing to her cancer, were the focuses of two episodes of the shows. She and Clint have a mutual relationship that is the focus of several episodes. Clint proposes to her in the final episode, and she says "yes".
• Dr. Derek Hebert (Derek McGrath) is a portly, witty, insightful doctor who is a very good friend of Clint's. Derek is friends with the majority of clinical team (except for Dr. Crane) and, despite his soft-spoken personality, never afraid to get involved in anything the clinic is involved in. Derek has a wife, Nellie, and a daughter, Gracie. He fears small rodents, especially rats and mice.
• Donna Dewitt (Ruth Marshall) is the clinic-hospital administrator. She combines a warm heart with a focus on the bottom line. Her occasional role as an antagonist as a result of her goal of cutting costs contrasts with her warmth, approachability and unfailing support of the rest of the staff.
• Dr. Oliver Crane (Ron Lea) is frequently the antagonist of the series. He is egotistical and selfish, and usually more concerned with his individual convenience and getting recognition from peers (especially outside the clinic) than with his patients. He is also a schemer in a sense, trying to get money and compliments, but these almost always fail. But despite his mean, outspoken personality, Oliver did soften slightly toward the end of the show's run.
• Tippy Williams, later Tippy Doss (Paula Boudreau), appears in the pilot episode, and joins Westbury later in the first season. She thinks differently than most people, and often comes across as a bit of a dimwit. She keeps the team on their toes in a silly, geeky way, but shining through Tippy's somewhat woolly mind is a heart of gold that loves, sacrifices, and longs to learn.

Jackson Family

• Nate Jackson (Richard Leacock) is an officer with the New York Police Department. Nate Jackson is initially skeptical of Clint's country ways, but the two become close friends quickly. Nate is also a building supervisor, and arranges an apartment for Clint. He affectionately gives Clint the nickname "Country".
• Raul Garcia (Tyler Posey) is an orphaned boy who is 8 years old when the series starts and around 11–12 when it ends. He and his single mother were homeless, and they slept in the basement of a New York church before Mrs. Garcia became ill and died. Despite attempts to take Raul into custody by his abusive father, Raul ends up getting adopted by Nate and Beverly Jackson. He is a normal preteen boy who gets instruction on making wise choices from and his parents and from Clint, among others.
• Beverly Jackson (Tracy Shreve) is Nate's caring, conscientious wife who teaches at Raul's school. She gets pregnant in the first half of season three and gives birth to baby Mattie at the season's end.

Other supporting characters

• Justin (Demetrius Joyette) is Raul's best friend from school. They're good friends who often hang out together. Justin is a bit younger than Raul and sometimes lacks his older friend's good sense.
• Elliot (Taylor Abrahamse) is an aspiring violinist, but somewhat of a nerd. Raul and Justin are reluctant to hang out with him at first, but they soon come to learn that he is a good friend indeed.
• Steve "The Captain (later 'Major')" Doss (Kevin Jubinville) is a soldier in the U.S. Army who falls in love with Tippy and eventually marries her. He is generally good-natured and very army savvy (he speaks in the manner of a soldier on duty), but he has a tendency to be turgid and act irrationally.
• Jelly Bean (Kenny Robinson) and Junior (Billy Otis) are street Peddlers and good friends of Clint's. When they first met they tried to rob Clint but he stopped them and helped them change their ways.
• Dr. Harley Johanson (Neil Dainard) Is a mentor and friend to Clint Cassidy. He lives in Montana and is one of Clint's Best friends. Clint sees Harley as a father figure. Clint often e-mail's Harley at the end of each episode. He appears in 23 episodes.

Notable guest stars

• Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman appears in the season two episode "Fearless", as Raul's music teacher, Daniel Parson
• Cyrus' real-life daughter Miley Cyrus appears in three episodes; her on-screen acting debut in the Pilot (Part one; uncredited) as Kylie in season two, episode eight (credited as Destiny Hope); and in season four, episode six as Raul's friend; Cyrus's daughter Noah Cyrus appears in six episodes as Gracie Hebert
• Michael Cera appears in two season two episodes as Max, a distraught preteen boy whose parents are on the edge of divorce
• Sue Thomas appears in season five, episode seven
• Christian singer Jaci Velasquez appears in the season five episode "Nip, Tuck & Die"
• Christian singer CeCe Winans appears in season three, episode seven as Rosalyn Franklin, a poor Black widow whose young son has leukemia

Episodes

Season 1 (2001)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"Pilot"	George Bloomfield	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	March 11, 2001 (2001-03-11)
2	2
3	3	"Family Matters"	George Bloomfield	Dave Alan Johnson	March 18, 2001 (2001-03-18)
4	4	"All in a Day's Work"	E. Jane Thompson	Gary R. Johnson	March 25, 2001 (2001-03-25)
5	5	"You Gotta Have Heart"	Larry McLean	Joan Considine Johnson	April 1, 2001 (2001-04-01)
6	6	"The Ride"	George Bloomfield	Ed Tivnan	April 8, 2001 (2001-04-08)
7	7	"Captain Supremo: Have Tights, Will Travel"	Eric Till	Gary R. Johnson	April 22, 2001 (2001-04-22)
8	8	"The Art of Medicine"	Larry McLean	Ken Hanes	April 29, 2001 (2001-04-29)
9	9	"You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello"	George Bloomfield	Joan Considine Johnson	May 6, 2001 (2001-05-06)
10	10	"Love or Money"	Larry McLean	Gary R. Johnson	May 13, 2001 (2001-05-13)
11	11	"Face in the Mirror"	Terry Ingram	John Posey	May 20, 2001 (2001-05-20)

Season 2 (2001–02)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
12	1	"Blind Alley"	Barry Bergthorson	Dave Alan Johnson	September 9, 2001 (2001-09-09)
13	2	"I've Got a Secret"	Dave Allen Johnson	Brad Markowitz	September 16, 2001 (2001-09-16)
14	3	"Second Opinion"	J. Miles Dale	E.F. Wallengren	September 23, 2001 (2001-09-23)
15	4	"Home is Where the Heart is"	Stacey Stewart Curtis	Ken Hanes	September 30, 2001 (2001-09-30)
16	5	"Easy Money"	Stephan Fanfara	Ed Tivnan	October 7, 2001 (2001-10-07)
17	6	"Garbage In, Garbage Out"	Terry Ingram	Joan Considine Johnson	October 14, 2001 (2001-10-14)
18	7	"First Impressions"	Holly Dale	Kim Beyer-Johnson	October 28, 2001 (2001-10-28)
19	8	"No Time Like the Present"	Don McCutcheon	Joan Considine Johnson	November 4, 2001 (2001-11-04)
20	9	"Some Gave All"	Larry McLean	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	November 11, 2001 (2001-11-11)
21	10
22	11	"Gypsies, Janitors and Thieves"	Stephan Fanfara	Kim Beyer-Johnson	November 18, 2001 (2001-11-18)
23	12	"Tis the Season"	Larry McLean	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	December 16, 2001 (2001-12-16)
24	13	"All in the Family"	Barry Bergthorson	Ken Hanes	January 6, 2002 (2002-01-06)
25	14	"Busy Man"	Miles Dale	Brad Markowitz	January 20, 2002 (2002-01-20)
26	15	"My Boyfriend's Back"	Stephan Fanfara	Kim Beyer-Johnson	February 10, 2002 (2002-02-10)
27	16	"Fearless"	Carl Goldstein	E.F. Wallengren	February 17, 2002 (2002-02-17)
28	17	"Queen of Denial"	Larry McLean	Joan Considine Johnson	February 24, 2002 (2002-02-24)
29	18	"Citizen Crane"	Holly Dale	Gary R. Johnson	March 3, 2002 (2002-03-03)
30	19	"Love of the Game"	Larry McLean	Gary R. Johnson & E.F. Wallengren	March 24, 2002 (2002-03-24)
31	20	"Karate Kid"	Don McCutcheon	Brad Markowitz	March 31, 2002 (2002-03-31)
32	21	"The Commercial"	Larry McLean	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	April 28, 2002 (2002-04-28)
33	22	"My Secret Identity"	Stephan Fanfara	Ken Hanes	May 5, 2002 (2002-05-05)
34	23	"Time Flies"	Larry McLean	Joan Considine Johnson	May 12, 2002 (2002-05-12)
35	24	"Complicated"	Holly Dale	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	May 19, 2002 (2002-05-19)

Season 3 (2002–03)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
36	1	"Full Disclosure"	Larry McLean	Joan Considine Johnson & Gary R. Johnson	September 15, 2002 (2002-09-15)
37	2	"On Pins and Needles"	Larry McLean	Brad Markowitz & Joan Considine Johnson	September 22, 2002 (2002-09-22)
38	3	"Stroke of Luck"	Steven Fanfara	James Kahn	September 29, 2002 (2002-09-29)
39	4	"See No Evil"	Ron Lea	Brad Markowitz & Kim Beyer-Johnson	October 6, 2002 (2002-10-06)
40	5	"Nobody"	Miles Dale	Story by : Joan Considine Johnson & Billy Ray Cyrus Teleplay by : Joan Considine Johnson	October 13, 2002 (2002-10-13)
41	6	"Full Moon Rising"	Carl Goldstein	Mary Hanes	October 20, 2002 (2002-10-20)
42	7	"The Price of a Miracle"	Holly Dale	Kim Beyer-Johnson	November 3, 2002 (2002-11-03)
43	8	"Second Time Around"	Larry McLean	Robert J. Brunner	November 10, 2002 (2002-11-10)
44	9	"The Producers"	Otta Hanus	Joan Considine Johnson	November 24, 2002 (2002-11-24)
45	10	"Man's Best Friend"	Holly Dale	Ken Hanes	December 8, 2002 (2002-12-08)
46	11	"A Clear and Present Danger"	Larry McLean	Patrick Q. Page & Gary R. Johnson	January 5, 2003 (2003-01-05)
47	12	"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"	E. Jane Thompson	James Kahn	January 12, 2003 (2003-01-12)
48	13	"Angels in Waiting"	Bruce Pittman	Joan Considine Johnson	February 2, 2003 (2003-02-02)
49	14	"Lost and Found"	Stephan Fanfara	James Kahn	February 9, 2003 (2003-02-09)
50	15	"Welcome to New York: Part 1"	Larry McLean	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	February 16, 2003 (2003-02-16)
51	16	"Welcome to New York: Part 2"	Larry McLean	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	February 23, 2003 (2003-02-23)
52	17	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"	David Warry-Smith	Robert J. Brunner	March 9, 2003 (2003-03-09)
53	18	"Safety First"	Stephan Fanfara	Mary Hanes	April 13, 2003 (2003-04-13)
54	19	"The Checkered Flag"	Ken Girotti	Robert J. Brunner	April 27, 2003 (2003-04-27)
55	20	"Evaluate This"	Don McCutcheon	James Kahn	May 4, 2003 (2003-05-04)
56	21	"While You Were Snoring"	Ron Lea	Joan Considine Johnson	May 11, 2003 (2003-05-11)
57	22	"And Baby Makes Four"	Larry McLean	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	May 18, 2003 (2003-05-18)

Season 4 (2003–04)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
58	1	"Westbury: The Final Conflict"	Stephan Fanfara	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	October 5, 2003 (2003-10-05)
59	2	"The Way We Were"	Stefan Scaini	Gary R. Johnson & Kim Beyer-Johnson	October 12, 2003 (2003-10-12)
60	3	"The Candidate"	Stephan Fanfara	Lance Kinsey & Joan Considine Johnson	October 19, 2003 (2003-10-19)
61	4	"Pick Your Poison"	Larry McLean	Kim Beyer-Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	November 2, 2003 (2003-11-02)
62	5	"Rules of Engagement"	Larry McLean	Joan Considine Johnson & Gary R. Johnson	November 9, 2003 (2003-11-09)
63	6	"Men in Tights"	Stephan Fanfara	Gary R. Johnson & Robert J. Brunner	November 16, 2003 (2003-11-16)
64	7	"Donny's Millions"	Holly Dale	Gary R. Johnson & John Posey	November 23, 2003 (2003-11-23)
65	8	"Swing Shift"	John Bell	Mary Hanes	December 7, 2003 (2003-12-07)
66	9	"No Pain, No Gain"	Stephan Fanfara	Gary R. Johnson & Robert J. Brunner	January 11, 2004 (2004-01-11)
67	10	"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"	John Bell	Mary Hanes	January 18, 2004 (2004-01-18)
68	11	"Modelrageous"	Larry McLean	Kim Beyer-Johnson & Lance Kinsey	January 25, 2004 (2004-01-25)
69	12	"Arsenic & Old Spice"	Don McCutcheon	Gary R. Johnson & Stephen Beck	February 8, 2004 (2004-02-08)
70	13	"Leader of the Band"	J. Miles Dale	Lance Kinsey & Robert J. Brunner	February 15, 2004 (2004-02-15)
71	14	"Till Death Do Us Part"	Ron Lea	Joan Considine Johnson	February 22, 2004 (2004-02-22)
72	15	"Searching for Bonnie Fisher"	Holly Dale	Gary R. Johnson & Stephen Beck	April 4, 2004 (2004-04-04)
73	16	"Wedding Bell Blues"	Don McCutcheon	Kim Beyer-Johnson & Joan Considine Johnson	April 11, 2004 (2004-04-11)
74	17	"Daddy Dearest"	Stephan Fanfara	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	April 18, 2004 (2004-04-18)
75	18	"Breaking Away"	J. Miles Dale	Ken Hanes & Brad Markowitz	April 25, 2004 (2004-04-25)
76	19	"Eminent Domain"	Stephan Fanfara	Gary R. Johnson & Robert J. Brunner	May 2, 2004 (2004-05-02)
77	20	"The Great Wall"	Ron Lea	Ken Hanes & Stephen Beck	May 9, 2004 (2004-05-09)
78	21	"Choices of the Heart"	Larry McLean	Stephen Beck & Lance Kinsey	May 16, 2004 (2004-05-16)
79	22	"He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not"	Dave Alan Johnson	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	May 23, 2004 (2004-05-23)

Season 5 (2004)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
80	1	"Get Me to Church on Time"	Stephan Fanfara	Joan Considine Johnson	October 3, 2004 (2004-10-03)
81	2	"Wake-Up Call"	Larry McLean	Kim Beyer-Johnson & Gary R. Johnson	October 10, 2004 (2004-10-10)
82	3	"Blindsided"	Holly Dale	Mary Hanes	October 17, 2004 (2004-10-17)
83	4	"Lights, Camera, Medicine"	J. Miles Dale	Jean Considine & Joan Considine Johnson	October 24, 2004 (2004-10-24)
84	5	"Nip, Tuck & Die"	Don McCutcheon	Homer Taylor	October 31, 2004 (2004-10-31)
85	6	"The Family Tree"	Ken Hanes	Story by : Robert J. Brunner Teleplay by : Dave Alan Johnson & Kim Beyer-Johnson	November 7, 2004 (2004-11-07)
86	7	"The Last Ride"	Larry McLean	Jean Considine & Joan Considine Johnson	November 14, 2004 (2004-11-14)
87	8	"Happy Trails"	Holly Dale	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	November 21, 2004 (2004-11-21)
88	9	"Til We Meet Again"	Dave Alan Johnson	Gary R. Johnson & Dave Alan Johnson	November 28, 2004 (2004-11-28)

Broadcast

Doc was broadcast on PAX TV. It was written by Dave Alan Johnson and Gary R. Johnson. The producers and writers were also involved with the series Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. PAX TV, which had become Ion Television, resumed airing reruns on October 1, 2007, only to take it off the air again on November 16, 2007.

It was rebroadcast throughout 2005 on Network Ten in Australia on Saturday mornings at 4:00am.

During 2006, Doc was shown on the Canadian Showcase cable television specialty channel, Monday through Friday at 10:00am and 6:00pm. It also aired in Spanish on Mexico's National Broadcast channel at 10:30 pm Sunday through Friday.

In the United States, Doc has aired on Gospel Music Channel and on Hallmark Channel. It began airing on BYUtv weekdays at Noon and 6 PM January 16, 2012.

GetTV reran the series from July–September 22, 2017.

Most episodes are now available for streaming on the PureFlix streaming service.

As of 2023, Doc is available for streaming on The Roku Channel.

Home media

On February 3, 2004, PAX Home Entertainment (Distributed by Ventura Distribution) released Season 1 of Doc on Region 1 DVD.

External links

• Official website
• Doc at IMDb