Medical Explorers

Medical Explorers was a Canadian historical television series which aired on CBC Television in 1973.

Medical Explorers
Genre	biography
Presented by	William Gibson
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer	Keith Christie
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	7 January (1973-01-07) – 17 June 1973 (1973-06-17)

Premise

This Vancouver-produced series featured biographical sketches of contributors to the field of medicine. Episodes featured such personalities as Leonardo da Vinci, William Harvey (circulatory system), Joseph Lister and Edward Jenner (smallpox vaccine developers), Florence Nightingale, William Osler, Charles Sheffington (neurology), Frank Wesbrook (ambulance inventor) and Christopher Wren. The series was presented by William Gibson of University of British Columbia and curator of Woodward Medical Library.^[1]

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast on Sundays at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 7 January to 17 June 1973.