Medical Investigation

Medical Investigation

Intertitle
Created by Jason Horwitch
Starring Neal McDonough
Kelli Williams
Christopher Gorham
Anna Belknap
Troy Winbush
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 20 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s) Landscape Entertainment
Paramount Television
NBC Universal Television Studio
Broadcast
Original channel NBC
Original run September 9, 2004 – March 25, 2005
Chronology
Related shows Third Watch
ER

Medical Investigation is an American medical drama television series that began September 9, 2004, on NBC. It ran for 20 one-hour episodes before being cancelled in 2005. The series was co-produced by Paramount Network Television (now CBS Television Studios) and NBC Universal Television Studio (now Universal Television) The former controls North American distribution rights, while the latter distributes outside North America.

The series featured the cases of an elite team of medical experts of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who investigate unusual public-health crises, such as sudden outbreaks of serious and mysterious diseases. In actuality, medical investigative duties in the United States are normally the responsibility of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health departments, while the NIH is primarily a disease-research and -theory organization.

In the UK, Five's digital channel Five USA showed the series daily at 6pm from the 2nd November 2009.

Characters

Episodes

Crossover with Third Watch

The episode "Half Life" concludes a crossover that begins on the Third Watch episode "In the Family Way", in which the crack team works with the 55 Squad to find the source of a deadly virus that's infected Carlos Nieto and whose carrier is a murderer on the lam.

Broadcasters

Rebroadcasts

The USA Network began running reruns on January 6, 2005, in what is called a "repurposed" broadcast. It is, however, no different from the original broadcasts. High definition reruns of the show are being broadcast on the Universal HD channel. In January 2007 the series began airing on NBC Universal's mystery and crime-themed cable channel, Sleuth.

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