In the series premiere of this medical drama set in a 1900s New York City hospital, accomplished Dr. John W. Thackery is named chief surgeon and is pressured by a major benefactor to hire a black doctor as his top assistant.

The Knick Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Method and Madness
• s01e02 - Mr. Paris Shoes
• s01e03 - The Busy Flea
• s01e04 - Where's The Dignity?
• s01e05 - They Capture The Heat
• s01e06 - Start Calling Me Dad
• s01e07 - Get The Rope
• s01e08 - Working Late a Lot
• s01e09 - The Golden Lotus
• s01e10 - Crutchfield

The Knick Show Summary

The setting: downtown New York in 1900, a tumultuous time of massive change and great progress. The series centers around the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff at Knickerbocker Hospital, who are pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.