Season 1 of The Knick came out in 2014.
Cast[]
- Clive Owen as John Thackery
- André Holland as Algernon Edwards
- Jeremy Bobb as Herman Barrow
- Juliet Rylance as Cornelia Robertson
- Eve Hewson as Lucy Elkins
- Michael Angarano as Dr. Bertram Chickering Jr.
- Chris Sullivan as Tom Cleary
- Cara Seymour as Sister Harriet
- Eric Johnson as Dr. Everett Gallinger
Episodes[]
Picture | Title | Number | Season Number | Run Time | Original Airdate | US Viewers (millions) |
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Method and Madness | 1 | 1 | 56 min | August 8, 2014 | 1.70[1] | |
Dr Thackery is Chief Of Medicine in a 1900 New York hospital, The Knickerbocker, battling a cocaine (and opiate) addiction, high mortality rates and bureaucratic corruption to save lives in a world before antibiotics and blood transfusions. | ||||||
File:.jpg | Mr. Paris Shoes | 2 | 1 | 49 min | August 15, 2014 | |
Cornelia worries that no one at the hospital takes her seriously but her father assures her she's up to the task. She learns that close friends have been admitted to the hospital with typhoid. Dr. Edwards is living in a rundown hotel but his office is no better - they've put him in the hospital basement. | ||||||
File:.png | The Busy Flea | 3 | 1 | 55 min | August 22, 2014 | |
An old friend of Thackery's, Abbie Alford, arrives at the hospital seeking his help. She has lost most of her nose as the result of syphilis, which she acquired from her now absent husband. Thackery agrees to perform a skin graft. | ||||||
File:.jpg | Where's the Dignity? | 4 | 1 | 56 min | September 5th, 2014 | |
Dr. Edwards is finally invited into the surgical theater but Thackery makes it clear that he's only there to guide Dr. Gallinger through the procedure. Herman Barrow is making money any way he can including selling bodies. Cleary tells Sister Harriet they will be working together from now on and he will be finding her future clients. | ||||||
File:.jpg | They Capture the Heat | 5 | 1 | 48 min | September 12th, 2014 | |
Gangster Bunky Collier shows up at the Knick after one of his pimps is shot in the leg. Thackery is called in to perform the surgery and is surprised to find Edwards there at that early hour. Barrow uses the opportunity to get a reduction in what he owes. Edwards is still performing surgeries at night and experiments with silver thread as sutures. He's called to the Robertson home when his mother falls ill. | ||||||
Start Calling Me Dad | 6 | 1 | 54 min | September 19th, 2014 | ||
Having lost yet another patient while performing a Cesarean section, Thackery develops a completely new method to reduce the bleeding and invites Bertie Chickering to help him experiment. Their new method works quite well. The Gallinger's baby is in hospital but declining rapidly. At the funeral, Mrs. Gallinger refuses to accept her daughter's death. | ||||||
Get the Rope | 7 | 1 | 43 min | September 26th, 2014 | ||
A riot breaks out when a police officer is stabbed by a black man defending his wife. The employees of the Knickerbocker fight to protect the lives of blacks injured in the riots. | ||||||
File:.jpg | Working Late a Lot | 8 | 1 | 52 min | October 3, 2014 | |
Thackery's affair with Nurse Lucy Elkins continues. Bertie continues to pursue her. There is a shortage of cocaine due to the war in the Philippines and attacks on shipping. It has a detrimental effect of Thackery who goes into withdrawal. Fortunately, Lucy has a small supply but it's insufficient to his needs. | ||||||
File:.jpg | The Golden Lotus | 9 | 1 | 44 min | October 10, 2014 | |
The Knick continues its slide into wrack and ruin, instigated by the recent riot and the cocaine shortage. Dr. Thackery is caught in a compromising position and Lucy in her efforts to help him begins her descent into possible hell as well. Dr. Thackery's secret addiction is no longer so secret after he commits an act of desperation. | ||||||
File:.jpg | Crutchfield | 10 | 1 | 58 min | October 17, 2014 | |
Thackery's drug habit is catching up with him. He is growing increasingly paranoid as he is unable to perform even when under the drug's influence. When he learns that Dr. Levi Zinberg is studying the properties of blood so that it can be typed and safely transfused, he sets out to find a solution before him. |