SYNOPSIS

This dramatic series starred George C. Scott as Neil Brock, a young social worker in the New York slums. The stories involved child abuse, the welfare syndrome, problems of aging, drug addiction, and crime, situations all too familiar to Neil Brock in his daily routine. Frieda Hechlinger was the head of the welfare agency branch for which he worked, and Jane Foster was the office secretary. Critics appreciated the gritty realism of the series in the midst of TV's land of make-believe, but its downbeat subjects proved deadly with viewers and it was dropped after a single season.