Pete appeared in two episodes.  The first, A Matter of Humanities, was actually the 2 hour TV Movie pilot for the show.  The second, The Passing of Torches, was from the second season.

A Matter of Humanities

Date Aired:  26 March 1969
Executive Producer - David Victor
Teleplay by Don M. Mankiewicz
Story by David Victor
Directed by David Lowell Rich

Cast:  
Robert Young - Dr Welby
James Brolin - Dr Kiley

Guest Stars:  
Anne Baxter - Myra Sherwood
Susan Strasberg - Tina Sawyer
Lew Ayres - Andrew Swanson MD
Tom Bosley - Tiny Baker
Peter Deuel - Lew Sawyer

After suffering a heart attack, Dr Welby refuses to abandon his patients and continues to treat them from his hospital bed.  The pilot follows the stories of several of his patients, including Pete's character, Lew Sawyer.

Lew Sawyer has been left unable to speak properly or write following a car accident and in fact can now only say one word - "mother".  His wife is upset and frustrated at his lack of progress and is struggling to cope.  She wants Dr Welby to sign a commitment form but the Dr doesn't want to.  

When his wife goes away for the weekend leaving Lew alone, he accidentally discovers that the "work" he thought he was doing marking students' papers is just a cover and that he is in fact living off charitable donations and loans.  He goes back to the school and in his now empty former classroom faces up to his own limitations.  

Discovered by the security guard, he runs and eventually ends up at Dr Welby's office where he discovers the commitment form - now signed by Dr Welby.  He burns the form and in anger throws it aside - realising too late that it has started a fire which has now trapped him.  He pulls the phone to the floor, dials for help - but, of course, can only say "mother".

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The Passing of Torches

Date Aired:  26 January 1971
Executive Producer - David Victor
Produced By - David J. O'Connell
Created by - David Victor
Teleplay - Ken Trevey
Story - Ken Trevey & Martin Donaldson
Director - Jeannot Szwarc

Cast:  
Robert Young - Dr Welby
James Brolin - Dr Kiley

Guest Stars:  
Pete Duel - Roger Natsili
Steve Frankey - 
Special Guest star
Walter Pidgeon - Professor Bayliss

Roger Natsili is an Apache whose tribe have ear-marked him at the age of 17 to train as a doctor and have paid for all his training.  Now, almost qualified, he has been assigned to work with Dr Welby.  

During this time Roger struggles to come to terms with the weight of expectation on him, his responsibilities to his tribe and his own feelings of inadequacy, along with the migraine headaches these stresses have brought.  Seeing the real life and work of a doctor from close up gives him serious doubts about his own abilities and about whether or not he even wants to be a doctor. 

In the final scene, he stands on the roof, contemplating jumping.  When Dr Welby finds him, Roger tells how he saw his uncle take his own life and describes the conflict he feels - that his tribe want and expect him to be a doctor but it isn't what he wants for himself.

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