Season 1

Season 1

1989-09-19
18 Episodes

Episodes

Heart and Soul

1. Heart and Soul

1989-09-19

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Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.

Sometimes They're Zebras

2. Sometimes They're Zebras

1989-09-24

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Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.

Fathers and Sons

3. Fathers and Sons

1989-09-26

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Daniel's son falls for a patient facing a fatal prognosis; a resident falters before his prominent mother's determination that he follow her into cardiac medicine.

Gifts

4. Gifts

1989-10-03

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A tourist protests the age of her physician when Caitlin gets her case, and Daniel's budding romance is nipped by illness and her past.

Painkillers

5. Painkillers

1989-10-10

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Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.

Life Sentence

6. Life Sentence

1989-10-24

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Daniel tries to protect his patient, a convicted rapist, from the media mob surrounding the hospital; Sam falls for a crafty hitchiker.

The State vs. John Kulani

7. The State vs. John Kulani

1989-10-31

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A doctor has Daniel's father arrested for performing a Hawaiian healing ceremony in the hospital; Caitlin worries about a furtive admirer.

Role Models

8. Role Models

1989-11-07

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Fushida becomes a difficult patient when he develops a dangerous infection; Daniel battles to have a patient admitted for critical surgery despite insurance problems; a diabetic friend of Sam's risks his health.

Everyday People

9. Everyday People

1989-11-14

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Veronica returns with a proposition, but Daniel's distracted by his patients: a dying talk-show host and a paraplegic fighting to keep his home.

Hihia

10. Hihia

1989-12-14

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Sam is paralyzed with caison disease after lying his way into a deep sea diving job with his uncle, which touches off a bitter fight between the brothers; racism cripples Metzger's romance with a Japanese-American.

The Christmas Story

11. The Christmas Story

1989-12-21

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A group of men dressed as elves are admitted with symptoms of plague; Dr. Fushida is adamant that he wants a natural son despite the diagnosis that a pregnancy would kill his wife.

Falling Stars

12. Falling Stars

1990-01-04

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Metzger's confidence is shaken when he disastrously misdiagnoses a patient; Daniel tries to reconcile the estranged Fushidas; Sam befriends an elderly man.

Icarus Falling

13. Icarus Falling

1990-01-11

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A pilot refuses to be tested for the source of his blackouts; a teenager resists his girlfriend's decision to put their baby up for adoption.

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

14. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

1990-02-01

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A teenage volunteer attempts suicide after confiding a terrible secret to Sam. Increasingly unable to cope with terminal cases, Margaret betrays a patient when he returns to the hospital after a recurrence of his cancer.

Janine Returns

15. Janine Returns

1990-02-08

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Daniel's former wife stirs up trouble when she arrives to celebrate their son's birthday. Parents of a dying infant worry that a doctor whose child has an identical health problem will receive preferential treatment in an organ donor program.

Viruses

16. Viruses

1990-02-15

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Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.

Moving Targets

17. Moving Targets

1990-02-22

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A serial killer who targets prostitutes poses a threat to James's fiancé, a former call girl; Fushida's disapproval of Margaret's office romance hurts their working relationship.

Separations

18. Separations

1990-03-29

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Nina hesitates when Daniel proposes, a man uses his illness to blackmail his daughter, and Caitlin murders a patient when she disagrees with his family's decision to fight his liver disease.