Season 1
Episodes
1. Heart and Soul
1989-09-19
Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.
2. Sometimes They're Zebras
1989-09-24
Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.
3. Fathers and Sons
1989-09-26
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.
4. Gifts
1989-10-03
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.
5. Painkillers
1989-10-10
Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.
6. Life Sentence
1989-10-24
Daniel tries to protect his patient, a convicted rapist, from the media mob surrounding the hospital; Sam falls for a crafty hitchiker.
7. The State vs. John Kulani
1989-10-31
A doctor has Daniel's father arrested for performing a Hawaiian healing ceremony in the hospital; Caitlin worries about a furtive admirer.
8. Role Models
1989-11-07
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.
9. Everyday People
1989-11-14
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.
10. Hihia
1989-12-14
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.
11. The Christmas Story
1989-12-21
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.
12. Falling Stars
1990-01-04
Metzger's confidence is shaken when he disastrously misdiagnoses a patient; Daniel tries to reconcile the estranged Fushidas; Sam befriends an elderly man.
13. Icarus Falling
1990-01-11
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.
14. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
1990-02-01
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.
15. Janine Returns
1990-02-08
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.
16. Viruses
1990-02-15
Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.
17. Moving Targets
1990-02-22
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.
18. Separations
1990-03-29
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.