Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Trapper John, M.D.' from 1970-1982:
- Brian Stokes Mitchell as Dr. Justin 'Jackpot' Jackson (1979-1986)
- Charles Siebert as Dr. Stanley Riverside II (1979-1986)
- Gregory Harrison as Dr. 'Gonzo' Gates (1979-1986)
- Pernell Roberts as Dr. 'Trapper' John McIntyre (1979-1986)
- Christopher Norris as Gloria Brancusi, R.N. (1979-1985)
- Simon Scott as Arnold Slocum (1979-1985)
- Cassandra Gaviola as O'Malley (1979-1981)
- Mary McCarty as Clara 'Starch' Willoughby, R.N. (1979-1980)
- Madge Sinclair as Ernestine Shoop, R.N. (1980-1986)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Trapper John, M.D.':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Don Brinkley D: Jackie Cooper
With Jack Gilford (Ziegler), Roddy McDowall (Reverend Box), Barbara Stuart (Harriet), Joe Spano (Dr. Gallant), Stephen Pearlman (Marvin Sternhauser), Mariko Tse (Feldman), Jessica Walter (Melanie Townsend McIntyre).
Series premiere. Dr. John McIntyre, chief surgeon at a large hospital, faces a carbon copy of the way he was 28 years earlier during the Korean War when he takes on impetuous young surgeon Gonzo Gates.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Don Brinkley D: Murray Golden
With Byron Morrow (Dr. Schoenberg), Jane Actman (May Maxwyn), Lonny Chapman (Detective), James Coco (Jennings), David Huffman (Frank Maxwyn), Richard Balin (Collins).
Trapper John and Gonzo try to keep a deranged Vietnam vet who shot a poet from being locked away until they can figure out why he did it.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Don Brinkley, Jim Rogers D: Joseph Pevney
With Jack Kruschen (Nicholas Bulgari), Dee Wallace (Dr. Tatum), Joey Aresco (Jan), Jayne Kennedy (Linda), Hanna King (Nurse), Dick Winslow (Uncle Theo), Herb Voland (Barton), Carl Franklin (Steve), Paul Lambert (Willard Hornsby).
Gonzo risks his job when he feels morally compelled to tell the press about unsafe conditions at a nuclear plant.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Don Brinkley D: Marc Daniels
With Jessica Walter (Melanie Townsend McIntyre), Bill Adler (Polo), Monte Markham (Beaumont), Michael Stearns (Policeman), Paul Turpe (Orderly), Marion Yue (Nurse Shapiro), Joseph Hardin (Hollis).
A suitor of Trapper John's ex-wife, in need of delicate surgery, insists that Trapper perform the operation.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Shimon Wincelberg D: Corey Allen
With Patricia Smith (Alma), Celeste Holm (Claudia), Shelley Long (Lauren), Christian Juttner (Teenage Boy), Maxine Stuart (Ms. Langley), Paul Sorensen (Security Guard).
A seemingly confident socialite who is confronting a serious injury proves to be frightened and lonely; a competent nurse turns out to have a prison record.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Ray Brenner D: Ralph Senensky
With Paul Lambert (Willard Hornsby), Vernon Weddle (Floor Manager), Roxanne Gregory (Joan Mercer), Richard Gilliland (Danny), Jason Hervey (Ricky Mercer), Lurene Tuttle (Lady), Courtney Pledger (Hooker), Marki Bey (Elva), Paul Bryar (Homer).
A wartime buddy who saved Gonzo's life asks him to help him fake injuries so that he can collect badly needed insurance money.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Charles Larson, Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Bernard McEveety
With Mark Withers (Addison Wesley Holmes III), Patrick Labyorteaux (Billy), Penny Fuller (Elaine), Ric Mancini (Sgt. Hecht), Karen Landry (Holly), Read Morgan (Coach).
A 14-year-old boy's revelation that he is an alcoholic complicates his mother's potentially serious illness.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Shimon Wincelberg D: Barry Crane
With Cassandra Gaviola (O'Malley), Anita Gillette (Teresa Duvall), Frank Ashmore (Bolen), Clifton James (Bobby Joe Brady), William Windom (Harry Duvall), Paul Lambert (Willard Hornsby), Lucille Benson (Clarissa Mae Brady), Peter Brocco (Rosen), Kenia Borell (Mrs. Pizarro).
Gonzo goes up against a wealthy tycoon planning on diverting his contributions from the free clinic to a luxury hospital.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Bernard McEveety
With Kristoffer Tabori (Ian), Sheila Larken (Eleanor Buxton), John Crawford (Detective Judson), Robert Davi (Officer Ed Buxton), Carl Weintraub (Charlie), Patricia Mattick (Stacy), Michele Nichols (Pam Simmons), James Gleason (Jeff Phillips).
A group of radicals kidnaps Melanie and gives Trapper an ultimatum -- either he kills a policeman who has survived two earlier murder attempts, or they will kill his ex-wife.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Don Brinkley D: Alex March
With Christopher Connelly (Wally), Robbie Rist (Nick), Albert Paulsen (Sheik), Joan Hackett (Wilma), Kim Cattrall (Princess Allya), Zitto Kazann (Jabali), Rod Haase (Herbie).
An Arabian sheik whose daughter's life was saved by Gonzo decrees that either the two marry or the girl will be banished to her homeland.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Don Brinkley, Frank Glicksman D: Robert Douglas
With Alan Feinstein (P.K. O'Keefe), Katy Kurtzman (Amy), Betty Karlen (Newswoman), Michael Currie (Newsman), Chris Wallace (Grote), Marion Yue (Shapiro), Quinn O'Hara (Amy Johnson).
Dr. Riverside basks in the limelight of the publicity over a daring emergency action which saved the life of a 13-year-old girl.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Don Brinkley D: Seymour Robbie
With Kathleen Lloyd (Annie), Burr DeBenning (Mackie), Robert Hooks (Sykes), Fred Dennis (Tobias), Gerald Castillo (Garcia), Janet Brandt (Ms. Berg).
A bomb is somewhere in the hospital, but the bomb squad can't find it and the man who planted it is dying from bullet wounds. Trapper and Gonzo must try to save his life in time to save San Francisco Memorial.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Ralph Levy
With Barbara Cason (Dottie Pitt), Elizabeth Halliday (Rosalind Pettit), Steve Marachuk (Matt Pettitt), Iris Adrian (Caterer), Norman Gibbs (Dr. Clark), Doreen Lang (Myrna Marshall).
Gloria falls for a man in a wheelchair -- who happens to already have a wife. Trapper resents Starch labelling him "predictable", and decides to do something about it.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Don Brinkley D: Joseph Pevney
With Barry Miller (Obie), David Spielberg (Hollander), Jesse Welles (Cheryl), Johnny Venokur (Rooster), Kevyn Major Howard (Tony).
A former patient who recovered from terminal cancer using a holistic approach he devised has written a book and is looking for converts. He convinces a lupus patient to stop all medical treatment, and nearly allows her to die before accepting that she needs help he cannot give her.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Alf Kjellin
With Allen Garfield (Brody), Lloyd Bochner (Tiegs), Lynn Carlin, Joanna Cassidy (Dr. Whitaker), Paul Ehrmann (Jerry).
Stanley thinks he has finally found the love of his life in the hospital's excellent new neurosurgeon, until he learns how she made the money to get through medical school. A sleazy reporter looking for dirt around the hospital gets more than he bargained for.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Jack Guss D: Bernard McEveety
With Gary Lockwood (Augie), Lynne Marta (Donna), Jayne Meadows (Edwina Garth), Marcia Rodd (Imogene Keaton), Mark Harrison (Bruce), Abbe Kanter (Selma), Pearl Shear (Goldie), Ned Glass (Max), Norman Stuart (Shep), Fred Slyter (Leonard), Diane Summerfield (Alice).
A man diagnosed with terminal cancer tries to come to terms with the fact that he only has months to live, then must deal with something almost equally disturbing -- he has gone into remission while the new friend he has made continues to get worse.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Murray Golden
With Peter Harrell (Pete), Edward Winter (Dr. Hanley), Molly Picon (Sally Needleman), Barry Brooks (Sullivan).
Trapper is initially unconcerned when an old medical colleague starts to behave erratically, but Gonzo suspects that something is wrong, especially when the doctor freezes during an emergency.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Kenneth Berg D: Alex March
With John Randolph (Calvert), Mimi Maynard, David Opatoshu (Harry Weintraub), Barbara Cason (Dottie Pitt), Maxine Stuart (Mrs. Langley).
A strike by the nurses at San Francisco Memorial is a threat to patient care and Gonzo's sex life.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Jack Guss D: Robert Douglas
With George Cheung (Charlie), Barrie Youngfellow (Harriet), Gary Pagett (Bus Driver), Lennie Bremen (Martinez), Maxine Stuart (Mrs. Langley).
A young half-white Korean man comes to the hospital claiming to be Trapper's son, but when John accepts and tries to help him, he runs away; a woman with a history of faking illness is surprised when she is diagnosed with a rare disease.
Season 1, episode 20
W: Jeff Stuart D: Murray Golden
With Trish Stewart (Dr. Nancy Coffer), William Smith (Tugwell), Joseph Rassulo (Baldovino), Gary Bockette (Clinton), Nita Talbot (Mrs. Engelhart), Rhonda Hopkins (Ms. Tanner), Harv Selsby (Mr. Tanner).
A new female surgeon suffers a crisis of confidence after she loses a young patient and has to deal with a cowboy who believes all women belong in the kitchen.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Seymour Robbie
With Jessica Walter (Melissa Townsend McIntyre), Kaye Ballard (Mother), Philip Bruns (Father), Imogene Coca (Veronica), James Staley (Vernon Hughes), Marta DuBois (Elena), Melissa Steinberg (Angela).
When Trapper's ex-wife finds an abandoned baby in the department store she works for, she is ready to adopt him. However, she runs into a couple of problems -- the baby has pneumonic plague, and a mother who wants him back.
Season 1, episode 22
W: J.B. Hall D: Barry Crane
With Julie Adams (Lorrie Malcolm), Paul Burke (Dr. Malcolm), Beverly Sanders (Meter Maid), Lew Gallo (Dr. Todson), Billy Jayne (Tommy), Debbi Morgan (Denise), Jerry Orbach (Dr. Beeker).
The only hope for a girl going blind from a brain tumor is an alcoholic retired surgeon; Gonzo, Starch, Ripples and Jackpot start a telephone help line service for troubled people and discover an anonymous caller is actually the neurosurgeon the staff is depending on to perform that difficult operation.
November 23, 1980: Girl Under Glass (1)
Season 2, episode 1
W: Don Brinkley D: Bernard McEveety
With Barbara Cason (Dottie Pitt), Robert Vaughn (T.K. Sheldon), Belinda Montgomery (Darby Sheldon), Beverly Garland (Mrs. Kaufman), Kathrine Baumann (Mrs. Sheldon), Tracey Gold (Ellie), Natalie Schafer (Mrs. Watkins).
Gonzo takes leave from the hospital to supervise a rich young woman with a rare medical condition, and is charged with sexual misconduct when he rejects her advances; Trapper looks for a new scrub nurse to replace Starch.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Don Brinkley D: Bernard McEveety
With Barbara Cason (Dottie Pitt), Robert Vaughn (T.K. Sheldon), Belinda Montgomery (Darby Sheldon), Beverly Garland (Mrs. Kaufman), Kathrine Baumann (Mrs. Sheldon), Tracey Gold (Ellie), Joanna Barnes (Roz Tremor).
The mother of a little girl who needs heart surgery refuses to let Gonzo operate because of sexual misconduct charges pending against him; Ernie agrees to take the job as Trapper's scrub nurse.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Judy Merl, Paul Eric Myers D: Seymour Robbie
With Anne Francis (Gail Edson), Pamela Franklin (Ellen), John McCook (Scott Nelson), Tim O'Connor (Dr. Edain), Steve Franken (Bernie Chalmers), Jacque Lynn Colton (Mary).
When Gonzo learns that an old classmate has put her health and sanity at risk by following a strict diet which encourages the use of diuretics, he goes after the well-respected doctor who founded the diet.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Charles Larson D: Robert Douglas
With Candy Azzara (Sherry), Barney Phillips (Dr. Baker), Joseph Rassulo (Luigi), Victor Rendina (Chef), Leon Belasco (Head Waiter), Richard O'Brien (Construction Worker), Fredd Wayne (Pathologist), Alvin Hammer (Bedemeyer).
Stanley is accused of malpractice and finds his career in jeopardy after a woman patient has a potentially lethal allergic reaction, apparently to medication mistakenly administered by him.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Barry Crane
With R.G. Armstrong (Bates), David Groh (Donnelly), William Lanteau (Simms), Madeleine Stowe (Cassie), Charles Walker (Anderson), Ned Wilson (Dr. Thornwood).
Gonzo tries to heal a student who appears to be the victim of a satanic curse; the staff at the hospital prepares for a costume ball.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Barbara Avedon, Christopher Haun D: Seymour Robbie
With Joseph Cali (Officer Joey Santori), Charles Hallahan (Sam), Paula Kelly (Betty Simons), Frank Marth (Timothy Calvin), Stewart Moss (Jake), Craig Russell (Judy), Harold J. Stone (Mr. Santori), Tony Lucas (Philip Todman), Barney Phillips (Dr. Baker), Janet Brandt (Mrs. Gelgood), Stepfanie Kramer (Cheryl).
The near-fatal shooting of a homosexual cop at a gay rally leaves an important question -- was the gunman a demonstrator, or a police officer?
Season 2, episode 7
W: Betty Goldberg, Phil Alden Robinson D: Robert Douglas
With James Crittenden (Jobo), Ned Glass (Nathan Feinstein), Brad Kesten (Eric), Jean Marsh (Claire Browning), George Murdock (Jobo's Dad), Donna Ponterotto (Nancy), Lurene Tuttle (Mrs. Worth), Sandy Helberg (Howard Graham).
Following an earthquake, the hospital has to be evacuated, Trapper is pinned in a basement with an injured woman and Gonzo is picked up for looting.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Milt Rosen D: Seymour Robbie
With Joey Bishop (Dr. Burton), Constance Forslund (Lorna Latour), Ed Nelson (Albert Ryker), France Nuyen (Miss Trang), Jacqueline Scott (Ellie Ryker), Beulah Quo (Bah Tuan).
When a Vietnamese woman is operated on very skillfully, without anyone seeing it, the staff tries to find the identity of the mystery surgeon; a politician suffers a heart attack while in the company of a prostitute.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Joseph Pevney
With Stephanie Faracy (Lisa Holloway), Cesare Danova (Jonathan Friendly), Penny Fuller (Beverly Friendly), Gina Hecht (Trinka).
A shy and clumsy nurse asks Trapper for advice on how to attract Gonzo. A woman who is obsessed with her appearance is reluctant to have a tumor in her face removed.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Jack Guss D: Michael Caffey
With Arlene Golonka (Sadie), Dick Gautier (Jake Donovan), Pearl Shear (Mrs. Steinberg), Paula Victor (Bertha), J. Victor Lopez (Lopez).
A noted con man believes that the hospital is trying to pull one over on him when he is told that he needs a life-saving operation and his girlfriend is pregnant.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Charles Larson, Paul Harrison D: Joseph Pevney
With Jessica Walter (Melissa Townsend McIntyre), Kevin Brophy (Hank), Richard Deacon (Reverend Perkins), Stacy Nelkin (Kim), Paul Picerni (Dr. DePalma), Alvin Hammer (Bademeyer), Shirley Mitchell (Mrs. Perkins), Dana Halstead (Ellen), Jan Bina (Miss Perkins).
Trapper's busy hospital schedule becomes even more hectic when family problems crowd in -- Melanie arrives to inform him that their daughter Kim is planning to drop out of school.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns, Jody Ann Ranney D: Seymour Robbie
With Christopher Blande (Slug), Dori Brenner (Martha Bennett), Grand Bush (Treetop), Tonya Crowe (Jenny), Laurence Fishburne (Hobie), Richard Schaal (Dr. Sandler).
A young girl who has been in the care of a street gang is admitted after being hit by a car, but appears to have had pre-existing problems; Gloria hides some kittens in the office of Dr. Riverside, who happens to be allergic to them.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Jack Guss D: Joseph Pevney
With Carl Ballantine (Clarence), Rita Moreno (Liz Boyce), Harold Russell (Leo Hopkins), Paul Brinegar (Louie), Deedee Bradley (Secretary), Alan Toy (Allan).
Trapper convinces the board to fill the position of diagnosing physician with a former war buddy who is a double amputee -- and who hasn't practiced medicine in 25 years.
Season 2, episode 14
W: James Fritzhand D: Seymour Robbie
With Kathleen Lloyd (Wendy Fitzpatrick), John Karlen (Marty), K.C. Martel (Scott), Stacy Sackett (Corey Brenner), Margaret Avery (Sharon Henderson), Jane Dulo (Mrs. Plotkin), Christa Linder (Ingrid), Sandy Helberg (Doctor).
The excitement surrounding the opening of a day care center at the hospital is short-lived when a child is seriously injured in a fall, and it is revealed that the center's director was once in a mental institution.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Jeff Stuart D: Jeff Bleckner
With Hermione Baddeley (Freida Holloway), Hamilton Camp (Louie), William Daniels (Dr. Slater), Robyn Douglass (Sheila), Susan Elliot (Zorilla).
Instead of using his spare time to study for his medical boards, Jackpot looks into a sight-restoring operation for his blind girlfriend.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Milt Rosen, Don Brinkley D: Bernard McEveety
With Brooke Bundy (Dr. Sandra Kemp), Pat Hingle (Hub Wendover), Allyn Ann McLerie (Henrietta), Ed McCready (Mr. Carpus).
A dying musician admitted to the hospital turns out to be Gonzo's father, who abandoned him and his mother when he was a small boy.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Charles Larson D: Michael Preece
With Jon Cypher (Andrew Forsyte), Soon-Teck Oh (Dr. Wang Wu-Shen), Kathy Wiberg (Eve Laxness), Mark Withers (Farrell), Lou Fant (Norman Waghorn), Patricia Pivaar (Millicent), Diane Baker (Mrs. Forsyte).
Gonzo grapples with the case of a deaf-mufe teenager who's inexplicably malnourished and seriously ill, and Trapper contends with a derisive visiting Red Chinese physician.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Victoria Johns, Deborah Zoe Dawson D: Barry Crane
With Michael Constantine (Max Wyatt), Michael J. Fox (Elliot Schweitzer), Danny Goldman (Otterholm), Nicholas Pryor (Mr. Schweitzer), Nicholas Guest (Reims), Norman Stuart (Wendell), Adam Gunnas (Ricky Schweitzer).
The all-work attitude of a brilliant 17-year-old intern hinders his relationship with the staff.
October 4, 1981: That Old Gang Of Mine
Season 3, episode 1
W: Jack Guss D: Bob Sweeney
With Ken Kercheval (Marty Wicks), Madolyn Smith (Bonnie Wicks).
Gonzo is finally ready to settle down and get married, and his friends are planning a big bachelor party. Everything seems to be perfect -- until the husband of the bride-to-be appears on the scene.
Season 3, episode 2
W: Phil Alden Robinson, Betty Goldberg D: Joseph Pevney
With Joanna Cassidy (Maggie Holtz), Toni Kalem (Bobbi Dugan), Greg Mullavey (Alan Holtz), Lyle Alzado (Dr. Hansley), Joe Kapp (Dr. Turner), Jamaal Wilkes (Dr. Scrolls), Herb Edelman (Detective Aherns), Carol Willard (Shapiro).
A couple desperate for a child adopts a black-market baby, only to discover that the infant is addicted to heroin and has a heart condition; Stanley recruits Trapper and Gonzo to join him in a relay race against Bay General.
Season 3, episode 3
W: Eric Edson D: Barry Crane
With Cliff Potts (Brian Brancusi), Carmen Zapata (Anna), Paul Jenkins (Percy), Paul Henry Itkin (Hansel), Frank Corsentino (Guido), Ray Young (Ronald), Tyler Murray (Nurse Tyler), John Roper (Aldo).
Ripples is forced to deal with her alcoholic brother when his arrival causes her work to suffer and she is given an official reprimand; a patient tries to set Trapper up with her daughter.
Season 3, episode 4
W: Don Brinkley D: Bernard McEveety
With Bebe Kelly (Nurse Clover), Peter Harrell (Pete), Warren Berlinger (George Lieberman), Sandra Kerns (Cora Sue), Dick Sargent (Dr. Montague), Mary Wickes (Miranda), Alan Stock (Chuck), George Brinkley (Sandy).
Stanley wants to upgrade the hospital's image, and puts forth a talented staff surgeon as a "typical" doctor -- until he learns that the man is a local Ku Klux Klan leader.
Season 3, episode 5
W: Jeff Stuart, James Fritzhand D: Richard Colla
With Constance Forslund (Carol Collins), Dick Gautier (Andrew Ridley), Marianne McAndrew (Lillian), Don Stroud (Officer Nesbitt).
The leader of a pop-psychology program becomes a patient at the hospital, resulting in threats against his and Gonzo's lives.
Season 3, episode 6
W: Jeff Stuart D: Joseph Pevney
With Kaye Ballard (Beulah Krakowsky), Marta DuBois (Irene), Jack Kruschen (Marvin Krakowsky), Andrea Marcovicci (Eliza), Jeanette Nolan (Dorothy Fitch), Bert Rosario (Rudy Garza).
Gonzo and Trapper's cooperative-care program for low-income patients attracts an unusual mix of participants -- including one person who is actually a millionaire.
Season 3, episode 7
W: Sanford Minton D: Bernard McEveety
With Leslie Ackerman (Bernie), Dena Dietrich (Prison Guard), Fionnula Flanagan (Warden Clayton), Mildred Natwick (Grandma), Lew Gallo (Dr. Dunbar), Beverly Hope Atkinson (Finley), Dina Anne Rogers (Brookstein), Rose Parra (Shirley), Micki McHay (O'Mara).
A woman prisoner gives birth to a premature baby, who is rushed to San Francisco Memorial for care. The mother, upset at not being allowed to be with her child, beats the prison warden who refused to arrange for her to be taken to the hospital.
Season 3, episode 8
W: Victoria Johns, Deborah Zoe Dawson D: Alex March
With Hermione Gingold (Millie Winthrop), Eileen Heckart (Thelma), Ray Ballard (Lembeck), Hilda Haynes (Vernel).
A con artist -- Dr. Riverside's childhood nanny -- returns and attempts to pass off her partner-in-crime as the mother he never knew.
Season 3, episode 9
W: John Whelpley D: Michael Caffey
With Janet Brandt (Mrs. Larson), Jermaine Johnson (Tommy), Lynne Moody (Karen), Ray Walston (Sidewalk Santa), Lurene Tuttle (Mrs. Gatwick), Sean McClory (Reverend Flanagan), Catherine Farrar (Jackie).
A drunken, threadbare street corner Santa Claus is admitted to San Francisco Memorial in critical condition, but is concerned more about a sick boy than his own health.
Season 3, episode 10
W: Charles Larson D: Vincent Sherman
With Bebe Kelly (Nurse Clover), Paul Brinegar (Bateman), Joseph Campanella (Dr. Julian King), Maggie Cooper (Kathy King), Nomi Mitty (Nurse Smith).
A respected cardiologist is so fearful of what he believes to be psychic visions that he has become unable to function at home or at work.
Season 3, episode 11
W: Jeff Stuart D: Michael Caffey
With Lance Kerwin (42), Wendy Phillips (Laura Johnson), Jack Rader (Coulson), Nancy Walker (Harriett Kriger), Danny Goldman, Ralph Strait (Officer Dreen), Darrell Zwerling (Rozar), Richard Schaal (Dr. Sandler).
A young man admitted to the hospital following an accident informs the staff that his name is "42", and he is an alien who is stranded on Earth.
Season 3, episode 12
W: Jim Rogers D: Bernard McEveety
With David Ackroyd (Dr. Langtry), Gretchen Corbett (Vivian Langtry), Virginia Hawkins (Mrs. Begley), Mark Andrews (Chip Begley), Colby Chester (Instructor), Nancy Bleier (Mrs. Boyce), Ralph Strait (Policeman).
Trapper buys himself a gun after being robbed, then has second thoughts.
Season 3, episode 13
W: Jeffrey Ferro D: Leo Penn
With Edward Winter (Reverend Niles), Gina Hecht (Lisa), Joanna Miles (Dr. Franklin), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Barnell), James Staley (Bob Wadsworth), Peter Brocco (Gus).
Someone is killing terminally ill patients at San Francisco Memorial, and it appears to be an inside job with Gonzo and a new surgeon as the prime suspects. A young woman with chronic pain is learning how to deal with it, but maybe not soon enough.
Season 3, episode 14
W: Jeffrey Ferro D: Bernard McEveety
With Brooke Bundy (Counselor), Edward Edwards (Danny), Dan O'Herlihy (Jake).
A mentally disabled man who works at the hospital is able to make friends with a crotchety old hermit who is dying of cancer, but gets embarrassed and quits his job when he misinterprets Gloria's feelings for him.
Season 3, episode 15
W: Jack V. Fogarty D: Barry Crane
With Terri Nunn (Diane), Dawn Jeffory (Amy), Debbi Morgan (Linda), Lisa Jane Persky (Sally), Philip Michael Thomas (Floyd Walsh), Stephen Young (Tom), Elaine Giftos (Kate Miller).
A social worker heading a prostitute-rehabilitation program is brutally beaten by a pimp when he discovers that she is trying to help a pair of teenage hookers.
Season 3, episode 16
W: Annie Caroline Schuler D: Seymour Robbie
With Barbara Cason (Dottie Pitt), Sparky Marcus (Richard Tobin), Kevin Brophy (Barry), William Prince (Dr. Wilkes), Ann Wedgeworth (Jessica Tobin), Heather Kerr (Jamie), Brian Robbins (Marc), Tony Becker (Mike), Craig Douglas (Ralph).
The mother of a 16-year-old boy with a gland disorder prevents him from having hormone injections that would cure his problem.
Season 3, episode 17
W: John Whelpley D: Barry Crane
With Jonelle Allen (Jane Doe), Ann Dusenberry (Maggie Nolan), Ben Murphy (Ned Travers), Eugene Peterson (Dr. Walters), Lew Saunders (Terry Todd).
A brilliant physician may not be a doctor at all; a Jane Doe is admitted with a mysterious and deadly fever.
Season 3, episode 18
W: Kay Bender D: Seymour Robbie
With Bettye Ackerman (Mrs. Bayard), Keene Curtis (Mr. Bayard), Lynne Marta (Valerie Atwater), Larry Storch (Getzloft), Richard O'Brien (Super), Catherine Ferrar (Helen), Barry Brooks (Feeney), Greg Brinkley (Sandy).
A former lover names Gonzo in a paternity suit after learning she has a serious cardiac condition which might leave her baby an orphan.
Season 3, episode 19
W: Sharyn Abramhoff D: Bob Sweeney
With Barbara Cason (Dottie Pitt), Irene Tedrow (Mrs. Pinkler), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Teneely), Bernie Casey (Thornie Thornberry), Rosalind Cash (Claudia Thornberry), Keesha Jeter (Lucinda), Kaci Jeter (Lucella), Tanisha Arceneaux (Tanisha), James Brown III (Chance), Dena Crowder (Dena).
Shoop has second thoughts about marrying a divorced man when she has to tend his five kids.
Season 3, episode 20
W: Dick Morgan D: Jeff Bleckner
With Henry Gibson (Dr. Brownell), Arthur Peterson (Theodore Kelly), Natalie Schafer (Abigail Collins), Michael Tucci (Dr. Bloom), Paddi Edwards (Mrs. Blake).
A 74-year-old woman who is admitted with a blocked artery in her leg has another problem -- she is hooked on prescription medications. Gonzo suspects that her physician is an unprincipled pill-pusher.
Season 3, episode 21
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Bob Sweeney
With Bert Rosario (Guillermo), Ronnie Schell (Dr. Haas), Gail Strickland (Dr. Curtis), Gene Rutherford (Spike), Barbara Perry (Registrar).
Jackpot is put in charge of Emergency Services while Trapper, Gonzo and Stanley attend a medical conference in Mexico, where Trapper becomes romantically involved with a female doctor.
Season 3, episode 22
W: Brad Radnitz D: Bernard McEveety
With Howard Morris (Dr. Kauffman), LeVar Burton (Luther Peacock), Tina Andrews (Reba), Miguel Ferrer (Darby Thud), Louise Sorel (Marty Katz), Hilda Haynes (Mrs. Peacock), Pepper Davis (Tubbs' Trainer), David Andrews (Glenn).
Jackpot convinces several of the staff to invest in a promising young boxer he is managing, but after the fighter kills his opponent in his first professional match he begins to suffer mysterious injuries that may keep him out of the ring permanently.
Season 3, episode 23
W: Kay Bender D: Michael Caffey
With Norman Alden (Coach), John Matuszak (Joe Magurzki), Jayne Meadows (Melissa), Michael O'Hare (Jensen), Richard Schaal (Dr. Sandler), Billie Hayes (Mrs. Landers).
A rumor that Trapper may be leaving for a hospital in Boston has several other staff considering new positions; after 72 hours on duty and the loss of a patient, Stanley is displaying psychotic symptoms, and ends up in jail.
Season 3, episode 24
W: Jerry Ross D: Earl Bellamy
With Rick Lohman (Victor Berger), Rue McClanahan (Mary Renquist), Irene Miracle (Francine Berger), Dick O'Neill (Ed Renquist), Ken Swofford (Mr. Stone).
A man who needs a bone marrow transplant to survive claims that he has no relatives that can serve as donors. However, Gonzo soon discovers that the truth is a little more complicated -- the man is in the witness protection program, and cannot safely have contact with his family.
Season 3, episode 25
W: Jeff Stuart D: Charles Siebert
With Salome Jens (Helen McCall), Robin Gammell (Dugan), Gerard Prendergast (Brother Bliss), Eileen Dietz (Sister Charity), Art Posey (Brother Harmony).
Trapper cares for a seriously ill young woman whose devotions to a religious cult prohibit standard treatment.
September 26, 1982: Don't Rain On My Charade
Season 4, episode 1
W: Victoria Johns, Deborah Zoe Dawson D: Earl Bellamy
With Jessica Walter (Melissa Townsend McIntyre), Celeste Holm (Lillie Townsend), Lew Ayres (Dr. Chambers), Sarah Cunningham (Nurse Fellows), Michael Tucci (Dr. Nichols).
When Melanie's mother comes for a surprise visit, bringing a puzzling medical case with her, Trapper learns that Melanie has kept their divorce a secret from her; Gonzo suggests that a doctor should work as a nurse for a week to get a better idea of the problems they face -- and he gets volunteered for the job.
Season 4, episode 2
W: Victoria Johns, Deborah Zoe Dawson D: Earl Bellamy
With Cliff Gorman (Brad Wylie), David Huddleston (Wallace Surtees), R.G. Armstrong (George), Marcia Rodd (E.J. Willoughby), Ramon Bieri (Sheriff Willis), Steve Nevil (McCormick).
Trapper John and Gonzo discover the vineyard they bought was a scam, and find disturbing evidence of criminal behavior in a basement on the property; Stanley falls in love.
Season 4, episode 3
W: Deborah Zoe Dawson, Victoria Johns D: Earl Bellamy
With Cliff Gorman (Brad Wylie), David Huddleston (Wallace Surtees), R.G. Armstrong (George), Marcia Rodd (E.J. Willoughby), Ramon Bieri (Sheriff Willis), Steve Nevil (McCormick), Frank Conn (Evans).
Trapper and Gonzo are captured at their vineyard and face execution by firing squad as prisoners of a paramilitary leader; survivors of nuclear radiation exposure try to get help from San Francisco Memorial; Stanley's fiancee gets cold feet.
Season 4, episode 4
W: Jeff Stuart D: Michael Caffey
With Lois Nettleton (Janet Weems), Steve Franken (Parient), Ruth Buzzi (Laura Morley), Shari Belafonte (Maggie).
Trapper falls for a hospital scrubwoman; Slocum falls for a patient.
Season 4, episode 5
W: John Whelpley D: Michael Caffey
With Carole Cook (Natasha), Michael Tucci (Dr. Nichols), Robert Alda (Derrick Peters Sr.), Leonard Frey (Derrick Peters), Richard Schaal (Dr. Sandler).
Jackpot recommends surgery for a man who suffers from Munchausen syndrome, a psychological disorder which leads him to fake symptoms.
Season 4, episode 6
W: Kay Bender D: Earl Bellamy
With Howard Morris (Dr. Jerry Hannigan), Kim Cattrall (Amy West), Stuart Pankin (Havermeyer), William Windom (Theodore Rankin), Ellen Geer (Roberta), Charlie Dell (Herman), Chuck Mitchell (Tiny Mankowitz).
A miserly industrialist with an obsession for anonymity badgers the hospital staff; everyone is shocked to learn that a modest surgical nurse once posed for a girlie magazine.
Season 4, episode 7
W: Jeffrey Ferro, Jeff Stuart D: Barry Crane
With Dinah Ann Rogers (Mrs. Johnson), Paul Koslo (Kenny), Vincent Price (Baxter Garwood), Joan Pringle (Detective), Bert Remsen (Eugene), Joe Santos (Inspector Stemm), Maurice Hill (Dr. Ferguson).
A bitter former hospital employee takes Riverside hostage and demands $1 million ransom.
Season 4, episode 8
W: Nancy Bond, Phyllis Wapner D: Michael Caffey
With Laurence Haddon (Dr. Caraway), Catherine Farrar (Jackie), Sally Hampton (Girlfriend), Clifton James (Mr. Lewis), Sarah Cunningham (Nurse Andrews), Ted Gehring (Policeman).
On a foggy Thanksgiving, Slocum accidentally hits Trapper with his car. As Gonzo and his colleagues fight to save Trapper's life, staff members recall the reasons they have to be thankful for his friendship and help.
Season 4, episode 9
W: Deborah Gilliland, Robert Sonntag D: Michael Caffey
With Bibi Besch (Sharon Vance), Cliff Emmich (Norm), Tom Ewell (Earl Tendermeyer), Alan Fudge (Paul Spencer), Nicky Katt (Scott Spencer), Kenneth Mars (Dr. French), Mary Wickes (Hazel).
Doctor Albright dies from a heart attack; Gonzo and Shoop send Trapper on vacation to Geneva Springs, where he substitutes for the town's doctor; Riverside is fired; a former patient of Trapper's needs heart surgery.
Season 4, episode 10
W: Martin Donovan D: Barry Crane
With Jack Bannon (Dr. Brand), Cassie Yates (Laura Brand), Jack Gilford (Oscar Brady), Mickey Deems (Mickey), Milton Frome (Artie).
Gonzo plays host to a prospective staff member whose work takes precedence over his wife -- who takes an interest in Gonzo.
Season 4, episode 11
W: Emilie R. Small, Garn Stephens D: Michael Caffey
With Theodore Bikel (Vladimir Lopatkin), Hank Brandt (Bud Westin), Mark Carlton (Yakut Suslov), Alex Henteloff (Seth Brewer), Stepfanie Kramer (Cheryl), Rosemary Murphy (Vanessa Downing), Gene Scherer (Russian Security).
An important Soviet diplomat is admitted with pain from a liver tumor, but both U.S. and Russian officials order Trapper to delay operating on him.