Trapper John, M.D. Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Trapper John, M.D.: Season 7 (1985 - 1986)

• Season 7 Episode 19: Elusive Butterfly

  Hospitalized for exhaustion, a rock singer (Jean Sagal) is found to have a malignant mole on her shoulder.

• Season 7 Episode 18: Strange Bedfellows

  Hackett gets J.T. to help establish a mobile clinic; a teenage orderly swallows dope-filled balloons.

• Season 7 Episode 17: Research and Destroy

  Animal-rights activists break into the hospital and steal a dog that holds the key to a cancer vaccine; guest Gary Lockwood.

• Season 7 Episode 16: Self Diagnosis

  An auto accident hospitalizes Riverside's father; an intern thinks she is dying from Hodgkin's disease.

• Season 7 Episode 15: The Curmudgeon

  Not knowing they were once engaged, Shoop assigns a nurse (Sarah Cunningham) to a curmudgeonly old doctor.

• Season 7 Episode 14: Fall of the Wild

  A wild woman attacks after J.T. admits a malnourished, feral boy he found in a trash bin; guest Zohra Lampert.

• Season 7 Episode 13: Judgement Day

  A dying doctor (Doran Clark) has a judge (James McEachin), Jackpot's father, sign a court order to keep her off life support.

• Season 7 Episode 12: Life, Death and Dr. Christmas

  A widowed surgeon (Kenneth David Gilman) tries to care for his children and continue to work.

• Season 7 Episode 11: Heart and Seoul

  Trapper meets an old love (Irene Tsu) while in Korea to find the brother of a man needing a kidney transplant.

• Season 7 Episode 10: Going, Going, Gonzo

  Gonzo's plans to vacation with Fran end suddenly when he is struck by a debilitating stroke; guest Byron Stewart.

• Season 7 Episode 9: Billboard Barney

  An ailing Little Leaguer's father (Max Gail) dramatically calls attention to toxic waste under the playing field.

• Season 7 Episode 8: The Second Best Man

  Melanie receives gifts from a secret admirer while her fiance (David Hedison) is hospitalized; guest Richard Schaal.

• Season 7 Episode 7: A Wheel in a Wheel

  A disabled nurse encounters obstacles when she returns to work at the hospital; guests Diana Canova, Whitman Mayo.

• Season 7 Episode 6: Wunderkind

  Gonzo's girlfriend (Suzanne Lederer) turns out to be an Israeli agent looking for an accused Nazi war criminal (Harold Gould).

• Season 7 Episode 5: Friends and Lovers

  Libby's ex-beau (Robert Desiderio) returns after eight years and is found to have AIDS; guest Terry Kiser.

• Season 7 Episode 4: Just Around the Corner

  Trapper is shocked to learn he is thought responsible for a patient's death; guest Barbara Rhoades.

• Season 7 Episode 3: Hot Shot

  Trapper enlists a doctor/pilot (Beau Gravitte) and his helicopter to help transport emergency patients.

• Season 7 Episode 2: Game of Hearts

  Gonzo helps Fran deal with her multiple sclerosis; Dearborne has a stroke; Fran announces plans to go to Africa.

• Season 7 Episode 1: Game of Hearts

  Trapper is distracted from his sister (Pat Carroll) by a heart patient; Gonzo falls for a veterinarian.

Trapper John, M.D.: Season 6 (1984 - 1985)

• Season 6 Episode 23: All of Me

  J.T. learns that identical twins are one woman married to two men; guest Paul Sand.

• Season 6 Episode 22: Go for Broker

  A man's newly arrived Filipino fiancee is very ill; Gloria and J.T. create a fictitious doctor.

• Season 6 Episode 21: All the King's Men ...

  A TV personality (Tony Roberts) attacks Trapper's decision to induce a coma to save a girl who fell into icy water.

• Season 6 Episode 20: In the Eyes of the Beholder

  Parents sue Trapper and J.T. after their injured son dies suddenly in the emergency room.

• Season 6 Episode 19: A False Start

  Gonzo and Trapper suspect Shoop's friend, a coach, of giving steroids to his athletes; guest Robert Morse.

• Season 6 Episode 18: The Unholy Ghost

  J.T. believes a surgeon's ghost helped Trapper complete an operation; guests Sheree North, Kathleen Lloyd.

• Season 6 Episode 17: High Time

  Pressured Andrea takes drugs and steals to pay a dealer; J.T. admits a kleptomaniac bag lady (Geraldine Fitzgerald).

• Season 6 Episode 16: Bad Breaks

  The doctors suspect a teenage couple (Lance Kerwin, Karlene Crockett) of child abuse.

• Season 6 Episode 15: So Little, Gone

  Riverside and E.J.'s baby son is kidnapped from the hospital; guests Dennis Cole, Ronee Blakley.

• Season 6 Episode 14: Love Thy Neighbor

  A handsome, new neighbor (Michael Halsey) takes an interest in convalescing Gloria, then comes between her and Andrea.

• Season 6 Episode 13: Buckaroo Bob Rides Again

  Gonzo attempts to help an aging childhood television hero (Noah Beery, Jr.); Trapper takes on Riverside and Gonzo as housemates.

• Season 6 Episode 12: Muddle of the Night

  An aging hospital-board member (Pat Hingle) and his 46-year-old girlfriend (Edie Adams) learn they are going to have a baby.

• Season 6 Episode 11: Long Ago and Far Away

  A troubled nurse's (Frances Lee McCain) flashbacks almost cause her to kill a patient.

• Season 6 Episode 10: Double Bubble

  J.T. tries to find the reclusive father (Albert Salmi) of a boy (Lukas Haas) desperately in need of a bone-marrow transplant.

• Season 6 Episode 9: The Dark Side of the Loon

  Hospitalized for a heart attack, a longtime resident (Marc McClure) of J.T.'s new mansion claims to be a vampire.

• Season 6 Episode 8: Promises ... Promises

  A surgeon is torn between an obligation to his hometown, which financed his medical schooling, and a prestigious job offer.

• Season 6 Episode 7: A Fall to Grace

  When a rare disorder paralyzes Trapper, J.T. is shaken and Gonzo fills in as chief of surgery; guest Barbara Barrie.

• Season 6 Episode 6: ... Of Cats, Crashes and Creeps

  A patient reveals a secret to J.T. while under anesthesia; Jackpot and Riverside try to place a dying woman's cats.

• Season 6 Episode 5: School Nurse

  Shoop moonlights as a high-school nurse to discover who attacked her friend and other faculty members; guest Rosalind Cash.

• Season 6 Episode 4: Eternally Yours

  A Chinese undertaker falls prey to stress; a fortune cookie convinces Gonzo he's a jinx; guest Keye Luke.

• Season 6 Episode 3: Moonlighting Becomes You

  Jackpot helps an agoraphobic woman while moonlighting; the staff fills in at a diner while the owner has surgery.

• Season 6 Episode 2: My Son, the Doctor

  Trapper's brash son J.T. (Timothy Busfield) arrives to serve his internship at San Francisco Memorial; guest Carl Ballantine.

• Season 6 Episode 1: A Change of Heart

  Trapper and Gonzo clash over declaring the brain death of a critically injured hockey player whose heart may be used in a transplant.

Trapper John, M.D.: Season 5 (1983 - 1984)

• Season 5 Episode 22: Aunt Mildred Is Watching You

  An efficiency expert (Sylvia Sidney) hampers Trapper's efforts to stop a doctor performing unnecessary surgery.

• Season 5 Episode 21: It's About Time

  An Army medic's World War I watch helps Trapper understand medical progress and diagnose an illness.

• Season 5 Episode 20: I Do, I Don't

  Gonzo and Trapper are reluctant to tell Shoop about her boyfriend's (Dick Anthony Williams) heart tumor; guest Kenneth Mars.

• Season 5 Episode 19: The Jackpot Pays Off

  Jackpot hides the admission of an elderly friend (Viveca Lindfors) who has no insurance.

• Season 5 Episode 18: The Fred Connection

  A detective tells Gonzo just before ulcer surgery about a hospital drug ring; guest John Amos.

• Season 5 Episode 17: This Gland Is Your Gland

  Gonzo believes a woman's (Andrea Marcovicci) bizarre behavior is caused by a physical, not mental, problem; guest Nancy Kwan.

• Season 5 Episode 16: Send in the Clowns

  A widow (Eileen Heckart) and a pediatrician (Kristoffer Tabori) lose loved ones.

• Season 5 Episode 15: Where There's a Will

  An angry heir besets inheritor Gonzo; a child worsens for lack of medical equipment.

• Season 5 Episode 14: A Little Knife Music

  The doctor and parents of a baby with dwarfism resist surgery; Shoop's son launches a business; guest Kim Darby.

• Season 5 Episode 13: Play Your Hunch

  Shoop denies her psychic ability until Trapper asks her to help him locate an ailing friend.

• Season 5 Episode 12: Special Delivery

  Gloria and a nurse moonlighting as a midwife nearly lose their jobs when a delivery has complications.

• Season 5 Episode 11: Super Nurse

  A jealous doctor resents Gloria's accreditation in cardiac care, and hires an overzealous lawyer to bring her up on charges.

• Season 5 Episode 10: Fat Chance

  Gonzo is called in as obstetrician for Andrea's pregnant dog; Trapper reluctantly agrees to operate on an overweight woman.

• Season 5 Episode 9: If It Ain't Broke

  Gloria is upset when Andrea finds her real mother (Barrie Youngfellow), who says she wants Andrea back; guest Kerrie Keane.

• Season 5 Episode 8: The Agony of D'Feet

  A marathon runner with a heart condition competes anyway; Riverside runs the race as E.J. goes into labor; guest James Read.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Old Man Liver

  A 119-year-old man (Whitman Mayo) comes to the hospital prepared to die, although there seems to be nothing wrong with him.

• Season 5 Episode 6: The Final Cut

  Trapper hands Gonzo the job of monitoring surgical residents; guests Raymond St. Jacques, Gary Frank, Leslie Easterbrook.

• Season 5 Episode 5: What a Difference a Day Makes

  Trapper is called in on his birthday and discovers a possible epidemic; guests Selma Diamond, George Takei, Jill Whelan.

• Season 5 Episode 4: May Divorce Be With You

  Melanie begins a weekly discussion group for doctors' wives; Riverside worries about his marriage; guest John McCook.

• Season 5 Episode 3: All About Everett

  A jealous surgeon (Robert Mandan) attempts to discredit Trapper and replace him as chief of surgery; guest Patricia Davis.

• Season 5 Episode 2: ... And for Loyal and Devoted Service ...

  A new hospital-board chairman pressures Slocum into to retiring four months short of being vested in his pension.

• Season 5 Episode 1: I Only Have Ice for You

  A figure skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson) with a heart condition performs rather than abandon her partner; guest Lindsay Bloom.

Trapper John, M.D.: Season 4 (1982 - 1983)

• Season 4 Episode 22: South Side Story

  Gonzo learns San Francisco Memorial owns a decrepit apartment building; guest Jimmy Baio.

• Season 4 Episode 21: Friends in High Places

  Gonzo neglects work when he becomes infatuated with a wealthy woman (Alexa Hamilton); guest Jon Cypher.

• Season 4 Episode 20: Primetime

  Gonzo is upset when his mother introduces him to her new boyfriend, a sportswriter his age; guest Roz Kelly.

• Season 4 Episode 19: Blue Genes

  Trapper fears an epidemic after the leader of a research project (Kim Stanley) becomes mysteriously ill; guest Jesse White.

• Season 4 Episode 18: Pasts Imperfect

  A woman (Kim Darby) from Riverside's past is obsessed with him; guest Dana Elcar.

• Season 4 Episode 17: The Spy Who Bugged Me

  A malpractice suit affects Gonzo's professional confidence and bedside manner; a patient is mistaken for a hospital inspector.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Forget Me Not

  A brilliant surgeon (Tony Roberts) begins suffering from bouts of forgetful and disoriented behavior; guest Conrad Janis.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow

  An emotionally troubled musician (John Rubinstein) is released far too early from the hospital; Shoop suffers a hearing loss.

• Season 4 Episode 14: It Only Hurts When I Love

  Gloria has second thoughts after deciding to adopt a troublesome orphan; guests Jim Backus, France Nuyen.

• Season 4 Episode 13: Baby on the Line

  The parents of a hermaphroditic baby battle over which gender the child will be after surgery.

• Season 4 Episode 12: Life, Death and Vinnie Duncan

  A fund-raiser (Kristoffer Tabori) for rare diseases tells his fiancee (Lisa Pelikan) they have the same illness.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Russians and Ruses

  A Soviet diplomat (Theodore Bikel) is admitted with pain from a liver tumor; guest Stepfanie Kramer.

• Season 4 Episode 10: Getting to Know You

  A surgeon's (Jack Bannon) personal problems are uncovered as Riverside and Gonzo try to recruit him for the hospital staff.

• Season 4 Episode 9: The Good Life

  While Trapper substitutes for a small-town doctor, Riverside is fired and a former patient of Trapper's needs heart surgery.

• Season 4 Episode 8: Thanks for Giving

  Trapper hovers near death after being struck by Slocum's car on a foggy night; Jackpot's plans for Thanksgiving backfire.

• Season 4 Episode 7: The Ransom

  A bitter former hospital employee takes Riverside hostage and demands $1 million ransom; guests Vincent Price, Joe Santos.

• Season 4 Episode 6: You Pays Your Money

  A miserly industrialist (William Windom) with an obsession for anonymity badgers the hospital staff; guest Kim Cattrall.

• Season 4 Episode 5: The Object of My Affliction

  Jackpot recommends surgery for a man (Leonard Frey) who fakes symptoms; guest Robert Alda.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Three on a Mismatch

  Trapper falls for a hospital scrubwoman (Lois Nettleton); guests Ruth Buzzi, Shari Belafonte-Harper.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Truth or Consequences

  Militant survivalists take Gonzo and Trapper prisoner; Riverside marries E.J. (Marcia Rodd).

• Season 4 Episode 2: Truth or Consequences

  Survivalists are storing guns at Trapper and Gonzo's vineyard; Riverside falls in love.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Don't Rain on My Charade

  Trapper's adventurous mother-in-law (Celeste Holm) arrives, unaware he and her daughter are divorced; guest Lew Ayres.

Trapper John, M.D.: Season 3 (1981 - 1982)

• Season 3 Episode 25: The One and Only

  The estranged mother (Salome Jens) of a cult member (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has the girl kidnapped from the hospital.

• Season 3 Episode 24: John's Other Life

  A federally protected witness needs to find his father for a bone-marrow transplant; guest Rue McClanahan.

• Season 3 Episode 23: A Cause for Concern

  Gossip abounds when job offers come to Trapper, Gonzo and Jackpot, and Gloria receives a marriage proposal.

• Season 3 Episode 22: A Piece of the Action

  The staff backs Jackpot's boxer friend (LeVar Burton), whose first opponent dies in the ring; guest Louise Sorel.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Doctors and Other Strangers

  Jackpot takes over the emergency room; Trapper meets a rural doctor (Gail Strickland) at a medical convention.

• Season 3 Episode 20: Candy Doctor

  Trapper treats an elderly woman (Natalie Schafer) who is dangerously medicated by an unscrupulous doctor.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Love and Marriage

  Shoop falls in love with a divorced man (Bernie Casey) who shirks his responsibilities to his five children and former wife.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Maybe Baby

  A former lover (Lynne Marta) names Gonzo in a paternity suit after learning she has a serious cardiac condition.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Medicine Man

  A check into the history of a doctor (Ben Murphy) who helped Trapper after an accident yields unexpected results.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Peter Pan Syndrome

  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 15: Ladies in Waiting

  A woman who works as a social worker during the day spends her nights trying to save teenage prostitutes; guest Terri Nunn.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Danny

  A dying hermit (Dan O'Herlihy) wills his beloved cello to a mentally impaired man; guest Brooke Bundy.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Angel of Mercy

  Patients with severe pain die under questionable circumstances; guests Edward Winter, Gerald S. O'Loughlin.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Victims

  Trapper buys himself a gun after being robbed, then has second thoughts; guests David Ackroyd, Gretchen Corbett.

• Season 3 Episode 11: 42

  A young man (Lance Kerwin) with strange burns on his chest claims to be an outer-space alien; guest Nancy Walker.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Future Imperfect

  A surgeon (Joseph Campanella) resists operating on a friend after disturbing psychic visions.

• Season 3 Episode 9: 'Tis the Season

  A street-corner Santa Claus (Ray Walston) worries more about a sick boy than his own ill health.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Mother's Day

  Two con women (Hermione Gingold, Eileen Heckart) claim to be Riverside's nanny and long-lost mother.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Is There a Doctor in the House?

  An inmate attacks the warden when she is not allowed to visit her premature newborn.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Cooperative Care

  Budget cuts prompt a trial for a program in which relatives participate in patient care; guest Jeanette Nolan.

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Ego Experience

  Both Gonzo and an author (Dick Gautier) in desperate need of surgery receive death threats.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Hate Is Enough

  Trapper and Gonzo suspect that a distinguished staff-surgeon (Dick Sargent) is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Give Till It Hurts

  Gloria neglects her job, putting it in jeopardy, to assist her indigent alcoholic brother (Cliff Potts).

• Season 3 Episode 2: C.O.D.

  Gonzo tries to persuade a couple to keep a sick child who was adopted through the hospital; guest Joanna Cassidy.

• Season 3 Episode 1: That Old Gang of Mine

  Gonzo's wedding preparations pall when his fiancee's long-lost former husband (Ken Kercheval) checks in as a patient.

Trapper John, M.D.: Season 2 (1980 - 1981)

• Season 2 Episode 18: Brain Child

  Gonzo deals with the arrogance of a 17-year-old intern (Michael J. Fox) described as a genius; guest Michael Constantine.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Albatross

  Trapper escorts a visiting Chinese doctor (Soon-Teck Oh); Gonzo tries to treat a very ill deaf-mute orphan.

• Season 2 Episode 16: King of the Road

  Gonzo learns his long-lost father (Pat Hingle) is a patient at San Francisco Memorial; guest Brooke Bundy.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Second Sight

  Jackpot seeks a surgeon to restore his girlfriend's (Robyn Douglass) sight; guest William Daniels.

• Season 2 Episode 14: A Case of the Crazies

  The injury of a child brings to light the medical history of a day-care instructor (Kathleen Lloyd).

• Season 2 Episode 13: Days of Wine & Leo

  A handicapped doctor (Harold Russell) hides his feelings for a patient, a former stripper (Rita Moreno).

• Season 2 Episode 12: Finders, Keepers

  Gonzo must find the parents of a 14-year-old waif to determine the extent of her injuries in an auto accident.

• Season 2 Episode 11: A Family Affair

  Trapper is torn between worrying about Melanie's pregnancy and his daughter's marrying a doctor.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Who's the Lucky Father?

  An audacious con artist (Dick Gautier) refuses necessary surgery and then dumps his pregnant girlfriend.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Have I Got a Girl for You

  Trapper helps a student nurse improve herself for Gonzo; a glamorous woman faces an operation that could destroy her looks.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Pagoda Curse

  A mystery surgeon successfully operates on an elderly Vietnamese woman; guests France Nuyen, Joey Bishop, Ed Nelson.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Earthquake!

  An earthquake imperils Gonzo and injured Trapper and necessitates evacuation of the hospital.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Straight and Narrow

  A police officer is shot during a riot by San Francisco homosexuals; guest Stepfanie Kramer.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Creepy Time Gal

  Gonzo tries to treat a hysterical woman (Madeline Stowe) who believes she has been cursed; guest David Groh.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Call Me Irresponsible

  An apparent misjudgment may end Riverside's career, and the patient involved is his father's fiancee.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Slim Chance

  A weight-reduction program leaves Gonzo's childhood friend (Pamela Franklin) critically ill; guest Anne Francis.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Girl Under Glass

  Misconduct charges may prevent Gonzo from operating on a girl; guests Belinda Montgomery, Robert Vaughn.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Girl Under Glass

  A patient (Belinda Montgomery) accuses Gonzo of sexual misconduct; guests Robert Vaughn, Beverly Garland.

Trapper John, M.D.: Season 1 (1979 - 1980)

• Season 1 Episode 22: Hot Line

  The only surgeon (Paul Burke) who can restore a girl's sight is emotionally unwell.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Quarantine

  An ailing abandoned baby causes Trapper, Melanie and a hospital-room wedding party to be quarantined; guest Imogene Coca.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Short Odds

  Gonzo falls in love with a beautiful surgeon (Trish Stewart) determined to prove her medical skills; guest William Smith.

• Season 1 Episode 19: It's a Wise Surgeon

  A 25-year-old arrives, claiming to be the son of Trapper and a Korean woman; guest Barrie Youngfellow.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Strike!

  A threatened strike by the nurses' union causes unexpected complications for Trapper, Gonzo and Starch; guest John Randolph.

• Season 1 Episode 17: If You Can't Stand the Heat

  Gonzo worries over a surgeon's erratic behavior; an elderly woman offers to leave her money to the staff.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Till Life Do Us Part

  Gonzo, Trapper and a terminally ill woman try to cheer a dying patient (Gary Lockwood); guest Jayne Meadows.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Warning: I May Be Hazardous to Your Health

  Trapper learns a surgeon (Joanna Cassidy) he hired, whom Riverside now loves, was a prostitute.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Missionary's Downfall

  A critically ill girl turns to a sham healer; a tough street-gang youth shows artistic talent.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Have You Hugged Your Nurse Today?

  Gloria's romantic interest refuses a possible surgical cure to his paralysis.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Boom

  The staff struggle to avoid a panic while searching for an explosive; guests Kathleen Lloyd, Robert Hooks.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Whose Little Hero Are You

  A brilliant improvisation saves a life but causes problems for Trapper and Riverside; guest Alan Feinstein.

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Surrogate

  Two surgery cases find Trapper uncovering a family secret and Gonzo acquiring an unwilling prospective bride (Kim Cattrall).

• Season 1 Episode 9: Licensed to Kill

  Self-proclaimed revolutionaries kidnap Melanie and demand Trapper allow an officer they shot to die; guest Kristoffer Tabori.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Taxi in the Rain

  Gonzo attempts to reunite a woman (Anita Gillette) with her estranged father (William Windom), who needs a kidney transplant.

• Season 1 Episode 7: One More for My Baby

  Gonzo discovers that the teenage son (Patrick Laborteaux) of a seriously ill patient (Penny Fuller) is an acute alcoholic.

• Season 1 Episode 6: What Are Friends For?

  Gonzo refuses to falsify records so a Vietnam buddy who saved his life can make a fraudulent insurance claim.

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Shattered Image

  Trapper deals with a frightened socialite (Celeste Holm); a competent nurse (Shelley Long) has a prison record.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Love Is a Three-Way Street

  Trapper deals with lingering emotions when his ex-wife's suitor (Monte Markham) insists on McIntyre as surgeon.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Deadly Exposure

  Gonzo risks his job to uncover radiation leaks at a nuclear plant; guests Dee Wallace, Jayne Kennedy.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Flashback

  A police lieutenant is eager to nab a Vietnam veteran who critically wounded a patient (James Coco).

• Season 1 Episode 1: Trapper John, MD