Richard Hope

Boxoffice superstar and Academy Award-winner Mel Gibson ('Maverick,' 'Braveheart') and Danny Glover ('The Color Purple,' 'Grand Canyon') team up as L.A. cops in the top-grossing action movie that spawned three sequels. Directed by Richard Donner ('Superman,' 'Maverick'), Gibson is a volatile, unregistered risk-taker, known as a 'lethal weapon' by his colleagues. Glover is the conservative detective with a solid reputation. Forced to form an uneasy alliance, they begin to unravel the mystery of an apparent suicide that turns out to be murder -- and more. The New York Times calls this 'a high-voltage thriller which packs an undeniable wallop;' Gene Shalit calls it 'riveting!...a pair of heroes I hope we'll be seeing again;' and Joel Siegel says it's 'a detective thriller that just won't quit...this one is so good it will be the standard for action films all year long!' Co-starring Academy Award-nominee Gary Busey ('The Firm,' 'Under Siege').

Welcome to the future. Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. And makes damn sure he gets undercover before sundown, when other 'inhabitants' emerge. The Omega Man adapts Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend into a high-impact, high-tension saga of a fate not far removed from reality. Charlton Heston is Neville, fending off attacks by The Family, sinister neopeople spawned by the plague. He also becomes a man with a mission after meeting Lisa (Rosalind Cash), another unifected survivor - and guardian of some healthy children representing our species' hope.

Season 8, Episode 12
Richard's 10,000th surgery is a liver transplant for two sisters.

Jake's Corner -- Hope is right around the cornerEx-football star, Johnny Dunn, (Richard Tyson) walked away from the game early in his career to live a relatively secluded life far from the spotlight in a small, desert town he owns called Jake's Corner, a rest stop for travelers crossing the Arizona desert but forthe people who live there, it becomes a rest stop for life. Johnny and the quirkily eclectic ensemble (Academy Award Nominee Diane Ladd; 5 time Grammy Award Winer B.J. Thomas) that live and work in the town occupy trailers behind the Corner Store and Jake's Corner Bar. Through the years, this cast of colorful misfits have become closer than most families. Johnny's quiet life is altered dramatically when his young nephew, Spence, is unexpectedly dropped at his doorstep. The boy brings a childlike innocence to this town of adults who, in turn, get to share their homegrown wisdom with him.