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25 Episodes 1981 - 1982
Episode 1
Sun, Oct 4, 198160 mins
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.
Episode 2
Sun, Oct 11, 198160 mins
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.
Episode 3
Sun, Oct 18, 198160 mins
Gloria's brother Brian flies in from Texas for a visit. He manages to turn Gloria's life upside down. As a result of his drinking problem, her work at the hospital suffers and she is given an official warning. Meanwhile, a patient is trying to set Trapper up with her daughter.
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 25, 198160 mins
A man is brought in who claims to be writing a book on the KKK. Later someone comes and sees him and threatens him. When Gonzo tries to talk to him about what he said, he denies it. Later Gonzo finds in his things that he's telling the truth and that one of the hospital's brilliant doctors is the head.
Episode 5
Sun, Nov 8, 198160 mins
The leader of a pop-psychology programme becomes a patient at the hospital, resulting in threats against his and Gonzo's lives.
Episode 6
Sun, Nov 15, 198160 mins
San Francisco Memorial Hospital is endeavouring to put into place a co-operative care program, due to Arnold Slocomb and the Board of Directors' budget cuts. Mrs Fitch and her niece, Liza, are the perfect candidates, if Mrs. Fitch would only accept Liza's help.
Episode 7
Sun, Nov 29, 198160 mins
A female prisoner gives birth to a premature baby, who is rushed to SFM 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.
Episode 8
Sun, Dec 6, 198160 mins
A con artist, working for Dr. Riverside as his nanny, attempts to pass off her partner-in-crime as his mother.
Episode 9
Sun, Dec 20, 198160 mins
A street-corner Santa Claus worries more about a sick boy than his own ill health.
Episode 10
Sun, Dec 27, 198160 mins
A surgeon and friend of Trapper comes to operate on someone he knows. But he's experiencing having visions of actual things. He is told that because of head trauma he sustained, he has gained a sixth sense which he doesn't believe in. And it also causes tension between him and his wife, and she turns to Gonzo whom she knows for solace.
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 3, 198260 mins
A young man admitted to the hospital following an accident informs the staff that his name is "42" and that he is an alien who is stranded on Earth. While building a transmitter to contact his home planet, 42 befriends a sick and lonely woman.
Episode 12
Sun, Jan 10, 198260 mins
Trapper buys himself a gun after being robbed but he later has second thoughts.
Episode 13
Sun, Jan 17, 198260 mins
Someone is killing terminally ill patients at San Francisco Memorial, and it appears to be an inside job. A young woman with chronic pain is learning how to deal with it, but maybe not soon enough.
Episode 14
Sun, Jan 24, 198260 mins
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.
Episode 15
Sun, Jan 31, 198260 mins
A woman who devotes her life to getting teenage hookers off the street is badly beaten by a pimp. Gonzo's disgust at their apparent disinterest convinces the girls to get revenge on the attacker, while having two prostitutes show up at his house seriously hampers Trapper's love life.
Episode 16
Sun, Feb 7, 198260 mins
The mother of a 16-year-old boy with a gland disorder prevents him from having hormone injections that would cure his problem.
Episode 17
Sun, Feb 21, 198260 mins
A doctor that comes to SFM with an accident patient is so good that Slocum wants to bring him on staff, but he runs into a problem - the schools that the man claims to have trained at have never heard of him. Jackpot is frustrated by a Jane Doe with a high fever and some unusual symptoms.
Episode 18
Sun, Mar 7, 198260 mins
A former lover names Gonzo in a paternity suit after learning she has a serious cardiac condition.
Episode 19
Sun, Mar 14, 198260 mins
Ernie is engaged to be married, but begins to have second thoughts when her fiancé expects her to take all of the responsibility for the house, his five children and their relationship while he relaxes after work and serves as nothing more than a playmate to his out-of-control kids.
Episode 20
Sun, Mar 21, 198260 mins
A 74-year-old woman who is admitted with a blocked artery in her leg has another problem - she is hooked on prescription medications. When Trapper and Gonzo discover that her doctor is responsible, and treats all his patients the same way, they plot to drive him out of business.
Episode 21
Sun, Mar 28, 198260 mins
Jackpot is put in charge of Emergency Services while Trapper, Gonzo and Stanley attend a medical conference in Mexico. South of the border, Trapper falls in love with another doctor, but they may have too much in common for the romance to last.
Episode 22
Sun, Apr 11, 198260 mins
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.
Episode 23
Sun, Apr 18, 198260 mins
A rumor that Trapper may be leaving SFM 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.
Episode 24
Sun, May 2, 198260 mins
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.
Episode 25
Sun, May 16, 198260 mins
A flower salesgirl, who works on the street, wakes up one day at the hospital. The girl is very ill yet refuses to be treated since she considers that doctors are Satan's henchmen. The estranged mother of a cult member has the girl kidnapped from the hospital.