Island Son - Season 1
1 - Heart and Soul
Air Date: September 19, 1989
Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.
2 - Sometimes They're Zebras
Air Date: September 24, 1989
Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.
3 - Fathers and Sons
Air Date: September 26, 1989
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
Air Date: October 3, 1989
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
Air Date: October 10, 1989
Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.
6 - Life Sentence
Air Date: October 24, 1989
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
Air Date: October 31, 1989
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
Air Date: November 7, 1989
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
Air Date: November 14, 1989
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
Air Date: December 14, 1989
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
Air Date: December 21, 1989
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
Air Date: January 4, 1990
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
Air Date: January 11, 1990
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
Air Date: February 1, 1990
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
Air Date: February 8, 1990
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
Air Date: February 15, 1990
Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.
17 - Moving Targets
Air Date: February 22, 1990
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
Air Date: March 29, 1990
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.