Island Son

Season 1

18 episodes · Sep 19, 1989

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  • S1E1

    Heart and Soul

    Sep 19, 198960m

    Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.

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  • S1E2

    Sometimes They're Zebras

    Sep 24, 198960m

    Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.

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  • S1E3

    Fathers and Sons

    Sep 26, 198960m

    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.

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  • S1E4

    Gifts

    Oct 3, 198960m

    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.

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  • S1E5

    Painkillers

    Oct 10, 198960m

    Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.

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  • S1E6

    Life Sentence

    Oct 24, 198960m

    Daniel tries to protect his patient, a convicted rapist, from the media mob surrounding the hospital; Sam falls for a crafty hitchiker.

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  • S1E7

    The State vs. John Kulani

    Oct 31, 198960m

    A doctor has Daniel's father arrested for performing a Hawaiian healing ceremony in the hospital; Caitlin worries about a furtive admirer.

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  • S1E8

    Role Models

    Nov 7, 198960m

    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.

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  • S1E9

    Everyday People

    Nov 14, 198960m

    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.

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  • S1E10

    Hihia

    Dec 14, 198960m

    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.

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  • S1E11

    The Christmas Story

    Dec 21, 198960m

    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.

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  • S1E12

    Falling Stars

    Jan 4, 199060m

    Metzger's confidence is shaken when he disastrously misdiagnoses a patient; Daniel tries to reconcile the estranged Fushidas; Sam befriends an elderly man.

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  • S1E13

    Icarus Falling

    Jan 11, 199060m

    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.

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  • S1E14

    Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

    Feb 1, 199060m

    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.

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  • S1E15

    Janine Returns

    Feb 8, 199060m

    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.

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  • S1E16

    Viruses

    Feb 15, 199060m

    Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.

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  • S1E17

    Moving Targets

    Feb 22, 199060m

    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.

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  • S1E18

    Separations

    Mar 29, 199060m

    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.

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