Season 1: 1993
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| 1x01 | (Pilot) | January 1, 1993 | Disc 1 | ||
| Michaela "Mike" Quinn, of Boston, introduces everyone to her birth and upbringing, following in her father's footsteps by becoming a doctor. She worked side by side with her father, but his sudden death caused her the loss of not only her best friend, but the loss of their medical practice. The lack of job opportunities for women doctors leads Michaela to answer an ad for a doctor in the Colorado territory. Michaela leaves her fancy home in Boston for the western town Colorado Springs. When she arrives in town she is met with mockery, for they expected a male doctor. She meets Charlotte Cooper (Diane Ladd). They become very close friends. In the process of time, she meets Sully, a white man "turned" Native American who lets her live in his old house where he lived before his wife and baby died. A man is shot and a woman has Arrythmia but people, hard hearted, refuse to let her treat them. Emily Donovan has her baby delivered after she performs a Caesarean and breathing with Dr. Quinn's help. The next day she wants to prove she has the guts to be treated like any other and so she goes to Jake Slicker to have a tooth removed (later on it proves the tooth was healthy) and refuses to scream out in pain when he "pulls it" out. She later talks to Charlotte about her husband. A month passes and no patients, until Jake Slicker turns up, who thanks her and asks she see Robert E., the blacksmith about his Lumbago. The black man, refusing at first, changes his mind after Dr. Mike angrily rebukes him for his bigotry. She diagnoses him with Arthritis and then speaks to Reverend Johnson about requesting another doctor. While also rebuking him, Brian rushes to her with the news Charlotte is dying. Bitten by a rattle snake, Charlotte leaves her three children, Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores, later Jessica Bowman) and Brian (Shawn Toovey), in the care of Dr. Mike to look after them.
In Part 2, After the funeral of Charlotte, Dr. Mike writes to her mother asking for advice on being a mother. She gives Maude digitalis to slow down her heartrate. Brian is furious with Dr. Mike after she tells him to clean up the mess he made. She then clears Horace's ear of wax. Sully rescues her after she is trapped by some men in Hank's Saloon after treating Myra, and their hands touch as they leave. The next morning, Brian runs away and she searches for him. On the way she is stopped by a group of Cheyenne. She stays the night with them and Sully and Wolf. Brian is found at the bottom of a ravine with a broken leg, Sully brings him up and Michaela treats the boy. The Army starts an attack when they see the Indians, but Dr. Mike puts her arms up in front of them and explains they were searching for Brian. Col. Chivington (who in actual history was responsible for the Sand Creek massacre) explains that they have broken a federal law by leaving the reservation in a greater number, but she says it is her fault. After this, the Army leaves. In the store, while buying material for Colleen, Maude has a heart attack. Dr. Mike rushes to the post office to see if the medicine has arrived, but it hasn't and there's nothing she can do and so Maude dies. Chief Black Kettle is brought in by Sully during one night, along with a couple of other Indians, including Cloud Dancing after he was shot in the neck, and because he can't breathe Michaela performs a Tracheotomy and then removes the bullet. Michaela tells Sully he can hide the Indian in the barn. 4 soldiers come to search for them the next day and Black Kettle has to be moved. Black Kettle, grateful for saving his life, gives Dr. Mike her Cheyenne name, "Medicine Woman". During Christmas night, a snow storm starts outside, preventing Colleen from going into town so she is very upset. To cheer her up, Michaela starts to sing some carols, asking the children to sing along. Everyone's spirits are lifted when Sully arrives with presents for everyone. Michaela continues to certify her doctoring abilities to the town and slowly she becomes accepted by some townsfolk, although they stop short of apologizing to her for their prejudice. Starring: Micheala "Dr. Mike" Quinn: Jane Seymour, Sully: Joe Lando, Matthew: Chad Allen, Colleen: Erika Flores, Brian: Shawn Toovey, Loren Bray: Guy Boyd, Jake Slicker: Colm Meaney, Rev. Timothy Johnson: Geoffrey Lower, Myra: Helene Udy, Grace: Jonelle Allen, Charlotte Cooper: Diane Ladd, Horace: Frank Collison, Robert E.: Ivory Ocean, Chief Black Kettle: Nick Ramus, and Hank Lawson: William Shockley with Maude Mary Gregory. |
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| 1x02 | Epidemic | January 2, 1993 | Disc 1 | ||
| Dr. Mike attempts to learn how to cook while Matthew, Colleen and Brian are with Olive, Loren's sister, but with no success. When they arrive back, Dr. Mike is shocked to find Olive has given Matthew a revolver. Horror mounts when a flu epidemic attacks Colorado Springs. Dr. Mike must attend the sick townspeople and protect others from getting the deadly disease. Horace and Myra meet for the first time. But being a lady doctor has people questioning whether she can handle the fatal epidemic. When people hear there is an epidemic, people panic and there is a rush on food and supplies. Sully helps open up Charlotte's Boarding house, to be used as a hospital. After the Quinine is gone, Dr. Mike collapses. Sully sends Matthew to Cloud Dancing for help. Matthew is chased, surrounded and knocked off his horse. They are delayed by Custer's regiment, but when Cloud Dancing comes, he and Sully take Dr. Mike away to the Cheyenne camp to treat her, despite protests by Olive. Cloud Dancing calls on the spirits to help. When Sully asks if she'll live he replies that "she fights hard" and "it is up to you" They bring back a sort of Indian herbs to be made into a tea and everyone is cured. While she is resting, Sully plants a kiss on Dr. Mike's forehead. Jake Slicker: Jim Knobeloch, Robert E.: Henry G. Sanders, Loren Bray: Orson Bean, Olive Davis: Gail Strickland, Emily: Heidi Kozak, General Custer: Taylor Nichols, and Cloud Dancing: Larry Sellers | |||||
| 1x03 | The Visitor | January 9, 1993 | Disc 1 | ||
| Dr. Mike's estranged mother, Elizabeth Quinn visits. Loren takes an instant shine to her, and she to him, (eventually) but she and Dr. Mike are still miles apart. Horace is thrown out of Hank's Saloon because he wants to talk to Myra and is told it costs $5 to see her. As soon as she arrives at Dr. Mike's home, she takes an instant dislike to it, and disapproves of her way of life, because it is not the fancy home in Boston. However, she gradually warms to the town and Dr. Mike's life and family. Mr. Jedidiah Bancroft, A Banker from the First National Bank of Denver forecloses the clinic and says unless she is married, or owns property, she can't buy it. The auction is at Denver, and bidding starts at $1,500. Meanwhile, Robert E is injured in a fire. Jake Slicker refuses to take Robert E. to his shop because of bigotry. Robert E. thinks he is going to die and wants the Reverend to tell him whether he is going to heaven or not. So Dr. Mike takes Robert E. to her home. Grace comes to see him, but he doesn't want to see her in his condition. Colleen thinks she is going to die because she is bleeding, but Mrs. Quinn tells her she is growing up and becoming a woman and explains everything about the menstrual cycle. Hank turns up cut, needing stitching because Jake is drunk. Dr. Mike charges him a dollar a stitch. Mrs. Quinn, while looking after Robert E., meets Sully. Dr. Mike offers Mr. Bancroft $1,000 as a deposit to buy the clinic, and a loan, but he refuses. Meanwhile, Horace has a talk with Myra. Dr. Mike asks her mother for the $1,500 for the clinic, but she thinks it is a bad idea thinking it will "ruin her life". Dr. Mike responds saying, "Sometimes I think you must really hate me". Grace arrives at Dr. Mike's home, comforting Robert E. and Loren and Mrs Quinn talk. Later, Mrs. Quinn tells Brian a story about her daughter, Dr. Mike, and Brian finishes the story off. In the morning, Matthew buys a bath for Mrs Quinn, which she appreciates and immediately takes the opportunity to have a relaxing bath, and on leaving, she gives Colleen a brush and mirror, Loren offers to show her around Colorado Springs the next time she comes, and Dr. Mike the money she needs for her clinic, saying "a doctor needs a clinic". She also asks Brian to call her Grandma. Elizabeth Quinn: Jane Wyman, Jedediah Bancroft: George Furth | |||||
| 1x04 | Law of the Land | January 16, 1993 | Disc 2 | ||
| A gunslinger named Kid.Cole who has consumption arrives looking for a quiet town in which to hang 'em up. Matthew invites Ingrid to Lunch, but being malnourished, she eats quickly and her stomach can't handle it. Ingrid's brother, Jon comes to Olive, asking for work but she says no. Immigrants then steal Loren's food again at the side of the store and Loren wants to shoot them. Olive gives them the food and tells them to leave. Sully goes hunting with Brian and wants to end an injured deer's suffering but Brian talks him out of it, convinced Dr. Mike can fix the deer's leg. Matthew brings food for Ingrid and Jon. Jon refuses. Matthew gives Jon a job mending fences. While working, Jon looks at all the cows and says to Matthew, "so many cows for one man". Matthew says one cow would feed everyone. When a part of a cow is found by Olive, Colorado Springs is itching to lynch an immigrant named Jon for cattle rustling to feed his starving family. Meat is found in his tent and his sister is Ingrid, who Matthew is friends with. Jon runs for his life and seeks sanctuary in the church. He stays there. The Reverend, Dr. Mike, Horace, Emily, Myra, and Robert E. block the way. Dr. Mike and the Reverend want the town to have a Sheriff. Kid Cole is asked when Dr. Mike places the advertisement for the Sheriff, he says he's retired. Jon makes Matthew promise not to say he was involved. Candidates arrive and are questioned by the Reverend. They fail. Kid Cole ends up taking the job. Loren offers 2 bit a day, but Kid Cole asks for 4 bits. Jon is put in the jail for his protection. A group of people throw stones through Dr. Mike's window. Matthew tells her the truth. It was his idea and helped Jon slaughter the cow. Dr. Mike offers to pay for the cow, but Olive refuses the money. Loren says he would have to hang Matthew too, it he was involved. Meanwhile, Brian's deer and the dog Sully gave him on Christmas, cause havoc around the homestead. When another immigrant is refused credit, he walks out of the store after paying 50 cents. They point their guns at Kid Cole and demand they be given Jon so they can hang him immediately. Sully breaks the rope with his tomahawk. Kid Cole lets a shotgun blast off. He tells them the judge is coming tomorrow. However, the Judge can't come to the trial and has appointed Kid Cole Proxy Judge. Jon apologizes, and asks Olive to forgive him and tells them he has lost hope. Matthew admits his part. Dr. Mike talks about how she would want her friends to help if she was starving. Olive drops the charges and tells Matthew and Jon they are going to work off the cow. Olive says to Dr. Mike she would make a good lawyer. Kid Cole leaves. Brian reluctantly gives his spirit back to the deer and lets it go. Kid Cole: Johnny Cash, Jon: Christopher Keene Kelly, Ingrid: Jennifer Youngs | |||||
| 1x05 | The Healing | January 23, 1993 | Disc 2 | ||
| While a piano for the church is being unloaded, Loren's hernia is made worse, but refuses help. Myra comes running out of Hank's Saloon saying one of her clients has collapsed. Dr Mike pronounces him dead as he has no heartbeat. Jake tells Loren he has a hernia gives Loren a corset to wear and tells him he'll be allright. A bitter Loren, who blames Sully for his daughter's, (Abigail) death, tries to repossess Dr. Mike's cabin when he learns he still holds the deed to the homestead. Colleen feels rejected by her friends when they ignore her. Going to Dr. Mike, Loren finds out he must have an operation or he could die. He stubbornly refuses to listen, leaving and telling Sully and Dr. Mike to get off his land. Alice is having a birthday party. Colleen isn't invited and she doesn't believe she has any friends. After a drinking session and while drunk, Loren tries to fight Sully, but collapses and falls unconscious because of the hernia. After he falls unconscious, Dr. Mike has to ask permission from Olive to operate. Prior to the operation, Hank takes bets on the success of the operation, (Horace reports while watching, Jake collapses), but loses. Alice invites Colleen to her party, but when Colleen overhears Alice says her Aunt Emily made her invite her. Colleen doesn't want to go to her party, and is angry with Dr. Mike for asking Emily to tell Alice. Olive tells Dr. Mike things she doesn't know about Loren, and says she'll be grateful if he doesn't wake up. When Loren wakes up, he is even more argumentative and uncooperative than ever. This makes him weak and he needs a blood transfusion which Sully offers. Dr. Mike orders them both to lie quietly. Later that night, revealing the news to the children they have to move, Dr. Mike is upset she has to move because the homestead is her first home, although living in the clinic would mean she would be close to her patients. Loren later admits he was too proud. The plans he had for Abigail were his plans and gives him the deed to the land in an envelope, but doesn't want him to open it until tomorrow. The next morning as Dr. Mike and everyone are taking everything outside and loading the wagon up, Sully arrives with the good news they don't have to leave. Dr. Mike asks him to stay for dinner as they have a lot to celebrate. | |||||
| 1x06 | Father's Day | January 30, 1993 | Disc 2 | ||
| As Founder's Day approaches, Dr. Quinn is trying to persuade the townspeople smallpox vaccinations are necessary. Meanwhile, the father of Brian, Colleen, and Matthew arrives, first winning money off Hank and then causing trouble among the siblings as Dr. Mike tries to join the quilting circle to get people to have the vaccine. Olive rejects her. Dr. Mike and Sully will have to ensure Colleen and Brian don't get hurt as Ethan Cooper's actions could reflect poorly on the young Cooper children. Sully buys a horse even though he doesn't ride. Later, Mr. Cooper turns up at the homestead to see the children. Matthew is suspicious of the father who abandoned them years ago and will not see his younger siblings hurt. Sully tries to ride the horse, but with little success. Mr.Cooper claims he didn't write a letter because he can't read or write and asks Matthew for a second chance.It appears Mr. Cooper wants to take Brian, Colleen and Matthew back to San Francisco with him and Colleen and Brian are happy. Meanwhile, Cloud Dancing and Sully and the horse spend time getting acquainted. Cloud Dancing tells Sully to "thank the horse for the gift he is going to give and do not leave the horse for next few days". Becky's mother, Harriet dies from a burst appendix. Dr. Mike dances with Mr. Cooper, to Sully's disapproval. Mr. Cooper, getting attached to Dr. Mike gives her the belief he wants to stay in Colorado Springs. However Sully catches him stealing money from the church and takes Sully's horse. Sully and Dr. Mike chase him. Sully catches up with him. They fight and Dr. Mike breaks it up by picking up his gun. To avoid any further damage, Dr. Mike lets him go, and makes the children believe he loved them. Sully writes a letter to avoid hurting them. Ethan Cooper: Ben Murphy | |||||
| 1x07 | Bad Water | February 6, 1993 | Disc 2 | ||
| When several townspeople come down with mercury poisoning, losing their hair, gums bleeding, and despite Mr. Harding refusing mercury tests on his land, Dr. Mike forces a reluctant Sully to guide her to the high mountain stream which may be the source of the problem. The trek is difficult for her. She ultimately earns Sully's respect and gratitude after saving his life despite a broken wrist. Just as they confirm the water is being polluted by a local mine owner whose mining process is dumping mercury into the stream, they are captured by his men. In the interim, worried townsfolk send out an inept posse to try to locate Sully and Dr. Mike, who ride around in circles. Hank throws stones at a skunk to shoo it away, but the posse is saturated with the skunk's smell. Thanks to Wolf, they find their way home. On Brian's and Robert E.'s suggestions, Olive backs Grace's new venture, "Grace's Cafe". In the end, Dr. Mike saves the day by curing the mine owner's son, who has fallen victim to the poisoned water, and convincing the owner to close the mine. Mr. Craig Harding: Micheal Cavanaugh and Calvin Harding: Jared Rushton | |||||
| 1x08 | The Great American Medicine Show | February 13, 1993 | Disc 3 | ||
| Dr. Mike tries to heal the soul of Doc Eli Jackson, a Civil War surgeon turned medicine-show huckster. With the aid of a drunken Indian (Franklin, aka "Chief Sick No More") and his boy, Doc Eli touts an all-curing elixir supposedly developed by the Kickapoo. Dr. Mike doesn't trust the sales pitch of this exploitative showman, especially when she faces a real medical crisis involving Myra. After performing a stunt by diving into a barrel of water backwards, Brian befriends his son. Jackson takes his Indian to do another show against Dr. Mike's advice. They argue. Hank is furious when he finds out Myra is pregnant. Horace says the baby is his (although it isn't). Hank promptly knocks Horace out. Sully talks to Chief Sick No More. They argue. Horace asks Myra to marry him. She says yes. Myra then faints. Horace carries her to Dr. Mike. Dr. Mike says Myra wanted Horace to know she isn't pregnant and she has a tumor on her ovary. She must help Doc Eli confront his demons before he can help her remove an ovarian cyst from Myra. After talking with Cloud Dancing, Chief Sick No More is reunited with the Cheyenne and cries on Cloud Dancing's shoulder. Later Hank and Horace again come to blows when Horace says Myra is having the operation. Doc Eli has to break up the one sided fight by telling Hank that Dr. Mike is right. With tears in his eyes, Hank says Horace can have her and only a fool would marry a whore. Dr. Mike again talks to Doc Eli who tells her he's afraid. Despite Hank saying Myra still owes him a year on her contract, Horace says he'll buy it out. Hank says he hasn't got the money. Though Doc Eli can't operate because of his shaking, he talks Dr. Mike through it. Myra says Horace deserves better but Horace says, "ain't none better", and he can "wait forever". Doc Eli Jackson: Robert Culp, and Chief Sick No More: Pato Hoffmann | |||||
| 1x09 | A Cowboy's Lullaby | February 20, 1993 | Disc 3 | ||
| Dr. Mike takes in Red McCall, a down-and-out cowboy, and his ailing "half-breed" infant boy. She later comes across a 73 year old man, "Uncle Eddie", who refuses to wear clothing. McCall reaches the end of his rope, so he abandons the baby with Dr. Mike, robs Loren's store, and flees. Emily comes to give advice to Dr. Mike about the baby, who tries to find a home for the baby, but potential parents prove unwilling or unsuitable. When the baby won't stop crying, and Dr. Mike can't stop it, it disturbs everyone's sleep. The next day when she enquires with Robert E. about a carriage, she finds out McCall is the one who robbed Loren. When she travels to a remote cabin to check on the health of Luke Silver as a favor to the Reverend, she finds him badly mangled from a bear attack. The next morning Dr. Mike finds her patient dead, she buries him. While she is finishing the grave, a brown bear turns up and her horse is frightened off. She's trapped in the cabin. Meanwhile Sully and Wolf go to search for Dr. Mike. When Sully finds Colleen has been using his child's clothes, he is angry. On the way, they find McCall, and finding Dr. Mike's horse, the horse is spooked again. Sully arrives at Luke Silver's farm. Dr. Mike warns him of the bear. They both take refuge together in the barn. They narrowly escape being the rabid bear's next victims. Asking Sully what the bear is doing, Sully says, "restin' up". Brian is worried about Dr. Mike, the baby is sick. Sully traps the bear in the barn. Colleen and Brian decide to take the baby to Jake. Dr. Mike's horse turns up at the homestead. Later, Chief Black Kettle refuses to take the child because he can't feed his own children. He advises Dr. Mike she can raise the child better. She goes to Horace and wants to send a telegram, to try and find a home for him, but changes her mind and cancels it. Dr. Mike decides she'd rather raise the child herself than turn him over to an orphanage. Sully has a talk with McCall. McCall asks for the baby back. Sully gives him his child's clothes, McCall thanks Sully and decides to call the baby Mike. Red McCall: John Schneider | |||||
| 1x10 | Running Ghost | February 27, 1993 | Disc 3 | ||
| As Cloud Dancing is teaching Dr. Mike the medicine they can find in the plants, shots are heard. It is discovered buffalo are being slaughtered. While taking a splinter out of Horace's finger, Dr. Mike finds out a railroad is being planned to run through the town. A con man, Thaddeus Birch, offers Loren followed by Hank, Jake, and Horace money. They agree. After one of the braves son's is killed, the brave seeks revenge but is killed by Tate Rankin. Sully offers to speak to the buffalo hunters, but ends up badly beaten and partially paralyzed after a run-in with buffalo hunters whom a railroad has hired to clear the herds and Indians out of the planned train path. Cloud Dancing brings Sully paralyzed to Dr. Mike, as she, Cloud Dancing, and the kids fight to help Sully regain the use of his legs as he just wants to be by himself. Cloud Dancing searches for a root that can heal Sully. Thaddeus Birch, passing himself off as the railroad's advance man is swindling the townsfolk out of the deeds to their properties. After Dr. Mike tells Rankin, who nearly killed Sully, he is alive, Sully decides to leave. However Dr. Mike tells Sully if he kills Rankin, she never wants to see him again. As Sully recovers, Dr. Mike unmasks the con man's plan and saves the town. Dr. Mike tries to stop Sully fighting Rankin and goes to the Cheyenne. Black Kettle says they won't interfere as it is Sully's fight, but will do all they can to help. Cloud Dancing tells Dr. Mike she is the only one he will listen to. When Sully confronts the buffalo hunters, a mystical white buffalo ("Running Ghost") appears to avenge the animals' deaths. Sully fights Rankin and tells him to leave. If he sees him again he will kill him. As Rankin goes to shoot Sully, Running Ghost appears and kills Rankin. Thaddeus Birch: Andrew Prine and Tate Rankin: Don Stroud | |||||
| 1x11 | The Prisoner | March 13, 1993 | Disc 3 | ||
| After ambushing Black Kettle's camp, General Custer enters the town carrying wounded soldiers and Indian prisoners, including Cloud Dancing, whom Custer threatens to kill if Dr. Mike doesn't treat his men first. Custer threatens to execute Cloud Dancing if he doesn't give him the information he wants in 2 days. Cloud Dancing is later badly beaten and has a dislocated arm which Dr. Mike has to treat. She goes to Reverend Johnson, but he refuses to speak to Custer. Meanwhile, Brian wants Loren to teach to play the harmonica. He refuses, saying he doesn't play any more. Olive asks him to play in the Hurdy Gurdy, but he again refuses. Dr. Mike and Loren talk with each other before Maude's gravestone. After Custer hauls Cloud Dancing before a firing squad that fires blanks, Dr. Mike and Sully engineer Cloud Dancing's escape. Meanwhile, Olive organizes a hurdy-gurdy dance, recruiting girls from the immigrant camp and a reluctant Loren, Horace, and Jake for the band. Matthew buys all of Ingrid's dance tickets, then shyly confesses he doesn't know how to dance. Sully promises to dance with Colleen, but she is upset when he doesn't turn up. She dances instead with Dr. Mike. General George Custer: Darren Dalton and Sergeant Dixon: Tim De Zarn | |||||
| 1x12 | Happy Birthday | March 27, 1993 | Disc 4 | ||
| After Mrs. Quinn sends her daughter some things for a hope chest, Dr. Mike admits she feels lonely. Brian thinks that Sully marrying Dr. Mike would be a good birthday present, since she feels lonely. Robert E. tells Brian it's because he is used to living by himself and it's not easy to come back to. Meanwhile, Dr. Mike's children try to help her deal with her loneliness on her 35th birthday by conspiring to find her a proper suitor before her surprise party. After a patient of Dr. Mike's dies of Septicaemia, she accuses Jake, the barber, of infecting the man with his dirty razor. After Dr. Mike thinks that everyone is talking about her being an old maid, she and the Reverend share a buggy ride. Her diagnosis throws Jake into an alcoholic binge, and he comes sick with alcoholic poisoning. Loren and Sully help him rid his system of the alcohol. Delirious, at one point he professes his love for Dr. Mike. Having Delerium Tremours, Jake is virtually cleansed the alcohol in his system, Dr. Mike tries in vain to pull him out of it, trying with Loren to throw out every drop of whisky, and Hank's help to get him to refuse serving Jake, and locking the bedroom door, but with Sully's help, finally realizes that Jake must be the one to want to stop drinking. Hank spends some time with Dr. Mike, who wants him to refuse to serve him alcohol, but they argue. With the Reverend, they try to convince him to stop but he ignores them. She gives him something to live for by pointing out his many friends in town, including her, and he breaks down, crying. Horace turns up at the door, saying there is an emergency but it is to celebrate her birthday. Sully and Michaela share their first kiss. | |||||
| 1x13 | Rite of Passage | April 10, 1993 | Disc 4 | ||
| After Dr. Mike catches Matthew and Ingrid kissing in the barn and she has an asthma attack, Michaela is worried he might do something he'll regret and are at odds over his future when he sets out to prove to others, and to himself, that he is a grown man ready to take on life. Having a shave then a drink at Hank's Saloon, he is caught by Dr. Mike again coming out of the Saloon from seeing Myra. Wanting to marry Ingrid, Dr. Mike forbids it and Matthew angrily storms off, frustrated by her over-protectiveness and his desire for independence, after seeing Sully and getting advice, Matthew undertakes a "vision quest," a Cheyenne ceremony in which a man searches for direction. Cloud Dancing tells him that animals will speak to him, and to bring a perfect egg of a red tailed hawk, and after failing, gives up. When he goes home, he and Dr. Mike argue and decides not to live there anymore. Sully advises him to finish what he started. Dr. Mike goes to the Reverend to try to ask him not to marry Matthew. Ingrid later tells Matthew she is going to Denver and doesn't care about him. Matthew then decides to complete the vision quest. Brian follows and wants to watch. Though forbidden after being told of Matthew's whereabouts, she decides to go anyway, knowing he is spending four days and nights without food and water in the wilderness, worries that his quest to discover his manhood may cost him his life. Dr. Mike later confesses to Colleen that she provoked Matthew into it, and that the same thing is happening to Matthew as happened to her fiance and her father. Brian suddenly wakes up, and clls out for Matthew and that he is in danger, after also seeing the stampede of horses. Cloud Dancing refuses to go to Matthew. Matthew also sees a red tailed hawk. Sully reminds her of when she became a doctor and came out to Colorado Springs, "Did your mother approve"? Dr. Mike finally finds Matthew but refrains from interfering in his vision quest. After Matthew tells everyone that he is going to save and build a house, Dr. Mike gives him her engagement ring and they hug each other. Chuck Bowman directed from a script by Sara Davidson. | |||||
| 1x14 | Heroes | May 1, 1993 | Disc 4 | ||
| After reading romance stories with her friends in which a woman is captured but writes a letter to her love, Colleen develops a teenage crush on Sully after he pulls her out of the path of a runaway wagon, and writes to him. Hank, drunk and angry accuses Grace of trying to poison him in her cafe and all of her customers leave. He later stirs up racial hatred again in Loren's store and Grace is angry that Robert E. doesn't stand up to him. Imagining herself as a damsel in distress and Sully as her knight in shining armor, Colleen purposely sets out to get lost in an abandoned mine hoping Sully will rescue her. A tree falls on the mine and a freak cold snap blows up and she almost freezes to death before Wolf, Sully and Dr. Mike find her. Dr. Mike doesn't know if she can save her fingers but works hard to save Colleen's badly frostbitten hands. As Dr. Mike reads Colleen her newspaper from Horace, she realizes what is going on. Lewis, Horace's nephew gives Dr. Mike a letter to was supposed to given to Sully which confirms Dr. Mike's fears. Colleen asks Sully if he can still love someone without hands and he says "with someone who is special as you" after which Colleen expresses her love for Sully, hugging him and telling him she loves him. Meanwhile, racial tensions in town reach a boiling point when Hank accuses Grace of food poisoning and Robert E. and Hank comes to blows and Robert E. knocks Hank out. The accusations are later proved false when Dr. Mike discovers Hank has been eating meat infected with trichinosis when Myra brings in some raw meat and Lewis examines it through his microscope. Dr. Mike tells Hank he should apologize to Grace. Colleen is devastated when Dr. Mike tries to tell her Sully doesn't love her, only as a friend. He ultimately has a heart-to-heart talk with Colleen, telling her she is pretty, smart and funny and doesn't want to be her hero he wants to be her friend. she weeps as she realizes that she can't love Sully the way she wants. Hank turns up at Grace's cafe and she makes him ask properly before she serves him, although he stops short of an apology. Colleen starts her friendship with Lewis. | |||||
| 1x15 | The Operation | May 8, 1993 | Disc 4 | ||
| While Brian and Sully are out hiking with Wolf, Brian climbs a tree and jumps out to show him he could fly like the Eagle in Sully's story, but before Sully can stop him. Brian lands hard, hitting his head. Mike, angry with Sully for not watching Brian more carefully, is relieved to find no signs of injury. Later, the townsfolk argue over who will build the new schoolhouse, Matthew wants Robert E included but, in the end, Jake and Loren are tapped for the job, and Robert E. is disregarded because of racial prejudices. Later Loren discovers Jake can't read, and going to the saloon, Jake starts drinking again and Hank tells him he can't read either. Brian begins to exhibit symptoms of compression, which starts off by blurred vision and quickly escalates to blindness and later, a coma. Dr. Mike says to everyone Brian has a Subtoemal Hemorrhage. Dr. Mike asks Horace to send a telegram to Boston General Hospital to advise her of a Neurology specialist. When Brian wants to speak to Sully, Matthew rides past him because a rock is covering him. When Loren visits Brian he gives him candy and shows him that there are smells and sounds around him. When Horace brings the telegram that says a Neurologist is coming, and Dr. Mike tells Brian, she discovers he has slipped into a coma. When Sully arrives after being away praying to the spirits for forgiveness, Dr. Mike is furious with Sully, and they argue. The Reverend has to stop in and stop them. Matthew then wants to start building the school because it was the last thing Brian wanted. The stage is delayed because the flood has washed a bridge out and won't be arriving until next week, and Dr. Mike is forced to perform a dangerous brain operation, having never attempted it, while The Reverend, Jake and Grace assist. Meanwhile, Sully, Robert E, and Matthew start to build the schoolhouse and more and more people pull together to build it. After the operation, Dr. Mike goes to the building site and informs everyone that the operation appears to have been a success. Later, in the morning while everyone is sleeping, When Dr. Mike wakes up, she discovers Brian is not in his bed and discovers him outside looking at the school. | |||||
| 1x16 | The Secret | May 15, 1993 | Disc 5 | ||
| On the way to the Indian Reservation, Dr. Mike decides to check up on Ruby Johnson and they discover her dead and a young boy, Zack, hidden in the closet. Mike takes the child in and confronts the townsfolk, who reluctantly admit to knowing the boy's mother, Clarice was one of Hank's whores whom Hank loved. When she died they sent Zack when he was 5 to Mrs. Johnson because he was "simple." While Sully, Matthew and Brian are loading up the wagon with Mrs. Johnson's possessions, Brian finds a drawing. When Dr. Mike tries to get schoolclothes for Zack, Loren says he can't go to school because he's a "simpleton". Later, when she goes to get a hair cut for him, Jake calls him an "imbecile". In school, Olive sees Brian's drawing he found and thinks he drew it. Zack is laughed at, bullied and called an idiot by the other schoolchildren and runs away. When Sully and Brian go looking for Zack, they discover Zack's drawings. Brian speaks to Zack about crying and he breaks down and is comforted by Brian. Dr. Mike is frustrated in her attempts to find a medical diagnosis and cure for Zack's condition. Dr. Mike's further detective work reveals that Hank is Zack's father, although he tries to avoid the issue and tries tell Dr. Mike to mind her own business and stick to doctoring and she helps Hank own up to his responsibility. Meanwhile, Later, when Zack's artistic talent is discovered, drawing Clarice, Hank weeps quietly. The next day, Hank shows Dr. Mike the drawing of Clarice. He asks her what do I do now Micheala? Hank agrees to send him to an art school in Denver. And Hank before he goes with Zack, he agrees that may be he can bring Brian's drawing when he comes home for Christmas. | |||||
| 1x17 | Portraits | May 22, 1993 | Disc 5 | ||
| David Watkins, a civil war photographer arrives in Colorado Springs. Dr. Mike suggests taking a portrait of the town and an argument ensues over who will be in it. Dr. Mike diagnoses David's diabetes mylitis and is frustrated that he refuses treatment and will ultimately go blind. When Horace introduces Myra to his ailing mother, she is furious when she recognizes her, and tells Myra and Horace to get out. After David takes a photograph of Emily and her husband, Dr. Mike catches the bouquet, he collapses. When he regains consciousness, against Dr. Mike's advice he takes separate portraits of the townspeople. Brian asks Sully to be in their family portrait but he says it's not right because he isn't family. Myra goes to thank Horace's mother and to say she will take good care of him and she weeps after Myra leaves. Sully admits that he is not ready yet for Marriage and Dr. Mike says it was just a birthday kiss. When the town photograph is ready to be taken, and "unapproved" people turn up, a fight breaks out. The Reverend tries to stop it but to no avail. The horses are spooked and run away and the wagon catches fire, with Sully inside. When the camera equipment is destroyed, with the exception opf the lens, the whole town must pull together to create a camera and take the photo before David's eyesight fails. On Mrs. Bing's deathbed bestows her blessing on their marriage and asks them to look after Lewis. David asks Loren if he will be in his picture and he refuses. Dr. Mike tells Loren he is the heart of the town and convinces him to be in the photograph. Sully joins Dr. Mike in the photograph. Guest Star Kenny Rogers | |||||
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