Season 2: 1993-1994
| # | Title | Original Airdate | Disc | ||
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| 2x01 | The Race | September 25, 1993 | Disc 1 | ||
| An episode revolving around gender roles; Dr. Mike is given a horse by Snowbird after inoculating the Cheyenne children from Smallpox. At first she refuses, but Cloud Dancing says you insult Snowbird if you refuse a gift. When Dr. Mike wants Sully to race, he refuses to race to money saying he doesn't like what it does to people. After meeting Dr. Cassidy, when Drew, his rider is kicked in the head, she finds he refuses to listen to her. Dr. Mike wants to run her horse, Flash, in a race, but is not allowed by Loren, Jake and Hank, saying it's only for men. Dr. Mike tries to persuade Loren to change the rules but again he refuses and Brian cooks an unusual pie, despite being told by Colleen boys don't cook. Hank's horse turns up lame and Dr. Mike asks him to ride but when he tries, her horse rejects him and he is furious and tries to beat her but is prevented by Sully. Meanwhile, when Drew suffers another mishap, but Dr. Cassidy again refuses to listen. Loren again tells Brian boys don't cook and when Brian says it is called Surprise Pie, Jake says the only surprise will be if someone doesn't die. Drew has a relapse for the third time and collapses. As he dies Dr. Mike says, What do you think his chances are now? Brian wins first place for his pie, with Colleen coming third. Against his principles, Sully offers to ride, but Dr. Mike decides to disguise herself as a man with Sully's help. After the race, though Dr. Mike wins, Loren takes away Dr. Mike's prize but everyone considers her the real winner and gathers around Dr. Mike and Flash. And Hank and Loren are left all alone. Jake puts the winner's prize of flowers around Flash instead of Destiny. Snowbird: Tantoo Cardinal and Dr. Cassidy: Jerry Hardin | |||||
| 2x02 | Sanctuary | October 2, 1993 | Disc 1 | ||
| When Loren's sister-in-law and first love, Dorothy, leaves her abusive husband Marcus, she comes to Colorado Springs and is taken in by Loren. Dr. Mike learns she was Maude's sister who was married to Loren. When she is asked about the bruises on her she tells both Loren and Dr. Mike she fell off a horse, but both Sully and Dr. Mike recognize that she was beaten by her husband. Loren catches Dorothy in Abigail (his daughter's) room wearing Maude's clothes and tells her to get out. At Maude's grave site, Dorothy opens up about her abusive husband. Meanwhile, Snowbird won't accept anyone else marrying Cloud Dancing, though it is the Cheyenne custom because his brother has died. Sully asks Cloud Dancing if he would like Dr. Mike to talk with her but he says there has already been enough talk. Later, at Dr. Mike's home (where she is with Loren and Dorothy), Dorothy's husband turns up and convinces her to take him back after he says he needs her, against Dr. Mike's advice, wanting to give him another chance. Sully brings Dr. Mike to try to get Snowbird and Cloud Dancing together again and Cloud Dancing thinks it is good they are talking, and nodding but afterwards Dr. Mike is angry with Sully. Dorothy arrives back into town, while The Reverend, Loren and Jake are talking together, beaten again by her husband. Dr. Mike suggests Dorothy to write a newspaper for a job. Soon after, Marcus also arrives into town in the back of a wagon, dead. Dorothy is arrested reluctantly by Horace, and stands trial for his murder, after hitting him with her skillet and asks Michaela to be her lawyer. Meanwhile, it is decided that Grey Eyes will become Cloud Dancing's wife, but in the end another Cheyenne expresses his feelings towards her and Cloud Dancing remains with Snowbird. In the trial, everybody believes that Dorothy has no excuse except Dr. Mike. The jury, represented by Jake reaches a decision and finds her guilty of murder and believes she ought to go to prison for the rest of her life. When Dorothy tells Dr. Mike what happened the day Marcus died, she asks permission from her for an exhumation and performs an autopsy on Dorothy's husband. When Jake and Hank protest, she challenges them asking, "Are you afraid of dead bodies, or the truth"? Dr. Mike finds he died of gastritis. In the end, Dorothy gets out of jail. Loren gives her a space to work on her newspaper, the women of the town applaud Dorothy but Hank stop the celebrations by firing off a shot. Dorothy Jennings: Barbara Babcock, Snowbird: Tantoo Cardinal Grey Eyes: Yvonne Russo, and Marcus Jennings: Wayne Grace | |||||
| 2x03 | Halloween | October 30, 1993 | Disc 1 | ||
| While Matthew, Colleen and Brian are in the barn, calling up ghosts to speak to them, Brian calling his mother, Sully tells Dr. Mike what the Cheyenne believe, and as they kiss, a photograph of the family falls to the floor by itself; and the ghost of Abigail and her baby haunts Dr. Mike, demanding her to leave the home that Sully built for Abigail. After talking about ghosts spelling out the one you love, Brian believes "there'll be a big S" for Dr. Mike. For Halloween Sully offers to make renovations but Dr. Mike is happy with the homestead. Brian misses his mother who always made him his Halloween costumes, and he struggles to find a costume. The school children discuss witches and they make Brian believe that Dorothy is a witch, so he tries to catch her in the act. Meanwhile, a man keeps turning up "dead" in different areas of the town, first at Jake's Barber shop, Hank's Saloon, then at Grace's Cafe. disappearing whenever the people go to fetch Dr. Mike. She angrily thinks the townspeople are playing a practical joke on her until she sees him fall into a deep deathlike sleep, a result of a rare medical condition caused by a slowed heartrate. Dr. Mike hears a baby crying and she goes to the barn and finds an unfinished rocking horse which Sully made for his child. She turns around to see Abigail, Sully's wife, who disappears. The next day, when Sully arrives to start work, Dr. Mike doesn't want him to do any work because she doesn't consider the house as hers it's Abigail's but he says it's not. Abigail appears to Dr. Mike a second time saying that she wants Dr. Mike out of her house. When Dr. Mike brings Sullys rocking horse to him to finish she asks him to finish it but he throws it into the fire. Brian's suspicions rise but it turns out she was behaving oddly because she was making him a Devil's costume, and Brian breaks down crying and tells her about missing his Ma. Abigail again appears a third time to Dr. Mike, and they discuss Sully. Dr. Mike tells her that she is selfish, and she looks up to her and is being compared with her and she should want Sully to get on with his life and Abigail also says Dr. Mike is selfish, that she has nothing, and Dr. Mike has her husband. At the Halloween party, when the stranger wins the first prize for best costume, everyone is shocked. He then collapses. Dr. Mike tells him he suffers from Catilepsy. Sully brings Dr. Mike the completed rocking horse and Dr. Mike calls Abigail and she appears the fourth and final time and after breaking down crying, says, "we would have been friends". In the end Abigail is finally resting after Dr. Mike gives her the rocking horse Sully never got to finish a long time ago and now he did. Dr. Mike chooses not to tell Sully about Abigail, just saying that the rocking horse was for "a child that really needed it". Abigail: Megan Gallivan and Mysterious "Dead Man" Tom Poston | |||||
| 2x04 | The Incident | November 6, 1993 | Disc 1 | ||
| Jake accidentally kills Little Eagle while hunting for deer with Loren. Horace is wounded by an arrow and is intimidated into covering up the truth. Tensions between the Natives and the townspeople mount as gossip surrounding the incident runs wild. Dog Soldiers attack the Wakefield family, upsetting both sides. When Jake won't come peacefully, he is kidnapped and Dr. Mike convinces everyone that guns and the army are not the answer. Sully goes to negotiate his release, but is shockingly thrown off the reservation. Horace's conscience finally gets the best of him under Myra's pressure and he admits the truth. Dorothy chastises Loren for his lies, but realizes she must print a retraction immediately and feels bad for printing untruths. Dr. Mike decides to go to the reservation with Horace to sort things out. Despite being beaten by the Dog Soldiers, Jake tries to blame Horace. Sully finally makes him tell the truth, and attempts to defend the townspeople against Cloud Dancing, who says Jake must die. Sully says Cloud Dancing taught him not to hate and he used to be fair and anger has clouded his judgement. Cloud Dancing and Sully fight and Michaela must break up, saying, "You ought top be ashamed of yourself. You call this man your brother?". Myra offers to send a wire, but fearful of what the army will do, Brian and Colleen cut the telegraph wires. Back at the trial, when the tribal council is sitting, when war is suggested, Sully declares he is on the side of truth, and that if you want to start a war, start it with me, offering Cloud Dancing his hunting knife, who refuses to kill Sully and gives him his knife back. Chief Black Kettle decides that as long as there is one white man talking the Cheyenne will not die and that Jake must provide horses and food to the family of Little Eagle, so that they can survive. After protesting, Jake gives them a silver pocket watch and a ring which his father gave him. Sully responds by saying, "Thanks to you, her children don't have a father". Cloud Dancing also takes his horse he rode in on. When Jake asks "How am I supposed to get home?" Cloud Dancing says, "You may keep the shoes". Dr. Mike is informed of the army being called and Brian cutting the wires. When she says it was dangerous, and illegal, Colleen says to Dr. Mike, "You would have done it" and Sully says "She's right". Chief Black Kettle: Nick Ramus | |||||
| 2x05 | Saving Souls | November 13, 1993 | Disc 2 | ||
| When Sister Ruth McKenzie, a traveling faith healer, comes to town. Horace's gout is "healed" but Dr. Mike is not impressed. Johnny Cash returns to reprise his role as Kid Cole. Robert E. fumbles through a proposal to Grace, and she joyfully accepts. When Sister Ruth enters the saloon, Hank refuses her to be there but Cole defends her and the evangelical healer is clearly sweet on him. Ingrid's asthma almost kills her thanks to the faith healer convincing the immigrants to toss out their medicine, and Dr. Mike is furious with Sister Ruth. Later, Dr. Mike suggests to Kid Cole he stay and settle down, but refuses. Grace chooses Dr. Mike as her maid of honour, while Sully is chosen to be Robert E.'s best man. Reverend Johnson argues against marrying the two in the church because he is concerned what the congregation will think. Dr. Mike and Sully challenge him as to answering to a higher power. Kid Cole's coughing from tuberculosis starts up again. Dr. Mike tells him he has fluid which needs to be drained from his lungs. Kid Cole refuses And Dr. Mike says if you don't you will die. Kid Cole says everybody dies and Sister Ruth asks him wouldn't you rather be right with the Lord when you die. Sully is lost as to what to buy for a wedding gift, but Michaela saves him by suggesting they buy a bible together. Kid Cole's prisoner's brother arrives in town. Meanwhile, Sister Ruth offers to marry Robert E. and Grace and when she prays for Loren for his healing she blames Dr. Mike for Loren not being healed. Kid Cole is involved in a fight and helped by Sully. Punched in the chest, and needing emergency surgery to drain fluid off his lungs, Kid Cole is operated on despite him refusing treatment. Sister Ruth comes into the clinic and Dr. Mike tries to get her to leave because she wasn't welcome at her meeting. But Sister Ruth refuses to leave, praying for Dr. Mike and Kid Cole. Reverend Johnson later admits he was wrong and should have stood up to the town. Sister Ruth tries to convince the gunslinger of her feelings, admitting her love and receiving a kiss. The Prisoner's brothers try to shoot down Kid Cole, but with Sully, Matthew, Loren, Jake and Hank's help they are surprised. Kid Cole lets the prisoner go with a warning to walk the straight path and not to get mixed up with his brother. The episode ends with Grace and Robert E. getting married before the parish in the church. Sister Ruth McKenzie: June Carter Cash, Ned Benjamin: Robert Keith, Joe Benjamin: Heath Kizzier, and Kid Cole: Johnny Cash | |||||
| 2x06-2x07 | Where the Heart Is (Parts 1 & 2) | November 20, 1993 | Disc 2 | ||
| In Part 1, When Dr. Quinn's mother, Elizabeth, falls ill, she is called to Boston by telegram. Matthew doesn't want to leave Ingrid, but Dr. Mike insists. Without thinking, Dr. Mike later takes out her stress and worry on the children, wheile they are packing and breaks down, crying. Sully reveals to her where he was born, how his parents died and coming out West. On arrival, one of Dr. Mike's sisters, Marjorie, is disdainful to her husband Everett of the children and Dr. Mike's insistence on seeing their ailing mother. Mrs. Quinn has two physicians: one is older (Dr. Hansen) and believes women should not be doctors while the other is much younger (Dr. Burke), smitten with Michaela, and believes she has the cure. After examining her mother, herself, Dr. Mike ends up curing her mother, diagnosing Hepatitis, and earning Dr. Burke's esteem, despite arguing with Dr. Hansen. Elizabeth tells Dr. Mike to get out. Dr. Mike wires Sully to send her journals about tea to cure hepatitis. Colleen, Brian and Matthew attempt to make friends without success. Elizabeth gives permission for her daughter to use the tea. When Dr. Hansen finds out what has happened, he fires Dr. Burke. Brian is entranced by a candy and ice cream shop. Dr. Burke invites Dr. Mike, Matthew, Colleen and Brian to dinner. In the meantime, Cloud Dancing and Sully talk, and Sully confides to him that he dreams about being in Boston, and sets out to join the four. Meanwhile, Elizabeth arrives home to great joy and celebration. Later, while everyone is at dinner, they are shocked and surprised to see Sully walk in.
In Part 2, Asking Dr. Mike what has happened, she refuses to give Sully the real reason for the changes he sees in her. After Dr. Mike and Dr. Burke do their rounds visiting sick folk, Dr. Burke says he wants a partner to practice with him. On the way back to the house, Sully and the children accidentally stumble onto Michaela receiving a kiss on the hand by Dr. Burke. Matthew demands to go home, homesick and missing Ingrid, and Sully changes his mind and is not in any hurry to leave. Matthew is angry with Dr. Mike for staying so long. Elizabeth convinces Sully to wear Boston finery and to the delight of Dr. Mike he looks incredibly dashing. At the ball held in Elizabeth's honor for her birthday, Sully and Dr. Burke compete for Dr. Mike's attention. Sully asks Matthew how to capture Dr. Mike's heart. Colleen teaches Sully to dance. They teach him how to use the various cutlery and plates and bowls. Sully, with new finery, takes Michaela out to a sumptuous dinner for two with dancing afterwards. The two then attend an opera, where Dr. Mike must explain what is going on to a long-suffering Sully. Dr. Burke invites Dr. Quinn make a speech at the Medical Conference, and though many of the male doctors leave in disgust, about half stay for the speech and are impressed. Immediately after, Burke confesses his love for Michaela and proposes marriage, and she attempts to let him down gently but he refuses to take no for an answer. Sully demands to know if she's going to marry the fellow doctor, but she refuses to answer. Sully and Dr. Mike argue and Sully immediately angrily leaves. Looking for Sully, Dr. Mike finds that Sully admits he came to Boston because he loves Dr. Mike, but goes back home to Colorado anyway, and Dr. Mike leaves upset. After admitting to her mother she doesn't love William Burke, Michaela must tell him she cannot accept his proposal, and the four leave the next day. Matthew admits to Elizabeth he was wrong. A very warm welcome meets the family when they return to their home, with the episode ending on Michaela's admission of love for Sully. Elizabeth Quinn: Georgann Johnson, Marjorie Quinn: Alley Mills, Rebecca Quinn: Elinor Donahue, Maureen Quinn: Anne Lockhart, Claudette Quinn: Nancy Youngblut, Dr. William Burke: Edward Albert, Dr. William Hansen: Richard Herd, Harrison: David St. James, and Martha: Pamela Kosh |
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| 2x08 | Giving Thanks | November 27, 1993 | Disc 2 | ||
| Back from Boston, Sully and Dr. Mike start to "go courtin'" but a drought threatens the town. Sully wants to show Dr. Mike his world and to gather herbs for medicine together. She tells him what it means to be courting. He tells him how to find turkey tracks. At the thanksgiving meeting, when no one has any food to spare, Horace brings a divining rod to find water. Dr. Mike asks Cloud Dancing to show the townspeople how to grow plants without water, but without success. When Cloud Dancing brings food to convince the townspeople crops can grow in a drought, they throw his food in the dirt. Hank decides to leave, separating Myra and Horace. Robert E. considers leaving and Grace refuses to go because she feels she has an identity where she is—Robert E. threatens to leave her behind. Dr. Mike and Sully get into a lover's spat because she tries to change people's minds and Sully doesn't believe they want to change, and it becomes a source of contention for them. And they stop speaking to each other. Jake and Loren take water from the reservation, and sell it, ignoring the warnings that it's not for human consumption; many townspeople become sick and get dysentery. A lightning strike hits the barn on the homestead, threatening to consume the barn and Dr. Mike takes Sully to task for his old habits of considering himself first, and says she doesn't need him at all. Cloud Dancing advises Sully that he wasn't meant to be alone. Grace and Robert E. mend the rift from their argument. Sully and Michaela also talk through their differences, and she admits to being scared of commitment. The Cheyenne come to Thanksgiving dinner, bringing enough food for all because the Spirits direct them to. Hank returns as dinner is served, to the delight of Horace, but almost ruins everything with his insensitive remarks before Loren takes him to task. As everyone is eating, rain begins pouring down and everyone dances around in delight, soaking wet. | |||||
| 2x09 | Best Friends | December 4, 1993 | Disc 3 | ||
| A dance is coming up, setting the young girls in a tizzy. Colleen decides to no longer be friends with the most popular girl in town (Alice) because she is bossy. Dorothy is feeling dizzy, and when Dr. Mike questions her, it's revealed she is pregnant just as Loren walks into her room; the three fall into an uncomfortable silence. Further examination shows it's not a pregnancy but menopause, which upsets Dorothy deeply. Colleen commissions Robert E. to make a Best Friends necklace. Dorothy begins bleeding heavily, which may require taking out her uterus. Colleen's friend Becky asks her to speak to Richard, but the young man inadvertently thinks Colleen is sweet on him. Loren gives Dorothy a meal in bed, wracked with guilt about believing Hank's false stories on menopause, that she would grow hair and a hump. Colleen asks Dr. Mike about kissing, goes to meet Richard, Becky's crush, under the kissing tree and receives her first kiss. As she enjoyed it, she declines to tell Richard about Becky. Sully walks off, frustrated after Dr. Mike tries to teach him to dance. Michaela admits to Dorothy she is afraid of physical intimacy, after her experience with Sully, but after church she notices Dorothy doubling over in pain but refuses to admit it. Colleen can't admit the truth to Becky and Brian and Dr. Mike spot Sully going into the store alone with Dorothy and becomes suspicious. Becky catches Colleen kissing the boy she likes and they argue. Colleen loses Becky as her friend and is upset. Dr. Mike finally hears about Colleen's problem and points out friendship should be above boyfriends. While in Loren's store, Sully and Dorothy come out of her room laughing. Michaela is ready to explode in anger but Dorothy collapses in pain and is bleeding badly. Dr. Mike says before she extriates the uterus, there is a risk of peritonitis. Loren predicts doom and gloom but when Dorothy comes out fine, he faints in front of the clinic. Sully says Dr. Mike is jealous and she is supposed to trust you. Colleen becomes the butt of vicious rumours at school, saying she is easy and dumps the boyfriend. Loren asks Dorothy to the dance—but just to sit; either way she won't tell Dr. Mike what Sully was doing with her, and neither will he. Colleen and Becky rekindle their friendship after she witnesses Richard kissing Alice. At the dance, Loren admits he still has feelings for Dorothy, Alice steals the boy and Becky decides he's not worth it, and Sully dances a perfect Sweetheart Reel — thanks, of course, to the lessons from Dorothy, which he admits he had lessons from "a friend". Alice: Andy Bakkum, Missy: Melissa Flores, Becky Bonner: Haylie Johnson | |||||
| 2x10 | Sully's Choice | December 11, 1993 | Disc 3 | ||
| The Reverend comes home from Soda Springs with the news of a flu epidemic; as the town has no doctor, Michaela rides off to help. Sully can't control the kids and takes a trip into town, where he runs into the Army looking for Dog Soldiers. Sully pleads with Cloud Dancing to try to dissuade the renegades from attacking, who says he'll do his best. Brian asks for a bedtime story. Sully and Brian explore a cave together but come out in the middle of Dog Soldiers attacking railroad builders. Trying to run them off, he is shot by the Army—who then proceed to put a 200 dollar bounty on his head. Brian runs to see Sully, but he has disappeared. Brian runs back to town to get Matthew and Robert E., who find Sully unconscious and bleeding. Jake and Hank go out to collect the bounty. Managing to avoid the soldiers in town, Robert E. gives the wagon with Sully hidden inside over to the Reverend, to take somewhere safe, to the cave Sully showed Brian. Colleen is faced with the daunting task of taking the bullet out of Sully alone. Matthew goes in search of Cloud Dancing while the Revered goes to town for medical supplies. Unfortunately, Matthew is soon followed by Jake, and Hank spots the Reverend sneaking out of the clinic with supplies. All four men arrive back at the cave at the same time. Everyone is surprised when Hank is subdued by the Reverend. Jake removes the bullet from Sully but nicks an artery, which Colleen must suture closed. Sully regains consciousness and goes to turn himself in; Hank's still after the bounty but is blown off. When Sully comes to town, he makes a speech about his innocence, winning the townspeople over. When the Cavalry arrive, Dorothy and others vouch he was "in town" during the time of the incident and threatens to write about shooting an unarmed man in the back. The episode ends with Dr. Mike returning to town, none the wiser. | |||||
| 2x11 | Mike's Dream... a Christmas Tale | December 18, 1993 | Disc 3 | ||
| Mike is mired in a Christmas Eve career/identity crisis after a patient dies unexpectedly after having a heart attack during routine procedure. After helping a pregnant woman deliver her baby in Robert E.'s stable, She is visited by a friendly angel - the Cooper kids' deceased mom, Charlotte. Charlotte takes Dr. Mike on a trip to the past, present and future. In the past she remembers her father and a scene where she sings carols late at night with her patients during medical school. In her present, she is helping a woman deliver her baby while Mike and Sully hide the woman and her husband from their families who disapprove of their marriage. The future shows Mike with Colleen, Matthew, some grandchildren (though we don't know whose children they are), and a late-arriving Brian who is in his military uniform, having just arrived after being on a ship in the navy. A "grandpa" is in the kitchen cooking, but we never see him or find out his identity. On this journey, Mike concludes that the choices and decisions she's made for her career and life the right ones. The Grandfather of the newborn child decides that he doesn't want to press charges. Charlotte Cooper: Diane Ladd, Harp: Paul Sand, Bishop: Brendan Burns, Joseph Quinn: John Clarke, Dr. Hancock: Jeff Weatherford, Caleb: David Pearce Roberts, Martha: Pamela Kosh, Mrs. Marley: Elyse Donalson, Sarah Kim Heinburg: Margaret, Matthew's child: Sean Flynn, and Adult Brian: Ron Melendez | |||||
| 2x12 | Crossing the Line | January 1, 1994 | Disc 3 | ||
| Desperate for funds to finish his homestead, Matthew becomes a scab miner. Dr. Mike and Sully refuse to let Matthew work in the mine. Loren refuses credit to strikers, prompting a boycott of his store. Sully tells Matthew he nearly died in a cave in. Matthew discovers scrip, and Brian is sick due to indigestion. Matthew and Ingrid's brother, Jon are trapped in a cave in and disaster is averted by Mike and Sully, who enact a daring rescue when Matthew and other scabs are trapped in a cave-in. Despite being owed $200 Loren refuses to do business with Mr. Stone. Dorothy writes an issue of the gazette, highlighting the mining disaster, the lowering of wages and unsafe work practices. Grace sings Take my hand, Precious Lord. Another cave in occurs and Dr. Mike is about to amputate Matthew's leg, but Sully arrives with gunpowder. After Matthew's leg is freed, they are blocked by a pile of rocks and Jake hears their cries for help. Just after Sully gets out, there is a third cave in. Mr. Stone tries to convince Matthew that there is a job waiting for him, but Matthew rejects his offer and Dr. Mike tells him that there are no workers in our town willing to work. Travis Stone: Peter Jason and Jon: Christopher Keene Kelly | |||||
| 2x13 | The Offering | January 8, 1994 | Disc 4 | ||
| After a peace treaty to replace food and shelter, Dr. Mike and Sully unknowingly aid the U.S. government in giving typhus infected blankets to the Cheyenne. Michaela and Sully go to the reservation to help fight the disease, but are not allowed back to town because they have been on the infected reservation. Meanwhile, Matthew, who also took one of the blankets to give to Ingrid, falls sick with typhus and he, Colleen, Brian, and Horace are quarantined in the clinic. Hank decides to plank up the clinic. Ingrid's little sister is sick and she brings her to the clinic and finds out Matthew also has typhus. Everybody tells her to leave. The blanket Matthew bought for Ingrid infects the immigrant camp also and Jake leads the men of the town in burning the immigrant camp to get rid of the disease. A plan is concocted to take Matthew, Brian and Colleen to Dr. Mike. After being stopped by troops, Brian pretends to have typhus. After convincing the Cheyenne to burn their dead, contrary to their religion and custom, the disease is finally dealt with. Matthew recovers but many others die from the disease, including Colonel Egan. George Washington's birthday is celebrated with fireworks. Colonel Eger: John Reger, Nick Ramus: Chief Black Kettle | |||||
| 2x14 | The Circus | January 15, 1994 | Disc 4 | ||
| Mother/daughter issues are explored when Heart and Atlantis, a rag-tag mother/daughter circus team from Ireland, comes to Colorado Springs. She involves the townspeople in her acts. Dr. Mike has a fear of heights, when practising for the trapeze. Atlantis comes to Dr. Mike after Colleen tells her Dr. Mike can fix her hands. But for the second time, Heart interferes, refusing treatment for Atlantis. Colleen is afraid of heights on the tightrope. When Atlantis sees Matthew kissing Ingrid, she becomes upset and tries to cut her webbed hands. Heart then asks Dr. Mike to fix the other one too. Inner and outer wounds are shared and healed when Dr. Mike and Atlantis help Colleen overcome her fear of performing in front of crowds, and Dr. Mike helps Heart realize that it's a bond of love, not affliction, that binds her and Atlantis when Dr. Mike performs a successful operation to separate Atlantis' webbed fingers. Matthew tells Colleen he won't do the tightrope if she's not doing it. Colleen decides not to go through with the tightrope walk but changes her mind. Sully and Dr. Mike successfully perform on the trapeze. When all the performers are offered their wages, everyone refuses except Jake, whom Loren makes return it. Heart: Fionnula Flanagan. Atlantis: Lisa Rieffel. | |||||
| 2x15 | Another Woman | January 22, 1994 | Disc 4 | ||
| Catherine, a beautiful blonde woman captured by and raised with renegade Cheyenne, is brought to Colorado Springs by soldiers when her tribe is wiped out and she's the sole surviving member. She is offered clothing and anything that she wants but refuses and faints. Dorothy and Jake start to become interested in one another, to Loren's chagrin. Loren says he is worried but Dorothy says he is jealous. An argument ensues between Loren and Jake over Dorothy. Sully finds out Catherine's name, that she can speak English, where she was born and how old she was when she was adopted by the Cheyenne. Jake and Loren refuse Catherine access to the church. she then faints again and Dr. Mike concludes she has Epilepsy. She says that is why they called her Shivering Deer. Brian witnesses Sully and Catherine kiss, angry with him, eventually tells Michaela, which forces her to tell Sully that she can't be with him. Dorothy tells Jake she doesn't want to be with him the way he treats people. Jake then tells her about his mother who left him, and his alcoholic father. Sully tries to talk to Brian first and his relationship with Catherine and then her about their relationship, but she continues to grow closer and closer to him, saying that you protect me after he gives her some beads. Catherine tells Dr. Mike she wants to stay in Colorado Springs with Sully, despite her family wanting her back in Baltimore. Friction develops between Dr. Mike and Sully, and they both argue when Catherine falls in love with him, due to the fact that Sully is the only person she trusts, and he seems to respond. Dr. Mike demands to know if she attractive to him, and whether he has been with another woman since Abigail died. Dr. Mike goes to Dorothy to confide in her. Sully tells Catherine his heart is with Dr. Mike. Dorothy tells Loren he was right. Dr. Mike says Sully hurt her and she can't be with him right now. Catherine: Sheryl Lee. | |||||
| 2x16 | Orphan Train | January 29, 1994 | Disc 4 | ||
| When a group of Orphans from New York arrive in Colorado Springs, Jake and Loren take an immediate dislike to them, but Reverend and Dr. Mike volunteer to take them in. Dr. Mike diagnoses Scurvy, Anaemia, and Rickets. Dr. Mike, Matthew Brian and Colleen struggle with the orphans behaviour and Brian and Colleen have trouble sharing their things and their space with other children. When the Reverend volunteers to find homes for some orphans, the townspeople refuse to take them in, wanting only servants. Sully is upset with Dr. Mike for trying to change everything all the time. Jennifer, the eldest of the orphans comes to Hank looking for a job. Meanwhile, Michaela warns Colleen and Brian not to be selfish and to be grateful for the things they do have. Later, Myra has a talk with Jennifer about what she is getting into. After taking the orphans out on a picnic, Dr. Mike considers a marriage proposal from the Reverend, after he shaves his beard off for her in order to provide eight newly arrived orphans with an instant family. Sully and Matthew see the Reverend kiss Michaela after he proposes, and Matthew confronts Michaela. He tells Dr. Mike how Brian and Colleen feels. Dr. Mike tells Brian and Colleen about the Reverend's proposal which upsets them. Hank tells Myra if the girl comes to work for him, he will let Myra out of her contract. Brian tells Dorothy Dr. Mike is going to marry her, and Dorothy prints it. Dr. Mike and Sully argue about the orphans and whether she is in love with The Reverend or not. When Sully leaves the clinic, Dr. Mike realizes she might have made a dreadful mistake. Loren forces the eldest boy to stop smoking. Robert E makes a fake leg for a crippled boy, Jennifer's brother. Myra decides to keep her contract so the girl won't have to go through what she went through. Hank says he loves Myra but she tells him he doesn't know what love is, to Hank's disappointment. At Grace's cafe, Dr. Mike denies the Reverend's proposal, saying that it would be for the wrong reason, that she doesn't love him, and they decide to send the children to a Reverend in another town. Dr. Mike apologizes to Sully, Matthew, Colleen, and Brian and explains why. And they forgive her. | |||||
| 2x17 | Buffalo Soldiers | February 5, 1994 | Disc 5 | ||
| A troop of black "Buffalo" Soldiers rides into town intending to kill Indian Dog Soldiers who, because the railroad trespasses on their hunting grounds, have been sabotaging it. Mike manages to thwart the Buffalo Soldiers' mission by warning the Indians, thereby committing an act of civil disobedience. Meanwhile in the school exam, 1st prize of which is a trip to Washington D.C, Brian sees Colleen cheat on her exam, which she wins. When Brian confronts her, she denies it. Rather than refusing to help the soldiers, Michaela decides to put up the soldiers in the clinic, and on Cloud Dancing's advice Sully decides to help the army scout out the Indian camp, both in order to help thwart the army's mission, and learn information. Dr. Mike tells the sergeant his men have Scurvy but he ignores her advice. When she overhears the army's plans to attack the Indian camp, Michaela rides out to warn them, and when a battle ensues and many die on each side, Michaela admits that she committed an act of treason and is imprisoned. Colleen goes to Dorothy and admits that she cheated on the exam. Sully takes Sergeant Marion Mempin to the Indian camp to talk with Black Kettle and the Sergeant realizes that he cannot in good conscience kill them. When ordered to prepare to kill them, the Sergeant refuses and is imprisoned to be court martialed. Rather than see him go to court to be executed, Michaela fakes a surgery and gives him a drug that makes him appear dead. The army is convinced and they give him a funeral, but afterward he awakens and, with the help of Sully, Robert E, and Michaela, runs away free. Sgt. Carver: Dorian Harewood. Capt. Turrell: Spencer Garrett. | |||||
| 2x18 | Luck of the Draw | March 5, 1994 | Disc 5 | ||
| Matthew, desperate to earn funds to finish his homestead, becomes a gambler when con-man Julius Hoffman rides into town for the annual poker game at Hank's saloon. He quickly spots Matthew as his victim, and sees it as an easy way to make money for the homestead. When he bring presents home for everyone, Dr. Mike is not happy with Matthew playing poker. Hoffman goes to the Reverend and offers him a bribe and then threatens to tell everyone in the congregation about his past, which he again repeats in Hank's Saloon and The Reverend loses his temper with Hoffman. Unfortunately, Matthew must learn the hard way that the easier it looks, the harder it hooks. Ingrid gives Matthew money to help him finish the homestead, but he gambles it and although he wins a lot of money, she is furious with him. Matthew is later injured and badly beaten up. When he begins missing dinners and not making good on his promises. Meanwhile, Brian finds the money to buy the Eagle off Loren who reluctantly agrees. Hank offers Loren the opportunity to double his money. Brian's Eagle refuses to leave its cage, to his disappointment. Loren, Jake, Horace, Robert E. and Grace and the other townspeople give money to Matthew to win money for them. Ingrid gives him her ring back and breaks off the engagement. We learn that the Reverend had a dark past with gambling before he came to the Lord, when he confides in Dr. Mike. In the big final game, Matthew loses everything to Julius, including Dr. Mike's ring which she gave to Matthew to give to Ingrid, who then makes off with his money. The Reverend finds courage though to stand up to Julius when he, Robert E. and Sully catch Julius and make him give Matthew's money back, along with the ring. Sully says to Matthew a man can't learn if he doesn't make mistakes. However, Matthew feels so guilty that he ends up giving the money as a donation to the church. At the end of the episode, the family takes the eagle out to Matthew's unfinished homestead and it finally leaves its cage and is free. Julius Hoffman: Craig Wasson | |||||
| 2x19 | Life and Death | March 12, 1994 | Disc 5 | ||
| Tom Jennings, Dorothy's Civil War Veteran son, comes to Colorado Springs. Though Mike treats him for pain supposedly incurred from war injuries 4 years ago, his real affliction is an addiction to morphine. He becomes angry when Dr. Mike doesn't give him another morphine shot for his pain. He also attempts to shoplift from Loren, but Dorothy defends him. When he sees that Michaela has morphine in her bag, he breaks into the clinic and the homestead in the middle of the night and demands morphine from Colleen while the family lies sleeping. When he pulls out a gun and fires at Matthew, Michaela shoots him in the leg, not realizing till afterwards that it was Tom who broke in. Hank says he is proud of Micheala. Later, she doubts her actions, but Sully reassures her that what she did was right. Brian later brags to everyone at school about what Dr. Mike did, but Colleen is upset and runs away. When Sully finds Colleen trying to scrub the blood from the floor of the homestead clean, he takes her to Dr. Mike, who doesn't tell Dr. Mike the real truth. While Dorothy and Dr. Mike are arguing about each other's sons welfares, Tom cries out in pain from his bedroom. When Dorothy urges her to do something, Dr. Mike gives in and uses morphine and also decides to amputate his leg. Meanwhile, Sully has to have a talk with Brian about shooting people. He then has to talk to Colleen about her problem, but she also refuses to tell Sully the real reason why she doesn't want to go to school. After Dr. Mike amputates his leg, Dorothy again wants Dr. Mike to give Tom more morphine, but Dr. Mike doesn't know what to do. Dr. Mike talks with Sully about it who suggests she talk to Cloud Dancing and that Colleen is very upset. At the homestead, Colleen is ready to shoot whoever walks through the door. Colleen finally opens up to Dr. Mike. After a talk with Cloud Dancing, she decides not to wean Tom off the morphine and instead use some Indian herbal tea. But Dorothy disagrees with her and tries to take the morphine herself and Dr. Mike has to lock her outside. Tom tries to play on Dorothy's emotions to get more morphine, but she refuses, and Tom is furious. After what seems to be a full recovery, Tom assures Dorothy she won't see any more of the old person. Loren gives Tom a job at his store. Dr. Mike insists that Colleen face Tom, who apologizes to her but she can't forgive him but admits maybe she might be able to one day. One morning, Loren and Dorothy awake to find their all their cash gone and Tom gone. Tom Jennings: Matthew Letscher. | |||||
| 2x20 | The First Circle | March 26, 1994 | Disc 5 | ||
| Robert E purchases at auction a house that sits in the middle of town, which no black person has ever done before. The auctioneer, Jedediah Bancroft, tries to worm his way out of giving the house to Robert E when he learns he is black, but it is too late to legally keep it from him. Jedediah vows he'll never live in it and invites all of the men of the town to a late night meeting of a new "men's club," which turns out to be a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Loren refuses to sell Robert E nails, claiming he doesn't have any left. Matthew attends the "mens club" and when Robert E is assaulted, he and Horace bring him to the clinic, and tells Michaela and Sully, who stand in defense of Robert E, while Jake and Hank vandalize his house and humiliate Robert E, dumping paint over him. Jedediah tries to buy Robert E out of the house by talking to Dr. Mike and Robert E refuses. Jedediah threatens extortion to Dr. Mike. Dorothy writes an article about Robert E shooting Loren and not having his house. Dr. Mike offers the clinic back to Jedediah in response to his extortion threats. The KKK cut Grace's hair off while Robert E is cutting wood. Dr. Mike reveals to Robert E and Grace her father was an abolitionist. The KKK later turn up at Sully's property, threatening everyone, and Jedediah catches fire. Brian is told about slavery by Robert E. Later, after ignoring Dr. Mike's advice about his arm, and refusing treatment or amputation, Jedediah threatens Brian, Colleen and Matthew and Sully says that if he touches any of them he will kill him. Brian, Colleen and Matthew agree with Sully and Dr. Mike that it has become their fight. When they kidnap Robert E in the middle of the night, Grace runs to Michaela and Sully, and Matthew takes them to the KKK's meeting place where Robert E is about to be lynched. A moving speech by Michaela shames the townspeople and drives Jedediah away. Sully nearly kills Jedediah. Loren ends up helping Robert E and Grace move into their new home. Jedediah Bancroft: George Furth. | |||||
| 2x21 | Just One Lullaby | April 9, 1994 | Disc 6 | ||
| Rev. Johnson recruits a new schoolteacher (Sherry Hursey) for the town, whom he appears to have romantic history with. All seems well when their flame is rekindled and she and Michaela hit it off as career women from the East. However, her beliefs about appropriate discipline come into question when students start coming to Dr. Mike with unusual injuries and Colleen and Brian admit that the injuries are from schoolroom discipline. The Reverend proposes and initially stands in the teacher's defense, but when Dr. Mike goes to Loren to call a town meeting to discuss her methods, and no one can agree, the Reverend has a discussion with her about it and learns that she doesn't even want children, which forces him to break off the engagement. Jake reveals to Loren his mother beat him with a strap. Though the town voted in support of her methods, she ends up leaving town when a harshly disciplined student retaliates and beats her up. When Brian can't sleep, Dr. Mike asks Brian to promise he will tell her if anyone ever hurts him. | |||||
| 2x22-2x23 | The Abduction (Parts 1 & 2) | April 30, 1994 | Disc 6 | ||
| In the Indian reservation, Cloud Dancing and Sully compete at throwing the tomahawks. Dr. Mike arrives and Sully get caught in the crossfire when, while visiting the Indian reservation, they see renegade Dog Soldiers shoot some Cavalry men. Cloud Dancing's son wants to join the dog soldiers but his father refuses to let him. Brian tells Dr. Mike he wants Hank's horse, who won it in a poker game, for his birthday. Sully tells Dr. Mike what would have happened if she had told the truth. However, she confides in Dorothy and asks for her advice, off the record. Matthew asks Hank to sell the horse for Brian's birthday, but he refuses. but After seeing smoke in the distance, and hearing gunshots, it is discovered that Indians are attacking. Meanwhile, when Hank starts whipping the horse, it escapes and runs through Grace's cafe. Matthew takes Brian to find Hank's horse, and discovers it is injured and in danger of becoming lame. Cloud Dancing's son threatens Dr. Mike and Sully with death if he sees them again. Hank comes to the homestead to find out if anyone has seen the horse but they deny it. The Reverend is attacked by dog soldiers on the stagecoach. Meanwhile Colleen convinces Brian to do what is right for the horse. The Reverend is angry with dog soldiers and "hopes they burn in hell", after Dr. Mike is choked by one of the injured dog soldiers, and Dr. Mike is surprised at this outburst. Matthew goes to Hank to get him a job to buy the horse, rather than play for it in poker, implying he might tell people he waters down his whisky. The Dog soldiers set fire to the town. Dr. Mike is kidnapped in retaliation and Sully vows to find her.
In Part 2, Sully sets out to rescue Dr. Mike, who is now Sully's "heart-song". Meanwhile, Custer takes the Cheyenne prisoner, including Cloud Dancing, threatening to hang everyone unless Dr. Mike is returned. But Cloud Dancing's son demands that the Cheyenne be freed in return for Dr. Mike's release. Custer refuses and wants to hang the Cheyenne as soon as a gallows can be constructed if Dr. Mike isn't released. Cloud Dancing's son Walks on Cloud is shot by One Eye and dies when he helps Dr. Mike escape. Dr. Mike is knocked unconscious, and recaptured. People refuse to speak to Sully when he arrives at the Cheyenne camp. Finally, one elderly woman tells him. Brian works off the cost of the horse; but Hank reneges on the deal, and has to be comforted by Robert E., inciting Loren's wrath. Hank tries to tell Loren Brian will get over it, but Loren puts the price of Whisky, Silk, and glass up, telling Hank, you'll get over it. One Eye fights Sully but it ends in his death when Sully throws him over the cliff and onto the rocks below. Dr. Mike and Sully, being trapped, have to jump off a cliff. but return to town just in time to keep the Cheyenne from getting hanged. Custer tries to go ahead with the hangings, but Sully reminds Custer he gave his word. Hank, not anxious to pay double for all his goods at the General Store, delivers the horse to Brian on his birthday, declaring that, "Sometimes it's just good business for a man to keep his word." Brian decides to call the horse "Taffy". General George Custer: Jason Leland Adams. |
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| 2x24 | The Campaign | May 7, 1994 | Disc 6 | ||
| When the town gets impatient with their town-hall meetings where nothing really gets done, it is proposed that the town elect a mayor. Loren nominates Jake, and Horace nominates Dr. Mike. Hank sets a horse off with the wagon Dr. Mike is standing on so that she falls off, onto the ground. Grace and Robert argue about voting for Dr. Mike. Dr. Mike forgets about Snowbird's initiation, after Sully reminds her, and tells her if she becomes Mayer, she'll be busier than ever. Myra is attacked by a man while she is "entertaining," while Dr. Mike is outside of town campaigning and is unable to be there to help, which makes her wonder if she would be able to be mayor and still be the doctor the town needs. When she is about to announce her withdrawal, things start to look up and she decides to stay in the race. Dr. Mike challenges Jake to a debate, and confesses that, while she wouldn't do anything without the town's vote, her personal preference would be to outlaw drinking. Though he originally discouraged her from running because of how dirty politics can get, Sully is impressed that she held her ground even though it may have hurt her vote. Sully tells Dr. Mike to get all the women together because he's got a plan. On election day, the women of the town all come out to vote and are initially turned away, until they all present an official document saying that Sully deeded to each of them a small part of his homestead, making them all land owners, and eligible voters. When they see their victory is threatened, Jake and Loren make a deal with Dr. Mike that if she wins, she won't outlaw prostitution or drinking, and if they win, they will allow women to vote. Dr. Mike wants to outlaw prostitution and drinking, but Dorothy persuades her to agree to the deal because if they don't win, at least they have to vote to ban it. When Myra hears that even if Dr. Mike wins, prostitution will not be outlawed, she asks Hank for her contract, and quits, to his shock, saying that she would rather spend her life in a jail cell than keep working for him. The Reverend reads the results and Jake wins the vote, but not by a large margin, and keeps his promise to make it legal for women to vote, whether they own property or not. | |||||
| 2x25 | The Man in the Moon | May 14, 1994 | Disc 7 | ||
| After Myra walks out on Hank, and he angrily throws out all her things onto the street, only the town's love for the infinitely unlovable Hank can pull him from the brink of a deadly coma, after breaking into a drunken rage over Myra ending his entertaining contract at the saloon. When Grandma Quinn sends Brian a Telescope and a book, Colleen is disappointed she didn't receive anything. Later at Grace's cafe, Hank, drunk, threatens to shoot Myra, but Sully knocks him unconscious with a branch. When he wakes up, he says he doesn't need anybody and blames Dr. Mike when she later tries to help him. Furious, she leaves saying she doesn't care if she never sees his face again. Horace buys a gun and tells Myra he wishes Hank was dead. Hank is found with a skull fracture and in a coma outside his saloon, and Horace is appalled when Myra won't leave Hanks' bedside, claiming she can't let him die alone even though in his drunken rage he almost shot Myra. Colleen and Brian fight and the telescope is damaged when it is knocked over. Horace gives Myra an ultimatum, telling her if you love me you'll leave him. Deciding to stay beside him, Horace is angry with Myra and tells her he can't marry her. Myra rebukes everyone in church for not caring about Hank. Loren, Jake, and Grace come to visit Hank. Colleen and Brian wish they didn't have each other as sister or brother. Dr. Mike tells them both the importance of having each other. Sully reassures Dr. Mike that there is light in her heart for Hank. Dr. Mike tells Horace to give Myra another chance and Horace practices on Dr. Mike and tries to kill him, but can't. Instead he talks to Hank. Sharing her fears with Hank, and ending the episode, Dr. Mike and Hank share a tender moment, though neither would ever share that little tidbit of information with anyone. | |||||
| 2x26-2x27 | Return Engagement (Parts 1 & 2) | May 21, 1994 | Disc 7 | ||
| When "Andrew Strauss",a naturalist, aka David Lewis, the fiance' whom Dr. Mike had presumed was killed in the Civil War, visits Colorado Springs, collecting research for a book. Meanwhile Cloud Dancing talks with Dr. Mike about something carrying her away from Sully. Despite Sully and Dr. Mike saying they love each other, Dr. Mike won't say what is bothering her. Horace and Myra talk to everyone about arranging their marriage. Sully volunteers to be best man, Colleen the bridesmaid, Loren gives Horace a new suit, and Dorothy her wedding dress. Dr. Mike, Matthew, Colleen and Brian give Sully a bicycle. Cloud Dancing then tells everyone that he must leave to go on a vision quest to the place the Spirits have told him to go. Sully has a supposed migraine and cancels his trip with Lewis then is noticeably absent when everyone is at Grace's cafe talking about the wedding. Matthew talks of taking over Sully's job and asks what he has to do. Dr. Mike then recites a poem she had recited. Horace wants to eat meatloaf, but Grace insists on French cooking. As Dr. Mike treats Sully, Lewis watches them. After being in a sweat lodge, Sully sees Cloud Dancing reaching out to him. After connecting with him, he the sees Dr. Mike after which he states he "doesn't want to lose her and wants to marry her". Sully asks for the children's permission to marry Dr. Mike. Myra wants to call off the wedding because of people's disagreements. When looking through her chest for Myra's wedding, she finds a photograph of Lewis and realizes who he is. Hank comes to the wedding but doesn't object to her marrying, Myra. Dr. Mike is forced to choose between Lewis and Sully, when she hears him recite the poem.
In Part 2, Lewis denies that he is the man Dr. Mike seeks but Dr. Mike says he would never lie to her. After this he admits everything. Horace keeps "losin' the mood" when it comes time to consummate his marriage with Myra. Everyone in the town gives the couple a chivaree. Meanwhile, Dr. Mike talks to Sully about her meeting with Lewis. She asks Sully what is she going to do, but he asks her "what do you want to do?". Dr. Mike then tells the children. She then convinces Lewis to stay longer to find out more about him. The Reverend gives Horace advice about doing it when he feels the mood. Lewis tells Dr. Mike if she has no feelings for him, he will leave. But Dr. Mike asks him to stay. Sully and Lewis argue and then fight. Dr. Mike says she needs time to think. But Sully then breaks the engagement. Dorothy advises Dr. Mike to take some time then decide but don't take too long. Sully advises her Grace is blinded when a jar explodes. Lewis performs an operation on Grace's eye and with Dr. Mike's help, extracts a shard of glass. Sully and Lewis then discuss Dr. Mike. Later, Sully goes to Dr. Mike and tells her he wants her to be happy and will be behind her whoever she chooses. Lewis later invites Dr. Mike to come with him to Washington D.C. She admits that she loves Sully, but more than Lewis, who then says he will leave the next day. Dr. Mike then goes out to see Sully, and asks him to marry her. Andrew Strauss/David Lewis: Maxwell Caulfield |
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