Season 3: 1994-1995
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| 3x01 | ‘The Train’ | September 24, 1994 | Disc 1 | ||||||||
| Jackson Tait comes to town, surveying it for the railroad. Meanwhile Sully shows Dr. Mike and the children his plans for the new house he wants to build. However, when the railroad is mentioned, he says that if it comes to the town, we'll be moving. Cloud Dancing returns from his vision quest, concerned about the Cheyenne. Later, at the town meeting, the vote is 2 for and 2 against and the vote falls to Dr. Mike to cast the deciding vote. She votes yes, to Sully's disappointment, and he leaves. Sully and the Cheyenne fear the prospect of train travel coming to Colorado Springs, while Dr. Mike welcomes the idea of progress and the opportunities it will bring for her patients. Jake and Loren decide to deceive the judges of the competition by putting up signs everywhere. Dog soldiers frighten the judges and they leave, despite Dr. Mike asking them to give the town another chance. Loren and Jake are angry with Dr. Mike's honesty. She tries to point out that one one would ever want to come back again after being deceived, but they refuse to listen. Peter Chow comes to Colleen with a fever, who diagnoses Malaria, while Dr. Mike is away at the Cheyenne reservation. Sully tries to say that "the Cheyenne would be against a hospital if the railroad came", but she says "not if it was my hospital". Sully gives his homestead to Matthew. When Tait asks Dr. Mike if she believes the railroad is good for the railroad, she again says yes. Sully then walks out. Everyone later gives Dr. Mike a surprise by cheering her, and saying "for she's a jolly good fellow", and carrying her on their shoulders. This to no surprise brings Sully and Dr. Mike to their first real fight, and in front of the children. Brian gets upset and believes they aren't getting married. This brings them closer together as a family as they teach the children though two people who love each other disagree it does not mean that they didn't love each other anymore. Dr. Mike promises that the first time she sees something is breaking his heart, they will move. At the celebrations, Jake gives the silver spike to Dr. Mike, as the town's most distinguished citizen, to drive in the first spike. At the same time, Sully drives in the first nail into his house, although hey both wonder if they are doing the right thing. Jackson Tait: Allan Royal Peter Chow: Eric Micheal Zee | |||||||||||
| 3x02 | Fathers and Sons | October 1, 1994 | Disc 1 | ||||||||
| After having a nightmare of being dead, Loren buys a stallion for $45, changes his hair and plans a trip to Bolivia to prove he is not getting old after he falls off the stallion; Brian and his friend Steven spy on Colleen and her 2 friends while they are swimming naked in the creek. Sully talks to Dr. Mike about telling Brian about the birds and the bees. Brian and Steven go to Matthew, Jake, Horace, Hank for advice on women. Dr. Mike tries to give an anatomy lecture to him after he spies on Colleen getting dressed and runs away from home thinking he can outrun puberty. Loren and Brian become inadvertently allies as they battle the advances of a hungry bear; Loren decides to make a lot of noise to scare the bear off; little did they know that Sully was not too far behind making sure they didn't get hurt. Also, Jake and Hank begin a war of practical jokes involving having to be soaked in beer; however things get out of hand, culminating in injuries to them both to include Hank blowing up an outhouse with Jake inside. Dr. Mike is thankful when the two inadvertently make up in Mike's clinic joking over what started it all. The best part of the episode is the end when Sully arranges for Loren to be praised in a Cheyenne ceremony giving him his new name 'the one who stands against the bear', telling him it is an honor for the elder men of the tribe to make him feel needed even though he is getting older. | |||||||||||
| 3x03 | Cattle Drive, Part 1 | October 8, 1994 | Disc 1 | ||||||||
| Dr. Mike receives a telegram from Miss Olive - she's ill with scarlet fever- but when she, family, Loren and Robert E and Grace in Mexico, Miss Olive's already died and left 200 cattle to Matthew. Now they must get the herd back home. Matthew seems to like doing things his way which Sully says he'll lose the cattle. Colleen develops a crush on a handsome ne'er do well cowhand named Jesse. When Colleen wants to ride with him, Dr. Mike refuses permission. Matthew continues to ignore Sully's advice. After they come across bodies and Apache arrows, they come to the place Matthew thought there was water, but there is none. Dr. Mike tries to tell Sully about Jesse, but he says they need him. While picking up firewood, Brian is bitten by a scorpion. Dr. Mike tries to tell Matthew that they need to stop, but he decides they need to keep going. Loren says to Brian he loves him and regrets he didn't say it to Olive. When they make it to water, Matthew, exhausted from lack of sleep falls off his horse. There is a stampede and Matthew, Sully, Robert E and Jesse have to turn the herd around. Jesse: Casper van Dien Paco: Ray Victor | |||||||||||
| 3x04 | Cattle Drive, Part 2 | October 15, 1994 | Disc 1 | ||||||||
| Matthew and Sully fight and it is discovered Jesse is a thief, and recovers the stolen items. Colleen is upset that Jesse lied to her. Dr. Mike helps a cow deliver her calf with Brian, Sully and Matthew. Sully and Dr. Mike share an intimate moment when he helps her get clean. Sully talks to some Apache Indians who want cattle to eat. Dr. Mike reminds Matthew of how he took Olive's cattle when Ingrid's family were starving. Matthew refuses to give them up, but the Apaches take them by force. As Sully allows Matthew to lead the Drive through a dangerous route, Michaela is dangerously injured, nearly being trampled by the cattle when they refuse to cross a creek, causing the two to disagree on a higher level. After Matthew comes to Dr. Mike, and blames himself that everything bad happened because of him, she tries to tell Sully that Matthew could use his help, but Sully has given up on giving Matthew any more advice because he won't listen. Brian is given a role of responsibility when he rescues the calf, but once again Dr. Mike's life is put in peril as she supports Brian's calf when a prairie fire is spotted by Loren. The horses with the wagon refuse to budge, and Sully and Matthew have to ride them out of the smoke. Everyone is amazed when the cattle come into town. | |||||||||||
| 3x05 | The Library | October 22, 1994 | Disc 2 | ||||||||
| After receiving a shipment of her father's books from her mother, Michaela decides to start Colorado Spring's first public library. However, the Reverend disapproves of many books in the library and demands that those books be removed. Also, Brian and his friends learn a valuable lesson about frog jumping and gambling. Jake attempts to learn how to read as his relationship with Dorothy moves to a new level and Michaela and Sully have a heart to heart about Walt Whitman's poetry while Michaela fears about their relationship. Dr. Mike and her family must fight a battle to keep their library open; when they lose, the town boards up the library and Jake and the Reverend sneak from house to house in the night reclaiming all the books still signed out. Outraged, Michaela and family break-in to take the books to the clinic, so as to let people borrow them whenever they want. Enraged for the wrong reasons (he can't read) Jake inflames the town people to start burning her books. Ending the episode and humbling everyone, Michaela interrupts the church sermon stating that she thought there was another book the Reverend would like to have in the interest of the town’s spirituality, stating it has stories about a man who sacrificed his only daughter, about God making a bet with the devil, and people beating wrong doers with stones. Holding out his hands he says "thank you Dr. Mike I think I'll have that book now". When Loren starts shouting what is it, Michaela says "the Holy Bible". As she exits, those who took a superior stand take a hard look at their actions, then follow her outside the church to sort through the burned books, led by the Reverend. | |||||||||||
| 3x06 | Halloween II | October 29, 1994 | Disc 2 | ||||||||
| Dr. Mike is reading "Frankenstein" to Matthew, Colleen, and Brian with Sully and Wolf. After Brian helps John, a stranger he discovers living in the woods, escape a trap, and feeds him Grace's pie. Brian tells John his Ma is a doctor. Later, Jake and Hank come looking for the "monster roaming around" and Matthew rides with them to divert attention away from the homestead. Sully is wary about John because is a stranger. On Brian's advice, after John comes to the barn with Brian, Dr. Mike helps John, a man who won't speak a word. John at first refuses Plastic Surgery but when Dr. Mike discovers more about John when his engine number, 649, is traced to a Denver bound train from Kansas City, which fell of a bridge with no survivors, he gives permission. She helps him deal with outer and inner scars when she operates on his maimed face and helps him deal with his guilt about the train wreck that caused his disfigurement to his face - as engineer of the train, he feels somehow responsible for the accidental crash. Sully tells Dorothy that Dr. Mike is "fixin' him up" and tells to not get involved and forget it, but she tells everyone in the town about it. After John can't sleep, Brian reads Frankenstein to him. Meanwhile, Loren, Jake, Dorothy, Hank, Horace, and Myra have a meeting in secret about what do about him. They stir up the entire town to find John and John has to escape the clinic and with Brian makes it to the bridge but Dorothy tells everyone they are escaping. John and Brian face them, and together with Colleen and Matthew, Dr. Mike rebukes everyone for their lack of sympathy and compassion and tells them they "ought to be ashamed of themselves" and that "they are the monsters". Dorothy comes to apologize to Dr. Mike and tells her she did some searching and found his name and the fact that the bridge was washed out. Dr. Mike goes to John and convinces him that he needs love in the inside where the real scars are. He goes with Dr. Mike, Matthew, Colleen and Brian who help him cross the bridge and introduce him to Loren, Dorothy, Jake, Hank, Grace and Robert E. John: Richard Moll. | |||||||||||
| 3x07-3x08 | The Washington Affair (Parts 1 & 2) | November 5, 1994 | Disc 2 | ||||||||
| When the Indians are forced off of their land yet again, Dr. Mike, Colleen, Matthew, Brian and Sully head to Washington DC with Cloud Dancing in tow to lobby on behalf of the Indians. The Senator refuses to listen to Dr. Mike and has her thrown out. He is also shocked and surprised to see Sully alive. Later they meet Mrs. Grant, who says she will encourage her husband to listen to her. Together with Cloud Dancing and Sully, Dr. Mike treats sick children in a slum. With General Parker's help Dr. Mike is able to testify before congress, but she is ignored. Everyone is invited to dinner and is invited to stay at the White House and becomes close to the first family where they learn all about Grant and his oppositions; Jesse Grant shows Brian a secret passageway. The kids also learn of some plots against the President. Dr. Mike offered a position in President Grant's administration.
In Part 2 Dr. Mike testifies on the conditions the Cheyenne are forced to live under and after making some difference, everyone decides to head home. But as they're leaving, a secret is revealed which leads to the arrest of Sully for desertion of the army. Sully wants her and the children to go home. Dr. Mike won't accept this and she speaks to Senator Moses about Sully and he tells her the same men who organized his arrest are the one who want the Indians dead. When Dr. Mike speaks to Sully with General Parker's help, Sully says he needs to speak to Senator Moses about the fact he was set up. Going back to Senator Moses, she finds him dead, poisoned from cyanide. Sully is court martialed, his 2nd Lieutenant rank is stripped from him, and he is sentenced to die by firing squad the next day. Dr. Mike concocts a scheme to get into the White House to see President Grant. He agrees to get Sully life in prison and asks that she leave Washington DC. Sully finally reveals why he deserted the army. General Parker suggests that the War Department would have a record of who ordered Sully to kill the innocent man. As they are leaving, their carriage is ambushed, and General Parker is shot and wounded. Dr. Mike sends the children home with a letter to Dorothy. In a daring escape, Dr. Mike and General Parker break Sully out of prison just in time to save President Grant from assassination. Dr. Mike discovers that Senator George Steward was the one who gave the order to Sully and set him up. Colleen and Brian read the letter on the train and head back to help. But they don't tell Brian what the letter contains. When Dr. Mike and Sully sneak into the White House, General Parker is arrested by Detective Simpson. The assassin is spotted by Dr. Mike, and Sully saves the President's life. Sully is then knocked unconscious by a policeman. The President is so grateful, he pardons Sully and gives him an honorable discharge from the army. He also makes him an Indian Agent. General Ely Parker: Gregory Sierra Nellie Grant: Nicole Nieth President Ulysses S. Grant: Dennis Lipscomb Jesse Grant: John Kidwell Julia Grant: Kathleen Lloyd Senator Eliot Moses: Lloyd Bochner Senator George Steward: Nicholas Pryor Detective Simpson: John Pleshette |
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| 3x09 | Money Trouble | November 12, 1994 | Disc 3 | ||||||||
| When Dr. Mike wants a stained glass window which costs $25, and Sully says he it will have to be later because he doesn't have that much money, she orders anyway without Sully's knowledge. Dr. Mike wants to contribute to the window, but Sully and she battle money issues when Sully wants to be the primary provider and build their dream home with only his own money. He asks Robert E. about working extra jobs, and when Robert E says Loren wants $13 now for the lumber, Sully has to admit he doesn't have it but will have it later. Judd McCoy's Wild West Show arrives into town, and Brian wants to go but Sully doesn't like it because it is a waste of time and gives folks a false idea of what the west is really like. But Dr. Mike pays for tickets for everyone except Sully. Sully was going to pay Loren for the lumber, but when he finds out about the window Dr. Mike ordered, he has to give Loren the money he was going to pay for the lumber, Dr. Mike and Sully argue, Sully gives her the $12.50 she paid for the window, which leaves him broke, and can't buy any more lumber. Meanwhile, Myra suddenly starts sleepwalking, driving Horace crazy, when he can't work out whether she is awake or asleep, but happily, the sleepwalking turns out merely to be a weird unusual symptom of Myra's first pregnancy. Sully and Matthew, while building his home talk about letting Ingrid pay for his home. Dr. Mike offers to pay Sully for everything he has done for her while she has been in Colorado Springs, making a point that it is crazy, just as it is crazy to refuse help from someone else if they need it. McCoy breaks his hand in a fight at Hank's Saloon, and has to try to convince Sully to perform at his show. After Cloud Dancing advises Sully, while out hunting, that if he needs more it must be something other than "this" (showing the bow to him). Sully goes to McCoy after McCoy originally offers $10, saying he needs $25 for 5 shows and he refuses saying "no one is that good", but when he sees Sully split a card in half, he immediately hires him. Myra angers Hank when she starts singing a Beer Song in the middle of the night. Horace protests, thinking that her soul is gone. When Sully tells Dr. Mike, Matthew, Colleen and Brian he has found a way to make money and is going to be in the show and going to Denver, they are surprised and shocked. However, when he finds out that he has to throw a double bladed tomahawk at an Indian, he walks way and quits the show. Myra and Horace go to Dr. Mike about the fact that she cries all the time, eats like a horse and is tired all the time. Dr. Mike tells her she's pregnant. Dr. Mike goes to Sully at the new house and offers to give up her dream of living in the house and says "It is better to live within your means if means giving up everything you believe in". Compromising, Sully goes to the box and pulls out the stained glass window. Dr. Mike asks, "What are you doing?". Sully says "Building our new house." Asked by Dr. Mike, "I thought you didn't have any money" Sully says "I don't, but we do". Judd McCoy: Joel Brooks | |||||||||||
| 3x10 | Thanksgiving | November 19, 1994 | Disc 3 | ||||||||
| Dr. Mike and Sully run into now-married Kid Cole and Sister Ruth in Denver while picking up medical supplies, and invite them home for Thanksgiving, but the stagecoach is hijacked with Carey McGee who is faking her pregnancy, and her partner in crime, Brandon McGee, forcing them to journey home, on foot, through Indian country. Meanwhile, the Cooper kids scramble to put Thanksgiving supper together. Matthew tries to get a turkey, but with no success. Matthew, Colleen and Brian are forced to ask around for food. Grace says she is booked out, and they can't eat at the cafe. Meanwhile, at the waystation, no one is there and they get ambushed by Indians and Sister Ruth is shot and wounded. Dr. Mike Blames herself for the predicament they are in, but Sister Ruth believes the Lord meant them to be together. Matthew and Brian argue as to whose fault it was that they haven't got a turkey. Meanwhile, Kid Cole sings to Dr. Mike and Sister Ruth, "I'm thankin' the Lord He made you". Brian tries to shoot the turkey himself, but at the same time Cloud Dancing is also hunting the same turkey. They are both thankful that Brian is a bad shot, and Brian apologizes to Cloud Dancing. Kid Cole wants Sister Ruth, Dr. Mike and Sully to get going while he holds the Indians off, but Sister Ruth refuses to leave him. So Dr. Mike and Sully leave. The McGees arrive in Colorado Springs and rob Loren's store. Dr. Mike fakes an illness, and knocks out two of them. As more Indians close in on them, Jake, Loren, Horace and Matthew arrive with a posse with all guns blazing. Cloud Dancing provides the turkey and is invited to Thanksgiving with Ingrid. Kid Cole: Johnny Cash Sister Ruth: June Carter Cash Brandon McGee: Pepper Sweeney Carey McGee: Kristin Davis Cloud Dancing: Larry Sellers Ingrid: Jennifer Youngs | |||||||||||
| 3x11 | Ladies Night, Part 1 | November 26, 1994 | Disc 3 | ||||||||
| Hank decides to expand his business by having a "Ladies Night" every Thursday, giving free drinks to Ladies. Dr. Mike jokingly asks Dorothy if she wants to have a whiskey with her, and discovers a lump in her breast and wants to perform a mastectomy on her. But she won't let her take a biopsy. Dorothy and Jake continue their romance while Loren looks on. Meanwhile, Colleen must deal with the unwanted attention of a new boy at school, Jared McAllister, who is at first impressed by her knowledge of Mathematics, and helps him with Maths and fixates on her impressive bust,as she develeops into womanhood. She is embarrassed by his attention and leaves after tutoring him. Loren and Jake decide to wear a dress to Ladies night so they can get free drinks, protesting women's presence in the saloon. Dr. Mike asks Loren what Dorothy's family history is like and she finds out her mother Maude died of "a lump". Colleen goes to Matthew asking what attracted him to Ingrid, and why a figure is so important to boys and if she lets him touch her. Matthew becomes embarrassed when Colleen asks about how far she can go. He says he'd kill him. Finally, Jake dresses in drag with Loren after Hank creates a Ladies Night at the saloon for new business, and inadvertently gets kidnapped and held hostage by some amorous outlaws who happen to be brothers. They hold up Hank's Saloon and rob people of money and jewellery. Dr. Mike goes to see Dorothy and tells her she is worried about her. Dr. Mike tells Dorothy about her mother and Dorothy wants to find out how Dr. Mike knows and tells her she had no right. Dorothy insists the lump will go away, but Dr. Mike insists, what if it doesn't? What if it is cancer? Sully advises Dr. Mike to tell the truth and listen to her gut. Jared McAllister and every one at school embarrasses Colleen in revenge for turning him down by drawing a picture of Colleen with large breasts. she wipes it from the blackboard before Reverend Johnson walks in. Loren finds out about the growth and insists that Dorothy see Dr. Mike. Dorothy goes to Dr. Mike and she tells her the truth. Dorothy is shocked when she finds out he has to lose her breast. Dr. Mike insists the price is worth it to save her life, and to just think about it. Jared McAllister: Johnny Moran Ronnie: Tracy Fraim Carl: Patrick St. Esprit Gloria: Mary Rings | |||||||||||
| 3x12 | Ladies Night, Part 2 | December 3, 1994 | Disc 3 | ||||||||
| Dorothy approaches Sully asking to tell her to ease up and just understand as her friend in her decision to not have it. Dr. Mike talks to Colleen about the fact that everyone develops at different rates, and has some thing they don't like about themselves, and girls mature faster than boys. Colleen finds the harassment unbearable and confronts the boy from school saying she will not be friends with someone who only notices her for her body and not as a whole person. Dr. Mike tells Dorothy she will die in front of Loren after she refuses the operation. Loren goes to Dorothy and says he wants to sell the store and take her to New York, but she says she can't go. After the two outlaws fight over their affections for Jane Slicker (AKA Jake) the youngest sets her (him) free. Colleen gives Jared McAllister a second chance. After everyone shows her she is needed, and Dr. Mike tells Brian about the growth of an acorn he found, she decides to have the mastectomy surgery but insists the decision is hers, not Dr. Mike's. Loren admits to Sully he loves Dorothy. Jake apologizes that he wasn't around when she had the operation. Loren is angry wit Jake for not telling Dorothy the truth. At the end of the episode the oldest of the outlaws comes in for a haircut looking for "Jane" stating how he thinks he's in love and won't give up in his search for her. Dr. Mike questions whether she is still beautiful if she had a tumour, but Sully says he knows what she's thinking, and will always love her and she is as beautiful since the fist day he saw her. | |||||||||||
| 3x13 | The First Christmas | December 10, 1994 | Disc 4 | ||||||||
| Dr. Mike intervenes in their behalf when a Jewish peddler family arrives in town and is met with prejudice and harassment from townsfolk. Loren refuses to give credit to Robert E. and Horace if they buy anything from him. Sully informs him that the Cheyenne would be willing to do business with him. Brian tells Aaron about Santa Claus and Christmas. Aaron's mother takes Aaron away while the children are carolling. Dr. Mike tries to invite her to Christmas supper but she refuses. Jake forbids peddling but Dr. Mike calls a town meeting, and he is voted to be allowed to stay. After Mrs Frankel arrives at the clinic with her sick baby, and invites Dr. Mike and the family to Hannukah Loren, inflamed over his competition incites others to commit violence against them, but the wagon lands on top of Itzhak. Also, Matthew masquerades as Santa Claus for Brian. When the family prepares to leave the next day, everyone shows up to convince them to settle here claiming it was because of the Christmas Spirit, everyone giving something to them. Aaron: J.D. Daniels Zara Frankel: Bari Hochwald Itzhak Frankel: Bruce Nozick Choir Director: Trisha Yearwood. | |||||||||||
| 3x14 | Indian Agent | January 7, 1995 | Disc 4 | ||||||||
| Sully is sworn in and takes a job as an Indian Agent, only to discover corruptions rife within the system. Colleen gets her ear pierced for her 16th birthday. Meanwhile, liquor arrives on the reservation and there is drunkenness among the tribe. Sully is continually promised food but keeps getting other things instead, and they are starving to death. Sully takes it upon himself to buy food with his own money. Dr. Mike is called to the reservation for the drunkenness among the Cheyenne. Sully finds out Hank is profiting from the trading of Whisky to the Cheyenne. Sully tells Hazen his patience is wearing thin after he promises to send a telegram for food. Sully feels he is letting the Cheyenne down. Snow Bird suffers a miscarriage due to malnutrition. As a result she falls into deep depression and Snowbird asks Cloud Dancing for forgiveness, but he says "it is me who should be asking for forgiveness". Chief Black Kettle tells the tribe that they need to find their path again and keep their treaty and not break it. Sully and Dr. Mike find out that the telegram Hazen was supposed to send never got sent, then finds out he sold the food to Loren. He later realizes the friends of President Grant used him setting him up to fail to keep peace by selling the Indians rations for profit behind his back. In church, The reverend gives back the Bibles and people are asked to provide food and all but Jake and Loren agree. Sully, Dr. Mike and Matthew find out from Dorothy where Loren has stashed the food that belongs to the Cheyenne and takes it and delivers it. Snowbird later is healed of her depression. Superintendent Hazen: James Sloyan Snowbird: Tantoo Cardinal Chief Black Kettle: Nick Ramus
This the last appearance of Erika Flores as Colleen. |
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| 3x15 | The End of the World | January 14, 1995 | Disc 4 | ||||||||
| Dr. Mike remains the sole voice of reason when townsfolk read a newspaper article from the New York Post predicting that a comet will end the world. Brian sees a meteorite and when Dorothy wants to write an article about the end of the world, but Dr. Mike disagrees and tries to ask her to write it later. Hank and Loren decide to relieve everyone of their money and while Hank and Loren cash in on everyone's hysteria, Mike addresses the Cooper kids' fears about "the end". The water suddenly turns red and Hank and Loren claim they've never seen anything like it. Jake buys a case of whisky at Hank's hugely inflated prices and digs a shelter. Dr. Mike sends a telegram to an astronomer at Harvard University but before she can receive the answer, the telegraph line "explodes". Grace spends all of her money on French china, closes her cafe, and opens a restaurant. Robert E decides to do nothing. Matthew and Ingrid decide to get married. Dr. Mike and Sully fly a kite together. Brian wants to watch the fireworks all the other kids are letting off. Loren paints a horse blue, and is caught by Dr. Mike. After she shows everyone what Hank and Loren have been doing, there is an earthquake and a geyser erupts. Brian sees Cloud Dancing while out walking and tells him about not becoming a man, the world ending and Cloud Dancing gives him advice and what the Cheyenne believe. Colleen is afraid of the future and wants to celebrate her last moments on earth with her friends with fireworks, but won't let Brian join her, saying that it is only for "grown ups". After Sully asks Brian where Colleen is, Colleen walks in, and Dr. Mike is upset with her but Colleen asks Dr. Mike and Sully "can anyone tell her what going to happen?" Dr. Mike goes to see the Reverend about Colleen's fears but he doesn't know either. He asks her about her patients and what does she do when dealing with them? Jake and Loren crawl into the shelter, Dorothy, Myra and Horace contemplate the last moments on earth. Robert E. arrives sick with a bad heart, and is treated by digitalis. Meanwhile, Brian is missing, and Sully and Colleen look for Brian who is praying to God who is sorry he took the meteorite. Horace collapses and Hank at first refuses to help Dr. Mike bring Horace into the clinic. at the church everyone is gathered during a thunderstorm. Grace admits the fancy plates don't mean anything. It's the people who do. Loren says he would give everyone their money back, Jake says his shelter isn't anything without Dorothy Dr. Mike operates on Horace and averts him having a burst appendix and peritonitis Briefly regaining consciousness, Horace asks Hank to take the telegram out of his pocket and tell everyone,when he falls back into unconsciousness, Hank throws the telegram onto the floor. As Sully points out a shooting star, Brian says to God, "Thank You". Note: This is the first appearance of Jessica Bowman as Colleen Cooper replacing Erika Flores for the remainder of the series. Richard:Thomas Ian Nicholas Ingrid:Jennifer Youngs | |||||||||||
| 3x16 | Pike's Peace | January 28, 1995 | Disc 4 | ||||||||
| Dr. Mike finds a kindred spirit in Sam Lindsay, a former schoolteacher spinster who arrives in town, with a secret, and has to be treated for a cut. Sully sprains his ankle. Grace wants to adopt a baby but can't, and Horace tries to apologize to her. Encouraged by Sam, everyone goes fishing during the night. Dr. Mike tells Sully her mother wants her to come to Boston for the wedding. Sam tells Dr. Mike she wants to climb Pike's Peak. Dr. Mike tells Sully she wants to climb Pike's Peak as well. Sam takes over a history lesson when she goes to see the schoolhouse and immediately influences all the students. When Dr. Mike finds Sam told her guide to leave, she tries to get people to help but they refuse. She decides to go after her and learns some patients are beyond help when she climbs Pike's Peak to follow a woman who's chosen to die in its rarefied air rather than continue to battle leukemia. Myra tries to talk to Grace who deals with her jealousy of Myra's pregnancy, when Myra's baby is born prematurely, and helps Colleen deliver Myra's baby ushering in a new life for the one lost in Dr. Mike's absence who is with Sam on the mountain. Sam rebukes Dr. Mike for following him, but Dr. Mike refuses to leave her. Then next morning, when Dr. Mike wakes up, Sam is gone. Finding Sam, they are nearly attacked by a mountain lion, but Dr. Mike is able to fire a gun and scare off the mountain lion. Dr. Mike advises her to get back down the mountain because she has a pulmonary adaema. Then finds out about her secret-she has cancer. Dr. Mike tries to slow her hart rate but Sam refuses. Dr. Mike confesses she doesn't want to lose her but Sam tells her not to be sad. Meanwhile Colleen is considering performing a Caesarean operation on Myra. As Dr. Mike and Sam are watching the stars, they see a shooting star and it is at that moment Sam dies, and Dr. Mike mourns for her. Myra gives birth to a baby girl. Sam Lindsay: Eve Brenner Walter Smoot: John Kendall | |||||||||||
| 3x17-3x18 | Cooper vs. Quinn (Parts 1 & 2) | February 4, 1995 | Disc 5 | ||||||||
| Michaela & Sully make plans to adopt the children so Sully can be their Pa, but Dr. Mike loses custody of Brian and Colleen when their father, Ethan Cooper, arrives with his new rich bride Lillian. Ethan and Lillian take Colleen and Brian out and promise to be back before dark but arrived just as Dr. Mike is going to leave to search for them. The next day, Ethan and Lillian arrive and Ethan signs Brian and Colleen over to be adopted by Dr. Mike and Sully. Lillian finds out that the reason she hasn't been able to become pregnant is that she was born without a uterus. Ethan changes his mind and says he will take them to San Francisco next Friday. Sully tells Dr. Mike Ethan needs the kids to claim her inheritance. Dr. Mike offers confronts Ethan and asks him what he wants, and says she'll sell the clinic, and wire her mother for money, but Ethan refuses, saying that it's not about money and Lillian's father owns half the territory. Dr. Mike takes Ethan to court. Ethan twists everything around, using a lot of information that he didn't otherwise know. Dr. Mike decides not to use the facts that Ethan stole church money, and that he needs to custody of the kids to claim his father in law's inheritance. Ethan and Lillian reclaim them in a messy courtroom battle.
In Part 2, Reluctantly, Brian and Colleen go with Ethan and Lillian and Dr. Mike says they will appeal and hire her father's lawyer. Myra and Horace are almost driven out of their minds by new baby Samantha's incessant crying. Everyone has different opinions on the baby. When she receives a telegram back from the lawyer, he says they have a weak case and isn't coming. But Dr. Mike decides to go ahead with the appeal anyway. The Judge refuses an appeal. Brian can't sleep and Ethan and Lillian won't read to him. Surprisingly and ironically, Hank's the only person in town that can quiet Samantha, Myra and Horace's eternally crying baby. Matthew wants to take Brian and Colleen away from Ethan by force, and calls Sully a coward when he won't help him. But Sully tells Matthew that it isn't being a coward when "you're not doing everything every muscle in you wants to do". Ethan and Lillian spoil Brian and Colleen's father-daughter chariot race and Brian's catapult falls apart, and everyone laughs. Brian and Colleen run away from Ethan and Lillian, and Ethan comes to the homestead accusing Dr. Mike and Sully of hiding them. Wolf finds Colleen and Brian and Colleen contracts a case of potentially lethal pneumonia, after she falls into the creek, which, upon the kids apprehension, Mike treats. Ethan immediately tries to take Colleen away and when she collapses, takes Brian away instead. Horace brings a telegram stating that the appeal has been denied and the case won't be reopened. Dr. Mike prays for God for Colleen's healing. Lillian changes her mind about taking the kids while on the way out of town. Also in the episode . Ethan Cooper: Ben Murphy Lillian Cooper: Kaitlin Hopkins Judge Davis: John O'Leary |
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| 3x19 | What is Love? | February 11, 1995 | Disc 5 | ||||||||
| Feuds and jealousies are aroused when the townsfolk begin trying out for their roles in a rustic production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in celebration of Valentine's Day. It also appears as if hearts may be broken on the usually romantic holiday. Brian and Colleen's school assignments are to write about love, and when Brian sees Dr. Mike and Sully kissing, he thinks that it will be easy but it is not as easy as he first thought, when he learns about the different types of love. Colleen has long dreamed of portraying "Juliet", her favorite character in all of literature, but faces stiff competition in her best friend Becky. Meanwhile, Dr Mike's plans to spend the entire day alone with Sully are dashed when he is called to Denver for an Indian Affairs meeting. | |||||||||||
| 3x20 | Things My Father Never Gave Me | February 18, 1995 | Disc 5 | ||||||||
| Dr. Mike volunteers Robert E's services to fix a steam engine, which has leaking pipes and has to be replaced, for the railroad, but whether Robert E can do it remains in question until the job is completed. Jackson Tait gives him 2 weeks to complete the work, and when it appears that there is too much work for one man, the Chang brothers are hired, along with Matthew. Jackson Tait later reveals that for Robert E. to be paid, the steam engine has to be able to stand up to pressure of 150 pounds per square inch. Grace is worried about the work that Robert E. is taking on, that it is too much and is dangerous. When Dr. Mike goes to tell Grace about the dangers of the work, she refuses to listen. Dr. Mike solves a medical puzzle when two Chinese railroad workers, the Chang brothers, fall strangely ill. Robert E. gets upset when he quarrels with Dr. Mike about the way he treats his workers and Matthew quits. Robert E. continues working with Peter, and decides to work all through the night. While dozing he has a nightmare of being burned when the engine leaks. Dr. Mike sends off a sample of the biscuits they have eaten when they start eating them again, and finds the flour was poisened with lead carbonate by accident, but Matthew didn't get it because the milk neautralized his stomach. Matthew and Sully help Robert E., and when the Chang brothers are better, they also join them, just as Robert E. is about to give up hope of making the deadline. They make the deadline, and the engine stays at 150 pounds per square inch. While Grace prays with tears for nothing to happen to Robert E. Jackson Tait: Allan Royal Peter Chow: Eric Michael Zee Quong Chang: Ray Chang Lee Chang: Ping Wu | |||||||||||
| 3x21 | Baby Outlaws | February 25, 1995 | Disc 6 | ||||||||
| When teen-outlaw Belle Starr robs the saloon with two other outlaws, the Younger brothers, Dr. Mike takes her in, intending to reform her. She tries to act tough and orders Colleen around and treats her like dirt and Colleen ends up sleeping in the barn. Belle tries to latch herself onto Matthew. She stops calling Colleen "Miss Priss". During the night, Dr. Mike hears Belle crying because she misses her family. Sully arrives at the homestead with a telegram from her father, who is a judge and says he wants her to hang. Hearing this, Belle tries to escape on her horse but Sully prevents her from leaving and takes her to jail until the Marshal comes. One of the brothers comes looking for her. They demand the release of Belle and kidnap Brian. Belle tells Colleen to give the gang a message to release Brian with consequences if they don't. Against Dr. Mike's advice, Jake and Hank try to get Belle to tell them where the gang is staying, but Belle escapes to the hideout. Dr. Mike advises Belle if she turns herself in she will get a lighter sentence. But she decides to escape, and start a new life for herself. But the gang robs a stagecoach of $600. Dr. Mike, Sully and Colleen choose to focus on the positives. Belle Starr: Melissa Clayton | |||||||||||
| 3x22 | Bone of Contention | March 11, 1995 | Disc 6 | ||||||||
| A paleontologist, Dr. John Porter arrives in town, igniting "bone fever" among the townsfolk when he announces that dinosaur bones are worth $500 for a full skeleton that has never been found before. Jake, Hank and Loren dig up holes to try to find the skeleton. When they attempt to make a fake dinosaur, Porter discovers one of the bones is the genuine article and demands to be taken to where it was found. Despite the fact that the area is Cheyenne burial ground and is sacred, he ignores Sully's advice and the consequences. Sully goes to Cloud Dancing and tries to stop him. Cloud Dancing says he will ask the spirits for help. Meanwhile, Matthew and Colleen try to prevent Brian from discovering that the "dinosaur" bone his father gave him is a fake. When Brian loses his dinosaur bone he tries to search for it in the middle of the night. He finds it then Porter finds him "trespassing on his dig" and accuses him of stealing bones. When one of the soldiers is ordered to pull up a pole out of the ground, an unseen force forces him back down the hill. Jake, Hank and Loren see this and refuse too work for Porter any longer. Sully shows Dr. Mike the human remains Porter has dug up, and she tries again to tell him not to continue what he is doing, but he refuses to listen. Sully tells Porter he is leaving, and it is a promise. Brian is angry with Colleen and Matthew for treating him like a baby and doubting his father's word that the bone isn't real. The next day, Sully and Rev. Johnson find Loren's wife's Maude Bray's body has been exhumed (although the Indians always treated the remains with respect) and there is an Indian pole in the pile of dirt next to the headstone. Hank and everyone want to go off to kill Indians, but Loren asks Sully if there is something he can do. Matthew and Colleen make restitution with Brian. Cloud Dancing says to Loren he can't help him. But when Loren says he would be willing to do anything, Cloud Dancing says the dog soldiers may be willing to trade. Your dead for our dead. Porte is persuaded through the use of Sully and Loren to hand over the Cheyenne bones, when they threaten to blow everything up with dynamite. The box is returned to Cloud Dancing who tells Loren he is a "courageous and honourable" man. Brian also returns his dinosaur bone to Cloud Dancing, citing the reason for his actions.
Note: Erika Flores returns as Colleen in this one episode changing the opening credits back to the original one so that it features her instead. Dr. John Porter: Jack Bannon |
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| 3x23 | The Permanence of Change | April 8, 1995 | Disc 6 | ||||||||
| Reverend Johnson collapses in school while teaching his class because of his wisdom tooth. Dr. Mike has to take over the class. Brian finds a new friend in Mary Ann Daggett and finds they share similar experiences-both their mothers have died. On request from her class, Dr. Mike tells everyone about Charles Darwin's theories and evolution. Brian tells Dr. Mike about the spots he sees on Mary Ann's legs and the fact that her guardian yelled at her. When Dr. Mike confronts Mr. Daggett about Mary Ann, he refuses to listen and just gives excuses. No one in the town wants Dr. Mike to teach the children Darwin's theories, and Reverend Johnson asks Dr. Mike not to teach Darwin's theories in class anymore. When Dr. Mike and Brian go to Daggett's farm, he tries to lie to her but Brian finds Mary Ann unconscious with rats biting her bleeding legs. After taking her back to the clinic, before she complete the treatment, Daggett again demands Mary Ann and Dr. Mike wires the U.S. Marshal. The Marshal refuses to come and Sully goes to Daggett's and tells him if anything happens to her he'll have to answer to him. Later, it is something Brian says, that "children are animals too" after Sully mentions that animals have rights. With no child protection laws, and influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, Dr. Mike has a girl removed from her "guardian" by taking the man to court in the town council and trying him for child abuse. Daggett tries to interrupt, but Jake tells him he'll get his chance and Hank tells him to sit down and shut up. Mary Ann goes to stay with Becky's parents. Mary Ann Daggett: Doren Fein Steve Myers: Ross Malinger | |||||||||||
| 3x24-3x25 | Washita (Parts 1 & 2) | April 29, 1995 | Disc 7 | ||||||||
| While examing the Cheyenne, dog soldiers raid a ranch. Brian befriends an Indian boy destined to die at Washita. Custer makes a surprise return to Colorado Springs, saying that General Sheridan is the one to told him to come. After Dr. Mike and Sully buy supplies for the Cheyenne, Little Thunder is shot and killed. Cloud Dancing is furious and is bent on revenge. Sully tries to deter him, but to no avail. Chief Black Kettle later arrives at the homestead asking about Cloud Dancing. During a dinner that Custer is hosting, he is informed that railroad workers are attacked. The Cheyenne move to Fort Cobb as they have been promised protection. Dr. Mike and Sully share an intimate moment. Matthew reads a telegram saying Custer is ordered to go south. Cloud Dancing arrives at the homestead saying Chief Black Kettle was turned away from Fort Cobb and they are camping by the Washita River. However, Dr. Mike and Sully arrive too late to avert Custer's slaughter of the Indians at the Washita River.
In Part 2 Robert E & Grace consider adopting an Indian baby whose mother was killed at Washita. Sully and the kids must help Mike deal with the emotional aftermath of the Washita massacre; but are at a loss as Sully knows it is not only the loss of friends she is mourning but something inside her that is lost as well. He seeks Cloud Dancing to help her. Michaela falls deeper into a depression after witnessing the massacre of Washita River, becoming distant from everyone including Sully. Everyone in town that were first in favor of Custer begin to worry about her as she looses that gleaming outlook of hope and basic good in all. The Reverend sees this as well as he fears the trauma has blackened her soul. Will she ever feel happy again or trust in mankind? While Dr. Mike leaves to join Cloud Dancing in a sweat-lodge to heal their souls, Sully and Brian work at the new homestead and build their special bed he has been working on. After finding herself again she tells Grace and Robert E that they must return the baby. After much heartbreak and disagreement they bring the baby to meet Cloud Dancing along with the Cooper kids and the Reverend. When passing the baby to him she informs him that she and Sully have named him 'Lives in Hope' to not let him forget that he was taken in by a black family and nursed by a white mother and that one day he will carry the wisdom of his chiefs to others. General George Custer: Jason Leland Adams Snowbird: Tantoo Cardinal |
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| 3x26 | Sully's Recovery | May 6, 1995 | Disc 7 | ||||||||
| Brian wants to build a flying machine and Sully says he will help him. On his way to quit as an Indian Agent, Sully discovers Loren working on his wagon wheel. They fight angrily as he warns Loren not to buy the Washita land the government is selling after the massacre; Loren drives away furious and the wagon wheel falls off and Loren is badly injured, breaking his right leg when the wagon falls on it. But in order to save him, Sully must first battle his own demons. He has put off his mourning of the massacre because at the time it hit Dr. Mike so hard and now he must find himself again to help Loren, the only other family he's ever known besides the Cheyenne and now Dr. Mike. Meanwhile, Dr. Mike fears for Brian as he is obsessed with building a flying machine, her fear growing as the town gets behind him in his efforts. She fears it is not only physically dangerous but mentally as well. Everyone laughs at Brian when his model doesn't fly properly, led by Jake. Two men hold Sully up at gunpoint, demanding he turn around. going back another way, Sully finds the road washed out, and supports Loren. As they arrive at the point where the washed out road ends, Sully falls down the side of the cliff. Loren has to put the rope around the horse's neck and throw the rope to Sully. Later, Sully says to Loren he'll buy the Cheyenne land for him and it doesn't matter any more. Brian's second attempt seems to work as he flies it like a kite and when he mentions building a bigger one, Dr. Mike tells him he is not ready. Sully tells Loren about how his Ma drowned when he was 10, came out and met Abigail and now Washita. Matthew tells Brian Dr. Mike won't let him fly in his machine. Brian tries to ask Dr. Mike to think about it. When Loren and Sully see a couple on a Cheyenne burial site, Loren ties to persuade Sully to stop them. But Sully disagrees, saying that they'll always be someone coming after them and it will be impossible to stop. Loren responds by telling Sully he is like his mother and father and is a coward. Next, a herd of horses runs past, and Sully's horse runs after them, and he loses his horse. Loren later changes his mind, when he is treated at the army camp. Superintendent Hazen put him in charge of Fort Palmer to keep the peace, but Sully resigns. Sully and Loren arrive in time to see Brian take his first test flight. Superintendent Hazen: James Sloyan | |||||||||||
| 3x27 | Ready or Not | May 13, 1995 | Disc 8 | ||||||||
| Mike and Sully go to Reverend Johnson for a dose of the traditional pre-marital counseling, and recall the rough and rowdy path of their love and how it came to be. At first Dr. Mike and Sully don't believe they need any counseling or help because there won't be arguments or disagreements. However, disagreements develop and Sully says it is just picking on old wounds, and there is doubt as to whether or not they should marry, when Dr. Mike walks out and wants to be alone. Sully himself also later walks out and quits. The Reverend is optimistic that there will be a wedding, but not Dr. Mike. Sully however, later returns to the church and listens at the door before walking in. Dr. Mike admits she is frightened by marriage and Sully assures her he will take it easy. Reverend Timothy Johnson: Geoffrey Lower; Dr. Willam Burke: Edward Albert; Dandy John O'Malley: Steve Blackwood; David Lewis: Maxwell Caulfield; Rebecca Quinn: Elinor Donahue; Colleen Cooper: Erika Flores; Elizabeth Quinn: Georgann Johnson; Marjorie Quinn: Alley Mills; Jon: Christopher Keene Kelly Charlotte Cooper: Diane Ladd; Chief Black Kettle: Nick Ramus; Cloud Dancing: Larry Sellers; Colonel Chivington: Adrian Sparks; Olive Bray Davis: Gail Strickland; Ingrid: Jennifer Youngs | |||||||||||
| 3x28-3x29 | For Better or Worse (Parts 1 & 2) | May 20, 1995 | Disc 8 | ||||||||
| Dr. Mike is disappointed when her mother and sisters can't make it to her wedding. Sully doesn't want to wear a wedding ring, when Dr. Mike wants to exchange rings, but listens to Dr. Mike's thoughts about it. Dr. Mike asks Colleen to be her bridesmaid, and speaks to Sully about Matthew and Ingrid's house. She is upset that he didn't tell her that he offered the old homestead to Matthew. Custer demands that Horace put up a reward of $500 for Cloud Dancing. Dr. Mike asks for advice from Dorothy. When the train arrives, John is the driver to Brian's delight. And to Dr. Mike's surprise, the first passenger is Dr. Mike's mother, Elizabeth, from Boston with her two sisters, Marjorie and Rebecca. Because of a break up, Marjorie has been bad tempered towards everyone ever since the break up and Dr. Mike is asked by her mother if she has anything for a betrayal. Custer wants to find out Cloud Dancing's whereabouts, but Sully refuses to answer him. Dr. Mike's mother and two sisters disapprove of Sully and Dr. Mike's new house. Sully wants to know when Dr. Mike is going to see things through our eyes not their eyes, and is upset that first he wasn't good enough, and now it's the house. Sully then leaves to do something he said he should have done a long time ago. Her mother begins to commandeer Dr. Mike's and Sully's wedding, starting with the menu, then with a dress she bought with her. She also replaces Dorothy as the matron of honor. Sully decides on a best man in Cloud Dancing, who accepts, and tells him of the bounty on his head. Sully then tries to deter him, saying it is too dangerous. Custer then arrests Sully but later sets him free, threatening him. While waiting for Sully, Dr. Mike says she wouldn't blame him if he didn't turn up. Elizabeth tells Dr. Mike Sully has stood her up and is not suitable for her. Marjorie and Dr. Mike argue and Marjorie slaps Dr. Mike. Dr. Mike and Marjorie hug, after she says she hopes Sully does come back.
In Part 2, Feelings become tense between her and her groom-to-be. Dr. Mike eases relations with her sister Marjorie, who has been hateful since her arrival, which was testing her loyalty and faith in Sully. Sully arrives back from warning Cloud Dancing, and celebrates in Hank's Saloon. Dr. Mike celebrates but Dr. Mike and her mother continue to argue. Mrs. Quinn refuses to give Dr. Mike away, and Sully overhears this. He goes to Loren to ask him to give her away and he accepts. Jake and Robert E. knock out Custer before he sees Cloud Dancing, and put him in the clinic and tie him up. Mrs. Quin later changes her mind and gives Dr. Mike away. Cloud Dancing leaves quickly after the vows to the disappointment of Sully. However through trials and tribulations the Quinn-Sully wedding happens as planned and ends happily in a bedroom that Brian custom made, helped by John in the last train carriage as his gift since no one allowed him to help in the preparations. Dr. Mike and Sully consummate their relationship together. General George Custer: Jason Leland Adams Cloud Dancing: Larry Sellers Elizabeth Quinn: Georgann Johnson Marjorie Quinn: Alley Mills Rebecca Quinn: Elinor Donahue Ingrid: Jennifer Youngs Jon: Christopher Keene Kelly John: Richard Moll |
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