Trapper John, M.D. - Episode Guide

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1979

Trapper John must face an influx of casualties from a hotel fire—and a headlong, would-be staffer named Gonzo

 

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1979

 A hospital orderly shoots a patient during a flashback to a combat situation In Vietnam.

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1979

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1979

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1979

Trapper tries to diagnose the illness of a seemingly gregarious, self-confident, outspoken socialite (Celeste Holm).

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1979

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1979

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1979

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1979

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1979

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1979

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1980

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1980

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1980

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1980

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1980

Gonzo and Trapper take on the challenging job of trying somehow to lift a dying patient out of his depression. 

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1980

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1980

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1980

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1980

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1980

A case of deadly pneumonic plague turns up at the hospital, creating havoc for Trapper, his ex-wife, and an entire wedding party. 

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1980

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1980

Belinda Montgomery guests as a beautiful patient with whom Gonzo has been in close attendance, and Robert Vaughn guests as Darby's overprotective father and the domineering publisher of a prestigious girlie magazine, in part one of a two-part episode.

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1980

Conclusion. Gonzo's medical career is threatened when he's accused of sexual misconduct with a former patient.

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1980

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1980

Riverside apparently administers a near-fatal tranquilizer to a woman who says she's his father's fiancee.

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1981

An emergency patient comes in raving about a coven of witches plaguing her, Gonzo investigates.

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1981

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1981

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1981

Unknown and unseen, a mystery surgeon has been at work in San Francisco Memorial and the hospital staff is shocked and baffled by the secrecy and surgical skill involved.

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1981

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1981

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1981

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1981

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1981

Rita Moreno and Harold Russell guest in a love story about a hardboiled ex-stripteaser and a handicapped doctor. 

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1981

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1981

Jackpot (Brian Mitchell) sacrifices studies for his medical exams to arrange for his blind girl friend to consult a specialist who could restore her vision. 

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: May 3, 1981

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: May 10, 1981

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: May 17, 1981

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1981

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1981

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1981

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1981

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1981

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1981

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1981

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1981

Two swindlers (Hermione Gingold, Eileen Heckart) choose gullible Riverside as their next target by posing as his former nanny and his long-lost mother,

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1981

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 27, 1981

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1982

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1982

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1982

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1982

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1982

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1982

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1982

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1982

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1982

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1982

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1982

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1982

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Apr 18, 1982

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: May 2, 1982

A patient (Rick Lohman) needs bone-marrow transplant but refuses to give the names of relatives; and Riverside (Charles Siebert) takes a stand when the garbage collectors strike.

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: May 16, 1982

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1982

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1982

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1982

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1982

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1982

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1982

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1982

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1982

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1982

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1982

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1982

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1983

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1983

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1983

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1983

Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1983

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1983

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1983

Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1983

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1983

Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1983

Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1983

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1983

(Season Premiere) Trapper advises Dani, a professional ice skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson), with a critical heart ailment to curtail her career.

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1983

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1983

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1983

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1983

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1983

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1983

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1983

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1983

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1983

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1983

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1984

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1984

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1984

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1984

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1984

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1984

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1984

Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1984

Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1984

Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1984

Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: May 6, 1984

Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1984

Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1984

Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1984

Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1984

Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1984

Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1984

Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1984

Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1984

Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1984

Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1984

Episode: 6x11 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1985

Episode: 6x12 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1985

Episode: 6x13 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1985

Episode: 6x14 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1985

Episode: 6x15 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1985

Episode: 6x16 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1985

Episode: 6x17 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1985

Episode: 6x18 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1985

Episode: 6x19 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1985

Episode: 6x20 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1985

Episode: 6x21 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1985

Episode: 6x22 | Airdate: Apr 21, 1985

Episode: 6x23 | Airdate: May 5, 1985

Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1985

Seventh season starts picking up scalpels again for a new round of aches, pains, romances, jealousies and assorted other problems that flood the corridors of San Francisco Memorial. In the first of a two-part episode, T.J. tackles his first artificial heart transplant. And who's that lying flat on his back awaiting the surgery? Good ol' Hoyt Axton, in a guest role. A cardiac patient who cannot risk the wait for a human heart tries his only chance, an artificial pump. As Trapper John (Pernell Roberts) prepares for his first artificial heart transplant, Gonzo (Gregory Harrison) helps him out with a personal matter, playing host to his pushy Aunt Mo (Pat Carroll). In the process he meets a beautiful doctor, Fran Brennan (Andrea Marcovicci). On part one of the season premiere of Trapper John, M.D.

Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1985

Trapper keeps watch on the artificial-heart recipient, while Gonzo tries to convince Fran that his love for her doesn't come from pity. Trapper's artificial heart recipient (Hoyt Axton) suffers from complications; Dr. Brennan learns she has multiple sclerosis and rejects Gonzo's support.

Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1985

Administrator Hackett (Janis Paige) refuses to hire a flashy medevac doctor. TJ. and Gonzo can't understand her reluctance until one day a secret from the man's past is revealed. The seat-of-the-pants operator of a helicopter medical-evacuation service lands with a patient in the hospital parking lot.

Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1985

Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1985

Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1985

Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1985

Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1985

Episode: 7x09 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1985

Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1986

Episode: 7x11 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1986

Episode: 7x12 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1986

Episode: 7x13 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1986

Episode: 7x14 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1986

Episode: 7x15 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1986

Episode: 7x16 | Airdate: Aug 14, 1986

Episode: 7x17 | Airdate: Aug 21, 1986

Episode: 7x18 | Airdate: Aug 28, 1986

Episode: 7x19 | Airdate: Sep 4, 1986