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

Initially, Trapper is not worried when an old friend begins to act strangely. However, Gonzo becomes suspicious that something is wrong, especially when the doctor freezes during an emergency. In the meantime, San Francisco Memorial is overwhelmed with patients from a nearby hospital that was damaged by fire.

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. A Vietnamese woman receives unwanted surgery on a busy night at the hospital, but no one admits to having performed the life-saving operation.

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

Andrew Ridley (Dick Gautier), the high priest of pop psychosociology, is coming apart, and Trapper and Gonzo draw the assignment of trying to put him back together. The trouble is that Gonzo may not be around for the operation. He has received a death threat, and so has Ridley, who could cash in his chips if the operation is successful or never takes place.

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

An alcoholic sidewalk Santa (Ray Walston) becomes a real St. Nick to an 11-year-old boy suffering from a chronic blood disease.

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 27, 1981

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1982

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1982

A young man may lose his arm if Trapper and Gonzo can't calm a microvascular surgeon who accidentally shot his wife. 

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

Gonzo (Gregory Harrison) plays host to a prospective staff member, a neurosurgeon whose work takes precedence over his wife—who takes an interest in Gonzo.

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

Newlywed Dr. Riverside fends off the passionate advances of an unfamiliar young woman (Kim Darby) claiming to be one of his old girlfriends. 

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

A beautiful doctor (Lori Hallier) takes a keen interest in two specimens—a 119-year-old patient (Whitman Mayo) and Gonzo (Gregory Harrison), whose delight turns to dismay when he learns the nature of her attraction to him.

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1983

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1983

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1983

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1983

Gloria (Christopher Norris) clashes with the new cardiac surgery chief (Elaine Stritch) and her old-fashioned ideas about nurses' duties.

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1984

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1984

A team of parapsychologists sets up an ESP lab at the hospital, and Shoop (Madge Sinclair) begins having disturbing visions--including one about an old friend of Trapper's.

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

Trapper and Gonzo are nose to nose and eyeball to eyeball over the matter of the heart of a hospitalized professional hockey player, in the sixth-season premiere of "Trapper John, M.D." 

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

A 6-year-old orphan confined to a sterile plastic bubble desperately needs a bone-marrow transplant.

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

An aging flower child (Ronee Blakley) delivers a stillborn baby; the Riversides' son is kidnapped from his stroller.

Episode: 6x16 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1985

Episode: 6x17 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1985

Gloria (Christopher Norris) is shocked to learn that drugs figure into her difficulties with Andrea (Tanya Fenmore). Meanwhile, J.T. (Timothy Busfield) brings in a bag lady (Geraldine Fitzgerald) who smuggles out a load of hospital property.

Episode: 6x18 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1985

A doctor preparing to use an experimental procedure on a cancer patient dies in the operating room. Meanwhile, J.T. (Timothy Busfield) is having ghostly visions.

Episode: 6x19 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1985

Episode: 6x20 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1985

Episode: 6x21 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1985

Episode: 6x22 | Airdate: Apr 21, 1985

A mousy scientist wants his Filipino fiancée, whom he met through a marriage broker, to remain in the U.S. for treatment of a parasitic infection she thinks voids their nuptial plans. Trapper and Gonzo are confronted by two — or is she really one? — women, both rather cool, classy, and sensuous. And both are wives of patients about to undergo surgery.

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

Libby (Lorna Luft) is devastated to learn that an old flame is gay and an AIDS victim.

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

North Korea prevents a kidney donor from traveling to the U.S., which means Trapper (Pernell Roberts) must go to Seoul, where he encounters his wartime flame.

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