Season 7

1985–1986

Oct 6, 1985 · 60m

Trapper prepares for his first artificial-heart implant, but Gonzo (Gregory Harrison) may miss it because of his new love interest.

E2. Game of Hearts (2)

Oct 13, 1985 · 60m

A weary Trapper monitors the seesawing condition of his artificial-heart recipient, while Gonzo tries to convince Fran (Andrea Marcovicci) that pity has nothing to do with his devotion.

E3. Hot Shot

Oct 20, 1985 · 60m

Trapper and Gonzo (Gregory Harrison) want a swashbuckling doctor (Beau Gravitte) added to the staff, but a secret emerges from the man's past.

E4. Just Around the Corner

Oct 27, 1985 · 60m

After suspending himself from surgery pending a patient's autopsy, Trapper suspects the coroner (Barbara Rhoades) is dragging her feet on the investigation.

E5. Friends and Lovers

Nov 3, 1985 · 60m

Libby is devastated to learn that an old flame (Robert Desiderio) is gay---and an AIDS victim.

E6. The Wonderkind

Nov 10, 1985 · 60m

The woman Gonzo helped get a job at the hospital reveals that she's an Israeli agent, and claims that a staff doctor (Harold Gould) is a Nazi war criminal.

E7. A Wheel Within a Wheel

Dec 1, 1985 · 60m

After an accident leaves a nurse paraplegic, she finds more than just physical obstacles when she returns to work.

E8. The Second Best Man

Dec 15, 1985 · 60m

After Trapper's ex-wife announces her engagement, she receives a secret admirer's outpourings, which J.T. says shouldn't be ignored.

E9. Billboard Barney

Dec 29, 1985 · 60m

The father (Max Gail) of a boy exposed to a lethal poison scales a billboard and refuses to come down until the company responsible cleans up its old toxic-waste dump site; Gonzo proposes to Fran (Andrea Marcovicci).

E10. Going, Going, Gonzo

Jan 5, 1986 · 60m

Gonzo's vacation with Fran which he's already postponed three times---may never come off after he has a stroke.

E11. Heart and Seoul

Jan 28, 1986 · 60m

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 (Irene Tsu).

E12. Life, Death and Dr. Christmas

Feb 18, 1986 · 60m

A neurosurgeon (Kenneth Gilman) accuses Trapper and J.T. of interfering with one of his patients.

E13. Judgment Day

Mar 4, 1986 · 60m

Jackpot clashes with a colleague (Doran Clark) who has refused artificial life support, and with the judge who granted her request---Jackpot's own estranged father (James McEachin).

E14. Fall of the Wild

Mar 11, 1986 · 60m

J.T. and the staff find a boy and his mother (Jason Marin, Denise DuBarry) living on the streets, foraging through garbage.

E15. The Curmudgeon

Mar 18, 1986 · 60m

An abrasive old doctor gets a taste of his own medicine from Nurse Andrews; and J.T. and the Titanic have new neighbors---a can recycler (Barney Martin) and his decrepit RV.

E16. Self-Diagnosis

Aug 14, 1986 · 60m

J.T. is sworn to secrecy by Woodruff, who suspects she has Hodgkin's disease. Meanwhile, Riverside's father (David Wayne) is admitted to the hospital following a traffic accident.

E17. Research and Destroy

Aug 21, 1986 · 60m

Animal-rights protesters break into the hospital lab, freeing its occupants, including a dog involved in an experiment that could save a human patient.

E18. Strange Bedfellows

Aug 28, 1986 · 60m

J.T. is named the interns' voice on the board of directors; Riverside's charge Jesus (Israel Juarbe) returns to the hospital---first as an orderly, then as a patient.

E19. The Elusive Butterfly

Sep 4, 1986 · 60m

J.T. considers altering his post-internship plans in light of his infatuation with a hospitalized rock star (Jean Sagal) suffering from exhaustion.