S01 Episode 1
Pilot
Michaela "Mike" Quinn, of Boston, followed in her father's footsteps by becoming a doctor. Dr. Mike worked side by side her father. But his sudden death caused her the loss of, not only her best friend, but the loss of their medical practice. The lack of job opportunities for women doctors lead Michaela to answer an ad for a doctor in Colorado territory. Michaela left her fancy home in the city of Boston for the western town, Colorado Springs. When she arrives in town she is met with mockery, for they expected a man doctor. She is befriended by Charlotte Cooper (Diane Ladd) and becomes good friends with her. Charlotte and Dr. Quinn become close friends and when Charlotte is bitten by a rattle snake, she leaves her three children Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores, later Jessica Bowman) and Brian (Shawn Toovey) for Dr. Mike to look after. As the town continues to mock Michaela for expecting to be the town doctor, she meets Sully, a white man ""turned"" Native American who lets he
Fri, 1 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 1
Pilot
After the death of her father, Dr Michaela Quinn answers an ad for a doctor in the Colorado Territory. She leaves Boston for Colorado Springs, where she sets up practice and adopts three orphans.
1 h 47 mins · Fri, 1 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 2
Epidemic
Horror mounts when a flu epidemic attacks Colorado Springs. Dr. Mike must attend the sick townspeople and protect others from getting the deadly disease. But being a lady doctor has people questioning whether she can handle the fatal epidemic.
Sat, 2 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 2
Epidemic
While trying to stave off an influenza epidemic brought to the city by a cowboy, Dr Mike Quinn falls prey to the deadly virus, leaving the town in jeopardy.
45 mins · Sat, 2 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 3
The Visitor
Mike's estranged mother (Jane Wyman) visits, but she and Mike are still miles apart. Meanwhile, Robert E is injured in a fire.
Sat, 9 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 3
The Visitor
While Dr Quinn tackles an explosion and faces a possible loss of the clinic, her disapproving mother visits with a cool attitude towards her daughter and everyone else.
45 mins · Sat, 9 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 4
The Law of the Land
Dr Mike hires a retired gunslinger as sheriff to save the life of an orphaned immigrant, who stole a cow to feed his starving family.
45 mins · Sat, 16 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 4
Law of the Land
A gunslinger (Johnny Cash) arrives looking for a quiet town in which to hang 'em up, but Colorado Springs is itching to lynch an immigrant (Christopher Keene Kelly) for cattle rustling to feed his starving family.
Sat, 16 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 5
The Healing
A bitter Loren, who blames Sully for his daughter's death, tries to repossess Dr. Mike's cabin when he learns he still owns the deed.
Sat, 23 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 5
The Healing
Blaming Sully for his daughter's death, a bitter Loren tries to repossess Dr Mike's cabin when he learns he still owns the deed.
44 mins · Sat, 23 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 6
Father's Day
As Dr. Quinn is trying to persuade the townspeople that smallpox vaccinations are necessary, the father of Brain, Colleen, and Matthew arrives.
Sat, 30 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 6
Father's Day
Dr Mike grows suspicious when Charlotte's husband returns to the children he abandoned, and tries to convince everyone that he has changed.
45 mins · Sat, 30 Jan 1993
S01 Episode 7
Bad Water
When several townspeople come down with mercury poisoning, Dr. Mike forces a reluctant Sully to guide her to the high mountain stream which may be the source of the problem. The trek is difficult for her, but she ultimately earns Sully's respect and gratitude after saving his life twice despite a broken wrist. Just as they confirm that the water is being polluted by a local mine owner whose mining process is dumping mercury into the stream, they are captured by his men. In the interim, worried townsfolk send out an inept posse to try to locate Sully and Dr. Mike. Olive backs Grace's new venture -- Grace's Cafe. In the end, Dr. Mike saves the day by curing the mine owner's son, who has fallen victim to the poisoned water, and convincing the owner to close the mine.
Sat, 6 Feb 1993
S01 Episode 7
Bad Water
Dr Mike threatens a wealthy mining baron, when mercury from his mine contaminates the town's water supply and causes illness in the community.
45 mins · Sat, 6 Feb 1993
S01 Episode 8
The Great American Medicine Show
When a medicine show man arrives in town, selling an elixir he claims will cure anything, Dr Mike becomes determined to prove him a fraud.
45 mins · Sat, 13 Feb 1993
S01 Episode 8
Great American Medicine Show
Dr. Mike tries to heal the soul of Doc Eli, a Civil War surgeon turned patent medicine show huckster, who's come to like the taste of his own medicine, an all-curing elixir used by the fabled Kickapoo Indians. She doesn't trust the sales pitch of this exploitave medicine show man, especially when she's facing a real medical crisis involving Myra. She must help Doc Eli face his past demons, before he can help her remove an ovarian cyst from Myra, in a technique he pioneered.
Meanwhile Sully's on a similar mission in trying to convince Franklin, a disillusioned Cheyenne, survivor of a massacre, to join his own people in their continuing fight for survival. Myra and Horace get engaged.
Sat, 13 Feb 1993
S01 Episode 9
The Cowboy's Lullaby
Dr. Mike takes in Red McCall, a down-and-out cowboy, and his ailing half-breed infant child. McCall reaches the end of his rope trying to care for his baby, so after robbing Loren's store, he leaves the baby in Michaela's care, sensing she could find a suitable home for his child. Dr. Mike's attempts to find a home for the baby prove futile.
When she travels to a remote cabin to check on the health of it's owner, she finds him badly mangled from a bear attack. Her horse is frightened off by the bear, and she's marooned in the cabin until Sully shows up looking for her. They narrowly escape being the rabid bear's next victims.
After returning to town, Dr. Mike decides she'd rather raise the child herself than turn him over to an orphanage. However, Sully locates Red and convinces him to keep the child.
Sat, 20 Feb 1993
S01 Episode 9
A Cowboy's Lullaby
A thieving cowhand rides into town and quickly disappears, after robbing Loren's store and leaving his sick baby with Dr Mike.
44 mins · Sat, 20 Feb 1993
S01 Episode 10
Running Ghost
Sully ends up badly beaten and partially paralyzed following a run in with buffalo hunters who were hired by the railroad to clear the buffalo and Indians out of the planned train path. As Dr. Mike, Cloud Dancing and the kids fight to help Sully regain the use of his legs, a con man who's passed himself off as an advance man for the railroad is in the process of swindling the townsfolk out of the deed to their property. Sully recovers and Dr. Mike unmasks the con man's plan thereby saving the townsfolk's property.
Sat, 27 Feb 1993
S01 Episode 10
Running Ghost
Shady businessmen claim to spur progress in Colorado Springs, but bring trouble; Dr Mike fears about Sully's critical condition.
45 mins · Sat, 27 Feb 1993
S01 Episode 11
The Prisoner
After ambushing Black Kettle's camp, General Custer enters the town carrying wounded soldiers and Indian prisoners, including Cloud Dancing, whom Custer threatens to kill if Dr. Mike does not treat his men before the injured braves.
Later, Dr. Mike treats Cloud Dancing's broken arm while he remains shackled in the livery after Custer's interrogation. When Custer jokingly hauls Cloud Dancing before a firing squad that fires blanks, Dr. Mike and Sully engineer Cloud Dancing's escape.
Meanwhile, Olive opens a Hurdy Gurdy, recruiting girls from the immigrant camp and a reluctant Loren, Horace and Jake for the band. Matthew buys all of Ingrid's dance tickets then shyly confesses that he doesn't know how to dance. Robert E. and Grace exchange looks. Robert E. is still burned from The Visitor (#3).
Sat, 13 Mar 1993
S01 Episode 11
The Prisoner
After Gen Custer injures Cloud Dancing and sentences him to hang, Dr Mike and Sully orchestrate his escape.
44 mins · Sat, 13 Mar 1993
S01 Episode 12
Happy Birthday
After a patient of Dr. Mike's dies of blood poisoning, she accuses Jake, the barber, of infecting the man with his dirty razor. Her accusation throws Jake into an alcoholic binge. Dr. Mike tries in vain to pull him out of it, but finally realizes he must be the one to want to stop drinking. She gives him something to live for by pointing out his many friends in town, including her.
Meanwhile, Mike's children try to help her deal with her loneliness on her 35th birthday by conspiring to find her a proper suitor before her surprise party
Sat, 27 Mar 1993
S01 Episode 12
Happy Birthday
A lonely Dr Mike believes the whole town feels sorry for her, as she prepares to celebrate another birthday as an unmarried woman.
45 mins · Sat, 27 Mar 1993
S01 Episode 13
Rite of Passage
Matthew's sudden announcement that he wants to marry Ingrid causes upheaval in his relationship with Dr. Mike, who feels he's too young. In an effort to prove he's man enough to make his own decisions, he convinces Sully and Cloud Dancing to allow him to partake in a four-day Cheyenne ritual. This is the final straw for Dr. Mike, and she confronts Sully before she storms off looking for Matthew.
Meanwhile, Ingrid suffers asthma attacks, and her treatment is undermined by Dr. Mike's disapproval of their marriage plans. Dr. Mike comes upon Matthew going through the rite of passage and seeming at peace with himself, so she lets him finish uninterrupted.
Later, Dr. Mike and Matthew resolve their differences, with him deciding to delay the wedding and her giving Matthew her engagement ring for Ingrid.
Sat, 10 Apr 1993
S01 Episode 13
Rite of Passage
Dr Mike is at odds with Matthew when he announces his decision to forgo a university education and marry Ingrid.
45 mins · Sat, 10 Apr 1993
S01 Episode 14
Heroes
Influenced by romance novels, Colleen develops a crush on Sully and endangers her life, when she sets up a situation in which he must rescue her.
46 mins · Sat, 1 May 1993
S01 Episode 14
Heroes
Colleen develops a teenage crush on Sully after he pulls her out of the path of a runaway wagon. Imagining herself as a damsel in distress and Sully as her knight in shining armor, she purposely sets out to get lost in the woods hoping Sully will rescue her. A freak cold snap blows up and she almost freezes to death before Sully and Dr. Mike find her. Dr. Mike works hard to save Colleen's badly frostbitten hands, and Sully ultimately has a heart-to- heart talk with Colleen.
Meanwhile, racial tensions in town reach a boiling point when Hank accuses Grace of food poisoning which is later proved false when Dr. Mike discovers Hank has been eating meat infected with trichinosis.
Sat, 1 May 1993
S01 Episode 15
The Operation
Brian suffers a serve injury to his head and Mike is forced to operate; the people of Colorado Springs can't agree on the construction of a new school.
45 mins · Sat, 8 May 1993
S01 Episode 15
The Operation
While Brian and Sully are out hiking, Brian climbs a tree and jumps out before Sully can stop him. Brian lands hard, hitting his head. Mike, angry with Sully for not watching Brian more carefully, is relieved to find no signs of injury.
Later, the townsfolk argue over who will build the new schoolhouse, Matthew wants Robert E included, but, in the end Jake and Loren are tapped for the job. Brian begins to exhibit symptoms of compression, which escalate to blindness and later, coma. A specialist can't be found and Mike must perform a dangerous brain operation while Jake and Grace assist.
Meanwhile, the town, including Robert E, pulls together to build the schoolhouse. Brian awakens and wanders out to the new school where Mike and the family find him, overjoyed that he can see again.
Sat, 8 May 1993
S01 Episode 16
The Secret
Following the death of one of Mike's patients, she takes in her son, and forces Hank to face his responsibilities and admit he is the boy's father.
45 mins · Sat, 15 May 1993
S01 Episode 16
The Secret
When Mike and Sully stop to check on old Mrs. Johnson, they discover her dead and a young boy, Zack, hidden in the closet. Mike takes the child in and confronts the townsfolk, who reluctantly admit to knowing the boy's mother was one of Hank's whores. When she died they sent Zack to Mrs. Johnson because he was ""simple."" Mike is frustrated in her attempts to find a medical diagnosis and cure for Zack's condition. Mike's further detective work reveals that Hank is Zack's father, and she helps Hank own up to his responsibility.
Meanwhile, Brian seems to be the only one to get the boy to exhibit his artistic abilities, and he is mistakenly given credit for a drawing that Zack has done. Later, when Zack's artistic talent is discovered, Hank agrees to send him to an art school in Denver. The show has a cute opening scene of Mike and Sully with him criticizing her driving.
Sat, 15 May 1993
S01 Episode 17
Portraits
Mike learns that a renowned Civil War photographer is going blind when he arrives in Colorado Springs to take a town portrait.
45 mins · Sat, 22 May 1993
S01 Episode 17
Portraits
David Watkins, a civil war photographer arrives in Colorado Springs. Dr. Mike diagnoses David's diabetes and is frustrated that he refuses treatment and will ultimately go blind. David suggests taking a portrait of the town and an argument ensues over who will be in it. When the camera equipment is destroyed, the whole town must pull together to create a camera and take the photo before David's eyesight fails.
At the same time, Mrs. Bing, Horace's mother, is brought to town, seriously ill. Mrs. Bing disapproves of Myra until she learns how much they love each other, and on her deathbed bestows her blessing on their marriage.
Sat, 22 May 1993
