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Island Son - S1 - E4
A tourist protests the age of her physician when Caitlin gets her case, and Daniel's budding romance is nipped by illness and her past.
Island Son: Season 1 - 18 Episode s
1x1 - Heart and Soul
September 19, 1989
Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.
1x2 - Sometimes They're Zebras
September 24, 1989
Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.
1x3 - Fathers and Sons
September 26, 1989
Daniel's son falls for a patient facing a fatal prognosis; a resident falters before his prominent mother's determination that he follow her into cardiac medicine.
1x4 - Gifts
October 3, 1989
A tourist protests the age of her physician when Caitlin gets her case, and Daniel's budding romance is nipped by illness and her past.
1x5 - Painkillers
October 10, 1989
Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.
1x6 - Life Sentence
October 24, 1989
Daniel tries to protect his patient, a convicted rapist, from the media mob surrounding the hospital; Sam falls for a crafty hitchiker.
1x7 - The State vs. John Kulani
October 31, 1989
A doctor has Daniel's father arrested for performing a Hawaiian healing ceremony in the hospital; Caitlin worries about a furtive admirer.
1x8 - Role Models
November 7, 1989
Fushida becomes a difficult patient when he develops a dangerous infection; Daniel battles to have a patient admitted for critical surgery despite insurance problems; a diabetic friend of Sam's risks his health.
1x9 - Everyday People
November 14, 1989
Veronica returns with a proposition, but Daniel's distracted by his patients: a dying talk-show host and a paraplegic fighting to keep his home.
1x10 - Hihia
December 14, 1989
Sam is paralyzed with caison disease after lying his way into a deep sea diving job with his uncle, which touches off a bitter fight between the brothers; racism cripples Metzger's romance with a Japanese-American.
1x11 - The Christmas Story
December 21, 1989
A group of men dressed as elves are admitted with symptoms of plague; Dr. Fushida is adamant that he wants a natural son despite the diagnosis that a pregnancy would kill his wife.
1x12 - Falling Stars
January 4, 1990
Metzger's confidence is shaken when he disastrously misdiagnoses a patient; Daniel tries to reconcile the estranged Fushidas; Sam befriends an elderly man.
1x13 - Icarus Falling
January 11, 1990
A pilot refuses to be tested for the source of his blackouts; a teenager resists his girlfriend's decision to put their baby up for adoption.
1x14 - Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
February 1, 1990
A teenage volunteer attempts suicide after confiding a terrible secret to Sam. Increasingly unable to cope with terminal cases, Margaret betrays a patient when he returns to the hospital after a recurrence of his cancer.
1x15 - Janine Returns
February 8, 1990
Daniel's former wife stirs up trouble when she arrives to celebrate their son's birthday. Parents of a dying infant worry that a doctor whose child has an identical health problem will receive preferential treatment in an organ donor program.
1x16 - Viruses
February 15, 1990
Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.
1x17 - Moving Targets
February 22, 1990
A serial killer who targets prostitutes poses a threat to James's fiancé, a former call girl; Fushida's disapproval of Margaret's office romance hurts their working relationship.
1x18 - Separations
March 29, 1990
Nina hesitates when Daniel proposes, a man uses his illness to blackmail his daughter, and Caitlin murders a patient when she disagrees with his family's decision to fight his liver disease.