8.0/10112 votes#1 - Runaway Train
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1996
Sully goes to Denver to negotiate the release of Cloud Dancing from the army. One of the conditions is that Sully is no longer Indian Agent and may not ever step foot on the reservation again. On the way home the train crashes, injuring most on board. Andrew learns a lesson in humility by watching Michaela in action.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: N/A
8.2/10110 votes#2 - Having It All
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1996
Michaela has returned to work after being home with Katie. Between work, the baby and being so tired,Michaela is spread thin. Sully feels neglected. Sully helps Michaela through this difficult time. Colleen is accepted to college in Denver.
Director: Bethany Rooney
Writer: N/A
8.0/10112 votes#3 - Malpractice
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1996
A malpractice suit prevents Dr. Mike from practicing medicine, leaving the reluctant Dr. Cook in charge.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: N/A
8.0/10118 votes#4 - All That Glitters
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1996
The appearance of renowned singer Gilda St. Clair (Barbara Mandrell) tempts Colleen to leave college and travel the world instead.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: N/A
7.9/10111 votes#5 - Los Americanos
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1996
A Latin American woman rebuffs Dr. Mike's attempts at friendship; the Rev. Johnson searches for a teacher to take his place. Teresa: Michelle Bonilla.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10111 votes#6 - Last Dance
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1996
Dr. Mike faces the prospect of leaving her practice and friends for Wyoming when Sully is offered a job surveying Yellowstone National Park.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Chris Abbott
8.1/10105 votes#7 - Right or Wrong
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1996
Dr. Mike is arrested and put in jail for treating a fugitive Indian; Jake and Preston run against each other for mayor of Colorado Springs.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: N/A
8.3/10103 votes#8 - Remember Me
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1996
A sick and ragged prospector wanders into town and Jake Slicker recognizes the man as his father, who abandoned him years before.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Steven Baum
8.1/10111 votes#9 - Legend
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1996
Dr. Mike, Sully and Matthew team up with a legendary marshal in order to nab the thieves who wounded Matthew during a bank robbery.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Carl Binder
8.2/10110 votes#10 - The Tempest
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1996
A severe storm bears down on Colorado Springs, disrupting the arrival of Preston Lodge II and Dr. Mike's attempts to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner.
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: N/A
8.1/10104 votes#11 - Separate But Equal
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1996
Grace and Robert E. encounter fierce opposition when they attempt to enroll their son in the town's all-white school.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: N/A
8.2/10112 votes#12 - A Place to Die
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1996
When three people die after coming in contact with something in the clinic, and one is deathly sick, Dr. Mike, Sully, Colleen, and Andrew but their heads together to find out what it was. They figure out that it was something in the clinic and now it is everywhere. In her case, on the instruments, the sheet. The only solution is to burn everything. When that is done, some are genorous enough to give Dr. Mike some of there things, but they are scared to come in. When Sully must get stitches, and lives after being treated by Dr. Mike, she begins the road to being reaccepted by Colorado Springs.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: N/A
8.1/10111 votes#13 - Season of Miracles
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1996
As Christmas approaches, Brian questions his faith when he learns that Dr. Mike cannot save the sight of the Reverend.
Director: Carl Binder
Writer: Carl Binder
7.8/10107 votes#14 - The Dam
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1997
In a case of mistaken motivation, a judge sends Sully to prison after he is spotted with criminals bent on stopping the construction of a dam.
Director: Terrence O'Hara, Alan J. Levi
Writer: N/A
8.0/10107 votes#15 - Farewell Appearance
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1997
Dr. Mike's Uncle Theodore, a concert pianist, sees in Brian not only a talented musician, but his own dead son.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: N/A
8.3/10117 votes#16 - The Most Fatal Disease
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1997
Kid Cole and Sister Ruth (Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash) visit Dr. Mike at a difficult time in their marriage.
Director: James Keach
Writer: Chris Abbott
7.6/10113 votes#17 - Colleen's Paper
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1997
When Colleen, who is working on a college paper, asks Dr. Mike to recall her most memorable case, Dr. Mike looks back on the five turbulent years she's lived and loved in Colorado Springs. As they sit with Andrew, who is mysteriously ill at the clinic, Dr. Mike reminisces about her tumultuous career -- its successes and its failures -- and realizes how many divergent cases she has seen and treated. When Andrew's condition takes a turn for the worse, Dr. Mike warns Colleen about the fine line between emotional involvement and professional detachment, an issue with which she has long struggled in the frontier town that's now her home.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: Carl Binder
7.4/10142 votes#18 - A House Divided (1)
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1997
An old friend of Sully's visits, wanting to financially help the family. Although he falls in love with Michaela.
Director: James Keach
Writer: N/A
7.5/10134 votes#19 - A House Divided (2)
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1997
While Sully is away for a few days to procure some money, Preston arrives threatening to repossess the homestead for nonpayment of the load. Daniel rejects Dr. Mike's objections and pays off the entire loan. Upon hearing how Daniel interfered in his business, the proud Sully becomes furious.
Director: James Keach
Writer: N/A
7.9/10118 votes#20 - Hostage
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1997
Sully, depite being wounded by two bank robbers, works to free his wife, Brian and Katie when they are taken hostage by the desperate men.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Abbott
7.9/10115 votes#21 - The Body Electric
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/5/1997
Brian takes a liking to visiting writer Walt Whitman, even when the townspeople shun Whitman over rumors of his alternative lifestyle.
Director: Gwen Arner
Writer: N/A
8.2/10104 votes#22 - Before The Dawn
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1997
Sully arranges an escape for Cloud Dancing, leading him and the Indian to become wanted men.
Director: Bethany Rooney, James Keach
Writer: Carl Binder
8.1/10105 votes#23 - Starting Over
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/3/1997
After Marjorie joins the Women's movement she blows into town stirring everyone up and has a fling with Loren.
Director: James Keach
Writer: N/A
8.0/10107 votes#24 - His Father's Son
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/1997
Everyone is doting on Katie and Brian feels slighted. Brian receives a letter and picture from his real father, which leaves him feeling like he doesn't belong anywhere. Brian starts behaving badly. He gets Anthony to skip school with him and they hop a train. Sully punishes Brian. When Brian questions Sully's actions, Sully says that he is doing it because he is his Pa.
Director: James Keach
Writer: Carl Binder
8.3/10111 votes#25 - Moment of Truth (1)
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 4/26/1997
Cloud Dancing is badly beaten by soldiers for returning late to the reservation. Michaela treats him. When Sully learns of the attack, he is outraged. Tired of being treated cruelly, the tribes plan a rebellion. They enlist Sully's help.
Director: Gwen Arner, James Keach
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Season 5
Every episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Season 5!
Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:CBS
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Runaway Train" is the best rated episode of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" season 5. It scored 8/10 based on 112 votes. Directed by Terrence O'Hara and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/1996. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Having It All".