

All Episodes of Island Son
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Season 1
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Heart and Soul
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1989
Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.
Director: Dick Lowry
Writer: N/A
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Sometimes They're Zebras
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1989
Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.
Director: Jorge Montesi, Michael Switzer
Writer: N/A
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Fathers and Sons
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1989
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.
Director: Jorge Montesi, Michael Switzer
Writer: N/A
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Gifts
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1989
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.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: N/A
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Painkillers
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1989
Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.
Director: Helaine Head
Writer: Brad Markowitz
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Life Sentence
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1989
Daniel tries to protect his patient, a convicted rapist, from the media mob surrounding the hospital; Sam falls for a crafty hitchiker.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: N/A
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The State vs. John Kulani
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1989
A doctor has Daniel's father arrested for performing a Hawaiian healing ceremony in the hospital; Caitlin worries about a furtive admirer.
Director: David Jackson
Writer: N/A
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Role Models
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1989
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.
Director: Michael Switzer
Writer: N/A
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Everyday People
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1989
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.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: N/A
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Hihia
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1989
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.
Director: Stephen L. Posey
Writer: N/A
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The Christmas Story
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1989
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.
Director: Gwen Arner
Writer: N/A
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Falling Stars
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1990
Metzger's confidence is shaken when he disastrously misdiagnoses a patient; Daniel tries to reconcile the estranged Fushidas; Sam befriends an elderly man.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Icarus Falling
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1990
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.
Director: Stephen L. Posey
Writer: N/A
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Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/1990
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.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: Tammy Ader
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Janine Returns
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Viruses
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/1990
Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
Writer: N/A
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Moving Targets
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/1990
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.
Director: N/A
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Separations
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/29/1990
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.
Director: Jerome Courtland
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer