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Island Son is a CBS television medical drama during its 1989-90 schedule. Island Son marked the return to regular weekly series television of Richard Chamberlain, who...
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Season 1

  • Heart and Soul
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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

  • Sometimes They're Zebras
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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

  • Fathers and Sons
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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

  • Gifts
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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

  • Painkillers
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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

  • Life Sentence
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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

  • The State vs. John Kulani
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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

  • Role Models
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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

  • Everyday People
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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

  • Hihia
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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

  • The Christmas Story
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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

  • Falling Stars
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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

  • Icarus Falling
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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

  • Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
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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

  • Janine Returns
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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

  • Viruses
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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

  • Moving Targets
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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

    Writer: N/A

  • Separations
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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