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The Best Episodes of Trapper John, M.D.

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The Best Episodes of Trapper John, M.D.

Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father...

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  1. 8.6/10(15 votes)

    #1 - Forget Me Not

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    S4:E16

    A brilliant surgeon begins suffering from bouts of forgetful and disoriented behavior.

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    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.4/10(18 votes)

    #2 - A Fall to Grace

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    S6:E7

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  3. 8.4/10(14 votes)

    #3 - The Elusive Butterfly

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    S7:E19

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  4. 8.3/10(26 votes)

    #4 - Brain Child

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    S2:E18

    Seventeen year old Dr Schweitzer, is a new Intern at SFMH. He takes his work very seriously, pushing himself to the limit. Trapper tries to help him remember hat there is more to medicine than science and books.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.3/10(15 votes)

    #5 - My Son, the Doctor

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    S6:E2

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    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.1/10(19 votes)

    #6 - 'Till Life Us Do Part

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    S1:E16

    A man diagnosed with terminal cancer tries to come to terms with the fact that he only has months to live, then must deal with something almost equally disturbing: he has gone into remission while the new friend he has made continues to get worse.

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    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.1/10(15 votes)

    #7 - A Change of Heart

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    S6:E1

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  9. 8.0/10(16 votes)

    #8 - Boom

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    S1:E12

    There is a bomb somewhere in the hospital set to go off at midnight. The bomb squad can't find it, and the man who planted it is dying from bullet wounds. Can Trapper and Gonzo save his life in time to save San Francisco Memorial?

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  10. 8.0/10(14 votes)

    #9 - Quarantine

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    S1:E21

    When Melanie finds an abandoned baby in the department store she works for, she is ready to adopt him. However, she runs into a couple of problems - the baby has pneumonic plague, and a mother who wants him back.

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    Writer:N/A
  11. 8.0/10(18 votes)

    #10 - Girl Under Glass (a.k.a.) The Sex Act (1)

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    S2:E1

    Gonzo takes a leave from the hospital to supervise a very rich young woman with a rare medical condition, and is charged with sexual misconduct when he rejects her advances. Trapper looks for a new scrub nurse to replace Starch.

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  12. 8.0/10(15 votes)

    #11 - The Pagoda Cure

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    S2:E8

    When a Vietnamese woman is operated on, very skillfully, without a consent form, the staff tries to find out the identity of the mystery surgeon.

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    Writer:N/A
  13. 8.0/10(14 votes)

    #12 - It Only Hurts When I Love

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    S4:E14

    When Gloria Brancusi learns that Andrea, the orphan girl, has come back to the hospital as a patient her first reaction is to run away. Gloria has second thoughts after deciding to adopt the troubled orphan.

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    Writer:N/A
  14. 7.9/10(18 votes)

    #13 - Licensed to Kill

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    S1:E9

    A group of radicals kidnaps Melanie, and gives Trapper an ultimatum: either he kills a policeman who has survived two earlier murder attempts, or they will kill his ex-wife.

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    Writer:N/A
  15. 7.9/10(14 votes)

    #14 - The Albatross

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    S2:E17

    Gonzo accidentally runs down a homeless deaf girl. Trapper has to contend with Dr. Wang from Red China. Both share a history in North and South Korea.

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  16. 7.9/10(15 votes)

    #15 - A Piece of the Action

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    S3:E22

    Jackpot convinces several of the staff to invest in a promising young boxer he is managing, but after the fighter kills his opponent in his first professional match he begins to suffer mysterious injuries that may keep him out of the ring permanently.

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    Writer:N/A
  17. 7.9/10(16 votes)

    #16 - South Side Story

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    S4:E22

    Gonzo runs out of gas in front of a decrepit apartment building where a woman has been injured on the broken stairs. When he traces ownership to SFM and brings it to the board, they agree to do something - tear down the building and put up condos.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:N/A
  18. 7.9/10(17 votes)

    #17 - All About Everett

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    S5:E3

    All About Everett is an episode of Trapper John, M.D.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  19. 7.8/10(18 votes)

    #18 - Whose Little Hero Are You?

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    S1:E11

    A brilliant improvisation saves a life but causes problems for Trapper and Riverside.

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  20. 7.8/10(15 votes)

    #19 - Second Sight

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    S2:E15

    Jackpot convinces his friend, Sheila, to undergo radical surgery to return her eyesight. When things go wrong he becomes riddled with guilt almost costing him his Medical Board Exam. Meanwhile Trapper John has just hired a housekeeper who thinks he's a 'soft touch'.

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    Director:Jeff Bleckner
    Writer:N/A
  21. 7.8/10(13 votes)

    #20 - Danny

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    S3:E14

    A mentally disabled man who works at the hospital is able to make friends with a crotchety old hermit who is dying of cancer, but gets embarrassed and quits his job when he misinterprets Gloria's feelings for him.

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  22. 7.8/10(16 votes)

    #21 - Medicine Man

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    S3:E17

    A doctor that comes to SFM with an accident patient is so good that Slocum wants to bring him on staff, but he runs into a problem - the schools the man claims to have trained at have never heard of him. Jackpot is frustrated by a Jane Doe with a high fever and some unusual symptoms.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.8/10(13 votes)

    #22 - John's Other Life

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    S3:E24

    A man who needs a bone marrow transplant to survive claims that he has no relatives that can serve as donors. However, Gonzo soon discovers that the truth is a little more complicated: the man is in the Witness Protection Program, and cannot safely have contact with his family.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Jerry Ross
  24. 7.8/10(14 votes)

    #23 - Pasts Imperfect (a.k.a.) Past Imperfect

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    S4:E18

    A woman from Riverside's past is obsessed with him.

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  25. 7.8/10(14 votes)

    #24 - All of Me

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    S6:E23

    J.T. discovers that he has two patients with the same wife.

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    Writer:Nancy Bond
  26. 7.7/10(41 votes)

    #25 - Trapper John, M.D.

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    S1:E1

    Twenty-eight years after the Korean War, former M*A*S*H surgeon ""Trapper"" John McIntyre, now Chief of Surgery at San Francisco Memorial Hospital, is faced with a younger copy of himself - Vietnam vet Dr. ""Gonzo"" Gates.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Forget Me Not" is the best rated episode of "Trapper John, M.D.". It scored 8.6/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Leo Penn and written by N/A, it aired on 1/30/1983. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Fall to Grace".