List of episodes of the series «Island Son»

  • Seasons count: 1
  • Episodes count: 18
  • Total viewing time: 18 h.
Heart and Soul
Release date: 9/19/1989

Heart and Soul

  • Episode number: 1
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.
Sometimes They're Zebras
Release date: 9/24/1989

Sometimes They're Zebras

  • Episode number: 2
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.
Fathers and Sons
Release date: 9/26/1989

Fathers and Sons

  • Episode number: 3
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Gifts
Release date: 10/3/1989

Gifts

  • Episode number: 4
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Painkillers
Release date: 10/10/1989

Painkillers

  • Episode number: 5
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.
Life Sentence
Release date: 10/24/1989

Life Sentence

  • Episode number: 6
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    Daniel tries to protect his patient, a convicted rapist, from the media mob surrounding the hospital; Sam falls for a crafty hitchiker.
The State vs. John Kulani
Release date: 10/31/1989

The State vs. John Kulani

  • Episode number: 7
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    A doctor has Daniel's father arrested for performing a Hawaiian healing ceremony in the hospital; Caitlin worries about a furtive admirer.
Role Models
Release date: 11/7/1989

Role Models

  • Episode number: 8
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Everyday People
Release date: 11/14/1989

Everyday People

  • Episode number: 9
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Hihia
Release date: 12/14/1989

Hihia

  • Episode number: 10
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
The Christmas Story
Release date: 12/21/1989

The Christmas Story

  • Episode number: 11
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Falling Stars
Release date: 1/4/1990

Falling Stars

  • Episode number: 12
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    Metzger's confidence is shaken when he disastrously misdiagnoses a patient; Daniel tries to reconcile the estranged Fushidas; Sam befriends an elderly man.
Icarus Falling
Release date: 1/11/1990

Icarus Falling

  • Episode number: 13
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Release date: 2/1/1990

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

  • Episode number: 14
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Janine Returns
Release date: 2/8/1990

Janine Returns

  • Episode number: 15
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Viruses
Release date: 2/15/1990

Viruses

  • Episode number: 16
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.
Moving Targets
Release date: 2/22/1990

Moving Targets

  • Episode number: 17
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Separations
Release date: 3/29/1990

Separations

  • Episode number: 18
  • Episode duration: 60 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.