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Trapper John, M.D.

Sun, Sep 23, 1979
  • Drama
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

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 figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.

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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Pernell Roberts
    Pernell Roberts
    as "Trapper" John McIntyre
  • Gregory Harrison
    Gregory Harrison
    as George Alonzo 'Gonzo' Gates
  • Madge Sinclair
    Madge Sinclair
    as Ernestine Shoop, R. N.
  • Charles Siebert
    Charles Siebert
    as Stanley Riverside III
  • Brian Stokes Mitchell
    Brian Stokes Mitchell
    as Justin "Jackpot" Jackson
  • Timothy Busfield
    Timothy Busfield
    as J.T. McIntyre Jr.
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Episodes

7 seasons · 151 episodes

Ended · 151 aired
Season 1
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Trapper John, M.D.
    Aired · Mon, Sep 24, 1979 · 60m

    Trapper John must face an influx of casualties from a hotel fire—and a headlong, would-be staffer named Gonzo

  • E2
    Flashback
    Aired · Sun, Sep 30, 1979 · 60m

    A hospital orderly shoots a patient during a flashback to a combat situation In Vietnam.

  • E3
    Deadly Exposure
    Aired · Sun, Oct 7, 1979 · 60m
  • E4
    Love is a Three-Way Street
    Aired · Sun, Oct 21, 1979 · 60m
  • E5
    The Shattered Image
    Aired · Mon, Oct 29, 1979 · 60m

    Trapper tries to diagnose the illness of a seemingly gregarious, self-confident, outspoken socialite (Celeste Holm).

  • E6
    What Are Friends For?
    Aired · Sun, Nov 11, 1979 · 60m
  • E7
    One For My Baby
    Aired · Sun, Nov 18, 1979 · 60m
  • E8
    Taxi in the Rain
    Aired · Sun, Dec 2, 1979 · 60m
  • E9
    Licensed to Kill
    Aired · Sun, Dec 9, 1979 · 60m
  • E10
    The Surrogate
    Aired · Sun, Dec 23, 1979 · 60m
  • E11
    Whose Little Hero Are You?
    Aired · Sun, Dec 30, 1979 · 60m
  • E12
    Boom
    Aired · Sun, Jan 6, 1980 · 60m
  • E13
    Have You Hugged Your Nurse Today?
    Aired · Sun, Jan 13, 1980 · 60m
  • E14
    Missionary's Downfall
    Aired · Sun, Jan 27, 1980 · 60m
  • E15
    Warning: I May Be Hazardous to Your Health
    Aired · Sun, Feb 3, 1980 · 60m
  • E16
    'Til Life Us Do Part
    Aired · Mon, Feb 11, 1980 · 60m

    Gonzo and Trapper take on the challenging job of trying somehow to lift a dying patient out of his depression.

  • E17
    If You Can't Stand the Heat
    Aired · Sun, Feb 17, 1980 · 60m

    Initially, Trapper is not worried when an old friend begins to act strangely. However, Gonzo becomes suspicious that something is wrong, especially when the doctor freezes during an emergency. In the meantime, San Francisco Memorial is overwhelmed with patients from a nearby hospital that was damaged by fire.

  • E18
    Strike
    Aired · Sun, Feb 24, 1980 · 60m
  • E19
    It's a Wise Surgeon
    Aired · Sun, Mar 2, 1980 · 60m
  • E20
    Short Odds
    Aired · Mon, Mar 10, 1980 · 60m

    It's love or, at least, passion, at first sight for Dr Gonzo Gates, the instant he sets eyes on a beautiful female surgeon, but the object of his affection clobbers him with a rebuff in the form of women's lib.

  • E21
    Quarantine
    Aired · Mon, Mar 24, 1980 · 60m

    A case of deadly pneumonic plague turns up at the hospital, creating havoc for Trapper, his ex-wife, and an entire wedding party.

  • E22
    Hot Line
    Aired · Sun, Mar 30, 1980 · 60m
Season 2
18 episodes · 18 aired
▾
  • E1
    Girl Under Glass (a.k.a.) The Sex Act (1)
    Aired · Mon, Nov 24, 1980 · 60m

    Belinda Montgomery guests as a beautiful patient with whom Gonzo has been in close attendance, and Robert Vaughn guests as Darby's overprotective father and the domineering publisher of a prestigious girlie magazine, in part one of a two-part episode.

  • E2
    Girl Under Glass (a.k.a.) The Sex Act (2)
    Aired · Mon, Dec 1, 1980 · 60m

    Conclusion. Gonzo's medical career is threatened when he's accused of sexual misconduct with a former patient.

  • E3
    Slim Chance
    Aired · Mon, Dec 8, 1980 · 60m

    While the staff readies for a charity baseball game, Gonzo (Gregory Harrison) is reunited with an old friend who has gone from fat to thin—and has become hooked on amphetamines in the process.

  • E4
    Call Me Irresponsible
    Aired · Mon, Dec 22, 1980 · 60m

    Riverside apparently administers a near-fatal tranquilizer to a woman who says she's his father's fiancee.

  • E5
    Creepy Time Gal
    Aired · Sun, Jan 4, 1981 · 60m

    An emergency patient comes in raving about a coven of witches plaguing her, Gonzo investigates.

  • E6
    Straight and Narrow
    Aired · Sun, Jan 11, 1981 · 60m
  • E7
    Earthquake
    Aired · Sun, Jan 18, 1981 · 60m
  • E8
    The Pagoda Cure
    Aired · Mon, Jan 26, 1981 · 60m

    Unknown and unseen, a mystery surgeon has been at work in San Francisco Memorial and the hospital staff is shocked and baffled by the secrecy and surgical skill involved. A Vietnamese woman receives unwanted surgery on a busy night at the hospital, but no one admits to having performed the life-saving operation.

  • E9
    Have I Got a Girl For You
    Aired · Mon, Feb 2, 1981 · 60m

    A student nurse has eyes for Gonzo (Gregory Harrison) but finds romance with Trapper (Pernell Roberts); and a woman obsessed with beauty must undergo surgery that could leave her face partially paralyzed.

  • E10
    Who's the Lucky Father?
    Aired · Sun, Feb 15, 1981 · 60m
  • E11
    A Family Affair
    Aired · Sun, Feb 22, 1981 · 60m
  • E12
    Finders Keepers
    Aired · Sun, Mar 8, 1981 · 60m
  • E13
    Days of Wine and Leo
    Aired · Mon, Mar 16, 1981 · 60m

    Rita Moreno and Harold Russell guest in a love story about a hardboiled ex-stripteaser and a handicapped doctor.

  • E14
    A Case of the Crazies
    Aired · Sun, Mar 29, 1981 · 60m
  • E15
    Second Sight
    Aired · Mon, Apr 6, 1981 · 60m

    Jackpot (Brian Mitchell) sacrifices studies for his medical exams to arrange for his blind girl friend to consult a specialist who could restore her vision.

  • E16
    King of the Road
    Aired · Mon, May 4, 1981 · 60m

    A traveling musician admitted to the hospital for tests turns out to be Gonzo's father, who abandoned him more than 20 years before.

  • E17
    The Albatross
    Aired · Sun, May 10, 1981 · 60m
  • E18
    Brain Child
    Aired · Sun, May 17, 1981 · 60m
Season 3
25 episodes · 25 aired
▾
  • E1
    That Old Gang of Mine
    Aired · Sun, Oct 4, 1981 · 60m
  • E2
    C.O.D.
    Aired · Sun, Oct 11, 1981 · 60m
  • E3
    Give 'Till It Hurts
    Aired · Sun, Oct 18, 1981 · 60m
  • E4
    Hate is Enough
    Aired · Sun, Oct 25, 1981 · 60m
  • E5
    The Ego Experience
    Aired · Mon, Nov 9, 1981 · 60m

    Andrew Ridley (Dick Gautier), the high priest of pop psychosociology, is coming apart, and Trapper and Gonzo draw the assignment of trying to put him back together. The trouble is that Gonzo may not be around for the operation. He has received a death threat, and so has Ridley, who could cash in his chips if the operation is successful or never takes place.

  • E6
    Cooperative Care
    Aired · Sun, Nov 15, 1981 · 60m
  • E7
    Is There a Doctor in the Big House?
    Aired · Sun, Nov 29, 1981 · 60m
  • E8
    Mother's Day (a.k.a.) Mother Dearest
    Aired · Mon, Dec 7, 1981 · 60m

    Two swindlers (Hermione Gingold, Eileen Heckart) choose gullible Riverside as their next target by posing as his former nanny and his long-lost mother,

  • E9
    'Tis the Season
    Aired · Mon, Dec 21, 1981 · 60m

    An alcoholic sidewalk Santa (Ray Walston) becomes a real St. Nick to an 11-year-old boy suffering from a chronic blood disease.

  • E10
    Future Imperfect
    Aired · Sun, Dec 27, 1981 · 60m
  • E11
    42
    Aired · Sun, Jan 3, 1982 · 60m
  • E12
    Victims
    Aired · Mon, Jan 11, 1982 · 60m

    A young man may lose his arm if Trapper and Gonzo can't calm a microvascular surgeon who accidentally shot his wife.

  • E13
    Angel of Mercy
    Aired · Sun, Jan 17, 1982 · 60m
  • E14
    Danny
    Aired · Sun, Jan 24, 1982 · 60m
  • E15
    Ladies in Waiting
    Aired · Sun, Jan 31, 1982 · 60m
  • E16
    The Peter Pan Syndrome
    Aired · Sun, Feb 7, 1982 · 60m
  • E17
    Medicine Man
    Aired · Sun, Feb 21, 1982 · 60m
  • E18
    Maybe Baby
    Aired · Sun, Mar 7, 1982 · 60m
  • E19
    Love and Marriage
    Aired · Sun, Mar 14, 1982 · 60m
  • E20
    Candy Doctor
    Aired · Sun, Mar 21, 1982 · 60m
  • E21
    Doctors and Other Strangers
    Aired · Sun, Mar 28, 1982 · 60m
  • E22
    A Piece of the Action
    Aired · Sun, Apr 11, 1982 · 60m
  • E23
    Cause for Concern
    Aired · Sun, Apr 18, 1982 · 60m
  • E24
    John's Other Life
    Aired · Mon, May 3, 1982 · 60m

    A patient (Rick Lohman) needs bone-marrow transplant but refuses to give the names of relatives; and Riverside (Charles Siebert) takes a stand when the garbage collectors strike.

  • E25
    The One and Only
    Aired · Sun, May 16, 1982 · 60m
Season 4
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Don't Rain on My Charade
    Aired · Sun, Sep 26, 1982 · 60m
  • E2
    Truth and Consequences (1)
    Aired · Sun, Oct 3, 1982 · 60m
  • E3
    Truth and Consequences (2)
    Aired · Sun, Oct 10, 1982 · 60m
  • E4
    Three on a Mismatch
    Aired · Sun, Oct 17, 1982 · 60m
  • E5
    The Object of My Affliction
    Aired · Sun, Oct 24, 1982 · 60m
  • E6
    You Pays Your Money
    Aired · Sun, Oct 31, 1982 · 60m
  • E7
    The Ransom
    Aired · Sun, Nov 7, 1982 · 60m
  • E8
    Thanks for Giving
    Aired · Sun, Nov 21, 1982 · 60m
  • E9
    The Good Life
    Aired · Sun, Nov 28, 1982 · 60m
  • E10
    Getting to Know You
    Aired · Mon, Dec 13, 1982 · 60m

    Gonzo (Gregory Harrison) plays host to a prospective staff member, a neurosurgeon whose work takes precedence over his wife—who takes an interest in Gonzo.

  • E11
    Russians and Ruses
    Aired · Sun, Dec 19, 1982 · 60m
  • E12
    Life, Death and Vinnie Duncan
    Aired · Sun, Jan 2, 1983 · 60m
  • E13
    Baby on the Line
    Aired · Sun, Jan 9, 1983 · 60m
  • E14
    It Only Hurts When I Love
    Aired · Sun, Jan 16, 1983 · 60m
  • E15
    Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow
    Aired · Sun, Jan 23, 1983 · 60m
  • E16
    Forget Me Not
    Aired · Sun, Jan 30, 1983 · 60m
  • E17
    The Spy Who Bugged Me
    Aired · Sun, Feb 13, 1983 · 60m
  • E18
    Pasts Imperfect (a.k.a.) Past Imperfect
    Aired · Mon, Feb 21, 1983 · 60m

    Newlywed Dr. Riverside fends off the passionate advances of an unfamiliar young woman (Kim Darby) claiming to be one of his old girlfriends.

  • E19
    Blue Genes
    Aired · Sun, Mar 13, 1983 · 60m
  • E20
    Primetime
    Aired · Sun, Mar 20, 1983 · 60m
  • E21
    Friends in High Places
    Aired · Sun, Mar 27, 1983 · 60m
  • E22
    South Side Story
    Aired · Sun, Apr 3, 1983 · 60m
Season 5
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    I Only Have Ice for You
    Aired · Mon, Oct 3, 1983 · 60m

    (Season Premiere) Trapper advises Dani, a professional ice skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson), with a critical heart ailment to curtail her career.

  • E2
    ... And for Loyal and Devoted Service
    Aired · Sun, Oct 9, 1983 · 60m
  • E3
    All About Everett
    Aired · Sun, Oct 16, 1983 · 60m
  • E4
    May Divorce Be With You
    Aired · Sun, Oct 23, 1983 · 60m
  • E5
    What a Difference a Day Makes
    Aired · Sun, Oct 30, 1983 · 60m
  • E6
    The Final Cut
    Aired · Sun, Nov 6, 1983 · 60m
  • E7
    Old Man Liver
    Aired · Mon, Nov 14, 1983 · 60m

    A beautiful doctor (Lori Hallier) takes a keen interest in two specimens—a 119-year-old patient (Whitman Mayo) and Gonzo (Gregory Harrison), whose delight turns to dismay when he learns the nature of her attraction to him.

  • E8
    The Agony of D'Feet
    Aired · Sun, Nov 20, 1983 · 60m
  • E9
    Mother Load (a.k.a.) If it Ain't Broke
    Aired · Sun, Nov 27, 1983 · 60m
  • E10
    Fat Chance
    Aired · Sun, Dec 4, 1983 · 60m
  • E11
    Supernurse
    Aired · Mon, Dec 12, 1983 · 60m

    Gloria (Christopher Norris) clashes with the new cardiac surgery chief (Elaine Stritch) and her old-fashioned ideas about nurses' duties.

  • E12
    Special Delivery
    Aired · Sun, Jan 1, 1984 · 60m
  • E13
    Play Your Hunch
    Aired · Mon, Jan 9, 1984 · 60m

    A team of parapsychologists sets up an ESP lab at the hospital, and Shoop (Madge Sinclair) begins having disturbing visions--including one about an old friend of Trapper's.

  • E14
    A Little Knife Music
    Aired · Sun, Jan 15, 1984 · 60m
  • E15
    Where There's a Will
    Aired · Sun, Jan 29, 1984 · 60m
  • E16
    Send in the Clowns
    Aired · Sun, Feb 12, 1984 · 60m
  • E17
    This Gland is Your Gland
    Aired · Sun, Mar 4, 1984 · 60m
  • E18
    The Fred Connection
    Aired · Sun, Mar 11, 1984 · 60m
  • E19
    The Jackpot Pays Off
    Aired · Sun, Mar 18, 1984 · 60m
  • E20
    I Do, I Don't
    Aired · Sun, Mar 25, 1984 · 60m
  • E21
    It's About Time
    Aired · Sun, Apr 1, 1984 · 60m
  • E22
    Aunt Mildred is Watching You
    Aired · Sun, May 6, 1984 · 60m
Season 6
23 episodes · 23 aired
▾
  • E1
    A Change of Heart
    Aired · Mon, Oct 1, 1984 · 60m

    Trapper and Gonzo are nose to nose and eyeball to eyeball over the matter of the heart of a hospitalized professional hockey player, in the sixth-season premiere of "Trapper John, M.D."

  • E2
    My Son, the Doctor
    Aired · Sun, Oct 14, 1984 · 60m
  • E3
    Moonlighting Becomes You
    Aired · Sun, Oct 21, 1984 · 60m
  • E4
    Eternally Yours
    Aired · Sun, Oct 28, 1984 · 60m
  • E5
    School Nurse
    Aired · Sun, Nov 4, 1984 · 60m
  • E6
    Of Cats, Crushes and Creeps
    Aired · Sun, Nov 18, 1984 · 60m
  • E7
    A Fall to Grace
    Aired · Sun, Nov 25, 1984 · 60m
  • E8
    Promises, Promises
    Aired · Sun, Dec 9, 1984 · 60m
  • E9
    Dark Side of the Loon
    Aired · Sun, Dec 16, 1984 · 60m
  • E10
    Double Bubble
    Aired · Sun, Dec 30, 1984 · 60m

    A 6-year-old orphan confined to a sterile plastic bubble desperately needs a bone-marrow transplant.

  • E11
    Long Ago and Far Away
    Aired · Sun, Jan 6, 1985 · 60m
  • E12
    Muddle of the Night
    Aired · Sun, Jan 13, 1985 · 60m
  • E13
    Buckaroo Bob Rides Again
    Aired · Sun, Jan 20, 1985 · 60m
  • E14
    Love Thy Neighbor
    Aired · Sun, Feb 3, 1985 · 60m
  • E15
    So Little, Gone
    Aired · Mon, Feb 18, 1985 · 60m

    An aging flower child (Ronee Blakley) delivers a stillborn baby; the Riversides' son is kidnapped from his stroller.

  • E16
    Bad Breaks
    Aired · Sun, Feb 24, 1985 · 60m
  • E17
    High Time
    Aired · Mon, Mar 4, 1985 · 60m

    Gloria (Christopher Norris) is shocked to learn that drugs figure into her difficulties with Andrea (Tanya Fenmore). Meanwhile, J.T. (Timothy Busfield) brings in a bag lady (Geraldine Fitzgerald) who smuggles out a load of hospital property.

  • E18
    The Unholy Ghost
    Aired · Mon, Mar 11, 1985 · 60m

    A doctor preparing to use an experimental procedure on a cancer patient dies in the operating room. Meanwhile, J.T. (Timothy Busfield) is having ghostly visions.

  • E19
    A False Start
    Aired · Sun, Mar 17, 1985 · 60m
  • E20
    In the Eyes of the Beholder
    Aired · Sun, Mar 24, 1985 · 60m
  • E21
    All the King's Men (a.k.a.) All the King's Horses ...
    Aired · Sun, Mar 31, 1985 · 60m
  • E22
    Go for Broker
    Aired · Mon, Apr 22, 1985 · 60m

    A mousy scientist wants his Filipino fiancée, whom he met through a marriage broker, to remain in the U.S. for treatment of a parasitic infection she thinks voids their nuptial plans. Trapper and Gonzo are confronted by two — or is she really one? — women, both rather cool, classy, and sensuous. And both are wives of patients about to undergo surgery.

  • E23
    All of Me
    Aired · Sun, May 5, 1985 · 60m
Season 7
19 episodes · 19 aired
▾
  • E1
    Game of Hearts (1)
    Aired · Mon, Oct 7, 1985 · 60m

    Seventh season starts picking up scalpels again for a new round of aches, pains, romances, jealousies and assorted other problems that flood the corridors of San Francisco Memorial. In the first of a two-part episode, T.J. tackles his first artificial heart transplant. And who's that lying flat on his back awaiting the surgery? Good ol' Hoyt Axton, in a guest role. A cardiac patient who cannot risk the wait for a human heart tries his only chance, an artificial pump. As Trapper John (Pernell Roberts) prepares for his first artificial heart transplant, Gonzo (Gregory Harrison) helps him out with a personal matter, playing host to his pushy Aunt Mo (Pat Carroll). In the process he meets a beautiful doctor, Fran Brennan (Andrea Marcovicci). On part one of the season premiere of Trapper John, M.D.

  • E2
    Game of Hearts (2)
    Aired · Mon, Oct 14, 1985 · 60m

    Trapper keeps watch on the artificial-heart recipient, while Gonzo tries to convince Fran that his love for her doesn't come from pity. Trapper's artificial heart recipient (Hoyt Axton) suffers from complications; Dr. Brennan learns she has multiple sclerosis and rejects Gonzo's support.

  • E3
    Hot Shot
    Aired · Mon, Oct 21, 1985 · 60m

    Administrator Hackett (Janis Paige) refuses to hire a flashy medevac doctor. TJ. and Gonzo can't understand her reluctance until one day a secret from the man's past is revealed. The seat-of-the-pants operator of a helicopter medical-evacuation service lands with a patient in the hospital parking lot.

  • E4
    Just Around the Corner
    Aired · Sun, Oct 27, 1985 · 60m
  • E5
    Friends and Lovers
    Aired · Mon, Nov 4, 1985 · 60m

    Libby (Lorna Luft) is devastated to learn that an old flame is gay and an AIDS victim.

  • E6
    The Wunderkind
    Aired · Sun, Nov 10, 1985 · 60m
  • E7
    A Wheel in a Wheel
    Aired · Sun, Dec 1, 1985 · 60m
  • E8
    The Second Best Man
    Aired · Sun, Dec 15, 1985 · 60m
  • E9
    Billboard Barney
    Aired · Sun, Dec 29, 1985 · 60m
  • E10
    Going, Going, Gonzo
    Aired · Sun, Jan 5, 1986 · 60m
  • E11
    Heart and Seoul
    Aired · Wed, Jan 29, 1986 · 60m

    North Korea prevents a kidney donor from traveling to the U.S., which means Trapper (Pernell Roberts) must go to Seoul, where he encounters his wartime flame.

  • E12
    Life, Death and Dr. Christmas
    Aired · Tue, Feb 18, 1986 · 60m
  • E13
    Judgment Day
    Aired · Tue, Mar 4, 1986 · 60m
  • E14
    Fall of the Wild
    Aired · Tue, Mar 11, 1986 · 60m
  • E15
    The Curmudgeon
    Aired · Tue, Mar 18, 1986 · 60m
  • E16
    Self-Diagnosis
    Aired · Thu, Aug 14, 1986 · 60m
  • E17
    Research and Destroy
    Aired · Thu, Aug 21, 1986 · 60m
  • E18
    Strange Bedfellows
    Aired · Thu, Aug 28, 1986 · 60m
  • E19
    The Elusive Butterfly
    Aired · Thu, Sep 4, 1986 · 60m