Trapper John, M.D.
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CBS Ended Drama • Medical
7 Seasons · 151 Episodes · Premiered September 23, 1979 · Ended September 4, 1986
Trapper John, M.D. focuses on Dr. "Trapper" John McIntyre 28 years after his discharge from the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) in the Korean War. During that time after the war, the character had mellowed considerably. He did not just learn how to stop fighting the system but became a part of it, in a sense, as the Chief of Surgery at San Francisco Memorial Hospital. Trapper showed tremendous compassion toward his patients, often violating "established hospital procedures." Working with Trapper was an aspiring young professional named Dr. George Alonzo "Gonzo" Gates. Gates had a lot in common with Trapper, as he too had served in a MASH (albeit during the later Vietnam War). His sense of humor and love of life also reflected elements of Trapper's younger days. In the show, Gonzo resided in a motor home (dubbed "The Titanic") in the hospital parking lot.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
22 episodes
E01
Trapper John, M.D.
Mon, Sep 24 1979 1:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Trapper John must face an influx of casualties from a hotel fire—and a headlong, would-be staffer named GonzoÂ
E02
Flashback
Sun, Sep 30 1979 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
 A hospital orderly shoots a patient during a flashback to a combat situation In Vietnam.
E03
Deadly Exposure
Sun, Oct 7 1979 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Love is a Three-Way Street
Sun, Oct 21 1979 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
The Shattered Image
Mon, Oct 29 1979 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Trapper tries to diagnose the illness of a seemingly gregarious, self-confident, outspoken socialite (Celeste Holm).
E06
What Are Friends For?
Sun, Nov 11 1979 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
One For My Baby
Sun, Nov 18 1979 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Taxi in the Rain
Sun, Dec 2 1979 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Licensed to Kill
Sun, Dec 9 1979 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
The Surrogate
Sun, Dec 23 1979 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Whose Little Hero Are You?
Sun, Dec 30 1979 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Boom
Sun, Jan 6 1980 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
Have You Hugged Your Nurse Today?
Sun, Jan 13 1980 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
Missionary's Downfall
Sun, Jan 27 1980 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
Warning: I May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Sun, Feb 3 1980 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
'Til Life Us Do Part
Mon, Feb 11 1980 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Gonzo and Trapper take on the challenging job of trying somehow to lift a dying patient out of his depression.Â
E17
If You Can't Stand the Heat
Sun, Feb 17 1980 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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
Sun, Feb 24 1980 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E19
It's a Wise Surgeon
Sun, Mar 2 1980 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E20
Short Odds
Mon, Mar 10 1980 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.Â
E21
Quarantine
Mon, Mar 24 1980 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
A case of deadly pneumonic plague turns up at the hospital, creating havoc for Trapper, his ex-wife, and an entire wedding party.Â
E22
Hot Line
Sun, Mar 30 1980 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 2
18 episodes
E01
Girl Under Glass (a.k.a.) The Sex Act (1)
Mon, Nov 24 1980 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E02
Girl Under Glass (a.k.a.) The Sex Act (2)
Mon, Dec 1 1980 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Conclusion. Gonzo's medical career is threatened when he's accused of sexual misconduct with a former patient.
E03
Slim Chance
Mon, Dec 8 1980 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.Â
E04
Call Me Irresponsible
Mon, Dec 22 1980 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Riverside apparently administers a near-fatal tranquilizer to a woman who says she's his father's fiancee.
E05
Creepy Time Gal
Sun, Jan 4 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
An emergency patient comes in raving about a coven of witches plaguing her, Gonzo investigates.
E06
Straight and Narrow
Sun, Jan 11 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Earthquake
Sun, Jan 18 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
The Pagoda Cure
Mon, Jan 26 1981 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E09
Have I Got a Girl For You
Mon, Feb 2 1981 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.Â
E10
Who's the Lucky Father?
Sun, Feb 15 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
A Family Affair
Sun, Feb 22 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Finders Keepers
Sun, Mar 8 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
Days of Wine and Leo
Mon, Mar 16 1981 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Rita Moreno and Harold Russell guest in a love story about a hardboiled ex-stripteaser and a handicapped doctor.Â
E14
A Case of the Crazies
Sun, Mar 29 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
Second Sight
Mon, Apr 6 1981 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.Â
E16
King of the Road
Mon, May 4 1981 12:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
A traveling musician admitted to the hospital for tests turns out to be Gonzo's father, who abandoned him more than 20 years before.Â
E17
The Albatross
Sun, May 10 1981 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
Brain Child
Sun, May 17 1981 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 3
25 episodes
E01
That Old Gang of Mine
Sun, Oct 4 1981 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
C.O.D.
Sun, Oct 11 1981 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Give 'Till It Hurts
Sun, Oct 18 1981 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Hate is Enough
Sun, Oct 25 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
The Ego Experience
Mon, Nov 9 1981 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E06
Cooperative Care
Sun, Nov 15 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Is There a Doctor in the Big House?
Sun, Nov 29 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Mother's Day (a.k.a.) Mother Dearest
Mon, Dec 7 1981 2:30 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Two swindlers (Hermione Gingold, Eileen Heckart) choose gullible Riverside as their next target by posing as his former nanny and his long-lost mother,
E09
'Tis the Season
Mon, Dec 21 1981 1:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
Sun, Dec 27 1981 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
42
Sun, Jan 3 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Victims
Mon, Jan 11 1982 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
A young man may lose his arm if Trapper and Gonzo can't calm a microvascular surgeon who accidentally shot his wife.Â
E13
Angel of Mercy
Sun, Jan 17 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
Danny
Sun, Jan 24 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
Ladies in Waiting
Sun, Jan 31 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
The Peter Pan Syndrome
Sun, Feb 7 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
Medicine Man
Sun, Feb 21 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
Maybe Baby
Sun, Mar 7 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E19
Love and Marriage
Sun, Mar 14 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E20
Candy Doctor
Sun, Mar 21 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E21
Doctors and Other Strangers
Sun, Mar 28 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E22
A Piece of the Action
Sun, Apr 11 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E23
Cause for Concern
Sun, Apr 18 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E24
John's Other Life
Mon, May 3 1982 1:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
Sun, May 16 1982 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 4
22 episodes
E01
Don't Rain on My Charade
Sun, Sep 26 1982 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Truth and Consequences (1)
Sun, Oct 3 1982 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Truth and Consequences (2)
Sun, Oct 10 1982 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Three on a Mismatch
Sun, Oct 17 1982 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
The Object of My Affliction
Sun, Oct 24 1982 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
You Pays Your Money
Sun, Oct 31 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
The Ransom
Sun, Nov 7 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Thanks for Giving
Sun, Nov 21 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
The Good Life
Sun, Nov 28 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Getting to Know You
Mon, Dec 13 1982 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
Sun, Dec 19 1982 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Life, Death and Vinnie Duncan
Sun, Jan 2 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
Baby on the Line
Sun, Jan 9 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
It Only Hurts When I Love
Sun, Jan 16 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow
Sun, Jan 23 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
Forget Me Not
Sun, Jan 30 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
The Spy Who Bugged Me
Sun, Feb 13 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
Pasts Imperfect (a.k.a.) Past Imperfect
Mon, Feb 21 1983 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Newlywed Dr. Riverside fends off the passionate advances of an unfamiliar young woman (Kim Darby) claiming to be one of his old girlfriends.Â
E19
Blue Genes
Sun, Mar 13 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E20
Primetime
Sun, Mar 20 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E21
Friends in High Places
Sun, Mar 27 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E22
South Side Story
Sun, Apr 3 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 5
22 episodes
E01
I Only Have Ice for You
Mon, Oct 3 1983 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
(Season Premiere) Trapper advises Dani, a professional ice skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson), with a critical heart ailment to curtail her career.
E02
... And for Loyal and Devoted Service
Sun, Oct 9 1983 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
All About Everett
Sun, Oct 16 1983 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
May Divorce Be With You
Sun, Oct 23 1983 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
What a Difference a Day Makes
Sun, Oct 30 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
The Final Cut
Sun, Nov 6 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Old Man Liver
Mon, Nov 14 1983 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E08
The Agony of D'Feet
Sun, Nov 20 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Mother Load (a.k.a.) If it Ain't Broke
Sun, Nov 27 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Fat Chance
Sun, Dec 4 1983 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Supernurse
Mon, Dec 12 1983 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Gloria (Christopher Norris) clashes with the new cardiac surgery chief (Elaine Stritch) and her old-fashioned ideas about nurses' duties.
E12
Special Delivery
Sun, Jan 1 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
Play Your Hunch
Mon, Jan 9 1984 2:30 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
Sun, Jan 15 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
Where There's a Will
Sun, Jan 29 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
Send in the Clowns
Sun, Feb 12 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
This Gland is Your Gland
Sun, Mar 4 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
The Fred Connection
Sun, Mar 11 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E19
The Jackpot Pays Off
Sun, Mar 18 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E20
I Do, I Don't
Sun, Mar 25 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E21
It's About Time
Sun, Apr 1 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E22
Aunt Mildred is Watching You
Sun, May 6 1984 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 6
23 episodes
E01
A Change of Heart
Mon, Oct 1 1984 1:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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."Â
E02
My Son, the Doctor
Sun, Oct 14 1984 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Moonlighting Becomes You
Sun, Oct 21 1984 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Eternally Yours
Sun, Oct 28 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
School Nurse
Sun, Nov 4 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Of Cats, Crushes and Creeps
Sun, Nov 18 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
A Fall to Grace
Sun, Nov 25 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Promises, Promises
Sun, Dec 9 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Dark Side of the Loon
Sun, Dec 16 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Double Bubble
Sun, Dec 30 1984 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
A 6-year-old orphan confined to a sterile plastic bubble desperately needs a bone-marrow transplant.
E11
Long Ago and Far Away
Sun, Jan 6 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Muddle of the Night
Sun, Jan 13 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
Buckaroo Bob Rides Again
Sun, Jan 20 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
Love Thy Neighbor
Sun, Feb 3 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
So Little, Gone
Mon, Feb 18 1985 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
An aging flower child (Ronee Blakley) delivers a stillborn baby; the Riversides' son is kidnapped from his stroller.
E16
Bad Breaks
Sun, Feb 24 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
High Time
Mon, Mar 4 1985 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
Mon, Mar 11 1985 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
Sun, Mar 17 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E20
In the Eyes of the Beholder
Sun, Mar 24 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E21
All the King's Men (a.k.a.) All the King's Horses ...
Sun, Mar 31 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E22
Go for Broker
Mon, Apr 22 1985 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
Sun, May 5 1985 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 7
19 episodes
E01
Game of Hearts (1)
Mon, Oct 7 1985 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E02
Game of Hearts (2)
Mon, Oct 14 1985 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E03
Hot Shot
Mon, Oct 21 1985 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E04
Just Around the Corner
Sun, Oct 27 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Friends and Lovers
Mon, Nov 4 1985 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Libby (Lorna Luft) is devastated to learn that an old flame is gay and an AIDS victim.
E06
The Wunderkind
Sun, Nov 10 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
A Wheel in a Wheel
Sun, Dec 1 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
The Second Best Man
Sun, Dec 15 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Billboard Barney
Sun, Dec 29 1985 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Going, Going, Gonzo
Sun, Jan 5 1986 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Heart and Seoul
Wed, Jan 29 1986 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
Tue, Feb 18 1986 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
Judgment Day
Tue, Mar 4 1986 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
Fall of the Wild
Tue, Mar 11 1986 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
The Curmudgeon
Tue, Mar 18 1986 5:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
Self-Diagnosis
Thu, Aug 14 1986 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
Research and Destroy
Thu, Aug 21 1986 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
Strange Bedfellows
Thu, Aug 28 1986 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E19
The Elusive Butterfly
Thu, Sep 4 1986 4:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Pernell Roberts
as John Francis Xavier McIntyre
Gregory Harrison
as Dr. George Alonzo 'Gonzo' Gates
Charles Siebert
as Dr. Stanley Riverside II
Christopher Norris
as Nurse Gloria 'Ripples' Brancusi
Madge Sinclair
as Nurse Ernestine Shoop
Brian Stokes Mitchell
as Dr. Justin 'Jackpot' Jackson
Simon Scott
as Arnold Slocum
Lorna Luft
as Nurse Libby Kegler
Timothy Busfield
as Dr. John 'J.T.' McIntyre
