Trapper John, M.D.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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." 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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.

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