Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: September 23, 1979
Seasons: 7
Episodes: 151
Networks: CBS
Genres: Drama

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Trapper John, M.D.(1979)

TMDB Rating: 6.5 (20 votes)

Overview

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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Season 1

22 episodes • 1979Avg: 5.5Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Trapper John, M.D.	Sep 23, 1979	5.5
2	Flashback	Sep 30, 1979	0.0
3	Deadly Exposure	Oct 7, 1979	0.0
4	Love is a Three-Way Street	Oct 21, 1979	0.0
5	The Shattered Image	Oct 28, 1979	0.0
6	What Are Friends For?	Nov 11, 1979	0.0
7	One For My Baby	Nov 18, 1979	0.0
8	Taxi in the Rain	Dec 2, 1979	0.0
9	Licensed to Kill	Dec 9, 1979	0.0
10	The Surrogate	Dec 23, 1979	0.0
11	Whose Little Hero Are You?	Dec 30, 1979	0.0
12	Boom	Jan 6, 1980	0.0
13	Have You Hugged Your Nurse Today?	Jan 13, 1980	0.0
14	Missionary's Downfall	Jan 27, 1980	0.0
15	Warning: I May Be Hazardous to Your Health	Feb 3, 1980	0.0
16	'Till Life Us Do Part	Feb 10, 1980	0.0
17	If You Can't Stand the Heat	Feb 17, 1980	0.0
18	Strike	Feb 24, 1980	0.0
19	It's a Wise Surgeon	Mar 2, 1980	0.0
20	Short Odds	Mar 9, 1980	0.0
21	Quarantine	Mar 23, 1980	0.0
22	Hot Line	Mar 30, 1980	0.0

Season 2

18 episodes • 1980

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Girl Under Glass (a.k.a.) The Sex Act (1)	Nov 23, 1980
2	Girl Under Glass (a.k.a.) The Sex Act (2)	Nov 30, 1980
3	Slim Chance	Dec 7, 1980
4	Call Me Irresponsible	Dec 21, 1980
5	Creepy Time Gal	Jan 4, 1981
6	Straight and Narrow	Jan 11, 1981
7	Earthquake	Jan 18, 1981
8	The Pagoda Cure	Jan 25, 1981
9	Have I Got a Girl For You	Feb 1, 1981
10	Who's the Lucky Father?	Feb 15, 1981
11	A Family Affair	Feb 22, 1981
12	Finders Keepers	Mar 8, 1981
13	Days of Wine and Leo	Mar 15, 1981
14	A Case of the Crazies	Mar 29, 1981
15	Second Sight	Apr 5, 1981
16	King of the Road	May 3, 1981
17	The Albatross	May 10, 1981
18	Brain Child	May 17, 1981

Season 3

25 episodes • 1981

#	Episode	Air Date
1	That Old Gang of Mine	Oct 4, 1981
2	C.O.D.	Oct 11, 1981
3	Give 'Till It Hurts	Oct 18, 1981
4	Hate is Enough	Oct 25, 1981
5	The Ego Experience	Nov 8, 1981
6	Cooperative Care	Nov 15, 1981
7	Is There a Doctor in the Big House?	Nov 29, 1981
8	Mother's Day (a.k.a.) Mother Dearest	Dec 6, 1981
9	'Tis the Season	Dec 20, 1981
10	Future Imperfect	Dec 27, 1981
11	42	Jan 3, 1982
12	Victims	Jan 10, 1982
13	Angel of Mercy	Jan 17, 1982
14	Danny	Jan 24, 1982
15	Ladies in Waiting	Jan 31, 1982
16	The Peter Pan Syndrome	Feb 7, 1982
17	Medicine Man	Feb 21, 1982
18	Maybe Baby	Mar 7, 1982
19	Love and Marriage	Mar 14, 1982
20	Candy Doctor	Mar 21, 1982
21	Doctors and Other Strangers	Mar 28, 1982
22	A Piece of the Action	Apr 11, 1982
23	Cause for Concern	Apr 18, 1982
24	John's Other Life	May 2, 1982
25	The One and Only	May 16, 1982

Season 4

22 episodes • 1982

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Don't Rain on My Charade	Sep 26, 1982
2	Truth and Consequences (1)	Oct 3, 1982
3	Truth and Consequences (2)	Oct 10, 1982
4	Three on a Mismatch	Oct 17, 1982
5	The Object of My Affliction	Oct 24, 1982
6	You Pays Your Money	Oct 31, 1982
7	The Ransom	Nov 7, 1982
8	Thanks for Giving	Nov 21, 1982
9	The Good Life	Nov 28, 1982
10	Getting to Know You	Dec 12, 1982
11	Russians and Ruses	Dec 19, 1982
12	Life, Death and Vinnie Duncan	Jan 2, 1983
13	Baby on the Line	Jan 9, 1983
14	It Only Hurts When I Love	Jan 16, 1983
15	Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow	Jan 23, 1983
16	Forget Me Not	Jan 30, 1983
17	The Spy Who Bugged Me	Feb 13, 1983
18	Pasts Imperfect (a.k.a.) Past Imperfect	Feb 20, 1983
19	Blue Genes	Mar 13, 1983
20	Primetime	Mar 20, 1983
21	Friends in High Places	Mar 27, 1983
22	South Side Story	Apr 3, 1983

Season 5

22 episodes • 1983

#	Episode	Air Date
1	I Only Have Ice for You	Oct 2, 1983
2	... And for Loyal and Devoted Service	Oct 9, 1983
3	All About Everett	Oct 16, 1983
4	May Divorce Be With You	Oct 23, 1983
5	What a Difference a Day Makes	Oct 30, 1983
6	The Final Cut	Nov 6, 1983
7	Old Man Liver	Nov 13, 1983
8	The Agony of D'Feet	Nov 20, 1983
9	Mother Load (a.k.a.) If it Ain't Broke	Nov 27, 1983
10	Fat Chance	Dec 4, 1983
11	Supernurse	Dec 11, 1983
12	Special Delivery	Jan 1, 1984
13	Play Your Hunch	Jan 8, 1984
14	A Little Knife Music	Jan 15, 1984
15	Where There's a Will	Jan 29, 1984
16	Send in the Clowns	Feb 12, 1984
17	This Gland is Your Gland	Mar 4, 1984
18	The Fred Connection	Mar 11, 1984
19	The Jackpot Pays Off	Mar 18, 1984
20	I Do, I Don't	Mar 25, 1984
21	It's About Time	Apr 1, 1984
22	Aunt Mildred is Watching You	May 6, 1984

Season 6

23 episodes • 1984

#	Episode	Air Date
1	A Change of Heart	Sep 30, 1984
2	My Son, the Doctor	Oct 14, 1984
3	Moonlighting Becomes You	Oct 21, 1984
4	Eternally Yours	Oct 28, 1984
5	School Nurse	Nov 4, 1984
6	Of Cats, Crushes and Creeps	Nov 18, 1984
7	A Fall to Grace	Nov 25, 1984
8	Promises, Promises	Dec 9, 1984
9	Dark Side of the Loon	Dec 16, 1984
10	Double Bubble	Dec 30, 1984
11	Long Ago and Far Away	Jan 6, 1985
12	Muddle of the Night	Jan 13, 1985
13	Buckaroo Bob Rides Again	Jan 20, 1985
14	Love Thy Neighbor	Feb 3, 1985
15	So Little, Gone	Feb 17, 1985
16	Bad Breaks	Feb 24, 1985
17	High Time	Mar 3, 1985
18	The Unholy Ghost	Mar 10, 1985
19	A False Start	Mar 17, 1985
20	In the Eyes of the Beholder	Mar 24, 1985
21	All the King's Men (a.k.a.) All the King's Horses ...	Mar 31, 1985
22	Go for Broker	Apr 21, 1985
23	All of Me	May 5, 1985

Season 7

19 episodes • 1985

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Game of Hearts (1)	Oct 6, 1985
2	Game of Hearts (2)	Oct 13, 1985
3	Hot Shot	Oct 20, 1985
4	Just Around the Corner	Oct 27, 1985
5	Friends and Lovers	Nov 3, 1985
6	The Wonderkind	Nov 10, 1985
7	A Wheel Within a Wheel	Dec 1, 1985
8	The Second Best Man	Dec 15, 1985
9	Billboard Barney	Dec 29, 1985
10	Going, Going, Gonzo	Jan 5, 1986
11	Heart and Seoul	Jan 28, 1986
12	Life, Death and Dr. Christmas	Feb 18, 1986
13	Judgment Day	Mar 4, 1986
14	Fall of the Wild	Mar 11, 1986
15	The Curmudgeon	Mar 18, 1986
16	Self-Diagnosis	Aug 14, 1986
17	Research and Destroy	Aug 21, 1986
18	Strange Bedfellows	Aug 28, 1986
19	The Elusive Butterfly	Sep 4, 1986

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