Episode
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Most Fatal Disease
Overview
Kid Cole and Sister Ruth (Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash) visit Dr. Mike at a difficult time in their marriage.
Details
- Series
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1997-02-01
Episode context
The Most Fatal Disease is Episode 16 in Season 5 of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. It aired on 1997-02-01.
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Episode 15: Farewell Appearance
Dr. Mike's Uncle Theodore, a concert pianist, sees in Brian not only a talented musician, but his own dead son.
Episode 17: Colleen's Paper
When Colleen, who is working on a college paper, asks Dr. Mike to recall her most memorable case, Dr. Mike looks back on the five turbulent years she's lived and loved in Colorado Springs. As they sit with Andrew, who is mysteriously ill at the clinic, Dr. Mike reminisces about her tumultuous career -- its successes and its failures -- and realizes how many divergent cases she has seen and treated.
When Andrew's condition takes a turn for the worse, Dr. Mike warns Colleen about the fine line between emotional involvement and professional detachment, an issue with which she has long struggled in the frontier town that's now her home.
More episodes from this season
Episode 14: The Dam
In a case of mistaken motivation, a judge sends Sully to prison after he is spotted with criminals bent on stopping the construction of a dam.
Episode 18: A House Divided (1)
An old friend of Sully's visits, wanting to financially help the family. Although he falls in love with Michaela.
Episode 13: Season of Miracles
As Christmas approaches, Brian questions his faith when he learns that Dr. Mike cannot save the sight of the Reverend.
Episode 19: A House Divided (2)
While Sully is away for a few days to procure some money, Preston arrives threatening to repossess the homestead for nonpayment of the load. Daniel rejects Dr. Mike's objections and pays off the entire loan. Upon hearing how Daniel interfered in his business, the proud Sully becomes furious.
Episode 12: A Place to Die
When three people die after coming in contact with something in the clinic, and one is deathly sick, Dr. Mike, Sully, Colleen, and Andrew but their heads together to find out what it was. They figure out that it was something in the clinic and now it is everywhere. In her case, on the instruments, the sheet. The only solution is to burn everything. When that is done, some are genorous enough to give Dr. Mike some of there things, but they are scared to come in. When Sully must get stitches, and lives after being treated by Dr. Mike, she begins the road to being reaccepted by Colorado Springs.
Episode 20: Hostage
Sully, depite being wounded by two bank robbers, works to free his wife, Brian and Katie when they are taken hostage by the desperate men.
Episode 11: Separate But Equal
Grace and Robert E. encounter fierce opposition when they attempt to enroll their son in the town's all-white school.
Episode 21: The Body Electric
Brian takes a liking to visiting writer Walt Whitman, even when the townspeople shun Whitman over rumors of his alternative lifestyle.
Episode 10: The Tempest
A severe storm bears down on Colorado Springs, disrupting the arrival of Preston Lodge II and Dr. Mike's attempts to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner.
Episode 22: Before The Dawn
Sully arranges an escape for Cloud Dancing, leading him and the Indian to become wanted men.