DOOGIE HOWSER, M.D.

SERIES DESCRIPTION:

A brilliant teenage doctor must still navigate the murky waters of adolescence.

Cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Max Casella, Belinda Montgomery, Lawrence Pressman, Mitchell Anderson, Kathryn Layng, James B. Sikking

Season 1

EVERY DOG HAS HIS DOOGIE - TB1113 - Angry and frustrated over Eastman’s refusal to admit sick homeless people, Doogie decides to operate on an injured dog in the hospital because its owner, a little boy, cannot afford a veterinarian.

GREED IS GOOD - TB1114 - Doogie competes in a TV game show for geniuses with prizes worth $100,000, and his friends and family begin dividing up his prizes before the contest is even over.

I NEVER SOLD SHOWERHEADS FOR MY FATHER - TB1117 - Carmine Delpino pressures his son Vinnie to take over the family business when he discovers he may not have long to live.

Season 2

ACADEMIA NUTS - TB1203 - Doogie is faced with having to create a fictional illness for a rich hypochondriac who makes large contributions to the hospital when she is cured of her ills. Vinnie decides to drop out of high school.

WOMAN TOO FAR, A - TB1206 - Doogie is attracted to Lisa, a nursing student at the hospital, and asks her out on a date without telling Wanda. A patient who checks into the hospital has two wives, each unknown to the other.

REVENGE OF THE TEENAGE DEAD - TB1209 - Vinnie is making a ‘slasher’ film and Doogie is given the responsibility of deciding if a 13-year-old genius is a suitable candidate for medical school.

TV OR NOT TV - TB1212 - Vinnie is looking for someone to write a recommendation letter for his application to N.Y.U. Film School. Coincidentally, the head of ABC-TV programming has just been admitted to the hospital.

LIFE IN PROGRESS, A - TB1216 - The hospital’s board of directors is very pleased with the mural project it has instituted at the medical center for children patients—until it is discovered that the artist has AIDS.

MY TWO DADS - TB1218 - Vinnie manages to convince Doogie and Dr. Howser to take him along on their annual father-son vacation.

FATAL DISTRACTION - TB1219 - Dealing with the loss of her mother, Wanda no longer has time to go out with Doogie. So he asks a student nurse to attend the hospital’s Monte Carlo Night with him.

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION - TB1220 - Mrs. Howser’s parents, Don and Irene, drop by for a surprise visit while the Howsers are having their kitchen remodeled. Don promptly offends the contractor, who quits on the spot.

DOCTOR, THE WIFE, HER SON AND THE JOB, THE - TB1221 - Mrs. Howser gets a job as a patient advocate at the hospital, and Doogie and his father have mixed feelings about it.

PLANET OF THE DATELESS - TB1222 - McGuire resigns from Eastman and joins the Physicians Flying Service, where he feels his work will be of greater importance. Meanwhile, Doogie is frantic to find a date for the annual hospital dance when Michele dumps him.