aired: Wed, Mar 24, 1993
Vinnie convinces Doogie to enroll in an acting class. Enlightened by the experience, Doogie decides he has been on the fast tract too long, and decides to resign from Eastman and travel abroad.
aired: Wed, Mar 17, 1993
Vinnie is selected as a jurist in an assault case. Doogie is shocked to discover that a respected doctor at the hospital is a fake.
aired: Wed, Mar 10, 1993
Doogie becomes the focus of a series of caricatures drawn by a newspaper cartoonist who is diagnosed with cancer.
aired: Wed, Feb 24, 1993
Vinnie withdraws 16,000 dollars from his bank when a computer makes an accounting error. A young patient develops a crush on Doogie.
aired: Wed, Feb 3, 1993
Doogie meets a former baby-sitter whom he has not seen since childhood—but is still just as beautiful. Vinnie tries to get a Hollywood director to read his script.
aired: Wed, Jan 27, 1993
Vinnie and Laura make love… but Laura begins to suspect that Vinnie may have lost more than just his virginity. Doogie treats a famous actress for a mysterious illness.
aired: Wed, Jan 20, 1993
Doogie fantasizes he is Sherlock Holmes when Michele dates another man. Spaulding announces her engagement.
aired: Wed, Jan 13, 1993
David Howser considers accepting the position as Head of Family Medicine at the hospital. Vinnie is stunned when his father begins dating another woman.
aired: Wed, Jan 6, 1993
Doogie receives a taste of his own medicine after he lies to his colleagues that he made love to Michele. Vinnie is shocked when he discovers that his new roommate is gay.
aired: Wed, Dec 30, 1992
Doogie allows a gorgeous model to move in with him after she produces another lease to the loft.
aired: Wed, Dec 16, 1992
Mrs. Howser substitutes for her ailing husband on Doogie’s annual father-son fishing trip.
aired: Wed, Dec 9, 1992
Doogie and his father clash over the diagnosis of a young boy who may or may not have been the victim of child abuse.
aired: Wed, Nov 25, 1992
As Thanksgiving approaches, Vinnie suffers from insomnia brought on by stress. Doogie fears that he is becoming a workaholic.
aired: Wed, Nov 18, 1992
Vinnie becomes perplexed when Janine attempts to reestablish their relationship. Doogie must decide if a patient should lose his high status as a heart-transplant recipient when he catches the man smoking.
aired: Wed, Nov 11, 1992
Doogie is incredulous when a cute student nurse finds Vinnie more desirable than himself. Raymond passes his exam as an emergency technician, but still feels inferior to his fellow workers
aired: Wed, Nov 11, 1992
Doogie challenges a young deaf woman who is given the chance of having her hearing partially restored. Vinnie must produce a student film, but is daunted by its minuscule budget.
aired: Wed, Oct 28, 1992
Doogie suffers from nightmares after he makes an error during an operation. Vinnie wrestles with the responsibility of voting in the elections.
aired: Wed, Oct 21, 1992
At Canfield’s request, Doogie becomes a patient at the hospital and is forced to share a room wit Elena Spencer. Vinnie becomes smitten with a bride-to-be.
aired: Wed, Oct 14, 1992
Doogie decides to move out of his parents’ home. Vinnie tells the Howsers that his parents are getting divorced.
aired: Wed, Oct 7, 1992
When Doogie and Vinnie are robbed at gunpoint, Doogie decides to buy a gun for protection.
aired: Wed, Sep 30, 1992
Mrs. Howser is shocked to find Doogie and her boss, Suzanne Rogers, skinny dipping in the back yard pool.
aired: Wed, Sep 23, 1992
Doogie recounts his experiences—both professional and personal—during the Los Angeles riots.
aired: Wed, May 13, 1992
Doogie and Dr. Howser decide to perform medical work in the poor villages of Honduras for their annual father-son vacation.
aired: Wed, May 6, 1992
Vinnie’s film school assignment is a video essay entitled “Who Am I?”
aired: Wed, Apr 29, 1992
Wanda returns home from school and is unhappy that her father has a new girlfriend. Vinnie is upset over the fact that he is short.
aired: Wed, Apr 22, 1992
When Vinnie discovers that Janine is enjoying herself alone during spring break in Palm Springs; he drags Doogie along to confront her.
aired: Wed, Apr 1, 1992
Janine’s parents think she is going to college every day, but in reality, she has dropped out and is working in a department store.
aired: Thu, Mar 19, 1992
Confused about what area of medicine to specialize in, Doogie decides he would like to go into practice with his father.
aired: Wed, Mar 11, 1992
A self-confident, patronizing medical student gets on Doogie's nerves. Doogie and Spaulding share an intimate moment and he wonders what it means.
aired: Wed, Feb 19, 1992
Doogie discovers that the woman whom he has been dating for two months has a four-year-old son she has not told him about.
aired: Wed, Feb 12, 1992
The star of television’s “L.A. Med” observes Doogie at the hospital to give his character more dimension.
aired: Wed, Feb 5, 1992
After arguing about how tough their respective days were, Vinnie bets Doogie that the he would not last a weekend working with him at Burger Baby.
aired: Wed, Jan 22, 1992
Vinnie becomes nervous when Doogie tells him that he will be examining a 3,000-year-old mummy at the hospital.
aired: Wed, Jan 8, 1992
Mrs. Howser reunites with her old college boyfriend, Wally “Howlin’ Wolf” Goldstein, before their twentieth college reunion.
aired: Wed, Dec 18, 1991
Doogie is upset when Vinnie spends time with his pretentious film school buddies analyzing the art of Jerry Lewis films.
aired: Wed, Dec 11, 1991
Doogie has his eyes on Cecilia, the hospital librarian, but is put off by the size of her nose.
aired: Wed, Dec 4, 1991
Doogie and Wanda have a fight on the phone. Vinnie and Janine are not seeing eye to eye either.
aired: Wed, Nov 27, 1991
Doogie is miffed when his parents ask him to contribute to room and board. An intern at the hospital grows squeamish at the sight of blood.
aired: Wed, Nov 20, 1991
Vinnie convinces Doogie to drive to Chicago and surprise Wanda for her birthday. But the '57 Chevy overheats in the desert, stranding them.
aired: Wed, Nov 13, 1991
Doogie and Vinnie argue about a Civil War screenplay they are writing. Doogie and Dr. Howser argue over their respective tactics of dealing with patients.
aired: Wed, Oct 30, 1991
Doogie is excited to find that Wanda is coming home from school for an art show, but is devastated when he sees her there with another boy.
aired: Wed, Oct 23, 1991
A girl in Vinnie’s film class comes on strong to him. Meanwhile, Janine confesses to Vinnie that she is not a virgin.
aired: Wed, Oct 16, 1991
Because her parents will not let Janine date Vinnie, she decides they should elope.
aired: Wed, Oct 9, 1991
Doogie decides to give up the new apartment, just as the Howsers try to adopt to the “Empty Nest Syndrome”.
aired: Wed, Oct 2, 1991
Doogie and Vinnie move out of their parent’s homes and share their own apartment, but they are soon on each other’s nerves.
aired: Wed, Sep 25, 1991
Doogie turns 18, and hopes to lose his virginity—with Wanda—for his birthday.
aired: Wed, May 1, 1991
Vinnie and Janine convince Doogie to ask Wanda to the prom. Doogie is impressed by a young girl with a strong will to live who is awaiting a heart transplant.
aired: Wed, Apr 24, 1991
Vinnie cheats on Janine. Janine winds up in a passionate kiss with Doogie. Raymond meets his estranged father at the hospital.
aired: Wed, Apr 3, 1991
Vinnie is nervous about being accepted to film school. Doogie is excited that the Hollisters are finally having a baby.
aired: Wed, Mar 20, 1991
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.
aired: Wed, Mar 13, 1991
Mrs. Howser gets a job as a patient advocate at the hospital, and Doogie and his father have mixed feelings about it.
aired: Wed, Feb 20, 1991
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.
aired: Wed, Feb 13, 1991
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.
aired: Wed, Feb 6, 1991
Vinnie manages to convince Doogie and Dr. Howser to take him along on their annual father-son vacation.
aired: Wed, Jan 30, 1991
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.
aired: Wed, Jan 23, 1991
Doogie reluctantly agrees to play in the big championship basketball game with St. Michael's Hospital, despite the fact that he is far from an athlete.
aired: Wed, Jan 9, 1991
Plans for the class formal are dashed when Wanda's mother is killed in an automobile accident.
aired: Wed, Jan 2, 1991
Doogie and Vinnie are faced with a dilemma: Do they tell Dr. Howser that Vinnie had an accident with Doogie's car?
aired: Wed, Dec 5, 1990
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.
aired: Wed, Dec 5, 1990
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.
aired: Wed, Nov 28, 1990
Spaulding strikes up a romance with Dr. Canfield, and Doogie is excited to be among the few doctors chosen to work with a renowned reconstructive surgeon.
aired: Wed, Nov 14, 1990
Janine tells Vinnie that her parents have offered to buy her a car if she breaks up with him, and she is considering it. Mrs. Howser's parents visit for Thanksgiving, reigniting an old battle between her father and Dr. Howser.
aired: Wed, Nov 7, 1990
Doogie is jealous when Wanda becomes enamored with the nude male model in her life drawing class. A pretty young model with an eating disorder is admitted into the hospital. Doogie is asked to participate in the hospital's annual bachelor auction.
aired: Wed, Oct 31, 1990
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.
aired: Wed, Oct 24, 1990
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.
aired: Wed, Oct 17, 1990
Doogie admits a homeless man into the hospital who turns out to be legendary blues singer, Blind Otis Lemon.
aired: Wed, Oct 10, 1990
Dr. Howser will not allow Doogie to buy the car of his dreams -- a 1957 Chevy convertible. Meanwhile, a retarded patient at the hospital refuses to have an operation he is desperately in need of.
aired: Wed, Oct 3, 1990
Vinnie is failing French class and soon finds himself trapped in an elevator with his pregnant French teacher... who suddenly goes into labor.
aired: Wed, Sep 26, 1990
Doogie tapes public service health spots for a television music channel and becomes a media sensation overnight.
aired: Wed, Sep 19, 1990
Doogie is surprised by a visit from Raymond Alexander, the newly rehabilitated gang member who once held him hostage in a robbery. Doogie invites him home for dinner and gets him a job at the hospital.
aired: Wed, Sep 12, 1990
Doogie is haunted by a Frankenstein-like dream and, with the help of a psychologist, realizes that he has been neglecting his own life so he can attend to his medical duties.
aired: Wed, May 2, 1990
When Vinnie plans to lose his virginity with Janie, he comes down with a case of tonsillitis. Doogie is jealous when he finds that Wanda is going to France for the summer to live with a French student's family.
aired: Wed, Apr 25, 1990
Doogie gets a date with a Laker Girl, but discovers it is not a match made in heaven. He cannot stop thinking about Wanda.
aired: Wed, Apr 4, 1990
Doogie and Wanda cannot find any excitement in their relationship and try to find the source of the problem. Meanwhile, McGuire and Spaulding finally get together for a date and really hit it off.
aired: Wed, Mar 28, 1990
Doogie and McGuire engage in fierce competition for the "Resident of the Year" award when they become the two top contenders.
aired: Sun, Mar 25, 1990
Vinnie falls for - and hits it off with - a pretty blind girl whom Doogie is treating. But when her eyesight is restored, the girl is no longer attracted to him.
aired: Wed, Mar 14, 1990
Dr. Howser, despondent that the six-year study he has completed is strikingly similar to one already published, decides to retire from his practice.
aired: Wed, Feb 28, 1990
Doogie and Vinnie become hostages when a young black gang member attempts to rob the store where Vinnie works.
aired: Wed, Feb 14, 1990
In an attempt to impress his new hip friends, Doogie "borrows" his father's BMW. But when the car is towed, it is Vinnie who comes to the rescue.
aired: Wed, Feb 7, 1990
Carmine Delpino pressures his son Vinnie to take over the family business when he discovers he may not have long to live.
aired: Wed, Jan 31, 1990
Doogie is sent to high school to teach safe sex and ends up in a fight with one of the class bullies.
aired: Wed, Jan 17, 1990
When a mammogram reveals a benign mass in her breast, Mrs. Howser determines to live her life to the fullest, which includes performing live at a local nightclub.
aired: Wed, Jan 10, 1990
Wanda becomes jealous when one of Doogie's beautiful patients flirts with him. Mrs. Howser reveals that one of her husband's colleagues made a pass at her.
aired: Wed, Jan 3, 1990
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.
aired: Wed, Dec 13, 1989
Doogie feigns an illness on Christmas Eve to attend a party, but he returns to the hospital to assist his overworked colleagues.
aired: Wed, Nov 29, 1989
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.
aired: Wed, Nov 22, 1989
Doogie and Wanda decide that they should take the big step in their relationship and have sex, but have second thoughts when a baby is abandoned at the Howsers' doorstep by an unwed mother.
aired: Wed, Nov 15, 1989
Doogie reluctantly accompanies his father on their annual fishing trip and learns a lesson from the experience.
aired: Wed, Nov 8, 1989
Vinnie has a blind date with Wanda's obese cousin, Yvette, and gets along surprisingly well with her, while Doogie is bothered by a woman obsessed with plastic surgery.
aired: Wed, Nov 1, 1989
Doogie and Wanda break up, and Doogie learns that it is not just roses and poems, but compromise and forgiveness, that are the keys to maintaining a relationship.
aired: Wed, Oct 25, 1989
Much to Doogie's dissatisfaction, Vinnie makes a video documentary about the boy genius for a class project.
aired: Wed, Oct 18, 1989
Overtired and under a great deal of stress at work, Doogie is approached by a pair of doctors from another hospital who make him a very enticing job offer.
aired: Wed, Oct 11, 1989
After an argument with his parents about purchasing a new car, Doogie moves out of the house, only to find that trying to live on his own at 16 is not as easy as he imagines.
aired: Wed, Oct 4, 1989
Doogie throws a wild party when his parents leave town, and soon finds that his irresponsible behavior comes with a price.
aired: Wed, Sep 27, 1989
Doogie must rush his girlfriend Wanda to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy when she suddenly becomes ill after their date at a drive-in.
aired: Wed, Sep 20, 1989
An attractive female doctor at the hospital wants Doogie to father her child.
aired: Tue, Sep 19, 1989
Douglas "Doogie" Howser, boy genius, kisses his first girl and loses his first patient, all on the same night