Island Son(1989)
Drama
First Air Date: 1989-09-16
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 7.5
Votes: 2
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 18
Island Son is a CBS television medical drama during its 1989-90 schedule. Island Son marked the return to regular weekly series television of Richard Chamberlain, who had not so appeared since his Dr. Kildare series almost 25 years earlier. In the interim he had enjoyed a somewhat successful career in feature films, and had become widely known as "The King of the Miniseries" due to his success in that format. Chamberlain once again portrayed a dedicated medical doctor, Dr. Daniel Kulani. Kulani was born in Hawaii and practiced on the mainland for many years prior to his return to work at the fictional Kamehameha Medical Center in Honolulu. Kulani's complicated life involved his stressful work environment; his adoptive parents, Tutu and Nana; his 18-year-old son, Sam; and his love interest, high school drama teacher Nina Delaney. Dr. Kulani's complicated life was never resolved to the satisfaction of the viewers because the program was canceled in March 1990.
Keywords
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 18E01
Heart and Soul
Air Date: 1989-09-19
Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.
E02
Sometimes They're Zebras
Air Date: 1989-09-24
Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.
E03
Fathers and Sons
Air Date: 1989-09-26
Daniel's son falls for a patient facing a fatal prognosis; a resident falters before his prominent mother's determina...
E04
Gifts
Air Date: 1989-10-03
A tourist protests the age of her physician when Caitlin gets her case, and Daniel's budding romance is nipped by ill...
E05
Painkillers
Air Date: 1989-10-10
Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.
E06
Life Sentence
Air Date: 1989-10-24
Daniel tries to protect his patient, a convicted rapist, from the media mob surrounding the hospital; Sam falls for a...
E07
The State vs. John Kulani
Air Date: 1989-10-31
A doctor has Daniel's father arrested for performing a Hawaiian healing ceremony in the hospital; Caitlin worries abo...
E08
Role Models
Air Date: 1989-11-07
Fushida becomes a difficult patient when he develops a dangerous infection; Daniel battles to have a patient admitted...
E09
Everyday People
Air Date: 1989-11-14
Veronica returns with a proposition, but Daniel's distracted by his patients: a dying talk-show host and a paraplegic...
E10
Hihia
Air Date: 1989-12-14
Sam is paralyzed with caison disease after lying his way into a deep sea diving job with his uncle, which touches off...
E11
The Christmas Story
Air Date: 1989-12-21
A group of men dressed as elves are admitted with symptoms of plague; Dr. Fushida is adamant that he wants a natural ...
E12
Falling Stars
Air Date: 1990-01-04
Metzger's confidence is shaken when he disastrously misdiagnoses a patient; Daniel tries to reconcile the estranged F...
E13
Icarus Falling
Air Date: 1990-01-11
A pilot refuses to be tested for the source of his blackouts; a teenager resists his girlfriend's decision to put the...
E14
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Air Date: 1990-02-01
A teenage volunteer attempts suicide after confiding a terrible secret to Sam. Increasingly unable to cope with termi...
E15
Janine Returns
Air Date: 1990-02-08
Daniel's former wife stirs up trouble when she arrives to celebrate their son's birthday. Parents of a dying infant w...
E16
Viruses
Air Date: 1990-02-15
Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.
E17
Moving Targets
Air Date: 1990-02-22
A serial killer who targets prostitutes poses a threat to James's fiancé, a former call girl; Fushida's disapproval ...
E18
Separations
Air Date: 1990-03-29
Nina hesitates when Daniel proposes, a man uses his illness to blackmail his daughter, and Caitlin murders a patient ...
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