The BEST episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Every episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman!
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was a show that focused on Dr. Mike, a woman doctor in a time when that was unheard of. It started with her journey to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868. The show focused around the town that she loved, treated and it also focused on the three children, Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores, later Jessica Bowman) and Brian Cooper (Shawn Toovey), whom she had to raise after their mother died from a rattle snake bite. In the later years, the show focused on Dr. Mike and Sully (Joe Lando) who got married and had a daughter towards the end of the shows successful run.
#1 - The Circus
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1994
When a former circus performer and her daughter bring their circus to Colorado Springs, most of the town is recruited as performers.
#2 - The Incident
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/1993
While hunting, Jake accidentally kills the Cheyenne brave Little Eagle and Sully tries to keep the peace between the Cheyenne and the town.
#3 - The Great American Medicine Show
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/13/1993
When Doc Eli, a medicine-show man, arrives in town professing to have created the perfect bottled elixir, Mike sets out to call his bluff, especially when her children's health becomes jeopardized.
#4 - The Operation
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/8/1993
While out on a walk with Sully, Brian climbs a tree to show he could fly like the eagle in Sully's story but falls and hits his head. At first every thing seems fine and the town gets ready to build a school house. Brian is really excited about it and goes to help Lorne but loses his sight. Lorne rushes him to Dr. Mike. Although she is certain of what it is she does not know how to fix it. She wires for a doctor in Boston to advise as to nearest specialist. Dr. Mike refuses to leave his bed side and when they finally get word that the specialist is coming they find that he had slipped into a coma. Sully finally shows back up after being gone for 2 days and Michaela being so scared blames Sully. When they find that the stage will take longer to get here Dr. Mike realizes that there is not other way but to do the operation herself.
#5 - The Secret
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/15/1993
A woman dies and they find a hidden boy at her house. Dr. Mike takes the boy in while they try to determine who he is and if he has any family.
#6 - The Offering
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1994
The army brings supplies to the Cheyenne as an offering for their land. Dr. Quinn advises them to take the supplies in order to ease their suffering through the harsh winters. However, the supplies harbor a hidden surprise for the Cheyenne.
#7 - Another Woman
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1994
A woman who as been living with Indians for over 10 years is found and brought to Colorado Springs. Tensions rise between Sully and Mike when the girl becomes unusually attached to Sully.
#8 - Luck of the Draw
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/5/1994
Matthew gets hooked on gambling. Rev. Johnson's past catches up to him.
#9 - The Abduction (1)
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/30/1994
Dr. Mike is abducted by Indians.
#10 - Where the Heart Is (1)
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/1993
Dr. Quinn's mother in Boston is ill. Dr. Quinn takes the children to Boston.
#11 - Running Ghost
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/27/1993
The railroad hires men to kill off all the buffalo, which the Cheyenne need to survive, and Sully gets hurt when he tries to stop the men.
#12 - The Cowboy's Lullaby
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/20/1993
A wandering cowboy abandons his baby boy and leaves him in Dr. Mike's care.
#13 - Bad Water
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/6/1993
When the town's water supply is tainted with mercury by a wealthy mining baron, many people become sick and Dr. Mike threatens the miner to clean it up or have his land taken away.
#14 - The Abduction (2)
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/30/1994
With the help of Cloud Dancing and his son, Sully is determined to rescue Dr. Mike.
#15 - Just One Lullaby
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/9/1994
The town hires a new school teacher.
#16 - Buffalo Soldiers
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1994
A troop of buffalo soldiers comes to town and with them the idea that the government was using them instead of white soldiers, because it was felt they were more expendable.
#17 - The Orphan Train
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/1994
When Rev. Johnson sponsors an orphan train in Colorado Springs, he finds placing the children in suitable homes may be harder then he anticipated.
#18 - Crossing the Line
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/1/1994
When the silver miners strike, Matthew is eager to take a scab job mining for the quick cash. But, with disastrous results.
#19 - Saving Souls
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/1993
Dr. Mike and the reverend are skeptical when a so-called religious healer comes to town.
#20 - Heroes
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/1/1993
Colleen believes that she loves Sully and that he returns her feelings when he saves her from a runaway wagon. She and her friends had been reading romance stories in a weekly publication and in one of them the woman is captured but writes a letter to her love, and he saves her. She decides to write a letter to Sully and goes into the mountains in hopes that he will find her. Lewis finally gets the letter to Sully by giving it to Dr. Mike who reads it first and informs Sully of what was going on. Hank accuses Grace of trying to poison him with her cooking.
#21 - Rite Of Passage
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/10/1993
Matthew and Michaela are at odds over his future when he sets out to prove to others -- and to himself -- that he's a grown man ready to take on life -- and decides to marry Ingrid.
#22 - The Healing
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/23/1993
Loren, the unforgiving father-in-law, threatens to take back Sully's homestead.
#23 - Law Of The Land
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/16/1993
When a starving orphaned immigrant takes desperate measures to feed his siblings, the only thing standing between him and a noose is Kid Cole, the new sheriff.
#24 - The Visitor
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/9/1993
Mike's stoic, disapproving Bostonian mother, Elizabeth, who, after years of estrangement, visits her daughter in Colorado Springs but finds her unconventional life on the frontier difficult to accept. Meanwhile, the Bank of Denver puts the medical clinic up for auction.
#25 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1993
Michaela Quinn, a female doctor in post-Civil War Boston, Massachusetts, finds more than she bargained for when she answers an ad for a doctor in a small town in the Colorado territory.