Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn leaves her stable life in Boston to become a town doctor in Colorado.

After taking measures to stop the spread of an influenza epidemic sweeping through her new American Frontier town and creating chaos in the community, Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn falls prey to the virus herself, and the town is in jeopardy.

Dr. Mike's stoic, disapproving Bostonian mother, Elizabeth, who, after years of estrangement, visits her in Colorado Springs but finds her daughter's unconventional life on the frontier difficult to accept.

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.

Loren, who has always blamed his son-in-law, Sully, for his daughter's death, wants to take back the homestead Sully loaned to Dr. Mike and her kids, after he learns that he still owns the deed.

Dr. Mike worries when Charlotte's husband, Ethan Cooper (Ben Murphy), comes back to the family he abandoned, convincing almost everyone of his newfound ways.

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.

When Doc Eli (Robert Culp), a medicine-show man, arrives in town professing to have created the perfect bottled elixir, Dr. Mike sets out to call his bluff, especially when her children's health becomes jeopardized.

Red McCall (John Schneider), a thieving cowhand and single father, rides into town and quickly rides out after first robbing Loren's store and then leaving his sick baby in Dr. Mike's care.

Corrupt businessmen who claim they're bringing progress and profit to Colorado Springs begin to destroy the town, and Sully is seriously injured trying to resolve the problems they created.

When Cheyenne medicine man Cloud Dancing is wounded by General Custer, who intends to hang him, Sully and Dr. Mike join forces to help him escape.

As Dr. Mike's birthday approaches, the kids decide to do something about her unmarried status.

Matthew and Dr. Mike 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.

Influenced by the pulp romance novels she loves, Colleen develops her first crush -- on Sully -- and schemes a way for him to rescue her from danger.

While Brian is in Sully's care, he falls and suffers a brain injury, and Dr. Mike is forced to perform surgery with little practice and no time to waste.

After a patient's death, Dr. Mike takes responsibility for the child left behind -- until Hank identifies the special little boy as his illegitimate son.

Daniel Watkins (Kenny Rogers), a renowned Civil War photographer who visits Colorado Springs, agrees to take a town portrait, then realizes the photo could be his last when Dr. Mike discovers that he is going blind.