<Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> US viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Pilot" </Td> <Td> Jeremy Kagan </Td> <Td> Beth Sullivan </Td> <Td> January 1, 1993 (1993 - 01 - 01) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 30.99 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> After her father's death, Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn of Boston, Massachusetts watches his medical practice evaporate, and decides she must go where she is needed . She answers an ad for a doctor in the Colorado territory, attempting to carry on the family name by herself in spite of her gender and her mother's lack of support . When she arrives in Colorado Springs in 1867, she is met with derision . Dr. Mike befriends Charlotte Cooper (Diane Ladd), matron of the local boarding house whose husband skipped town with all their money . Dr. Mike also becomes acquainted with the neighboring Cheyenne tribe when she meets enigmatic "mountain man" Byron Sully, who goes by the name Sully . He befriended the Cheyenne and adopted their ways following the death of his wife Abagail Bray and daughter Hanna during childbirth in 1865 . He is fighting for the Cheyenne's freedom in the wake of the oppressive and ambitious Army Colonel Shivington who is plotting to destroy them to glorify himself . Dr. Mike accepts Sully's offer to live in the homestead he built but abandoned when his wife died . Charlotte is bitten by a rattlesnake and on her deathbed asks Dr. Mike to care for her three children, Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores) and Brian (Shawn Toovey). While unsure she is the right person for this, Dr. Mike agrees, and Charlotte passes away . Dr. Mike begins to have successes as a female doctor, but continues to experience many hardships and has trouble winning the hearts of the Cooper children . Brian runs away and Sully helps Dr. Mike find him . She is hit especially hard after she fails to get a shipment of heart medicine in time to treat Maude Bray (Verna Bloom), who suffers a fatal heart attack . Dr. Mike receives a letter from her mother but it provides no comfort, only discouragement . She starts to cry but finds the love she needs from her empathetic stepchildren . Shivington paints the Cheyenne as violators of federal law and uses it as an excuse to attack them, massacring many of them and nearly killing their chief . Sully brings the injured Chief Black Kettle to the homestead, and Dr. Mike saves his life . Chief Black Kettle subsequently gives Dr. Mike her Cheyenne name, "Medicine Woman ." The town slowly but grudgingly begins to accept her as a woman doctor . A surprise visit from Sully on Christmas Eve shows Dr. Mike that she has found her place in the new frontier and has inherited a loving family . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Epidemic" </Td> <Td> Chuck Bowman </Td> <Td> Beth Sullivan </Td> <Td> January 2, 1993 (1993 - 01 - 02) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 34.23 </Td> </Tr>

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