Island Son
Island Son

Island Son

1989 1 Seasons 18 Episodes ⭐ 7.5 Drama

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Heart and Soul

Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.

EP 2

Sometimes They're Zebras

Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.

EP 3

Fathers and Sons

Daniel's son falls for a patient facing a fatal prognosis; a resident falters before his prominent mother's determinatio

EP 4

Gifts

A tourist protests the age of her physician when Caitlin gets her case, and Daniel's budding romance is nipped by illnes

EP 5

Painkillers

Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.

EP 6

Life Sentence

Daniel tries to protect his patient, a convicted rapist, from the media mob surrounding the hospital; Sam falls for a cr

EP 7

The State vs. John Kulani

A doctor has Daniel's father arrested for performing a Hawaiian healing ceremony in the hospital; Caitlin worries about

EP 8

Role Models

Fushida becomes a difficult patient when he develops a dangerous infection; Daniel battles to have a patient admitted fo

EP 9

Everyday People

Veronica returns with a proposition, but Daniel's distracted by his patients: a dying talk-show host and a paraplegic fi

EP 10

Hihia

Sam is paralyzed with caison disease after lying his way into a deep sea diving job with his uncle, which touches off a

EP 11

The Christmas Story

A group of men dressed as elves are admitted with symptoms of plague; Dr. Fushida is adamant that he wants a natural son

EP 12

Falling Stars

Metzger's confidence is shaken when he disastrously misdiagnoses a patient; Daniel tries to reconcile the estranged Fush

EP 13

Icarus Falling

A pilot refuses to be tested for the source of his blackouts; a teenager resists his girlfriend's decision to put their

EP 14

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

A teenage volunteer attempts suicide after confiding a terrible secret to Sam. Increasingly unable to cope with terminal

EP 15

Janine Returns

Daniel's former wife stirs up trouble when she arrives to celebrate their son's birthday. Parents of a dying infant worr

EP 16

Viruses

Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.

EP 17

Moving Targets

A serial killer who targets prostitutes poses a threat to James's fiancé, a former call girl; Fushida's disapproval o

EP 18

Separations

Nina hesitates when Daniel proposes, a man uses his illness to blackmail his daughter, and Caitlin murders a patient whe

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