Editorial Reviews
Product Description
In an age when women are expected to be seen but not heard, Dr.
Michaela "Mike" Quinn is a renegade, an independent spirit who
forsakes her home in genteel Boston for the rough-and-tumble life of
the frontier. But the prejudice she encountered back east pales in
comparison to the challenges awaiting in Colorado Springs...
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman breathed new life into a tired genre and
brought families together around the TV for six seasons with its
refreshing take on the Western, blending a distinctly modern
sensibility with painstaking historical authenticity and tales of
courage, conviction and romance.
This collection features all 25 episodes from the third season of
the five-time Emmy Award winner starring Jane Seymour and Joe Lando,
available on DVD for the first time.
Season
2: 1993-1994
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Title
Original Airdate
Disc
19
The Race
September 25, 1993
Disc 1
An episode revolving around
gender roles, Dr. Mike wants to run her
horse, but is not allowed; Brian cooks an
unusual pie, despite being told boys don't
cook.
20
Sanctuary
October 2, 1993
Disc 1
Loren's sister-in-law and
first love Dorothy leaves her abusive
husband and is treated by Dr. Mike, only for
her husband to end up dead after the next
beating. Dorothy stands trial for his
murder, and asks Michaela to be her lawyer.
In the local tribe, Cloud Dancing's wife
objects to him taking a second wife thanks
to Dr Mike's influence. Cloud Dancing
struggles between duty to the tribe and his
personal feelings.
21
Halloween
October 30, 1993
Disc 1
The ghost of Abigail haunts
Dr. Mike. Brian misses his mother who always
made him his Halloween costumes.
22
The Incident
November 6, 1993
Disc 1
Jake accidentally kills an
Indian while hunting for deer. Horace is
shot and is intimidated into covering up the
truth. Tensions between the Natives and the
townspeople mount as gossip surrounding the
incident runs wild. Dog Soldiers attack an
innocent family, upsetting both sides. When
Jake won't come peacefully, he is kidnapped
-- Sully goes to negotiate his release and
is shockingly thrown off the reservation.
Horace's conscience finally gets the best of
him under Myra's pressure and he admits the
truth to her and Dr. Mike. Dorothy chastises
Loren for his lies, but realizes she must
print a retraction immediately and feels bad
for printing untruths. Despite being beaten
by the Dog Soldiers, Jake tries to blame
Horace. Sully finally makes him tell the
truth, and attempts to defend the
townspeople against Cloud Dancing, which
ends in a fistfight Michaela must break up.
Myra offers to send a wire, but fearful of
what the army will do Brian and Colleen cut
the telegraph wires. Back at the trial, when
war is suggested Sully declares he must be
killed first. The council decides not to go
to war, but Jake must make reparations
towards the family of Little Eagle, the
brave that was killed.
23
Saving Souls
November 13, 1993
Disc 2
Sister Ruth, a traveling
faith healer, comes to town. Horace's gout
is "healed" but Dr. Mike is not impressed.
Johnny Cash returns to reprise his role as
Kid Cole. Robert E. fumbles through a
proposal to Grace, and she joyfully accepts.
When Ruby enters the saloon, Cole defends
her and the evangelical healer is clearly
sweet on her. Ingrid's asthma almost kills
her thanks to the faith healer convincing
the immigrants to toss their medicine. Grace
chooses Dr. Mike has her maid of honour,
while Sully is chosen to be Robert E.'s best
man. The preacher argues against marrying
the two in the church because he is
concerned what the congregation will think.
Sully is lost as to what to buy for a
wedding gift, but Michaela saves him by
suggesting they buy a bible together. Kid is
punched in the chest and needs emergency
surgery to drain fluid off his lungs, after
which Ruth tries to convince the gunslinger
of her feelings, admitting her love and
receiving a kiss. The episode ends with
Grace and Robert E. getting married before
the parish in the church.
24-25
Where the Heart Is (Parts 1 & 2)
November 20, 1993
Disc 2
Dr. Quinn's mother,
Elizabeth, falls ill and she is called to
Boston. Without thinking, Mr. Mike takes our
her stress and worry on the children. Sully
reveals how his parents died. One of the
sisters, Marjorie, is disdainful of both the
children and Dr. Mike's insistence on seeing
their ailing mother. Mrs. Quinn has two
physicians: one is older and believes women
should not be doctors while the other is
much younger, smitten with Michaela, and
believes she has the cure. Dr. Mike ends up
curing her mother and earning Dr. Burke's
esteem. In the meantime, Sully dreams about
being in Boston, and sets out to join the
four. Sully and the children accidentally
stumble onto Michaela receiving a kiss on
the hand by Dr. Burke. Matthew demands to go
home, homesick and missing Ingrid. Elizabeth
convinces Sully to wear Boston finery and to
the delight of Dr. Mike he looks incredibly
dashing. Sully, with new finery, takes
Michaela out to a sumptuous dinner for two
with dancing afterwards. The two then attend
an opera, where Dr. Mike must explain what
is going on to a long-suffering Sully. Dr.
Burke has Dr. Quinn to make a speech, and
though many of the male doctors leave in
disgust, about half stay for the speech and
are impressed. Immediately after, Burke
confesses his live for Michaela and proposes
marriage, and she attempts to let him down
gently but he refuses to take no for an
answer. Sully demands to know if she's going
to marry the fellow doctor, but she refuses
to answer. Sully admits he came to Boston
because he loves Dr. Mike, but goes back
home to Colorado anyway. After admitting to
her mother she doesn't love William Burke,
Michaela must tell him she cannot accept his
proposal, and the four leave the next day.
Matthew admits he was wrong to judge his
grandmother prematurely. A very warm welcome
meets the family when they return to their
home, with the episode ending on Michaela's
admission of love for Sully.
26
Giving Thanks
November 27, 1993
Disc 2
Sully and Dr. Mike start to
"go courtin'" but a drought threatens the
town. When Cloud Dancing brings food in to
convince the townspeople crops can grow in a
drought but they throw his food in the dirt.
Hank decides to leave, separating Myra and
Horace. Robert E. considers leaving and
Grace refuses to go because she feels she
has an identity where she is -- Robert E.
threatens to leave her behind. Dr. Mike and
Sully get into a lover's spat. Jake and
Loren take water from the reservation,
ignoring the warnings that it's not for
human consumption; many townspeople become
sick. A lightning strike hits the barn on
the homestead, threatening to consume the
barn and Dr. Mike takes Sully to task for
his old habits of considering himself first.
Grace and Robert E. mend the rift from their
argument. Sully and Michaela also talk
through their differences, and she admits to
being scared of commitment. The Natives come
to Thanksgiving dinner, bringing enough food
for all because the Spirits direct them to.
Hank returns as dinner is served, to the
delight of Horace, but almost ruins
everything with his insensitive remarks
before Loren takes him to task. As everyone
is eating, rain begins pouring down and
everyone dances around in delight, soaking
wet.
27
Best Friends
December 4, 1993
Disc 3
A dance is coming up,
setting the young girls in a tizzy. Colleen
decides to no longer be friends with the
most popular girl in town (Alice) because
she is bossy. Dorothy is feeling puny, and
when Dr. Mike questions her, it's revealed
she is pregnant just as Loren walks into her
room; the three fall into an uncomfortable
silence. Further examination shows it's not
a pregnancy but menopause, which upsets
Dorothy deeply. Colleen commissions Robert
E. to make a Best Friends necklace. Dorothy
begins bleeding heavily, which may require
taking out her uterus. Colleen's friend
Becky asks her to speak to a boy, but the
young man inadvertently thinks Colleen is
sweet on him. Loren gives Dorothy a meal in
bed, wracked with guilt about believing
Hank's false stories on menopause. Colleen
goes to meet her friend's crush under the
tree and receives her first kiss. Sully
stalks off after Dr. Mike tries to teach him
to dance. Michaela admits to Dorothy she is
afraid of physical intimacy, but after
church she notices Sully going into the
store alone with Dorothy and becomes
suspicious. Becky catches Colleen kissing
the boy she likes and they argue. Dr. Mike
finally hears about Colleen's problem and
points out friendship should be above
boyfriends. While in Loren's store, Sully
and Dorothy come out of her room laughing.
Michaela is ready to explode in anger but
Dorothy collapses and is bleeding badly.
Loren predicts doom and gloom but when
Dorothy comes out fine, he faints dead away
in front of the clinic. Colleen becomes the
butt of vicious rumours at school and dumps
the boyfriend. Loren asks Dorothy to the
dance -- but just to sit; either way she
won't tell Dr. Mike what Sully was doing
with her, and neither will he. At the dance,
Loren admits he still has feelings for
Dorothy, Alice steals the boy and Becky
decides he's not worth it, and Sully dances
a perfect Sweetheart Reel -- thanks, of
course, to the lessons from Dorothy.
28
Sully's Choice
December 11, 1993
Disc 3
The reverend comes home from
Soda Springs with the news of a flu
epidemic; as the town has no doctor,
Michaela rides off to help. Sully can't
control the kids and takes a trip into town,
where he runs into the Army looking for Dog
Soldiers. Sully pleads with Cloud Dancing to
try to dissuade the renegades from
attacking. Brian asks for a bedtime story.
Sully and Brian explore a cave together but
come out in the middle of Dog Soldiers
attacking railroad builders. Trying to run
them off, he is shot by the Army -- who then
proceed to put a 200 dollar bounty on his
head. Brian runs back to town to get Matthew
and Robert E., who find Sully unconscious
and bleeding. Jake and Hank go out to
collect the bounty. Managing to avoid the
soldiers in town, Robert E. gives the wagon
with Sully hidden inside over to the
Reverend, to take somewhere safe. Colleen is
faced with the daunting task of taking the
bullet out of Sully alone. Matthew goes in
search of Cloud Dancing while the Revered
goes to town for medical supplies.
Unfortunately, Matthew is soon followed by
Jake, and Hank spots the Reverend sneaking
out of the clinic with supplies. All four
men arrive back at the cave at the same
time. Everyone is surprised when Hank is
subdued by the Reverend. Jake removes the
bullet from Sully but nicks an artery, which
Colleen must suture closed. Sully regains
consciousness and goes to turn himself in;
Hank's still after the bounty but is blown
off. When Sully comes to town, he makes a
speech about his innocence, winning the
townspeople over. When the Cavalry arrive,
Dorothy and others vouch he was "in town"
during the time of the incident and threaten
to write about shooting an unarmed man in
the back. The eposide ends with Dr. Mike
returning to town, none the wiser.
29
Mike's Dream... a Christmas Tale
December 18, 1993
Disc 3
Mike, mired in a Christmas
Eve career/identity crisis, is visited by a
friendly angel - the Cooper kids' deceased
mom, Charlotte. Charlotte takes Mike on a
trip to the past, present and future. On
this journey, Mike concludes that the
choices and decisions she's made for her
career and life the right ones. Charlotte:
Diane Ladd.
30
Crossing the Line
January 1, 1994
Disc 3
Desperate for funds to
finish his homestead, Matthew becomes a scab
miner. Disaster is averted by Mike and
Sully, who enact a daring rescue when
Matthew and other scabs are trapped in a
cave-in. Loren refuses credit to strikers,
prompting a boycott of his store.
31
The Offering
January 8, 1994
Disc 4
Mike and Sully unknowingly
aid the U.S. government in giving typhus
infected blankets to the Cheyenne, then must
help fight the disease. Colonel Egan: John
Reger.
32
The Circus
January 15, 1994
Disc 4
Mother/daughter issues are
explored when Heart and Atlantis, a rag-tag
mother/daughter circus team, comes to
Colorado Springs. Inner and outer wounds are
shared and healed when Mike and Atlantis
help Colleen overcome her fear of performing
in front of crowds, and Mike helps Heart
realize that it's a bond of love, not
affliction, that binds she and Atlantis when
Mike performs a successful operation to
separate Atlantis' webbed fingers. Heart:
Fionnula Flanagan. Atlantis: Lisa Rieffel.
33
Another Woman
January 22, 1994
Disc 4
Catherine, a beautiful
blonde woman captured by and raised with
renegade Indians, is brought to Colorado
Springs by soldiers when her tribe is wiped
out and she's the sole surviving member.
Friction develops between Mike and Sully
when Catherine falls in love with him, and
he seems to respond. Meanwhile, Dorothy
starts dating Jake, inciting Loren's
jealousy. Catherine: Sheryl Lee.
34
Orphan Train
January 29, 1994
Disc 4
Mike considers a marriage
proposal from the Reverend in order to
provide eight newly arrived orphans with an
instant family.
35
Buffalo Soldiers
February 5, 1994
Disc 5
A troop of black "Buffalo"
Soldiers rides into town intending to kill
Indian Dog Soldiers who, because the
railroad trespasses on their hunting
grounds, have been sabotaging it. Mike
manages to thwart the Buffalo Soldiers'
mission by warning the Indians, thereby
committing an act of civil disobedience.
Meanwhile, Mike must teach Colleen the
difference between good and bad lying when
Colleen cheats on a history test. Carver:
Dorian Harewood. Turrell: Spencer Garrett.
36
Luck of the Draw
March 5, 1994
Disc 5
Matthew, desperate to earn
funds to finish his homestead, becomes a
gambler when con-man Julius Hoffman rides
into town for the annual poker game at
Hank's saloon. Unfortunately, Matthew must
learn the hard way that the easier it looks,
the harder it hooks. Meanwhile, Brian
strives valiantly to earn money to set a
captured eagle free, only to be terribly
disappointed when the eagle doesn't
immediately avail himself of his newly
regained freedom. Julius Hoffman: Craig
Wasson.
37
Life and Death
March 12, 1994
Disc 5
Tom Jennings, Dorothy's
Civil War Veteran son, comes to Colorado
Springs. Though Mike treats him for pain
supposedly incurred from war injuries, his
real affliction is an addition to morphine,
for which he ransacks the homestead in the
middle of the night as the family lies
sleeping. The stress of this traumatic event
causes Brian and Colleen to "act-out" in
disturbing ways. Tom Jennings: Matthew
Letscher.
38
The First Circle
March 26, 1994
Disc 5
Colorado Springs' townsfolks'
racist passions are ignited when Robert E
purchases at auction a house which sits in
the middle of town. Fueling the fire is
Jedediah Bancroft, the auctioneer, who also
happens to spearhead the burgeoning Ku Klux
Klan movement. Only Mike's courage saves
Robert E from a lynch mob, and the
townsfolk, ashamed, end up helping him move
into his new home. Jedediah Bancroft: George
Furth.
39
Just One Lullaby
April 9, 1994
Disc 6
Rev. Johnson's in love with
the town's new schoolteacher (Sherry Hursey),
while Mike's concerned about the woman's
wanton use of corporal punishment in the
classroom, which in the end backfires as a
student too frequently beaten retalliates.
Mike and Sully get caught in
the crossfire when, while visiting the
Indian reservation, they see renegade Dog
Soldiers shoot some Cavalry men. Mike is
kidnapped in retaliation when the Indians
discover she told Custer what happened;
Sully vows to find her. Meanwhile, Brian
falls in love with a horse Hank wins in a
poker game. Sully sets out to rescue Mike,
who is now Sully's "heart-song". Meanwhile,
Custer takes the Indian reservation hostage,
threatening to hang everyone unless Mike is
returned. Brian works off the cost of the
little horse; but Hank reneges on the deal,
inciting Loren's wrath. Mike and Sully
return to town just in time to keep the
Indians from getting hanged. Hank, not
anxious to pay double for all his goods at
the General Store, delivers Taffy to Brian
on his birthday, declaring that, "Sometimes
it's just good business for a man to keep
his word." Custer: Jason Adams.
42
The Campaign
May 7, 1994
Disc 6
Mike and Jake go
head-to-head when both campaign for the
Mayorship of Colorado Springs. At issue:
whether drinking and prostitution should be
outlawed. Myra finally breaks loose from
Hank.
43
The Man in the Moon
May 14, 1994
Disc 7
Only the town's love for the
infinitely unlovable Hank can pull him from
the brink of a deadly coma. Meanwhile,
Colleen and Brian tangle when Grandma Quinn
sends Brian but not Colleen a present.
44-45
Return Engagement (Parts 1 & 2)
May 21, 1994
Disc 7
When "Andrew Strauss", aka
David Lewis, the fiance' whom Mike had
presumed was killed in the Civil War, visits
Colorado Springs, Mike is forced to choose
between him and Sully. Also, Horace and Myra
experience pre-nuptial tension when
townsfolk start taking over the planning of
their wedding for them. Mike is torn between
two lovers when, in a blast from the past,
her presumed-dead Civil War fiance, David
Lewis, whirls into town to reclaim Mike from
the arms of Sully, her current fiance. Also,
Horace keeps "losin' the mood" when it comes
time to consummate his marriage with Myra.
Andrew Strauss/David Lewis: Maxwell
Caulfield.
