Doogie Howser, M.D.
Neil Patrick Harris stars as Douglas "Doogie" Howser, a whiz kid who breezed through high school in 9 weeks, graduated from Princeton at 10 and passed his medical board at 14. But as a 16-year-old doctor, Doogie must now find a way to balance the demands of professional medicine with the everyday pressures of being a teenager. In this debut season, Doogie experiences his first kiss, loses his first patient, fights the system at Eastman Medical Center, and discovers some unique lessons about life, death and growing up with the help of his best friend Vinnie (Max Casella), his parents (Belinda Montgomery and James Sikking), his new girlfriend Wanda (Lisa Dean Ryan), his boss Dr. Canfield (Lawrence Pressman) and more. When you're a boy genius, life can be a mystery: This is Doogie Howser, M.D.
Season 1
1. 1-1 1101 19-Sep-1989 Pilot
2. 1-2 1103 20-Sep-1989 The Ice Queen Cometh
3. 1-3 1102 27-Sep-1989 A Stitch Called Wanda
4. 1-4 1104 04-Oct-1989 Frisky Business
5. 1-5 1105 11-Oct-1989 The Short Goodbye
6. 1-6 1107 18-Oct-1989 Simply Irresistible
7. 1-7 25-Oct-1989 Vinnie Video Vici
8. 1-8 1106 01-Nov-1989 Blood and Remembrance
9. 1-9 08-Nov-1989 She Ain't Heavy, She's My Cousin
10. 1-10 15-Nov-1989 My Old Man and the Sea
11. 1-11 22-Nov-1989 Tonight's the Night
12. 1-12 1113 29-Nov-1989 Every Dog Has His Doogie
13. 1-13 1110 13-Dec-1989 Doogie the Red-Nosed Reindeer
14. 1-14 1114 03-Jan-1990 Greed Is Good
15. 1-15 1115 10-Jan-1990 Attack of the Green-Eyed Monster
16. 1-16 1116 17-Jan-1990 It Ain't Over Till Mrs. Howser Sings
17. 1-17 1118 31-Jan-1990 Tough Guys Don't Teach
18. 1-18 1117 07-Feb-1990 I Never Sold Shower Heads for My Father
19. 1-19 1119 14-Feb-1990 Doogie's Awesome, Excellent Adventure
20. 1-20 1120 28-Feb-1990 Use a Slurpy, Go to Jail
21. 1-21 1121 14-Mar-1990 Whose Mid-Life Crisis Is It Anyway
22. 1-22 25-Mar-1990 Vinnie's Blind Date
23. 1-23 1123 28-Mar-1990 And the Winner Is...
24. 1-24 1124 04-Apr-1990 Braking Up Is Hard to Doogie
25. 1-25 1125 25-Apr-1990 The Grass Ain't Always Greener
26. 1-26 1126 02-May-1990 Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give a Grand
Doogie passes one test to get his driver's license, but he must pass another when he treats a critically ill boy.
Victoria Burke, the hospital's attractive new chief of radiology, wants some of Doogie's genius genes.
When Wanda's appendix ruptures with her parents out of town, Doogie ignores hospital policy to operate on her. This creates tension with Dr. Canfield as well as Wanda.
Fed up with being regarded as a 'nerd' by his peers and as a 'little kid' by his co-workers, Doogie decides to throw a party when his parents go away for the weekend.
After arguing with his dad about his finances, Doogie decides to go out on his own and rent an apartment. After hearing that a celebrity is staying at the hospital, Vinnie impersonates Doogie to meet her.
Frustrated with the strict policies, long shifts and stressful atmosphere of Eastman, Doogie gets a lucrative offer from a group of doctors from an upscale Brentwood hospital and seriously considers taking it.
The hospital agrees to let Vinnie film a documentary about Doogie. However, his annoying techniques and intrusive behavior annoy Doogie who must tell a family that their daughter might have cancer.
Doogie's busy schedule causes tension in his relationship with Wanda. He then sees an example of love-gone-wrong at the hospital when one of his patients needs a blood transfusion from his estranged wife who is unwilling to oblige unless he signs the divorce papers.
Doogie fixes Vinnie up with Wanda's cousin who is much larger than everyone expected. At the hospital, Doogie comes across a patient who is obsessed with her appearance.
Doogie's plans to go on a weekend getaway with Wanda are spoiled when he realizes that it's the same weekend as his dad's annual fishing trip. Not wanting to hurt his dad's feelings, he agrees to go.
Doogie and Wanda, feeling pressured to have sex, make plans to sleep together when Doogie's parents go away for the weekend. At the hospital, Doogie treats a 17-year old girl who gives birth and then abandons the baby on his doorstep.
Doogie, upset at the hospital's lack of compassion and adherence to a strict budget, decides to sneak in a dog with a broken leg and operate on it. When he gets caught, his job becomes at risk.
After being forced to work a shift on Christmas Eve, Doogie fakes sickness to get out of it and go to a party with his friends.
Doogie goes on a game-show for geniuses only to have everyone wanting a piece of the prizes. At the hospital, he treats an ex-boxer with symptoms of glaucoma.
Wanda gets upset after Doogie runs into an attractive former patient at the movie theater and he does nothing to resist her flirting. Doogie's parents stop talking to each other over the same issue.
When Doogie's mom mammogram reveals a lump on her breast that turns out to be benign, she decides that she is going to start living her life to the fullest, which includes singing at a nightclub.
As part of a community relations effort by the hospital, Doogie is asked to go to the high school and teach sexual education. On his first day, he is challenged to an after school fight by the captain of the football team.
Vinnie's reluctance to go into the family business creates tension with his father who may need heart surgery.
In return for saving the life of the coolest guy in school, Doogie is rewarded by being allowed to hang around with him and his cool friends. With his newfound coolness, Doogie neglects Vinnie and disobeys his father.
Doogie and Vinnie are held hostage in a convenience store by a gang member.
When Doogie's dad begins to feel old and unimportant, he decides to quit his medical practice. Doogie and his mom then decide to gather many of the patients he has helped over the years in hopes of changing his mind.
Vinnie romances a blind girl that Doogie introduced him to at the hospital. When she gets an operation that will restore her sight, he worries that she will not find him physically attractive.
When Doogie and Jack hear a rumor that they are neck and neck for Resident of the Year, they both try to gain an advantage by trying to influence the judges which ultimately puts them in awkward positions.
Realizing that his relationship with Wanda has stalled, Doogie ponders whether to break it off or keep it going and risk being unhappy. Jack gets jealous when Curly begins dating a hotshot doctor.
Fresh off his breakup with Wanda, Doogie scores a date with a Lakers cheerleader. He soon realizes that she is too grown up for him.
Vinnie comes down with tonsillitis right before he is about to lose his virginity. Doogie is upset with Wanda when she tells him that she will be going away to France for the summer.
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Neil Patrick Harris | Dr. Doogie Howser |
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Max Casella | Vinnie Delpino |
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James Sikking | Dr. David Howser |
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Lawrence Pressman | Dr. Benjamin Canfield |
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Belinda Montgomery | Katherine Howser |
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Mitchell Anderson | Dr. Jack McGuire |
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Kathryn Layng | Nurse Curly Spaulding |
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Lisa Dean Ryan | Wanda Plenn |
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Lucy Boryer | Janine Stewart |
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Rif Hutton | Dr. Ron Welch |
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Huck Liggett | Dr. Lucas |
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Lainey Hashorva | Nurse |
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L. Scott Caldwell | Mrs. Alexander |
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Jeremy Roberts | Policeman |
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Julian Christopher | Dr. Cooper |
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Lee Wilkof | Dr. Goring |
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Linda Klein | Nurse Klein |
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Susan Krebs | Dr. Helen Zalunka |
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Sami Chester | Orderly |
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Elyssa Davalos | Victoria Burke |
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Doug MacHugh | Waiter |
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Barry Michlin | Golfer #2 |
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Ruth Frances | Nurse |
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Jeffrey Tambor | Hospital Board Member |
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Miguel Sandoval | Eye Doctor |
| Packaging | Custom Case |
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| Nr Discs | 4 |
| Screen Ratios | Standard 1.33:1 Color |
| Audio Tracks | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC] |
| Subtitles | English (Closed Captioned) |
| Distributor | Starz / Anchor Bay |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Mar 22, 2005 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Purchased | For $ 29.98 |
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| Quantity | 4 |
| Index | 461 |
| Added Date | Dec 12, 2012 01:15:23 |
| Modified Date | Nov 14, 2019 01:44:47 |