Doogie Howser, M.D. is a television comedy-drama starring Neil Patrick Harris as a 16-year old doctor who also faces the problems of being a normal teenager. ABC aired the show from September 1989 to March 1993 for four seasons totalling 97 episodes.
The series begins on Howser's 16th birthday; the cold open of the pilot episode shows him stopping his field test for his driver's license to help an injured person at the scene of a traffic accident.
Doogie Howser is a resident surgeon at Eastman Medical Center in Los Angeles, and still lives at home with his parents.
His best friend and neighbor, Vinnie Delpino (Max Casella), is a more typical teenager climbing through Howser's bedroom window to visit and connects him to life outside medicine.
Howser keeps a diary on his computer; the episodes typically end with him making an entry in it.
Doogie Howser seeks acceptance by both others his age and his professional colleagues.
Many episodes also deal with wider social problems; AIDS awareness, racism, sexism, homophobia, gang violence, access to quality medical care, and losing one's virginity are topics, along with aging, body issues, and friendship.
Doogie Howser initially has a girlfriend, Wanda Plenn, but they break up after she leaves for college; he also begins a trauma surgery fellowship and moves into his own apartment.
Bochco intended to end the show with a "season-long story arc for Doogie where he becomes disaffected with the practice of medicine and quits medicine to become a writer."
ABC abruptly canceled the show due to low ratings, preventing Bochco and the show's writers from implementing the storyline.
Doogie Howser, M.D. won the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Emmy Award three years in a row for Best Sound.
* Season 1
1. Pilot 1
2. The Ice Queen Cometh
3. A Stitch Called Wanda
4. Frisky Business
5. The Short Goodbye
6. Simply Irresistible
7. Vinnie Video Vici
8. Blood And Remembrance
9. She Ain't Heavy, She's My Cousin
10. My Old Man And The Sea
11. Tonight's The Night
12. Every Dog Has His Doogie
13. Doogie The Red-Nosed Reindeer
14. Greed Is Good
15. Attack Of The Green-Eyed Monster
16. It Ain't Over Till Mrs. Howser Sings
17. Tough Guys Don't Teach
18. I Never Sold Shower Heads For My Father
19. Doogie's Awesome, Excellent Adventure
20. Use A Slurpy, Go To Jail
21. Whose Mid-Life Crisis Is It Anyway
22. Vinnie's Blind Date
23. And The Winner Is...
24. Braking Up Is Hard To Doogie
25. The Grass Ain't Always Greener
26. Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give A Grand
* Season 2
27. Doogenstein
28. Guess Who's Coming To Doogie's
29. Ask Dr. Doogie
30. C'est La Vinnie
31. Car Wars
32. Doogie Sings The Blues
33. Academia Nuts
34. Revenge Of The Teenage Dead
35. Nautilus For Naught
36. Don't Let The Turkeys Get You Down
37. Oh Very Young
38. TV Or Not TV
39. A Woman Too Far
40. Presumed Guilty
41. To Live And Die In Brentwood
42. Air Doogie
43. A Life In Progress
44. My Two Dads
45. Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition
46. Fatal Distraction
47. The Doctor, The Wife, Her Son And The Job
48. Planet Of The Dateless
49. Doogie's Wager
50. A Kiss Ain't Just A Kiss
51. Dances With Wanda
* Season 3
52. The Summer Of '91
53. Doogie Has Left The Building - Part 1
54. Doogie Has Left The Building - Part 2
55. It's A Damn Shaman
56. The Cheese Stands Alone
57. Lonesome Doog
58. When Doogie Comes Marching Home
59. Doogstruck
60. Room And Broad
61. Doogiesomething
62. Truth And Consequences
63. It's A Wonderful Laugh
64. Dangerous Reunions
65. Mummy Dearest
66. Double Doogie With Cheese
67. The Show Musn't Go On
68. If This Is Adulthood, I'd Rather Be In Philadelphia
69. What You See Ain't Necessarily What You Get
70. My Father, My Self
71. Educating Janine
72. Sons Of The Desert
73. That's What Friends Are For
74. Thanks For The Memories
75. Club Medicine
* Season 4
76. There's A Riot Going On
77. Look Ma, No Pants
78. Doogie Got A Gun
79. Doogie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
80. The Patient In Spite Of Himself
81. To Err Is Human, To Give Up Isn't A Bad Idea
82. Doogie, Can You Hear Me?
83. Nothing Compares 2 U
84. Do The Right Thing... If You Can Figure Out What It Is
85. The Big Sleep... Not!
86. Will The Real Dr. Howser Please Stand Up?
87. The Mother Of All Fishing Trips
88. Roommate With A View
89. Spell It "M-A-N"
90. It's A Tough Job... But Why Does My Father Have To Do It?
91. The Adventures Of Sherlock Howser
92. Love Means Constantly Having To Say You're Sorry
93. You've Come A Long Way, Baby-Sitter
94. Love Makes The World Go 'Round... Or Is It Money?
95. Dorky Housecall, M.D.
96. Eleven Angry People... And Vinnie
97. What Makes Doogie Run
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