Dr. Brian McKenzie, the chief of psychiatry at Riverview Hospital in Oakland, deals with patients while trying to juggle his own problems.
Birdland (Season 1)
Pilot (Episode 1)
Air date: 1994-01-05
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: McKenzie looks for what triggered a sudden change in a teenage accident victim, and gives his chief resident the duty of cutting a staffer to meet their budget.
Crazy for You (Episode 2)
Air date: 1994-01-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: McKenzie meets his son's new girlfriend, whose volatility leads to her becoming a patient. Meanwhile, the ward gets a new administrator and a patient whose spectacles appear to give him X-ray vision.
Plan B (Episode 3)
Air date: 1994-01-19
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A man takes the ER staff hostage to get compensation for his wife's death there. But Horner is convinced it's a full-scale invasion of the hospital.
O.C.D.P.D. Blue (Episode 4)
Air date: 1994-01-26
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A cop tells McKenzie he's having visions of shooting his partner; Horner rejects his brother who's come to take him home; Niles becomes enamored of Mary.
Grand Delusions (Episode 5)
Air date: 1994-02-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A new patient admits to McKenzie that he killed a man; Jesse is charged with malpractice; Zuchetti is no help to Niles in connecting with Mary.
Sons and Mudders (Episode 6)
Air date: 1994-04-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Niles suspects the rebellion of a politician's son stems from a dysfunctional homelife; McKenzie's ""sure-thing"" at the track has him liquidating his assets; a Polish bus driver develops a French accent after an accident.
Lower Than the Angels (Episode 7)
Air date: 1994-04-21
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: McKenzie suspects a genetic illness when his nephew, a priest, confesses that God has spoken to him; staffers discover that a patient is an esteemed painter.
Seasons
Episodes 7