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[[File:319759_2154.jpg|frame|Mike and Sully]]

 

 

Once in the [[The Wild West|town]] of Colorado Springs Dr. Quinn becomes one of its prominent citizens, although she still has to fight for her reputation as a doctor. She meets Sully, a [[Mountain Man]], and Charlotte, a midwife who dies and asks Dr. Mike to raise her children. Michaela thus becomes a mother to three children, Matthew, Colleen, and Brian.

 

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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Jake struggles with this. As does Grace.

* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Repeatedly played straight with Preston Lodge.

* [[December-December Romance]]: Loren's courtship of Dorothy and his flirtation with Mrs. Quinn.

* [[Dramatic Irony]]: One episode had the town terrified of the world ending from a meteor. As you know, it didn't.

* [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]: One episode revolved around these. Horace sued Hank for punching him and breaking his nose, and Loren sued Preston for injuries sustained after slipping into a hot spring at Preston's resort (though in Loren's case, he was faking injury just to get back at Preston).

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Done pretty often, and probably necessary, given that this was a family show airing at 8PM.

** After rescuing Mike from the gang of dog soldiers who kidnapped her, Sully gently asks if they "hurt" her. She tells him "no". His relief indicates that he was actually asking if they had ''raped'' her.

** In the first episode, Myra asks to see Dr. Mike about a "female problem". After treating her, Mike advises Hank that Myra needs to be "chaste" for several weeks. When Hank complains about the loss of revenue, Mike warns him that he'll lose a lot more if she has to end up treating his customers as well.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely|He Cleans Up Nicely]]: Sully whenever he ditches the buckskins for a nice suit, particularly when he's in Boston. Not that there's anything wrong with the buckskins, of course.

** Crosses over into [[Good-Looking Privates]] when they show him in his military uniform in flashbacks.

'''Jake:''' How many fingers?

'''Horace:''' Chocolate.

* [[Humans Are White]]: Subverted; the blacksmith and local restauranteur are both black and have to deal with the expected racism. There is also a Mexican schoolteacher in the later seasons. Black cowboys come through town with the cattle drives, too, as well as Asian men with the building of the railroad.

* [[Insatiable Newlyweds]]: Horace and Myra, once they get over their anxiety. Dr. Mike and Sully too.

** Loren definitely fits into this category.

** Jake starts as this but softens a bit with [[Character Development]]. Though he still shows his [[Jerkass]] side from time to time.

* [[Last-Name Basis]]: ''Everyone'' calls Sully by his last name--even his love interest, (and later wife) and their ''children''! His full name is Byron Sully, but he appears to have abandoned his given name around the time he deserted the army.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Besides Dr. Mike, Sully, and the Cooper children, the show featured well over 20 townsfolk, relatives, and recurring guest characters. Most of these characters had [[A Day in the Limelight]] at least once.

** When Matthew starts coming of age and goes into the Saloon for his first official drink of whiskey, the various patrons decide he needs to get laid to be a man. He's whisked off to Myra's room, but just so she can help him climb out the window.

** Subverted with several of the other male characters. While not virgins, it's strongly implied that despite the presence of prostitutes who could have tended to their needs, they've been celibate for an extended time.

* [[May-December Romance]]: Loren and Mike's sister Marjorie (the two actors are married in [[Real Life]]). Jake and Dorothy could count as well.

* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted. Colleen gets hers and is frightened and confused as neither her real mother nor Dr.Quinn have explained it to her (her mother died before she could give her "the talk" and Dr. Quinn assumed she was too young to have started). In another episode, Dorothy's stops and she thinks she's pregnant when she's in fact beginning menopause.

* [[Old Maid]]: Dr. Mike refers to herself as this, with her 35th birthday looming and no husband in sight.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Myra. [[The Bus Came Back]] in the final season, though.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Loren's sister Olive [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|abruptly disappears between seasons without any explanation]] (although several years later, we learn she moved even further out west). In her place, Loren's sister-in-law (whom he had a romance with before marrying her sister) comes to town, fleeing an abusive husband and assumes the same role as Olive had as Mike's friend and confidante--though she's much more friendly than Olive ever was.

* [[The Talk]]: Sully awkwardly tries to give one to Matthew when he begins courting immigrant girl Ingrid, Dr. Mike attempts to give her son Brian the talk by reading him an anatomy textbook, and with her wedding night looming, the virginal Dr. Mike needs one herself from the more experienced Dorothy.

** [[The Gunslinger]]: Played in a recurring guest role by [[Johnny Cash]], no less!

** [[Magical Native American]]: Cloud Dancing, Sully's best friend, often portrays this trope.

** [[Noble Savage]]: Cloud Dancing is the embodiment of this.

** [[Preacher Man]]: [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Mr. Rogers]]!

** [[Saloon Owner]]: Hank is the bastard variety of this.

** [[White Man Gone Native]]: Sully, especially in the beginning of the series. Lessens somewhat in later seasons, but not by a whole lot.

* [[The Wild West]]

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