DOC (2001)

First Aired: September 30, 2001

Episode: Home Is Where the Heart Is

Starring: Billy Ray Cyrus, Ron Lea, Richard Leacock, Ruth Marshall, Derek McGrath, Tyler Posey, Andrea Robinson, Tracy Shreve

Director: Stacey Stewart Curtis

The Show's Premise:

When Dr. Clint Cassidy, a country doctor from Montana who falls for a beautiful magazine writer from New York City he gives up his simple life and moves to the Big Apple. Life in New York begins well enough, where Doc's down-to-earth bedside manner and compassion endear him to the patients at a big HMO. But Doc's colleagues turn on him when he begins making house calls and treating patients who can't pay. As Doc fights for the right to practice his brand of old-fashion medicine, his romance unexpectedly goes sour. Doc finds himself alone and friendless in the big, cold-hearted city. But when a dying woman pleads with him to care for her son, Doc finds a new meaning for his life. (From PAX)

Character & Episode Synopsis:

[Brooke] plays... 'Blair', a 19-year-old college girl who contracts Malaria. Her caring but somewhat controlling father takes her to the medical clinic run by Dr. Clint Cassidy (Billy Ray) and when the doctors discover she has Malaria, and not the flu, Blair is hesitant to tell her Dad that she didn't stay at school during spring break like she had originally said, but had in fact contracted the disease in Jamaica while vacationing with her best friend Louanne. (From Brooke)