1. Pilot

Complete story — includes the ending

Fast-talking New York doctor Zoe Hart, has her life all figured out until she is turned down for a prestigious fellowship she had been certain she would get. Desperate, she decides to finally accept the offer of a kindly stranger, Dr. Harley Wilkes ( Nicholas Pryor ), whom she met at her medical school graduation years earlier, and who had proposed she join his small medical practice in the small Mobile Bay town of Bluebell, Alabama. Upon arrival, Zoe learns that Dr. Wilkes died four months earlier and willed his half of the town's medical practice to her, which she must share with the resident doctor, Brick Breeland, who is not very eager to have her there. Zoe meets George Tucker, the town's lawyer and "golden boy", but makes an enemy out of Lemon Breeland, Dr. Breeland's conservative daughter. In her first medical case, Zoe must look after a very pregnant local woman who is trying to hide her pregnancy, and later must be her coach when she goes into labor.