A patient (Rick Lohman) needs bone-marrow transplant but refuses to give the names of relatives; and Riverside (Charles Siebert) takes a stand when the garbage collectors strike.

A young man may lose his arm if Trapper and Gonzo can't calm a microvascular surgeon who accidentally shot his wife. 

An alcoholic sidewalk Santa (Ray Walston) becomes a real St. Nick to an 11-year-old boy suffering from a chronic blood disease.

Two swindlers (Hermione Gingold, Eileen Heckart) choose gullible Riverside as their next target by posing as his former nanny and his long-lost mother,

Andrew Ridley (Dick Gautier), the high priest of pop psychosociology, is coming apart, and Trapper and Gonzo draw the assignment of trying to put him back together. The trouble is that Gonzo may not be around for the operation. He has received a death threat, and so has Ridley, who could cash in his chips if the operation is successful or never takes place.