Executive Producer Bruce Paltrow and his talented staff of writers and producers always walked a tightrope high above the floor below (often without a net).
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Elsewhere’s willingness to indulge in the downright wacky, always making us aware we were watching a TV show without explicitly breaking that fourth wall. I had a conversation with him once and he was so incensed by that, his sensibilities, that he actually quit over that.” That scene lived up to St.
“(T)hat was back in the days when they still had Standards and Practices. “The NBC censor resigned over that,” Cox said. Eligius, that he can “kiss my ass, pal.” Cox shared a story relating to that scene I’d never heard before. John Gideon, the new boss installed by the HMO that buys St. Donald Westphall left the show in the third episode of the final season, dropping his drawers and telling Ronny Cox’s Dr. It even beat NYPD Blue in the prime time race to the moon when Ed Flanders’ Dr. The show touched on controversial medical issues such as medicinal marijuana, euthanasia, abortion-both the decision on whether or not to have one and the politics that can grow out of control surrounding it-as well as the then-new scourge of AIDS, which eventually infected one of its major characters (through heterosexual sex no less, stomping on the myth that only gay men and drug addicts need fear the disease). Eligius’ corridors that had little to do with medicine-apartheid, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, domestic terrorism, racism and bigotry, accompanied by the language of hate that comes as a shock to hear 30 years later on a prime time network show, even in context. While not thought of as a particularly issue-oriented program, many topics passed through St. “It gave me five Emmy nominations and a career in this town, and it’s still having an effect,” she said. “I was lucky I made the first and the last episode,” said Christina Pickles, who played four-times wed Nurse Helen Rosenthal, who would go through a mastectomy and breast reconstruction after a bout with breast cancer, as well as drug addiction, through the course of the series.
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Other series killed off characters, but usually that coincided with an actor’s decision to leave the show at the end of a year or a performer’s unexpected death in real life. Eligius, secretly suffering from bulimia and misdiagnosing a patient with dire results, Wendy took her own life and became the first cast member in the opening credits to leave as a corpse before the year was over. After escaping an assault by the rapist terrorizing St. Wendy Armstrong became the first regular to take the fall near the end of season two. Elsewhere knocked off or wrote off regulars right and left. Television shows routinely kill off major characters now, often at unusual points in a season, but St. Certainly in many respects, the series often was ahead of its time. Elsewhere took place in the future from the get-go. I know we said a two-part series, but we changed our minds.) On the other hand, I don’t recall the first season explicitly stating 1982 was its starting point-perhaps St. I’ll let readers work out the logical flaws in that math. That unfilmed ending leaped 25 years into the future-to 2013-with Auschlander, dying of liver cancer since the show’s debut Oct. Tom Fontana and John Masius, the show’s longest-running writer-producers, penned an ending during that sixth season much different than the one viewers ended up seeing (and that the world still debates to this day).
Elsewhere brought a new level of realism to the medical drama on TV, the show’s other elements weren’t bound by those same rules of logic and continuity. Daniel Auschlander began the series in 1982 at the age of 72 and, in the final episode that aired May 25, 1988, Auschlander tells Luther (Eric Laneuville) that he’s 75.
Some units of measure adhere to that three year span-Norman Lloyd’s Dr. Don’t follow that timeline too closely-contradictions abound. Elsewhere’s six-year run and says it lasted “three years.” In the series’ original airing, I didn’t catch on immediately that each season only represented about six months and it took two seasons to complete a year. Eligius comes to a close in the final episode of St. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) takes a verbal walk down Memory Lane as his residency at St.
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