"Originally, it was ALS, it was not AIDS and then they changed it," Harmon said.īefore "St. Main characters were written off in shocking ways: from Peter White getting shot in season 3, to Mark Harmon's popular character, the handsome plastic surgeon Dr. "The star of the show was the writing." The writers never shied away from controversy. Elsewhere' was a show that brought a sense of truth, if you will forgive that suspicious word, to television, that had not been seen before on television," said star Norman Lloyd. The show's fan following was in part because of the beloved cast but also because of the intense storylines. "He didn't want to say that he was just a fan, so he checked how much my wife was dilating." Elsewhere' and the doctor came into the room that wasn't our doctor when my wife was in labor and I guess he just wanted to meet people because they loved the show and it represented him," Mandel said. "It was embarrassing, because we were in a hospital here in the midst of 'St. Mandel said that doctors at the hospital where his wife was giving birth were such fans of the show, they kept coming in and unnecessarily checking in on them during the delivery. "We got quite an education - what the diseases were and what … to look for, you know?"Ĭhristina Pickles, who starred as nurse Helen Rosenthal, said she even gave a speech at the opening of a hospital in the Midwest during the show's run. And actually, I wasn't far off a lot of the time," said Cynthia Sikes Yorkin, who played Dr. "I would find I was giving, dispensing advice some of the time. "Give me a second will you?" Daniels joked.ĭuring the show's run from 1982 to 1988, the cast said fans would come up to them on the streets, and ask for everything from autographs to medical advice. We love to work together right, Bill?" Bartlett said, poking fun at her real-life husband of 61 years.
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Was working together all it's cracked up to be?
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Mark Craig, starred alongside his TV wife, Ellen Craig, who was played by his real-life wife Bonnie Bartlett on the show. William Daniels, the surly and self-centered heart surgeon Dr. He had listed my house with Century 21 while I was away." I went on vacation one time, and I came home and there was a for sale sign in front of my house. "I was the heavy set guy there on the show and he scored my director's chair so when I sat down, it busted. "He would always play practical jokes on me," said Stephen Furst who played Dr. Stand-up comic Howie Mandel was the class clown. Elliot Axelrod), Bonnie Bartlett (Ellen Craig) and Chad Allen (Tommy Westphall) last month.Īlthough Denzel Washington couldn't make it, the rest of the cast shared some of their favorite memories from behind the scenes. Wayne Fiscus), Eric Laneuville (Luther Hawkins), Stephen Furst (Dr. Daniel Auschlander), Christina Pickles (Nurse Helen Rosenthal), Mark Harmon (Dr. "Good Morning America" reunited with 12 members of the show's cast while they were gathered for a photo shoot for Entertainment Weekly magazine's Reunions Issue.ĪBC News correspondent John Quinones talked with William Daniels (Dr.
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"To this day, will call me from the set and go, 'Howie, how would you play this scene?'" the comedian Howie Mandel joked about this relationship with his castmate turned A-List movie star today. Even a young and relatively unknown Denzel Washington was part of the large, ever-changing ensemble cast. Eligious hospital, where the show took place, was staffed with a slew of now familiar faces, from actor Ed Begley Jr., to comedian Howie Mandel, "NCIS" star Mark Harmon and David Morse of "The Green Mile" and more. "We couldn't even save ourselves, let alone patients." The "first hospital show, even the stars of our show had a tendency to die off and get killed," said comedian Howie Mandel, who played Dr.
Victor Ehrlich on the critically acclaimed but ratings-challenged show. "More people died there than at any hospital, I think, in the history of television," joked Ed Begley Jr., who played Dr. Elsewhere." Thirty years ago, the show was the first medical drama of its kind, and devoted fans followed the lives and loves inside the dingy South Boston teaching hospital for six seasons. Long before shows like " Grey's Anatomy" "House" and "ER," there was "St. Image credit: NBC TV/The Kobal CollectionĪBC News' Thea Trachtenberg and Lauren Sher:
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