tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24743739676940368222024-03-12T23:38:06.197-04:00St. Elsewhere ExperienceThe web's best resource for the critically-acclaimed 1980s TV medical drama St. Elsewhere, with video clips, episode guide, cast info, links, and much more.Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06486660044959549624noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-42552203287931109002022-10-04T12:33:00.008-04:002022-10-04T12:53:31.515-04:00St. Elsewhere on the Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour<p>These were posted on YouTube late in 2021. This is <i>St. Elsewhere</i> week on the <i><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=match+game+hollywood+squares+hour" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour</a></i>, March 26-30, 1984. This short-lived game show featured a half-hour of <i>Match Game</i> followed by a half-hour of <i>Hollywood Squares</i>.</p><p>Howie Mandel, Nancy Stafford, Kim Miyori, Norman Lloyd, Terence Knox, Ellen Bry, and Eric Laneuville are the celebs of the week. That's the season two cast, before the grim reaper(s) came for a few of them.</p><p>Check it out!</p><p><i>Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour</i> #104:</p><p>
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<p></p><p>By the way--to whoever is responsible for maintaining Blogger, your YouTube video search function wasn't working on my Chrome browser this morning.</p>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06486660044959549624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-4243308748711766152021-10-10T21:24:00.007-04:002021-10-17T20:50:59.685-04:00New Links to "Returning to St. Eligius: St. Elsewhere 30 Years Later"<p><i>Updates to links to Edward Copeland's celebration of </i>St. Elsewhere<i>, to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the show's premiere</i>.</p><p>There's an old post on here with links to the original home of the excellent comprehensive retrospective of <i>St. Elsewhere</i> that was lovingly researched and crafted by the late journalist <a href="http://eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Edward Copeland</a> (the freelancing pen name of <a href="https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-difficult-mind-ed-copeland-aka-scott-schuldt-1970-2015" target="_blank">Scott Schuldt</a>) in 2012. I contributed to the article with research and video clips.</p><p>The links no longer work, but the Press Play blog has an archive website, PressPlayRedux.com. Here are the new links:</p><p><a href="https://pressplayredux.com/2012/10/26/returning-to-st-eligius-st-elsewhere-30-years-later-part-1/" target="_blank">Returning to St. Eligius: ST. ELSEWHERE, 30 Years Later, Part 1</a><br /><a href="https://pressplayredux.com/2012/11/05/returning-to-st-eligius-st-elsewhere-30-years-later-part-2/" target="_blank">Returning to St. Eligius: ST. ELSEWHERE, 30 Years Later, Part 2</a><br /><a href="https://pressplayredux.com/2012/11/08/returning-to-st-eligius-st-elsewhere-30-years-later-part-3/" target="_blank">Returning to St. Eligius: ST. ELSEWHERE, 30 Years Later, Part 3</a></p><p>Check 'em out! They're a great read, and one of the best retrospectives around about the show.</p>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06486660044959549624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-75712892700456566622021-05-13T01:08:00.004-04:002021-05-13T01:08:58.559-04:00R.I.P. Norman Lloyd, St. Elsewhere's Dr. Daniel Auschlander<p>The St. Elsewhere Experience is pleased to honour the memory and life of Hollywood legend Norman Lloyd, who played Chief of Services Dr. Daniel Auschlander on all six seasons of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>, and who passed away at the tender age of 106 years on May 11, 2021.</p><p>Here's the obit from <i>The Hollywood Reporter</i>:</p><p>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/norman-lloyd-dead-106-1234951530/</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/norman_lloyd_main_a_l_0.jpg?w=681&h=383&crop=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" src="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/norman_lloyd_main_a_l_0.jpg?w=681&h=383&crop=1" /></a></div><br /><p>Personally, I will miss wishing him birthday greetings every November 8th. Quite impressive for the actor whose elderly character passed away from a stroke in the series finale 33 years ago, having survived the longest cancer remission in TV history.</p>Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-20759020357659777672020-11-15T12:32:00.003-05:002020-11-15T12:32:45.139-05:00Belated 106th Birthday Greetings to Norman Lloyd!<p>Norman Lloyd, <i>St. Elsewhere</i>'s Dr. Daniel Auschlander, celebrated his 106th birthday last week, and the St. Elsewhere Experience regrets being a week late in celebrating the amazing longevity of Hollywood's greatest living legend, the man who played a Nazi Hitchcock villain <i>during</i> World War II. Lloyd was born on November 8, 1914.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy8uqcDaOSd6GBgv2i_OptUljX6sUUvFAPoP07Ogtt9CzshSFcEa3UkCmCR89OPDapWaNNqlN9kH5Q-27TaZdVNubRC1GTUX_ybBZIj99F3cLoAU6H_W8Wlky5p8Gpky6yK7PMKiDbne4/s1200/543d4873b4acd.image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy8uqcDaOSd6GBgv2i_OptUljX6sUUvFAPoP07Ogtt9CzshSFcEa3UkCmCR89OPDapWaNNqlN9kH5Q-27TaZdVNubRC1GTUX_ybBZIj99F3cLoAU6H_W8Wlky5p8Gpky6yK7PMKiDbne4/s320/543d4873b4acd.image.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Norman Lloyd, <i>Saboteur</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>I like to think that Norman Lloyd is a living example of why they called it "The Greatest Generation."</p><p><br /></p>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06486660044959549624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-75980864410749390212020-06-16T15:59:00.006-04:002022-11-28T10:12:42.680-05:00New Personal Website: DanielButterfield.com<i>This site is on hiatus. Check out my personal website to stay updated.</i><br />
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There will be more St. Elsewhere Experience content in the future, but <b>the site is on hiatus for now</b>, while I work on launching myself as a writer and a musician. (One thing I might do is re-make the Mrs. Hufnagel video series. I also like to do updates if I hear anything about the show in the news.)<br />
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So in the meantime, check out my writing and music at <a href="https://danielbutterfield.com/">https://danielbutterfield.com</a>. The sooner I can make a living full-time as a writer and a musician, the sooner I'll have spare time to work on this site again. (So there's some motivation to subscribe to me on Patreon and/or SubscribeStar; see links below.) I may write the occasional essay about <i>St. Elsewhere</i> and classic television, especially the MTM shows.<br />
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If you like the music from the <i>St. Elsewhere</i> era--well, so do I, and that's what my music sounds like. So if you're looking for new pop music that's good like the music from back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, check me out on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/11oSIcQZ4WBAjQEozsQJki" target="_blank">Spotify</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/1456244990" target="_blank">iTunes</a>, and purchase digital downloads from my <a href="https://danielbutterfield.bandcamp.com/releases" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> site.<br />
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It's a great treat to spot all the musical references in <i>St. Elsewhere</i>, and I even enjoy the old practice of using sound-alikes of popular songs. Whoever did that guitar solo in the original version of "Sweet Dreams" did a great job doing Jimmy Page's guitar solo from "Heartbreaker".<br />
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<b>Keep coming back to the site and check out--and comment on--the episode pages.</b> I've been in touch with a few fans who are re-watching the entire series, and making comments on episodes. Your contributions through comments are highly encouraged. Also, if there are any people out there who could write material that would be a valuable addition to the site (and fit in well with the rest of the content), I am happy to accept submissions from guest authors.<br />
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Here's where you can find my work around the web:<br />
<a href="https://danielbutterf.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> - <a href="http://facebook.com/DanielButterfWriterMusic" target="_blank">Facebook</a> - <a href="http://youtube.com/channel/UCj-a0ylR19MuvhbUnWljbUg" target="_blank">YouTube</a> - <a href="http://instagram.com/danielbutterf" target="_blank">Instagram</a> - <a href="http://twitter.com/danielbutterf" target="_blank">Twitter</a> - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/danielbutterfield" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a> - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/danielbutterf" target="_blank">Patreon</a> - <a href="https://www.subscribestar.com/daniel-butterfield" target="_blank">SubscribeStar</a>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06486660044959549624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-68124105545632984732019-11-08T07:00:00.000-05:002019-11-30T11:48:30.131-05:00Happy 105th birthday, Norman Lloyd!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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The St. Elsewhere Experience extends birthday greetings to legendary actor, producer, and director Norman Lloyd, who turns 105 on November 8, 2019. Lloyd played Dr. Daniel Auschlander on <i>St. Elsewhere</i> for six seasons.<br />
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Here are some fun Norman Lloyd-related links to enjoy:<br />
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Here's a 2016 <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/02/norman-lloyd-101-years-old-hollywood" rel="" target="_blank">article from Vanity Fair</a> written by <i>Trainwreck</i> director, Judd Apatow. <i>Trainwreck</i> featured Lloyd's last film appearance, at age 101.<br />
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Here's Norman Lloyd's appearance on <a href="https://maltinonmovies.libsyn.com/norman-lloyd" rel="" target="_blank">Maltin on Movies</a>, with film critic Leonard Maltin and his daughter Jessie. This was recorded in September of 2018, when he was "only" 103.<br />
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Here's a profile from March 2019, on the <a href="https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/03/29/norman-lloyd/" target="_blank">Vintage News</a> website.<br />
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Here's Norman's full <a href="https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/norman-lloyd" target="_blank">three-hour interview</a> with the Television Academy Foundation, from September 2000.<br />
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Here's a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcberman1/2019/11/08/actor-producer-and-director-norman-lloyd-turns-105/" target="_blank">Forbes.com</a> article, published this morning, celebrating Norman Lloyd's 105th birthday. <br />
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<i>Update, November 30:</i><br />
Here are two videos from KTLA 5 News, commemorating the event, from November 11 and 12. <br />
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<br />Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-35538142304987523182019-11-07T21:47:00.000-05:002019-11-07T21:47:22.509-05:00Cast Page: New ImagesJust a quick site update, in case anyone is paying attention... The <a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/p/st-elsewhere-cast.html" target="_blank">Cast</a> page, linked from the main menu, has finally been completed. Added images for all the supporting characters, and updated the main cast photos with original publicity stills from Getty Images.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-72795482644923598532019-11-06T01:20:00.000-05:002019-11-06T14:05:50.876-05:00"Family History"<i>Description</i>: Armstrong investigates a man's medical and family history to diagnose his chronic nosebleeds. Chandler's amnesiac patient doesn't recognize his visiting parents. Craig struggles to accept his old roommate's impending sex change. White tries to reconcile with his wife.<br />
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"Family History" is the 13th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired February 8, 1983.<br />
Teleplay by Andrew Laskos<br />
Story by Joshua Brand, John Falsey<br />
Directed by Kevin Hooks<br />
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Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels) addresses Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) at the nurses' station. His college roommate, Bob Overlin, will be having a sex change operation. She tells him he's going to have to get over it. Mark discussed it with his wife for hours the night before, but it "didn't do any good." Helen suggests he talk to the hospital's psychiatrist, Dr. Beale. Mark had already tried to enlist Beale to change his friend's mind.<br />
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Mark returns to his office to find Bob Overlin (Andy Romano) waiting for him. Bob isn't happy that Mark has been avoiding him. Mark admits that he can't come to terms with Bob's decision, and he thinks Bob is making a mistake that he'll regret for the rest of his life. "At least it would be my life," Bob counters. Mark doesn't have anything to say, so Bob gets up to leave. At the door, he pauses, and tells Mark, "You know, there's one thing you can't do. And that's to make new old friends."<br />
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Dr. Philip Chandler (Denzel Washington) checks in on amnesia patient John Doe #12. He hasn't remembered anything new. But his parents have been located, and are on their way to see him. Chandler saw the records: pictures, fingerprints, and blood type all match, and he is indeed David Stewart of Port Dalhousie, Ontario, Canada. David is worried, because he was hoping that everything would click into place when he sees them, but it's clear that it won't be that simple.<br />
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In the E.R., Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox) is looking in the ear of a Mr. Singer, who thinks there's an ant in his ear canal. Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) tells Peter that his wife is on the phone. Peter gets irritated when the man starts rubbing his ear. "Don't do that. It's raw enough in there already."<br />
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Peter takes the phone call. As he makes arrangements to see his estranged wife, Myra, that afternoon, Nurse Sandy Burns (Jane Kaczmarek) stands nearby and listens. He hangs up. "That was Myra. I've got to go over there to pick up a few things. I mean, uh, I got, like, uh, two pairs of socks, three shirts. It's ridiculous." She stares at him. "I gotta get back in there," he says.<br />
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Also working the E.R. is Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori). Her patient is an old man with a bloody nose, Charlie Heller (Keenan Wynn). She asks him if it's been this bad before, and he tells her "will you make it stop already?" She asks him about his general health, if it's okay. He says, "Okay? I'm seventy-seven years old, I pee too much, I sleep too little, what's okay?" She asks if he has had any sudden weight loss, and he's irritated. "I have been a contractor for fifty-one years, and I have never lost one day to a nosebleed. Now let's get with it, or find somebody who can." She glares at him. He apologizes. He realizes he's been griping, but he has no energy and he's frustrated. He explains a bit about his work as a contractor, and she tells him they won't know what his issue is without running some tests.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Chandler meets John Doe #12's parents.</td></tr>
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In his office, Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) is talking with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart (Alan Feinstein, Claire Mails) about David's condition. It's been two weeks since he was shot with a hollow-point bullet and suffered damage to his lung, liver, heart, spleen, and kidney, and lost a tremendous amount of blood. Chandler arrives and introduces himself. He explains that David can't remember anything prior to entering the hospital. Westphall cautions Mr. Stewart that David may never recover his memory, and if he does, it may only be partial. David has been missing for thirteen months, and Mr. Stewart doesn't want to wait to see him.<br />
<br />
As they leave Westphall's office, Mrs. Stewart explains to Phil that she is David's stepmother. His mother died of botulism four years earlier. She married Mr. Stewart only nine months after his wife's passing, and she feels that David never accepted the re-marriage. Mr. Stewart disagrees with his new wife's feeling that David felt his mother's memory was betrayed. She doesn't know this for sure, but she knows that David took his mother's death hard. Phil asks about the word "sterling," but it doesn't mean anything to them.<br />
<br />
At 10:42 AM. David is re-introduced to his father and stepmother. His father hugs him, and is glad to see him. His step-mother approaches, and David tells them he doesn't know them. His father wants to talk to him, but David asks Dr. Chandler when he's due in physical therapy. It's not for a few hours, though that's not what David wants to hear.<br />
<br />
In the x-ray room, Dr. Armstrong approaches Dr. Westphall for a consult. She's got a patient with chronic nosebleeds, but she doesn't have anything to treat. The tests she ran showed nothing abnormal. He asks her if the patient had any relatives who had the same condition. She doesn't know. "Wendy, diagnosis is less of a gamble if you start at the beginning. You didn't take an adequate history, right?"<br />
<br />
"I thought I did."<br />
<br />
"You should know by now. How important it is to get a complete family medical history. Now you ask him, mother and father, alive or dead. If they're dead, what did they die of. Brothers and sisters, did any of them die? Also, why, of what. You've got to delve into this thing as far as you've got to go."<br />
<br />
"Well, I used what I had on him. He wasn't my patient the first time he came in."<br />
<br />
"Well, that's just fine. Why don't you tell him that? I'm sure he'll understand. But I suggest you get that history and work from it. Otherwise both you and your patient are in for a pretty rough time, right?"<br />
<br />
In the office of Dr. Hugh Beale (G.W. Bailey), Dr. Craig is watching Beale prepare a slideshow for a group of medical students from Harvard. Mark isn't interested in the slides, but he wants to know if Hugh spoke to Bob Overlin. Mark suggests that Bob is having a mid-life crisis.<br />
<br />
"In my opinion, Bob is handling the situation very well," says Beale. "I think you're the one with the problem, Mark."<br />
<br />
"Me?"<br />
<br />
"Yeah."<br />
<br />
"I do not have a problem."<br />
<br />
"You and Bob are very old friends. You have similar backgrounds, similar families, similar educations, similar mindsets."<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark is not about to get his thing cut off.</td></tr>
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"But I'm not about to get my thing cut off."<br />
<br />
"There is that one difference, yes. I think you have to admit, however, that what he's doing takes a whole lot of courage."<br />
<br />
"Yes, I admit that. Bob's always had a lot of courage. Integrity, strength. Like those guys up there. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Boone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Daniel Boone</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natty_Bumppo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Natty Bumppo</a>. Hawkeye. What the hell am I talking about? Will you turn this damn thing off?" demands Mark, motioning towards the slide projector. "I'm trying to have an intelligent conversation, you keep showing me these stupid slides."<br />
<br />
"All right, all right," says Hugh, turning on the lights. "Look. Bob is one of your oldest and best friends. You want what's best in life for him, what'll bring him happiness, right?"<br />
<br />
"Of course."<br />
<br />
"Then try and separate, just try and separate the two facts. Number one, you are personally offended by this operation. Now, that is a fact. Number two. Bob has lived his whole life as a man and it has not brought him happiness. This may just do it for him."<br />
<br />
"Separate the two."<br />
<br />
Dr. Armstrong is still questioning Charlie Heller. He was raised in three different cultures: Yiddish at home, German, and American. She asks if anyone else in his family had nosebleeds. Sure, he says casually. "What, doesn't everybody have nosebleeds?" he asks. Not everybody, she tells him. He remembers his maternal grandfather Nathan, holding a handkerchief over his bloody nose, in 1910 at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellis Island</a>, just off the boat from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Danzig</a>, when he was five years old. She has him sit in a wheelchair, to go for testing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Armstrong gets to know Mr. Heller and his family's<br />
medical history.</td></tr>
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He asks her about her last name, and if she's Chinese. Japanese, she corrects. She asks how his grandfather died. He says the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dybbuk</a> got him. Or, as she's looking to learn, he had an inner ear infection. He asks if her father was American. He feels his nose start to bleed again, and wants to know what she's going to do to help him. She tells him she needs to keep taking a thorough family history along with the tests so she can determine what his illness is.<br />
<br />
At the nurses' station, Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse) tells Peter that he just got stuck with Mr. Singer, whom Peter had sent to be de-loused, for 45 minutes while he talked about his perennial ear-bleeds. Peter tells Jack he'll be seeing Myra later in the day. Jack is optimistic about the two of them reconciling.<br />
<br />
Dr. Craig walks by, whistling. Rosenthal comments that Mark is feeling better. He's taken at least some of Hugh's advice to heart: if Bob wants to screw up his life, it's his business, and has nothing to do with Mark. Mark goes to Bob's room. He enters, and Bob has a visitor. Bob introduces Al Kinley (Joe Lamble), an old friend. Mark tells Bob he's been in the wrong, and apologizes for his interference. Mark asks Al if he's related to a Kinley who is a pediatrician in <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=west+somerville+massachusetts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">West Somerville</a>, but he's not. Bob explains that Al is his sex therapist. Mark asks how someone gets to be qualified to be a sex therapist. Al says he became interested when he was a woman, before his sex change operation. Bob explains that he and Al are lovers. <br />
<br />
"Uh, let me get this straight," says Mark. "You were a woman, before you were a man. And you're a man, and you're going to be a woman. And the two of you are..."<br />
<br />
"That's right."<br />
<br />
"My dear God."<br />
<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are showing photos to David. He asks if he can see a picture of his late mother. Mr. Stewart addresses his son by his name, but David gets angry. He doesn't want to be called David. He doesn't remember them, or his identity. His father suggests he'll remember when he gets home, but David says he can't go home with them. His father keeps trying to treat David as his son, but David keeps resisting. David explains that he knows that it's hard for them, too, but he doesn't want to see his father anymore. His step-mother tells him that they'll leave the pictures for him, and they leave David alone.<br />
<br />
At 3:17 PM, Wendy is listening to Mr. Heller. He's telling a story about his family traveling from Danzig to Ellis Island and settling in Chicago near grain elevators. She explains why they're running this test, and asks about his sister who also bruises easily. He wonders why he's telling her the story of his life, and what a bruise on his elbow has to do with his nose. She tells him it's all relevant and there may be a connection, and that some diseases are hereditary. She decides that she wants to do a liver/spleen scan. She apologizes, but says they are looking for a "zebra," a case where there's no easy answer.<br />
<br />
At the White house, Peter is talking to Myra in their kitchen. He says he wants to try it again, and see if they can work things out. He tries kissing her, but she pulls away. He asks why, and she says she just doesn't want it right now. He asks why she asked him to come over, and she pauses for a moment, and then explains: she needs more money. She can't get by on $100 a week. He says there isn't any more. He gets $600 a month and she already gets $400 of that. He adjourns to go upstairs to get his things.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Chandler and Nurse Rosenthal calm down an agitated<br />
David Stewart.</td></tr>
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Back at St. Eligius, yelling can be heard from down the hallway. David Stewart is yelling at his father to stay away from him. A security guard is holding Mr. Stewart in the hallway, and Rosenthal is trying to calm down David. Dr. Chandler arrives, gets David to relax, and confronts Mr. Stewart in the hall. Mr. Stewart was trying to help jog his son's memory, but Phil points out that he ended up making things worse. He tells Mr. Stewart not to come back until Phil tells him to. Back in David's room, he gives the pessimistic David a pep talk. David was disappointed by his own desire to have it all come back to him, and is feeling frustrated as a result.<br />
<br />
In the cafeteria, Mark is eating by himself when he is joined by Al Kinley. Al tries to make small talk, but Mark cuts right to the point. "This thing was all your idea, wasn't it."<br />
<br />
"Hardly."<br />
<br />
"You should have left well enough alone."<br />
<br />
"When I first met Bob four years ago, he had everything that was supposed to make him happy, and nobody knew who he was. Not his family, not his friends, not himself."<br />
<br />
"I don't want to hear all this."<br />
<br />
"Well, I think you need to. We're talking about a man who tortured himself knowing that he had to make love with his wife."<br />
<br />
"He loved Anne."<br />
<br />
"He tried to. He tried to live the kind of life you'd want him to. But he's decided he can't live a lie anymore and it's cost him. As soon as his company found out about it, they fired him, no pension, no benefits. His friends discreetly disappeared. One son won't talk to him at all, and when the other one does, it's just to make a verbal attack. He's lost everything. And all he wanted from you was a little understanding. And for whatever reason he needed it, and you could have given it to him. It wouldn't have cost you a thing. You really should have, you know. For old time's sake."<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendy has an idea about what's causing Mr. Heller's <br />
nosebleeds.</td></tr>
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At another table, Wendy, carrying a stack of books, sits down with Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.), Dr. Jack Morrison, Dr. Wayne Fiscus, and Nurse Shirley Daniels (Ellen Bry). She announces that she knows what's wrong with her nosebleed patient, Charlie Heller. She's a copy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Oncken_Lovejoy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arthur O. Lovejoy</a>'s <i>Essays in the History of Ideas</i>, from which she attempts to quote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isaiah Berlin</a>, but Drs. Ehrlich and Fiscus cut her off. She explains that Berlin is suggesting that people be aware of "individual elements" like class, language, and ethnic background. Mr. Heller is a German Ashkenazi Jew, and his people are particularly susceptible to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucher%27s_disease" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gaucher's Disease</a>. Jack asks her if it's just a guess, or if she actually ordered a glucocerebrosidase deficiency assay. Shirley comments that it's a particularly expensive test, and Ehrlich adds that it would require Westphall's permission and there's a million-to-one chance that she's right. Wendy was looking to her colleagues for some encouragement, but she leaves disappointed.<br />
<br />
At another table, Phil is sitting down with Dr. Beale. Phil realizes that he forgot to temper his own expectation that David would recover his memory once he met his parents. Beale helps Phil realize that he is David's chance for recovery. "You'd have reached the same conclusion on your own eventually," Beale quips. "Even if you did go to Yale."<br />
<br />
At 5:28 PM, Phil runs into David's stepmother outside David's room. She has remembered something about the word, "sterling." When David was about 10 or 11, he saved his money to buy his mother a sterling silver St. Christopher medal. After his mother died, he kept it as a keepsake. Phil enters David's room. David is sleeping. He skipped physical therapy, and he blames the drug that Phil prescribed for him. Phil says that's baloney, and low-dose sedatives don't make you that sleepy.<br />
<br />
Phil begins, "Okay, now, you bought your mother a sterling silver St. Christopher medal. And when she died, your father gave it back to you. Do you remember?"<br />
<br />
"Nope."<br />
<br />
"Try. It was five or six years ago. You saved up the money by getting a job at a local grocery store."<br />
<br />
"Sorry, I can't."<br />
<br />
"Think."<br />
<br />
"I am."<br />
<br />
"No, you're not."<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David Stewart is tired of trying to work through his amnesia.</td></tr>
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"I said I can't remember."<br />
<br />
"You're not trying."<br />
<br />
"Think. Try. Remember. Talk, talk, talk. I'm tired of it. I've had enough."<br />
<br />
"Just concentrate."<br />
<br />
"I'm tired of it."<br />
<br />
"Look, David, I can't help you if you won't let me."<br />
<br />
"I don't want your help. It won't do any good. I'm gonna be this way forever, so just stop wasting your time, okay?"<br />
<br />
Wendy approaches Dr. Westphall in his office, and says she knows what's wrong with Mr. Heller. He says that Gaucher's is one of thirty possible bleeding disorders to consider. She cites <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arnold Toynbee</a> on the migration of the Ashkenazim. He knows about their susceptibility to the disease, but wants her medical opinion. She presents her diagnosis, and acknowledges that the test will cost $250, but it's the only way she'll know. He tells her to go ahead and try it.<br />
<br />
At the nurses' station, David approaches Phil, slowly, using a walker. Phil asks, "How can help you?"<br />
<br />
David replies, "I do want to remember."<br />
<br />
Outside the O.R., Bob Overlin is lying on a gurney. Dr. Craig approaches him. "You were right, you know. You can't make new old friends. You're a good person, Bob. You always were. And I know you always will be. So I just wanted to say, um... Good luck, buddy." Mark bends over and kisses Bob on the cheek. He gives Dr. Vijay Kochar (Kavi Raz) a dirty look, and leaves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nurse Sandy Burns is falling for the recently-separated <br />
Dr. Peter White.</td></tr>
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Peter White is lying in bed, looking satisfied. Nurse Sandy Burns enters the bedroom, carrying a beer can, and tells him she doesn't know how he can drink cold beer when it's so cold outside. She climbs on top of him, and they kiss. She confides, "I've always needed someone like you. I've dreamed of someone like you. When you went to see Myra today..."<br />
<br />
"I just went to pick up a few things."<br />
<br />
"Feel my heart, Peter. Feel it."<br />
<br />
He rolls over on top of her. "Valium and everything," she says, "It just won't stop."<br />
<br />
"Sandy, you have nothing to worry about." He kisses her.<br />
<br />
"Move in with me," she says. "I'll make you the happiest man on the face of the Earth. Please."<br />
<br />
"Come here," he says, and kisses her again.<br />
<br />
David is looking at the picture of his mother. When he had his near-death experience and floated into the light, the woman who held out her arms to him was the woman from the picture. Phil tells him to concentrate on the photo, and to imagine her smiling and laughing. He has David imagine giving her the gift. He pulls out the St. Christopher medal. David starts to remember. The man who shot him had a scar. David told him, take my wallet and my watch, but please, leave me the medal. He remembers.<br />
<br />
In Westphall's office, Wendy reports that the test came back, and it confirmed that her diagnosis was correct. He tells her not to be so happy about it, since Mr. Heller will require medication for the rest of his life. He reminds her of the importance of taking a complete family history. As she leaves, he offers her congratulations. She takes a moment to celebrate in the hallway.<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Family History":</i><br />
<ul>
<li>Director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Hooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kevin Hooks</a> played Morris Thorpe on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Shadow_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The White Shadow</i></a>, which was Bruce Paltrow's series immediately prior to <i>St. Elsewhere</i>. Joshua Brand, John Falsey, and John Masius were writers on <i>The White Shadow</i>.</li>
<li>Nit-picking here... Re: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=port+dalhousie+ontario" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Port Dalhousie, Ontario</a>, Canada, John Doe #12's hometown. Chandler pronounces it "Dal-HOW-zee". It's pronounced "Dal-LOO-zee".</li>
<li>The actor who played Mr. Singer, the patient in the E.R. who thinks he has an ant in his ear, is not credited. There are no end credits for actors in this episode.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=keenan+wynn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Keenan Wynn</a>, who played Charlie Heller, had a long and busy career as a character actor, starting on Broadway in the 1930s, working right up until his death in 1986. He replaced <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=david+wayne" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Wayne</a> as Digger Barnes on <i>Dallas</i> for ten episodes in the 1979-80 season. Wayne later played Dr. George Wyler on three episodes of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>'s third season.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=jane+kaczmarek" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Kaczmarek</a>, who played infatuated nurse Sandy Burns, would go onto fame playing Lois Wilkerson on the hit Fox sitcom <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_in_the_Middle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Malcolm in the Middle</i></a> (2000-2006). That role led to her setting a record by being nominated seven times for the Emmy award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series without winning.</li>
<li>As Kim Miyori explains in the interview clip linked below, she received a fan letter about this episode. A woman who was watching discovered that her grandson had Gaucher's Disease after learning about it from this episode.</li>
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Here's "Family History" on DailyMotion:<br />
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Here's Kim Miyori discussing this episode (and more) in a TV interview from 1983:<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594540/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Miyori</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Dr. Wendy Armstrong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116885/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellen Bry</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Nurse Shirley Daniels</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943978/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Keenan Wynn</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Charlie Heller</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001371/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Hulce</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as John Doe #12/David Stewart</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270742/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alan Feinstein</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Michael Stewart</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0738850/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Andy Romano</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Bob Overlin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434223/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Kaczmarek</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Sandy Burns</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485071/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Karen Landry</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Myra White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0483379/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joe Lamble</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Al Kinley</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539732/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Claire Malis</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mrs. Stewart</span><br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere</i> on Hulu or elsewhere? Feel free to comment on this episode below.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-39136483413308040992019-11-02T15:45:00.000-04:002019-11-04T17:24:16.458-05:00"Release"<i>Description</i>: Craig is shocked to learn that his college roommate has checked in for a sex-change opearation. White takes an emotional beating when he must convince a grieving family to sign an autopsy consent form. Samuels and Paxton, having renewed their romantic relationship, clash over how to treat an alcoholic patient. Chandler treats a gunshot victim with amnesia.<br />
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"Release" is the 12th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired February 1, 1983.<br />
Teleplay by Tom Fontana, David Assael<br />
Story by Joshua Brand, John Falsey<br />
Directed by Victor Lobl<br />
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<i>Recap:</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Ben Samuels has changed for the better: now he spends<br />
the night.</td></tr>
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Dr. Nancy Paxton (Dorothy Fielding) and Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney) awaken in bed, having spent the night together. Paxton is eager to get to work, as she is worried about an alcoholic patient. Samuels offers to do a surgical consult.<br />
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Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels) spots Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori) in the hallway, and tells her he wants her to assist him in a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=pericardial+window" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pericardial window</a> he will be performing at 12:30. She was supposed to scrub with Dr. Pearl, but Craig reminds her that "pericardial windows don't grow on trees." She says she'll do it. At the nurses' station, Mark overhears Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) mention that a patient named "Overlin" is in the hospital. He asks if it's a "Bob Overlin," and she says it is.<br />
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Dr. Philip Chandler (Denzel Washington) tells Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) about the shooting victim who is recovering under his care. 72 hours after he was admitted with a gunshot wound "the size of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan_Tunnel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Callahan tunnel</a>," his condition has stabilized enough that he can be moved out of intensive care. "Only one problem," says Chandler. "He doesn't know who he is."<br />
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They enter the room of the patient, known as John Doe #12 (Thomas Hulce). He doesn't remember being shot. He wants to know when he'll remember his name, and Westphall tells him that Dr. Chandler will work with him to get his memory back. Westphall also tells him that the police have distributed a description and photos of him that will be posted nationwide, but the patient asks, "What if no one does recognize me, and my memory never comes back?" They don't have an answer for him.<br />
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In a residents' meeting, Dr. Weaver (Sandy Ignon) is describing the case of patient James T. Grisanti, who died that morning of colon cancer that had spread to his liver. Dr. Jacqueline Wade (Sagan Lewis) asks if there will be an autopsy. Weaver asks Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox) what he thinks about that. White says the cancer was widely disseminated and an autopsy isn't necessary. Weaver asks Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse) why doctors get autopsies, and he explains that they have to confirm the apparent physical causes of death. He asks Morrison why they need a release from the family to authorize the autopsy, and Morrison replies that it's to relieve the hospital of responsibility. Weaver says that if you can't get the release, "you're a wimp." He asks Wade if she'll do it, and when she refuses, he assigns the task to White, as it was his patient. "That is," adds Weaver, "unless you wimp out on us."<br />
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Dr. Craig pops his head into a patient's room and says he's looking for Bob Overlin. The man in the room (Andy Romano) turns around, and Craig is delighted to discover that the man is indeed his old friend from college. They embrace, and go into boxing stances--they were teammates on their college boxing squad. They haven't seen each other in fifteen years. Mark wants to know why he's in the hospital. Bob tells him: he's there for a sex change operation. Mark thinks he's kidding, but he's not.<br />
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Dr. Samuels is examining Dr. Paxton's alcoholic patient, Norman Wyler (Pat Corley). The patient says he's been drinking his whole life, but especially for the past twenty years. He asks why he's growing breasts, and Paxton tells him that it's quite common in liver failure, as the liver can no longer break down estrogen. His feet and hands are numb due to polyneuropathy, the result of too much alcohol in his nervous system. After leaving the patient's room, Paxton asks Samuels what he thinks. He wants to operate. She's hesitant to operate unless it's absolutely necessary.<br />
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"Nancy, I have seen cases like this before."<br />
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"I know. <i>Years</i> of experience," she replies sarcastically.<br />
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Peter White and Jack Morrison step off the elevator. Peter finds it difficult to fit apartment-hunting into the busy schedule of a resident. He's been sleeping on Jack and Nina's couch, and he has yet to speak to his estranged wife, though she left a message with his answering service. Peter sees the family from whom he needs to get the release for an autopsy. Jack doesn't envy him.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs. Grisanti refuses to sign the release for an autopsy on<br />
her late husband.</td></tr>
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Mrs. Grisanti (Gloria Manos) is adamant about refusing the autopsy on her late husband. She doesn't want "a bunch of strangers cutting him up." Peter persists, but Mrs. Grisanti starts crying, and her son, Eddie (Jonathan Luria), tells White to leave her alone.<br />
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At 12:46 PM in the cafeteria, Peter is commiserating about the experience with his colleagues, Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.), Dr. Annie Cavanero (Cynthia Sikes), and two others. Victor says that the first one is the worst, and that "you feel like <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=invasion+of+the+body+snatchers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Invasion of the Body Snatchers</a>". White thinks Weaver has it in for him, but Cavanero counters that Weaver wouldn't put him through this if it wasn't for the best. White asks if someone can help him, but Annie is adamant: "It's never pleasant. You'd better just get it over with, or go tell Weaver you can't hack it."<br />
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Lined up at the cafeteria counter are Dr. Craig and Dr. Daniel Auschlander (Norman Lloyd). Mark is preoccupied with his friend, Bob, whom he once saw knock out Blackie Boone, a particularly tough boxer, with a single punch. He can't believe it's the same person. Auschlander suggests that Mark sit down and talk with his friend, to understand what led Bob to make this "complex decision." Mark projects, and says it's "so obviously humiliating for him to see me again." Daniel suggests Mark talk to Bob's wife, or someone close to him.<br />
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"Mark, don't take it personally."<br />
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"I'm not taking it personally," Mark replies, obviously taking it personally.<br />
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Behind them in line are Jack and Phil. Phil is enjoying his psychiatry rotation, and working with the amnesiac patient to "reconstruct his memory, bit by bit. Going slowly, but it's fascinating."<br />
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At a table, Dr. Samuels is eating lunch and is joined by Dr. Paxton. She's been thinking about Norman Wyler, and she's decided it's too soon for surgery. She wants to medicate and restrict the patient's diet, but Ben doesn't think it will do any good. "The man is sinking fast," and needs a more drastic intervention. He suggests that her judgment is clouded by her desire to prove herself to Daniel Auschlander, and that she's letting her pride get in the way of her patients. She reminds him that Wyler is her patient and it's her decision.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Chandler quizzes amnesiac John Doe #12 about the<br />
newspaper he read.</td></tr>
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Phil visits John Doe #12. Phil had sent him a newspaper, and he read it front to back, there not being much else to do. Phil wants to see if John can remember the stories he's read, and John passes with flying colors. Phil asks him to count backwards from 100 by sevens, and John pauses. His dessert tastes strange. Phil tells him the hospital tries to pass it off as chocolate pudding. John realizes he can't remember chocolate.<br />
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Weaver is letting White have it. "Now look, White, I've been watching you and as far as I'm concerned, you're the kind that does not belong in medicine, because out of the 22 first-year residents who've tried so far, you're the only one who's failed. The only one."<br />
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"I don't think this autopsy is necessary."<br />
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"Hey, I didn't ask you to think. I told you to get the release. Now, I'm not going to let you off the hook. You go back to that family and you get them to sign the release on the dotted line. Do you understand?"<br />
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"The family's already left the hospital, now how am I supposed to convince them now?"<br />
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"Hey, you figure it out. I don't care. But I want it today."<br />
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Dr. Craig is in his office with Bob Overlin's wife, Anne (Alice Hirson). She explains that Bob made the decision three years earlier, and that he's a careful and conscientious person who wouldn't do something like this if he wasn't certain. She tells Mark about how when Bob, Mark and Neil Abbott dressed up as <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=the+shirelles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Shirelles</a> for the Senior Follies show, Bob didn't get rid of the dress afterwards. She's got a hundred other stories like that one. Mark insists he can talk Bob out of it, but she presses: "Mark, Bob is going to have this operation and you're going to have to come to terms with it, and if you can't, I do not want you to talk to him, no, because I don't want you to hurt him. Just leave Bob alone."<br />
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Peter is about to talk to Eddie Grisanti about the autopsy release, when he is stopped in the hallway by Nurse Sandy Burns (Jane Kaczmarek), who wants to have dinner with him that night. Peter explains why he's pre-occupied, and agrees to the date.<br />
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He steps into the office where Eddie Grisanti is waiting. He apologizes for the encounter that morning, and tells Eddie that he had got to know and like his father in the time before his death, and then he mentions the autopsy. Eddie says that it was settled, and he won't put his mother through it. White tells him that there's reason to believe that there may be a genetic component to colon cancer, and the autopsy is necessary to help understand whether or not Mr. Grisanti's illness could be something his children would have to worry about having themselves. Eddie reluctantly agrees to the autopsy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Doe #12 describes his near-death experience.</td></tr>
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At 2:52 PM, Phil is working with John Doe #12. John is sitting up, eyes closed, in a relaxed state. Phil is speaking softly and slowly. He asks John if he thinks of anything when he hears the word, "home," or if he can describe his father or mother. Nothing. He asks about the word "gun," and John says, "Fiscus." He doesn't know who "Fiscus" is.<br />
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"Can you describe him for me?" asks Phil.<br />
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"Curly dark hair, white coat. He grabbed paper with a bloody hand, my blood. He read some numbers from the paper."<br />
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"What else do you remember?"<br />
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"I don't know. I saw a light, like a bright bulb, shining in my face. I remember feeling a strange sensation, starting to rise, but my body was still there on the bed. Someone was holding on to me, squeezing my heart. I was hanging from the upper-right-hand corner of the ceiling, without any strings, or anything. I saw my body, with people around it. Someone said, 'this boy's dead and gone,' and the man with my heart said, 'he's not dead 'til I say he's dead.'"<br />
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"That's when you were in the emergency room... What else?"<br />
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"I turned away. I heard a very familiar voice, calling me. I don't know who it was. But I went inside the light. This woman. I wanted to hug her. But she asked me if I was ready. And I said 'no, I don't think so.' And then I started falling backwards. I remember waking up here."<br />
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Phil asks him to think back to right before "Fiscus," and say what came to his mind. "Sterling," John replies. Phil asks him to describe "sterling," but John can't, and he seems to be struggling.<br />
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Dr. Craig vists Bob Overlin's room. It's empty, but Bob's personal items are still there. Mark opens the dresser drawer to find some women's clothing, jewelry, and makeup. He opens the closet, and begins examining a woman's blouse and jacket, but the door opens and he quickly hides the clothing behind his back. It's Ehrlich, who's there to pick up a urine sample. Craig chastises him for being a "delivery boy" instead of a doctor, taking out his own emotional turmoil on the surgical resident he says is "four steps behind" the others.<br />
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In the morgue, Dr. Cathy Martin (Barbara Whinnery) is performing the autopsy on Mr. Grisanti, and peppering her story about her interest in "adventure running" with some suggestive adjectives. Peter is not listening. After talking about her desire to visit Tibet and run in the Himalayas, she asks Peter if he's seen the film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Horizon_(1937_film)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Lost Horizon</i></a> with <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ronald+colman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ronald Colman</a>. His mind is clearly elsewhere. She found no sign of cancer in Mr. Grisanti's brain, and confirms that it was colon cancer that killed him. Peter rushes out of the morgue. She asks if he wants to hear the rest, but he says he has to get back upstairs. As he leaves, she tells him to "stop by."<br />
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Chandler is in Westphall's office, relating how John Doe #12 is able to recall things that people said during a moment when he was clinically dead. Chandler wants to know, "How do you know when someone's dead and not coming back?" Westphall tells him that you give it everything you've got and hope for the best. Chandler reminds himself that he needs to focus on John Doe #12's memory.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Ben Samuels at his most patronizing.</td></tr>
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Dr. Paxton enters Dr. Auschlander's office. He had called for her to come see him. Samuels is there already, and they've been discussing the Norman Wyler case. Auschlander recommends Ben's suggested course of treatment. After Samuels gives Paxton a patronizing explanation of the procedure he's recommending, he tells Auschlander he hopes he doesn't come off as "meddling." Auschlander says he appreciated Samuels getting involved.<br />
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"Actually, it comes as Dr. Paxton's suggestion," Ben explains. "And from what I've seen, she's done an excellent job with this particular patient. It's just that sometimes you get too close to a case. Lose perspective. Happens to me, happens to all of us."<br />
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After she leaves, Auschlander wisely surmises, "Is there something going on between you two?"<br />
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"At this point, I'm not sure," replies Ben.<br />
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In the stairwell, Annie asks Peter how he got the release for the autopsy. "I lied through my teeth," he responds. He doesn't want to hear that sometimes you've got to do things you don't want to. Westphall tells Chandler, who was walking behind the two of them, that Lt. Gerard just called, and they found John Doe's parents. Chandler asks if their name was "Sterling," and Westphall doesn't know. Chandler thanks him, and hurries down the stairs.<br />
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Peter is watching an elderly patient entertaining a girl in a wheelchair when Eddie Grisanti comes rushing down the hallway towards him. "Dr. White! White... Do you know the agony you caused, huh? You know how hard it was to convince my mother to let you... I had to force her to sign, my sisters and I. We were at my uncle's funeral home when the body arrived. We saw what they did to him. The top of his head was sawed off. The skin on his face had been pulled of the skull. My mother took one look, and she cried, she cried so hard she collapsed in the middle of the funeral home. You cut off my father's brain, and for what? You have no right to treat people this way. That's my father you did this to..."<br />
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Grisanti shoves White against the wall and punches him in the abdomen. He dares White to hit him back, and when White apologizes, he says, "You doctors, you got no guts."<br />
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At 4:27 PM, Mark enters Bob's room. He tells Bob he wants to postpone the operation, to be sure that the surgery is his "only option." Bob tells him to sit down and listen. He's been thinking about this for a long time. He knew he felt this way even before college, before they were roommates for four years. He wanted to say something about it to Mark, but he knew that if he did, their friendship would be shattered. Bob valued Mark's friendship more than telling him the truth. <br />
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"Nothing's changed, Mark. I've just become more fully aware of who I really am. It's taken me years to stop trying to be something I'm not. Years of trying to be the best athlete, dating the most beautiful ladies, merely to compensate for my own strange feelings I have inside."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark isn't willing to accept his old friend's decision.</td></tr>
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"You admit they're abnormal."<br />
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"Abnormal or not, it's what I feel inside, Mark. And finally I have enough courage to do something about it."<br />
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"Not in my hospital, you're not."<br />
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"You can't do that to me."<br />
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"Well, as Chief of Surgery, I can halt any procedure that I deem unsuitable."<br />
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"You have no right to tamper with my life."<br />
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"I am trying to help you, damn it!"<br />
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"The only help I want is your support and your understanding."<br />
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"You want my approval? You are about to destroy yourself, and you want us all to stand around ringside, and cheer. Well, you may have convinced your wife, but not me, buddy. I know you too well to agree to anything so disgusting."<br />
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"Bob Overlin is gone, he's dead."<br />
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"No, no, no, I know Bob Overlin. And I'm gonna save him."<br />
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At 7:14 PM, Peter spots Dr. Weaver, and follows him on to the elevator. White tells Weaver that there was no cancer in Mr. Grisanti's brain. Weaver doesn't remember who Grisanti was. White explains that he was right, and the autopsy wasn't needed, but Weaver holds firm. "Look, White, those are the rules of the game. If you don't like it, don't play." Peter follows him out of the elevator, and gives Weaver a piece of his mind, telling him how rotten he is, but Weaver shakes it off. "I'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget rounds, huh?"<br />
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In the doctor's lounge, Phil is pacing nervously while Dr. Stephens (Drew Katzman) is watching the Celtics game on TV. Stephens asks Chandler what he's getting so excited about, which gives Phil pause. He admits he's more nervous about the meeting than the patient is, then leaves to wait by the nurses' station.<br />
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Ben walks in, carrying a flower to offer to Dr. Paxton. He asks if she wants to go to dinner with him. She's still mad about the condescending way he spoke to her in Auschlander's office. He doesn't understand what he did to offend her. She explains. He thinks she overreacted. She says he hasn't changed, he's still smug, just like twelve years ago. She's not one of his bimbos. As the fight escalates, she tells him she doesn't want him in her life anymore. Relationship over.<br />
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John Doe #12 is excited about the prospect of meeting his parents, even combing his hair. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Kotlarz (Tom Tarpey, Judy Jean Berns), say hello, but quickly turn around and leave. In the hallway, they explain to Dr. Chandler that their son Patrick has been missing for two years, and the description the police gave was a close match, but John Doe #12 is not their son.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helen and Donald try, unsuccessfully, to cheer up Mark.</td></tr>
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At a bar, Rosenthal, Craig, and Westphall are having a drink. Craig laments the changing times, and comments that he never found <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=milton+berle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Milton Berle</a> funny, nor <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=jack+lemmon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lemmon</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=tony+curtis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Curtis</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Some Like it Hot</i></a>. "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=marilyn+monroe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marilyn Monroe</a> was the best thing in it. At least she was normal. And look what happened to her." Helen suggests that the past is never as good as you think it was. Mark mentions how his father was the kind of man who gave things order. Helen thinks people are happier not trying to fit into roles they can't conform to. Mark asks Helen what she'd do if it was her son wanting to transition. She replies that though she'd be shocked, she hopes she would have the strength not to stand in his way. After some more back and forth about the ways of the world, Mark gets up to leave. Donald reminds Mark that it's his friend's life to lead as he sees fit, and Mark says he's not going to give up.<br />
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"So much for cheering him up," says Rosenthal.<br />
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"You're buying, right?" asks Westphall.<br />
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She slides the bill towards Donald. "I think we'd better get back to more traditional male-female role models."<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Release":</i><br />
<ul>
<li>The incumbent mayor of Boston mentioned in John Doe #12's "civics exam," <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_White_(mayor)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kevin White</a>, served from 1968 to 1984.</li>
<li>Strange moment with Peter and Cathy in the morgue. He's separated from his wife, and open to seeing other women (like Nurse Burns), but he's so distracted he doesn't notice that Cathy seems interested in him. Especially strange given what's to come with the two of them.</li>
<li>I'm assuming it's just a coincidence that Peter says he feels like he "raped" the Grisantis, and not intentional foreshadowing. Haven't found any evidence to suggest anything else.</li>
<li>"Lt. Gerard" is a reference to the TV series, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugitive_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Fugitive</i></a> (1963-67). Lieutenant Gerard, played by <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=barry+morse" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barry Morse</a>, was the detective who chased the fugitive, Dr. Richard Kimble, for four TV seasons.</li>
<li>This is <a href="http://www.drewkatzman.com/" target="_blank">Drew Katzman</a>'s second and final appearance as dermatologist Dr. Lyle Stephens, who played poker in the previous episode, <a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/graveyard.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Graveyard"</a>.</li>
<li>At this point in his career, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=tom+hulce" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tom Hulce</a> was best known for his role in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_House" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>National Lampoon's Animal House</i></a> as Kroger. Shortly after this, he would begin filming his starring role as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mozart</a> in <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=milos+forman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Milos Forman</a>'s Oscar-winning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_(film)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Amadeus</i></a> (1984). In addition to his numerous film roles (he has retired from acting), he is also a Tony- and Drama Desk-award winning producer of plays and musicals, as well as the occasional film.</li>
<li>Director <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516493/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Victor Lobl</a> was married to <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=christina+pickles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a> from 1962 to 1985. </li>
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Here's "Release" on DailyMotion:<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norman Lloyd</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Daniel Auschlander</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276127/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dorothy Fielding</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Nancy Paxton</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara Whinnery</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Cathy Martin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594540/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Miyori</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wendy Armstrong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001371/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Hulce</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as John Doe #12</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0738850/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Andy Romano</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Bob Overlin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434223/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Kaczmarek</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Sandy Burns</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386676/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alice Hirson</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Anne Overlin</span><br />
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Co-Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0179976/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pat Corley</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Norman Wyler</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527077/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jonathan Luria</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Eddie Grisanti</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507722/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sagan Lewis</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wade</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0407248/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sandy Ignon</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Kirk Weaver</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0543617/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gloria Manos</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Margaret Grisanti</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0441934/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drew Katzman</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Lyle Stephens</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0076957/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Judy Jean Berns</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mrs. Kotlarz</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850584/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tom Tarpey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mr. Kotlarz</span><br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere</i> on Hulu or elsewhere? Feel free to comment on this episode below.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-47008529713958496122019-10-29T18:40:00.000-04:002019-11-02T15:49:45.473-04:00"Graveyard"<i>Description</i>: Unable to save a dying boy, a frustrated Morrison lets the boy's parents perform a Chinese folk ritual. Samuels leaves a late-night poker game to perform emergency surgery on a gunshot victim. Paxton rejects Samuels's advances. Ralph's manic stage reaches a crescendo.<br />
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"Graveyard" is the 11th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired January 18, 1983.<br />
Teleplay by Joshua Brand, John Falsey, John Masius, Tom Fontana<br />
Story by Joshua Brand, John Falsey<br />
Directed by Victor Lobl<br />
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<i>Recap:</i><br />
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A poker game is underway in the solarium, involving Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.), Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel), Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney), and Dr. Lyle Stephens (Drew Katzman). Victor is telling a story, and when Ben asks for clarification of a detail, Stephens comments, "His mind is somewhere else." Fiscus suggests it's on a certain Dr. Paxton. The doctors have noticed Samuels' change in behavior since Paxton arrived, including how his "obnoxious, detached, patronizing manner melts into a rabid, sexual yearning every time she enters the room," according to Wayne. They also wonder why he's hanging around the hospital on a Saturday night, and perhaps it's because Dr. Paxton is on call. Samuels tries to deflect by criticizing Stephens's bet and Ehrlich's hands. After winning the hand, Samuels takes his leave.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paxton explains to Samuels why she's not receptive to his<br />
interest in her.</td></tr>
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His first stop is to seek out Dr. Nancy Paxton (Dorothy Fielding). He's up front about his intentions towards her, but she comments that in the ten years since he left her, she can forgive but not forget. She says she's crazy about him, but not in <i>that</i> way. She would have done anything to be with him ten years earlier, but now she sees that he's "irresponsible." Not to his work, but "to people." He protests, but she doesn't want to go through it again with him.<br />
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At 9:55 PM, Dr. Hugh Beale (G.W. Bailey) enters the room of psychiatric patient Ralph (Richard Marcus), who has been under the delusion that he's a bird. Ralph, perched bird-like on top of a dresser, has too much to think about and doesn't feel like sleeping. He's beginning to think that Hugh is right, and perhaps it's time he stops being a bird. Maybe he'll even be himself. Ralph wonders what Beale is doing so far away from his native Mississippi, and when Beale confides that he misses his people, including his parents, that touches a nerve with Ralph. His own parents didn't know what to do with a child genius, so they sent him to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">M.I.T.</a> at age fourteen. They didn't know how to act around him, and now he doesn't "know how to act around them or anyone else for that matter." He only ever felt comfortable around Jane. He spoke with her on the phone, and she's moving to Arizona to be near her father. He cites Yeats: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." He doesn't know what to do with the world and the world doesn't know what to make of him.<br />
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Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse) is inspecting a patient, an unconscious young male. Dr. Paxton is consulting. His pupils are sluggish. He has no fever, which isn't a good sign, as his body should be trying to fight off an infection. No response to deep pain stimulation. His brain isn't active, and is obviously infected. Paxton thinks he won't make it through the night, and that he should call the family.<br />
<br />
At 10:15 PM, Samuels is back playing poker. Dr. Beale wants in on the action. He's surprised to learn that Ben has "struck out" with Paxton. Victor is frustrated that they're talking so much and that he's losing. Ben's flush beats Victor's three of a kind. The doctors have a good chuckle at Victor's frustration.<br />
<br />
Jack is asleep in the dying patient's room when the boy's family arrives. The boy, Mickey Wong (Rummel Mor), and his family are Chinese, and they've brought along a Chinese doctor (Marc Hayashi). Mickey's father (James Hong) wants to perform "ultimate Chinese medicine" on his son. The doctor says it's an old superstition, something he's only heard about but never seen. Jack asks if it involves anything invasive, and the father says it wouldn't interfere with Jack's medical procedures. Jack doesn't see anything wrong with letting them try, as they've done everything possible.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drs. White and Fiscus treat a young man brought to the E.R.<br />
with a massive bullet wound.</td></tr>
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At 10:50 PM, Wayne is in the E.R. Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox) is asleep on a gurney. The doors open. A man is dragging a body with him, and yells for someone to give him a hand. Wayne and Peter spring in action. The man says there's blood all over the back of the cab, and the body is a young man who's been shot. Wayne tells the nurse (Jane Kaczmarek) to get Samuels and tell him there's a "gunshot wound to the chest like you wouldn't believe." They perform CPR on the victim (Thomas Hulce), and are amazed at the extent of the damage. There's no pulse. Samuels arrives. There's a hole in the man's ventricle, and Ben tries to suture it. They need to get blood to the patient's brain. Samuels performs cardiac massage, and they detect a pulse. They begin moving him to an operating room.<br />
<br />
The nurse asks the cab driver, Danny Christiano (Robert Pastorelli), some questions. He noticed a younger guy talking to an older guy. The older guy pulled out a gun and put it in the younger guy's chest. The young man turned away, and the older man shot him in the back. He got out of his cab and picked up the young man, who said to him, "Why did they have to kill me?" He wonders how he's going to get all the blood out of his cab.<br />
<br />
At 11:05 PM, Samuels and Ehrlich are operating on the John Doe. Samuels comments on how Saturday night used to be date night, but now people are trying to "blow each other's brains out."<br />
<br />
In Mickey Wong's room, Drs. Morrison and Paxton watch while the boy's father performs "ultimate Chinese medicine". Jack can't believe they think that this ritual will help. Paxton thinks it's spinal meningitis. The father asks to remove the IV. Paxton goes along with it, since the boy is dying anyway.<br />
<br />
Luther is dragging a broom down the hallway when Ralph runs to catch up to him. Luther is happy to see Ralph, as Julius, Luther's racing pigeon, has been flying record times since Ralph treated him. Ralph gives Luther a paper bag. It's a care package of vitamins, oils, and seeds for Julius. Luther isn't comfortable taking Ralph's "bird stuff," but Ralph explains that he's done being a bird.<br />
<br />
At 3:30 AM, Samuels and Ehrlich are still operating on the John Doe. Samuels asks Ehrlich to patch a bleeder. Ehrlich has dozed off. Samuels wakes him. Ehrlich asks him how he can still concentrate after four hours. Samuels explains that he "gets off" on performing surgery. They still have about forty-five minutes to go before they can call in Dr. Fanning, a kidney specialist.<br />
<br />
At 3:50 AM, Jack adjourns to the solarium. He asks about the John Doe, and Fiscus tells him it's too early to tell, and Samuels has been working on him for four hours. Beale invites him to joint the poker game. Jack reluctantly agrees. Mickey Wong enters the solarium, looking for Dr. Morrison. Jack is shocked to see him up and about. Mickey is hungry.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. Wong is grateful for his son's recovery.</td></tr>
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At 4:10 AM, Mickey is back in his hospital bed, eating pizza. Jack asks if his neck is hurting. Mickey says no, he's just hungry. His parents want to take him home, but Jack says they need to run some tests first. Mr. Wong thanks Dr. Morrison, explaining that Jack's intelligence along with the ultimate Chinese medicine rid Mickey's brain of the infection.<br />
<br />
In the O.R., Samuels welcomes Dr. Norma Fanning (Gillian Eaton), who's there to repair damage to the John Doe's kidney.<br />
<br />
In the cafeteria, an excited Ralph runs in, calling for Earl, the cafeteria's cook (Julius Harris). Ralph wants a human breakfast, of ham, eggs, bacon, and a short stack of blueberry pancakes with real butter. No more worms or caraway seeds for Ralph. The grill isn't ready, but Ralph settles for a danish and a glass of orange juice. He asks Earl if he's happy with his life, and Earl says he's happy that his pension will be coming up soon, and he and his wife will be able to move south to be close to their grandchildren. Ralph says to give them four kisses from him, and he plants two kisses on each of Earl's cheeks. He thanks Earl, then runs off.<br />
<br />
5:18 AM... At the nurses' station, Jack updates Dr. Paxton on Mickey Wong's tests. Jack is amazed by what happened, calling it a miracle. Paxton isn't so amazed, and tells Jack he can't write up the folk ritual as the cause of the recovery. He would lose all his credibility. But she confides that yes, she thought it was miraculous.<br />
<br />
Drs. Beale and Fiscus are running up the stairwell. They open the door to the roof, to find a few nurses, a security guard, Luther, and Ralph, who's standing near the edge. Ralph says he wanted to see the sun rise. Beale says he'll see about getting Ralph a room with a better view. Beale steps towards Ralph, but Ralph tells him not to come any closer.<br />
<br />
"Well, it should be a fantastic sunrise. Just enough clouds in the sky to make it colorful. Reddish-pink. You think I'm gonna jump, don't you? Well, let me calm your anxiety, I'm not. But if I were, I wouldn't fall. I'd flutter. And I wouldn't light on the sidewalk. I'd land on a sailing mast bound for--where was it, Hugh? Didn't it used to be Portugal?"<br />
<br />
"It still can be. That was your dream."<br />
<br />
"That was ours. Jane's and mine. The ultimate migration. The quintessential flight. Birds of passage. Birds of the day, of the night, of dawn. The final roost, Hugh, the final roost. And now, that's all gone, forever."<br />
<br />
"Jane is not a bird anymore, Ralph."<br />
<br />
"I know that, I do. And I have my moments, too, when I realize that I'm not a... I have my moments, too."<br />
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<br /></div>
"I know you do."<br />
<br />
"I'm not an eagle, am I."<br />
<br />
"No."<br />
<br />
"And I'm not able to fly."<br />
<br />
"No. You're not able to fly."<br />
<br />
"I have these moments when I'm thinking clearly. Like right now. And it makes it so hard, so devastatingly hard, Hugh, to accept my condition."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ralph embarks on his final flight.</td></tr>
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"Time, Ralph. All you need is time."<br />
<br />
"You think so? You know, I don't think so anymore."<br />
<br />
"C'mon, Ralph. Let's go back inside. Please?"<br />
<br />
Hugh reaches out his hand, and Ralph jumps.<br />
<br />
The sun has risen, and Dr. Samuels encounters a tearful Luther in the hallway, mopping the floor. Ben walks past the solarium, where he sees Nancy Paxton. She asks Ben about the patient who killed himself. She says she saw a miracle happen. Ben says he saw a miracle, too.<br />
<br />
"Jack Morrison says that after what he saw tonight, anything is possible," says Nancy. "I thought you weren't working tonight."<br />
<br />
"Yeah, well, life's full of surprises, isn't it? You gotta be prepared to expect the unexpected." <br />
<br />
"I was never very good at that, was I? Why did you leave me, Ben?"<br />
<br />
"I was young. And scared. Shallow, and very stupid."<br />
<br />
"You were the golden boy. Ah, you had the world at your feet."<br />
<br />
"Yep."<br />
<br />
"I remember you saying you were going to be Chief of Surgery by the time you were 35. And not just at any hospital. Mount Sinai."<br />
<br />
"Yeah, well, that was a long time ago, wasn't it?"<br />
<br />
"What happened?"<br />
<br />
"Life threw me a couple of curves. Could never hit a curve."<br />
<br />
"Sure you could."<br />
<br />
"Could I?"<br />
<br />
"Anytime. Anywhere. Do you still want the same things?"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samuels and Paxton are overcome by their feelings.</td></tr>
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"No, I don't think about that much anymore. You know, when I used to see a closed door, I had to know what was behind it. And now I walk by."<br />
<br />
"That's too bad."<br />
<br />
"Maybe. Sunday morning. Time to go home, get some sleep." <br />
<br />
"Ben--"<br />
<br />
He stops. She stands up. He moves towards her, and they embrace. And they kiss.<br />
<br />
<br />
<i>Trivia for "Graveyard"</i><br />
<ul>
<li>The poker game was teased in the previous episode. Beale said he wasn't going to play, but he did anyway.</li>
<li>I've been trying to piece together a timeline of Ben's life to figure out how old he is, but it's a bit dodgy. Here, he and Nancy split up ten years earlier, which would be around 1972. In <a href="http://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/samuels-and-kid.html" target="_blank">"Samuels and the Kid"</a>, Ben said he was married to a woman named Cynthia, and that she had bought a gun around the time of the Charles Manson murders, and their toddler son killed himself with it. It's also posited in <a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/tweety-and-ralph.html" target="_blank">"Tweety and Ralph"</a> that he was into betting on horse racing in 1963. I don't think there's any way to piece all the details together with any kind of consistency. Poetic license, I guess. Or just<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> retconning</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pastorelli" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Pastorelli</a>, who played cab driver Danny Christiano, would find fame playing house painter Eldin Bernecky on the CBS sitcom <i>Murphy Brown</i>.</li>
<li>Ralph will appear on <i>St. Elsewhere</i> again in season five's "<a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/after-life.html" target="_blank">After Life</a>".</li>
</ul>
<br />
Here's "Graveyard" on DailyMotion:<br />
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<iframe allow="autoplay" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x77yzr8" width="480"></iframe>
<br />
<br />
<b>Cast</b><br />
<br />
Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
and<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
<br />
Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
<br />
and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
<br />
Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276127/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dorothy Fielding</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Nancy Paxton</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Marcus</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Ralph Selover</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434223/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Kaczmarek</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Sandy Burns</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001371/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Hulce</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as John Doe #12</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393222/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Hong</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mr. Wong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370634/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marc Hayashi</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Chinese doctor</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364918/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julius Harris</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Earl</span><br />
<br />
Co-Starring <br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665123/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Pastorelli</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Danny Christiano</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485637/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric G. Laneuville</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Luther Hawkins</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0602220/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rummel Mor</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mickey Wong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0441934/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drew Katzman</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Lyle Stephens </span><br />
<br />
With<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247821/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gillian Eaton</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Fanning</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121785/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark W. Burke</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Blood Bank Technician</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921793/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wendy Wessberg</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Scrub Nurse</span><br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere</i> on Hulu? Feel free to comment on this episode below.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-87875227929839272142019-10-28T23:30:00.000-04:002019-10-29T00:08:10.201-04:00"Hearts"<i>Description</i>: A 'Dr. Bullfinch' impersonates a doctor and makes the rounds. A woman who didn't know she was pregnant finds herself in surprise labor, and is ambivalent about the prospect of motherhood. Ehrlich passes out during surgery. White moves in with the Morrisons when he and his wife separate. Dr. Paxton, Samuels' ex, begins work at St. Eligius.<br />
<br />
"Hearts" is the 10th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired January 11, 1983.<br />
Teleplay by John Masius<br />
Story by Joshua Brand & John Falsey and John Masius<br />
Directed by Mark Tinker<br />
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<a name='more'></a><br />
<i>Recap:</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Victor Ehrlich will be covering for Dr. Cerone in<br />
surgery today.</td></tr>
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Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.) shows up late for a meeting headed by Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels), and sits next to Dr. Philip Chandler (Denzel Washington). He proceeds to spread some gossip to Phil about a Dr. Cerone who is absent due to a messy love triangle. Craig asks Ehrlich for the answer to a question but Ehrlich wasn't paying attention. Senior staff member Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney) picks up the ball. Ehrlich is covering for the missing Cerone that afternoon in the O.R.<br />
<br />
Chandler picks up a chart for one of his patients and discovers that someone wrote a medication order in crayon. Nurse Lucy Papandrao (Jennifer Savidge) interprets the signature as being from a "Dr. Bullfinch".<br />
<br />
Dr. Daniel Auschlander (Norman Lloyd) is setting up a film projector in his office when he meets the Bradshaw Fellow, endocrinologist Dr. Nancy Paxton (Dorothy Fielding). She worked with Daniel's friend Dr. Wyler in Africa, as part of the Peace Corps. Auschlander is showing a Chaplin film to some of his terminal patients.<br />
<br />
Ehrlich isn't feeling well. As a joke, Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) writes Victor a "note from his doctor," excusing Victor from surgery. Elsewhere, Dr. Chandler asks Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse) if he's heard of a "Dr. Bullfinch".<br />
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Fiscus tells Samuels about the "incredible piece of anatomy" that Auschlander has brought on board, whom Fiscus asked for a consult. Samuels and Paxton recognize each other instantly. The last time they saw each other, she was a senior at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NYU</a>, and he was in medical school. He went to school with her sister Janet. They share a lingering moment of eye contact before Wayne reminds her of his patient.<br />
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Psychiatric patient Ralph is dressed in a doctor's lab coat, and he pays a visit to a patient, Mrs. Pechick, who is happy to see "Dr. Bullfinch". He tells her that he'll be making an adjustment to her medication, but he tells her not to tell Dr. Chandler about it. <br />
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Dr. Paxton is questioning a female patient (Conchata Ferrell) in the E.R. The "other doctor" thought it might be her liver, but her stomach is cramping, and her back hurts. No appendix pain, nausea, or diarrhea, either. A patient is wheeled into the E.R. on a stretcher, whom Wayne treats: it's a man (William Bronder) who's been impaled by a broken golf club. The woman with the abdominal pain is helped to a bed. Dr. Paxton discovers that the woman is pregnant. Nurse Shirley Daniels (Ellen Bry) also listens with a stethoscope, and she hears "a healthy little heartbeat." The woman, Miss Barnett, seems unhappy and confused by the news.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs. Pechick still has her Laddie with her.</td></tr>
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Dr. Chandler and Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) arrive to speak to Mrs. Pechick, who's in for a bleeding ulcer. She mentions Dr. Bullfinch. Her new medicine would cure her "ruffled feathers," he said. Her husband, a former patient of Dr. Westphall's, passed away recently, killed by a hit-and-run driver along with their dog, Laddie. She pulls down her blanket to reveal that her dog has been stuffed, and is still keeping her company, even during her hospital stay.<br />
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Dr. Paxton visits Gina Barnett, who has just delivered her baby. The baby is fine, but was a bit premature, and is undergoing tests. Gina doesn't want to see her baby, and says she can't be a mother. The father of her baby moved to Houston, and isn't in the phone book. Her father had a stroke, and can't answer the phone. She works early mornings as a baker at a donut shop. She's not taking this development well.<br />
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In the cafeteria, Wayne asks Dr. Hugh Beale (G.W. Bailey) if he'll be participating in the poker game scheduled for later that night. Beale is not up for it. At one of the tables, Jack tells Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox) that his wife, Myra, called his house the night before, looking for her husband. Peter hasn't been home, and is staying at a motel in a "combat zone". At another table, Shirley wonders to Dr. Paxton how a woman could be eight months pregnant and not notice that her period had stopped. Luther (Eric Laneuville) walks by with Rooney (Lance Guest), who takes notice of the fetching Dr. Paxton before asking Luther about his pal, the birdman Ralph. Luther says he lets Ralph out every once in a while so he can "flap his wings." Rooney suggests Luther is asking for trouble, but Luther says Ralph is harmless. At another table, a tired Ehrlich tells Fiscus that he's "carbohydrate packing" in preparation for surgery, as a long-distance runner would.<br />
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Ralph, a.k.a. Dr. Bullfinch, pays a visit to a patient named Mr. Ullman (Peter Hobbs). Ralph tells the patient that he's in good hands with Dr. Craig operating on him, but Ullman, always unlucky he claims, doesn't have high hopes for making it through alive. He's also a die-hard Red Sox fan who lost his wife to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_New_York_Yankees_season" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yankees</a> in '41, and his son to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dodgers</a> in '58. Ralph's favorites are the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orioles</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cardinals</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Blue_Jays" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blue Jays</a>. He gives Mr. Ullman a pep talk about the Red Sox in the World Series and migrating birds.<br />
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Ehrlich tells Craig that he doesn't think he can make it through five hours of surgery because he's been on call for 36 hours and doesn't feel well. Craig tells him that if he doesn't assist on Mr. Ullman's bypass, that Ehrlich will be re-assigned to the animal research lab. <br />
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Dr. White is asking questions of a patient who had experienced difficulty breathing, after what he says is an allergic reaction. He's barely paying attention to her, looking away in distraction, and when she asks him to comment on her allergy, he excuses himself.<br />
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Dr. Samuels enters the men's room to the sound of vomiting. It's Victor, who looks terrible. Samuels asks Victor if he wants him to get him out of surgery, but Victor wants to persevere. Samuels gives him a pep talk.<br />
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In the stairwell, Westphall comes across Peter White, who's crying. He tells Westphall that he and his wife have split up. Westphall suggests he take the rest of the night off, but Peter insists he'll be alright, and that he needs to get back to his patient.<br />
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Outside an operating room, two doctors are scrubbing for surgery, and one of them reminds a third doctor that his mask isn't on. It's Dr. Bullfinch again.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gina Barrett isn't sure about this motherhood thing.</td></tr>
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Dr. Paxton bring's Gina Barrett's baby for her to see. Gina looks distressed when Paxton asks her if she's going to breastfeed. Paxton asks if Gina has decided on a name. She's chosen "Rex," because it means "king," analogous to how "Regina" means "queen." Gina still doesn't know what she's going to tell her father. She says she always wanted a baby, but now she doesn't know what to do with hers. She hands the baby back to Paxton, who places it in a crib next to Gina's bed.<br />
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In the on-call room, Peter asks a sleeping Jack if his offer to crash at his house still stands. Jack hands him a key.<br />
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In surgery, Dr. Vijay Kochar (Kavi Raz) tells Dr. Craig that the patient has a second-degree heart block. Craig decides to get the patient on a pacer, and tells Ehrlich that it's time he learns how to insert a pacing wire. Ehrlich is hesitant. Craig yells at him to get moving. Ehrlich asks if someone can take the pacing wire from him, and he faints. A nurse tries to revive him, but he's out cold.<br />
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Later, in the locker room, Ehrlich enters while Craig is changing into his street clothes. Ehrlich apologizes for dropping the ball, but Craig says there's no need to apologize. He's happy that the surgery was a success, and that they added fifteen years to Mr. Ullman's life. He tells Ehrlich that he's not the first surgeon to pass out during an operation, and he was once assisting a surgeon who "dropped dead right on top the patient." Craig tells Ehrlich to get some rest.<br />
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Gina Barnett is dressed in her street clothes, and she leaves her darkened ward room. She passes by the nursery, and stops to look at her baby. In tears, she walks away, gets on the elevator, and leaves the hospital.<br />
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Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) is discussing with Lucy what to do with flowers that were delivered to a patient who has died when another nurse tells her that something strange is going on in Mrs. Pechick's room. They hear singing coming from inside the room, and they open the door to find Ralph dancing with Mrs. Pechick. Helen tells the nurse to wait there, and she'll be right back.<br />
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Paxton tells a nurse that Gina Barnett isn't in her room and that her clothes are gone. The nurse tells Paxton that Gina walked out a half hour earlier.<br />
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Westphall and Craig are walking in a hallway, discussing how they caught the psychiatric patient has been impersonating a doctor. They come across Ralph, with Dr. Beale. Westphall asks to speak to Beale in private, and asks Mark to keep an eye on Ralph. Beale doesn't know how Ralph got loose, and Westphall tells him he wants Ralph under lock and key. Beale thinks transferring him to Roxbury would be a mistake, but Westphall insists he "will not have this man running around here playing doctor." Meanwhile, to Craig's horror, another doctor approaches, shakes Dr. Bullfinch's hand, and thanks him for the nice work he did in surgery.<br />
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Later that night, Paxton is in the doctor's lounge. Auschlander enters and asks her to assist him at a lecture he'll be delivering the next morning. Paxton tells him about Gina Barnett. She can't understand, after all she saw in Africa, how a mother could abandon her child.<br />
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In Beale's office, Ralph explains why he impersonated a doctor. He wanted to do something for the people who have no one else to care for them, like Mrs. Pechick. He tells Hugh that he's feeling better, and that he received a letter from <a href="http://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/tweety-and-ralph.html" target="_blank">Jane</a>. Hugh notices that there's no postmark on the letter, and deduces that Ralph wrote the letter himself. Ralph, observing how Hugh's goldfish are safer in their bowl than in the wild, asks Hugh to be put him back in his "cage" until Jane comes back.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drs. Samuels and Paxton catch up.</td></tr>
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In the on-call room, Dr. Paxton is undressing when Samuels enters. She asks Ben how things are going. He thought that by 35 he'd be retired, with a wife in kids, in the South of France, but instead he's "surviving," in a hospital in the south of Boston. He hasn't been in love in a long time. He recalls a Christmas they spent together with a jerk named Carl Frohman and his girlfriend. Carl was the one who introduced Nancy and Ben. She confesses that she ended up marrying Carl, putting him through law school, and then divorcing him. They remember what great sex they had.<br />
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"Do you know what I remember?" asks Nancy.<br />
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"What?" replies Ben.<br />
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"I remember standing on Fifth Avenue in front of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO_Schwarz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FAO Schwarz</a>. And it was snowing, and windy, and my feet were freezing, and I wanted to go back to the hotel. You were starting in the store window at the Christmas display and you looked so beautiful. So innocent and so childlike. You turned around and you caught me looking at you and you said, 'Hey, don't be sad, it's Christmas. And we've got each other.' And then you hugged me. You held me really tight. And the more we held on to each other, the quieter it got. All the traffic sounds disappeared. And the only thing I could hear was the sound of your breathing. I have never felt that connected to another human being before, or since. It was the single most perfect moment of my life."<br />
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He moves, as if about to kiss her.<br />
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"No, Ben," she says.<br />
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They kiss anyway.<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Hearts":</i><br />
<ul>
<li>Dr. Paxton did her residency at the Cleveland Clinic. Part of the inspiration for the creation of <i>St. Elsewhere</i> was creator Joshua Brand's college roommate's experience as an intern at the Cleveland Clinic. </li>
<li>We will meet the renowned Dr. Wyler, with whom Paxton worked in Africa, in a three-episode arc in season three.</li>
<li>The actress who played the patient with the food allergy whom Peter ignores is not credited for her appearance. There were also the two doctors whom Ralph assisted in surgery (one was named Dr. Pearl) and another nurse who weren't credited. I'm wondering if that was an oversight when they put together the closing credits for the episode.</li>
<li>This is the last appearance of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Guest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lance Guest</a> as Orderly Sean Rooney. Guest is probably best known as the star of the 1984 sci-fi adventure film, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Last Starfighter</i></a>, where he plays a young man who excels at a video game that turns out to be a recruiting device for an alien race looking for fighter pilots to help them in their interstellar war. Prior to <i>St. Elsewhere</i>, Guest had appeared in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_II_(1981_film)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Halloween II</i></a> and in seven episodes of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Grant_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Lou Grant</i></a>.</li>
<li>This episode featured two scenes that were included as flashbacks in the season five "<a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2012/06/good-vibrations-dramatic-clip-show.html" target="_blank">clip show</a>" episode, "<a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/good-vibrations.html" target="_blank">Good Vibrations</a>":</li>
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<li>Victor faints during surgery.</li>
<li>Mrs. Pechick and her stuffed dog. </li>
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<li>This story was also recounted by Phil in the season five finale, "<a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/last-dance-at-wreckers-ball.html" target="_blank">Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball</a>", at the party at Dr. Craig's house, which was held in anticipation of the hospital being closed down. There's a scene where various characters can be heard telling hospital stories, and this is one of them.</li>
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<li>The four baseball teams mentioned in the conversation between Ralph and Mr. Ullman would all win division titles in the next four years: the Orioles in 1983, the Cardinals and Blue Jays in 1985, and the Red Sox in 1986. </li>
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Here's "Hearts" on DailyMotion:<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norman Lloyd</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Daniel Auschlander</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276127/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dorothy Fielding</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Nancy Paxton</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004916/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conchata Ferrell</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Gina Barnett</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Marcus</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Ralph</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0387617/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter Hobbs</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mr. Ullman</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0146070/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Madelyn Cates</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Evelyn Pechick</span><br />
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Co-Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116885/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellen Bry</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Shirley Daniels</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0346411/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lance Guest</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Rooney</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485637/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric G. Laneuville</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Luther Hawkins</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507722/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sagan Lewis</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wade</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111401/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Bronder</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mr. Grossman</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767651/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jennifer Savidge</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Lucy</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746401/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gay Rowan</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse</span><br />
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I don't know if there are any people left who check back in on this website who aren't just here to leave fake SEO blog comments (or robots, as the analytics indicates), but if anyone is wondering...<br />
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I've re-started doing episode recaps. I did the first two episode recaps back in 2012, the year I created this website. Now, I'm giving the series a good, thorough re-watch, and my intention is to finally document all the good stuff that <i>St. Elsewhere</i>'s writers/producers did to make this series something special in the first place. You should be able to access these posts from the links in the Episode Guide page.<br />
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It's going to take a while. If I'm on my game, I can do one recap per day. There are 137 episodes. This should keep me busy for a while, but I'd like to get all of this down as a matter of personal aspiration. This is what I intended, back in 2012, and I'd like to finish what I started. I'll also be looking to complete capturing photos for the cast page.<br />
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In addition to recounting what happens in each episode, I'll be including screen shots, trivia and commentary, cast lists, and video clips. In particular, I'd like to tease out the inside jokes, cultural references (particularly the references to other TV shows), character development, and the recurring elements that rewarded sharp-eyed viewers.<br />
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As far as recurring elements go, I'm looking at (so far):<br />
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<li>"You're a pig, Ehrlich" -- Someone out there did a YouTube video of this, but they just included the punchlines. I want to do clips of the full scenes, so you can appreciate this side of Victor Ehrlich's personality.</li>
<li>Ehrlich & Caldwell -- There was a running gag of Victor saying insensitive things that offended Bobby Caldwell in particular. </li>
<li>B.J. Hunnicutt -- Several times, Mark Craig makes comments about his Korean War buddy, B.J. Hunnicutt, presumably the same character from <i>M*A*S*H</i>.</li>
<li>The Gerbode Mitral Valvulatone -- Craig's first surgical instrument, which he claims was a gift from his mentor, Dr. David Domedion.</li>
<li>Dr. David Domedion -- I'll be compiling all the mentions of Craig's mentor, including the episodes where we actually see him. They did a bit of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">retconning</a> with the character, and then they referenced the retconning.</li>
<li>The Cushing Left Anterior Descending Artery Award -- There's a running joke where this award statue is mentioned and also multiple instances where it is broken and replaced.</li>
<li>"I have the valve. You got the murmur?" Jack tells this story in "Legionnaires (Part 1)," and it gets repeated at least three more times during the series.</li>
<li>Dr. Oliver Lunden -- This character, a surgeon at the hospital, is mostly unseen, but frequently referenced.</li>
</ul>
If anything else comes up, I'll be sure to mention it. <div><br /></div><div><i>Update, November 2020</i>... <i>This particular influx of energy waned halfway through season one. I can't make any promises about when I'll do another one; I have a very full plate right now.</i></div>Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-13053476456644062532019-10-24T20:00:00.000-04:002019-10-26T12:53:31.661-04:00"Rain"<i>Description</i>: Morrison regrets making an unheard-of house call when the caller guilts him into repeat visits. White's relationship with his wife is strained when their daughter is admitted to ER after swallowing mothballs. Fiscus has an encounter with another gang member in the ER. Ralph starts eating garbage. Aspiring surgeon Ehrlich lands in trouble with Craig after injuring a finger playing handball.<br />
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"Rain" is the 9th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired January 4, 1983.<br />
Teleplay by Tom Fontana<br />
Story by Joshua Brand & John Falsey and Tom Fontana<br />
Directed by Victor Hsu<br />
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<i>Recap:</i><br />
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It's a rainy morning in Boston. Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) is giving instructions to a candy striper. There's a bucket on the floor, catching water from a leak in the ceiling. There's a leak at the nurses' station as well. Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori) left the window of her car open, and "the back seat looks like Niagara Falls." Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) reports that the patient he just saw had been thrown off a freeway overpass, and she claimed someone was coming to finish the job.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Craig is not happy about Dr. Ehrlich's handball injury.</td></tr>
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Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels) is leading a group of doctors on rounds. Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.) catches up with them in the stairwell, fifteen minutes late. Ehrlich has a splint on his hand. He sprained a pinky finger playing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_handball" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">handball</a> that morning. Craig examines his hand, and tells Ehrlich that he wants to see him in his office at 10 o'clock. Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse) is also in the stairwell, and he encounters his friend Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox), sitting on the stairs with a letter in his hand. He's behind on his student loan payments, and faces legal action.<br />
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In the E.R., Nurse Shirley Daniels (Ellen Bry) is on the phone, explaining to someone that their doctors do not make house calls. Shirley asks Jack to speak to the man, who has been tying up the phone line for twenty minutes. Jack asks Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) to cover for him while he makes the house call. Wayne says that "house calls are obsolete, like rotary engines. Not only that, they're impractical, time-consuming, and you're liable to get a parking ticket." Jack tells the man he's on his way, and asks Wayne and Shirley if one of them has an umbrella.<br />
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Jack arrives at the apartment. A Mr. Lukovic (George Morfogen) answers the door, annoyed that it took Jack so long to arrive. Jack examines a mute woman lying in bed with abdominal pain. He explains that Lukovic should have brought her to the hospital, where they have the equipment to do a proper diagnosis. Jack spots an empty glass of homemade eggnog next to the bed, and suspects food poisoning. He gives Lukovic a prescription to fill, but Lukovic doesn't understand why Jack didn't have anything to give her. Jack explains that there are too many drugs to bring along. Lukovic insists on paying Jack, and gives him a $20 bill.<br />
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In Dr. Craig's office, Craig tells Ehrlich that if he wants to be a surgeon, it takes a higher order of discipline, commitment, and self-sacrifice. A surgeon's most important tool, after his mind, is his hands, explains Mark, as he stands next to the plaster cast of his hands he received for winning the Cushing Left Anterior Descending Artery award. You can study for years, and one little mistake, like going for a killer in a handball game, and it's over. He leaves Ehrlich with wisdom from his mentor, former Chief of Surgery Dr. David Domedion: "When you go into O.R., wash your hands. When you're coming out, <i>watch</i> your hands."<br />
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Rosenthal rushes towards a patient's room, from which screaming noises can be heard. It's Rockin' Ralph (Richard Marcus), squatting on a dresser in another patient's room, flapping his arms and squawking, and ignoring Rosenthal's orders.<br />
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Wayne and Victor are chatting in the hallway, dodging drips from the ceiling. Wayne shows Victor a set of x-rays, and stops to help a lost patient while Victor steps on the elevator. The doors begin to close, and Victor absentmindedly sticks his injured hand between them to stop them from closing.<br />
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On his way to the E.R., Wayne chats with Peter about the aftermath from his recent mugging. The thieves have charged $6,000 on Wayne's credit card, and now when he works he worries about being victimized again. As Peter treats a patient, he compares the theft Wayne experienced with being ripped off by oil sheiks and student loan administrators. Wayne's thieves have started using his driver's license as fake identification.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Jack Morrison agrees to another house call.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, Jack is once again on the telephone with Mr. Lukovic. He wants another house call, and he tells Jack there's a baby who can't breathe. Jack says he'll be there in a half an hour, when his shift is over.<br />
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In his office, psychiatrist Dr. Hugh Beale (G.W. Bailey) tells Ralph that Mrs. Petcher, the woman whose room Ralph invaded, has made a formal complaint to Westphall. Ralph admits he's been having a hard time since Jane left, but he feels he's had a breakthrough: he wants to get out of his head and turn his focus outwards. Beale asks him why he was quacking in Mrs. Petcher's room. Ralph says it was time to herald his revelation to the world, and takes a bite out of his empty coffee cup.<br />
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In the locker room, Jack is preparing to make his second house call. Wayne tells him he's got a Good Samaritan complex, and that if he's going to be putting himself at risk, he ought to buy a gun, like Wayne did. Out in the hallway, Ehrlich is walking with Dr. Philip Chandler (Denzel Washington) when Chandler bumps into a staffer. The man drops a tray, resulting in broken glass and spilled medical supplies on the floor. Phil asks Victor to help, and Victor promptly refuses, citing Craig's dictum that he be careful with his hands. Jack passes by Dr. Wade (Sagan Lewis), whose cowboy-hat-wearing patient (Billy Ray Sharkey) insists on having a male doctor treat him. He's got blood in his semen.<br />
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This latest house call involves a child who likely has asthma. Jack is impressed that Mr. Lukovic can speak Arabic. Lukovic explains that he used to run a butcher shop, where he had to speak to the customers in their language. Under pressure from the competition from grocery stores, he sold his shop and retired early. His wife passed away and now he's restless and wants to care for his friends. Jack says it's better to take them to the hospital, but Lukovic once had to wait four hours with a broken nose in an E.R. where no one cared about him.<br />
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In the E.R., Wayne's next patient is a Mr. Murray (Ray Liotta). He's wearing a jacket from the same gang, the Irish Scorpions, as the people who assaulted him. When Wayne asks Murray how he got the gash on the back of his shoulder and Wayne doubts his answer, Murray yells at him and tells him to get to work. Luther (Eric Laneuville) calls for Wayne, and when he steps away, Luther tells him about the guy's affiliation. Wayne tells Luther to get security. Back behind the curtain, Wayne asks Murray to lie down, but Murray is impatient.<br />
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"Just relax, Mr. Murray, you're gonna be here for a while. I, I've got to soak the wound in betadine, and then I'm gonna, uh, give you some local anesthesia."<br />
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"No, no, no, wait, wait, you ain't gonna put me to sleep."<br />
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"Just your back in order to infiltrate the skin and reach the subcutaneous tissue around the area of the wound."<br />
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"Will you speak English?"<br />
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"I will if you will."<br />
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"You know something, you're a jerk."<br />
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"Well, actually, I'm Lithuanian."<br />
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"I ain't got time to waste with you, pal, so you just hurry up!"<br />
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"One mustn't rush the healing process, Mr. Murray, I'm liable to make a mistake and leave you, uh, permanently disfigured." (Apparently, Wayne hasn't learned his lesson about watching his tongue when treating gang members.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wayne chases an Irish gang member through the halls.</td></tr>
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When Murray tries to leave, Wayne draws his pistol. He tells Murray to slowly put his knife on the gurney, but Murray shoves him, and takes off running. Wayne chases him through the halls, where Murray knocks over a few people and a cart. He spots a window at the end of a hallway, crashes through it, and runs away.<br />
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At 1:37 PM in Westphall's office, Donald is angry with Fiscus, and threatens suspension. Wayne cites the three attacks on Cathy Martin and the one on Wendy Armstrong, but Westphall (echoing Nurse Louise in the previous episode) tells him that it doesn't matter: it is not permissible to carry a gun in the hospital under any circumstances. Fiscus is angry, but Westphall reminds him: Murray wasn't the guy who assaulted him, and as the patient, he's entitled to medical care. And if Westphall catches Wayne with the gun again, that's the end of his residency. Wayne empties the gun's bullets on to Westphall's desk and leaves.<br />
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In the cafeteria, Dr. Wade is telling Dr. Ehrlich about the "genuine cowboy" from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock,_Texas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lubbock, Texas</a> that she treated, who now says that in the future, he'll insist on being treated by a woman doctor. Ehrlich suggests she must have handled him very gently. Ehrlich avoids handling a hot plate, and tells Jackie that Craig has demanded that he, as an aspiring surgeon, must stop playing handball. Jackie, similarly, was told the she should give up her carpentry hobby if she wants to be a surgeon.<br />
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Also in the cafeteria, the hospital's dietician (Barbara Perry) tells Dr. Beale that every time she picks up the tray from Ralph's room, the food hasn't been touched, but the plastic utensils, milk carton, paper cup, and place mat are missing. Beale tells her what's up: Ralph has taken to eating garbage.<br />
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The sliding doors to the E.R. open, and in rushes Myra White (Karen Landry), carrying daughter Megan (Candace Cameron) in her arms. She ate some mothballs. Shirley takes Megan from Myra, and Phil asks Myra what kind of mothballs Megan ate. Myra doesn't know. Phil suggests she go with Luther to call a neighbor to find out, as they need to know the type of toxin involved. Peter arrives and wants an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasogastric_intubation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NG tube</a> put in her, as there could have been <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=naphthalene" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">naphthalene</a> in them, but Phil wants to wait. Luther returns with the name of the toxin, and it wasn't naphthalene, so Phil's course of treatment is appropriate. Peter calms down, and tells Myra that Megan will be alright.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Beale finds Ralph's garbage stash.</td></tr>
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Dr. Beale is visiting Ralph's room, and finds Ralph's "compost heap": a stash of garbage in a pillow case. Ralph's new passion is environmentalism, and he's concerned about garbage and pollution. Beale cuts off Ralph's ecological screed to tell him he has to stop eating garbage. Ralph agrees, if Beale thinks that's what's best.<br />
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Jack arrives in the E.R. lounge to comfort Myra. Megan has been vomiting, which is a good sign. Megan was home sick, and Myra was tired from cleaning the house, so she took a nap. Megan got into the mothballs while Myra was sleeping. Myra asks Jack to tell Peter to forgive her. Phil arrives with Megan, and she's healthy enough to return home.<br />
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Phil enters the on-call room to find Wayne. Wayne went for a "long, therapeutic walk." He confesses that his issue started on September 12, 1968, the day he started high school. His first act of rebellion was to roll a bowling ball down the school's main hallway. Wayne confesses that he has a hard time dealing with authority figures. He only ever wanted to work in emergency medicine, but now he's scared to go back in there. Phil tells him that everyone is scared, and that as a black man, he often has to deal with situations where people hate him just for being who he is, and he has to know that he can handle himself no matter what happens. Wayne calms down, goes to his locker, and takes out his recent purchase. "Want to buy a gun?" he asks Phil.<br />
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At home, Jack has cosied up to the fireplace with his wife, Nina (Deborah White), but the phone rings. It's for Jack, and it's Mr. Lukovic. Jack tells him he can't go over there every time someone Lukovic knows has a problem, and that he should take them to a hospital or find a regular G.P. He hangs up the phone.<br />
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7:45 PM... So much for holding his ground. Jack has answered the house call. It's a man with a failing heart, and there's nothing Jack can do. Lukovic tells Jack that there's another man who needs attention, but Jack is on call that night and can't visit him. Lukovic goes on a rant about how things were different in the old days, and merchants had more personal relationships with their customers. Who is going to take care of all the shut-ins? "In my time, men became doctors because it was a calling from God. But no, you doctors today, you're spoiled, you're selfish. You might as well be a lawyer or an accountant." Jack gets up to leave, and tells Lukovic not to call him again.<br />
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Dr. Craig is in his office, consulting for another doctor, when a frustrated Ehrlich barges in. He appreciates Dr. Craig's guidance and advice, but he's going to continue to play handball and surf. He started going flaky when Craig chastised him, but he doesn't want to carry on that way. He apologizes for interrupting, but he's glad he did, and he leaves. Craig says to his colleague, "What can I tell you? He's from California."<br />
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Jack arrives in the E.R. It's been a slow night so far. Jack asks Peter how Megan is doing, and tries to intervene on Myra's behalf, but Peter isn't having it. "I've been calling home in the middle of the afternoon every day for about a year now. And I've been wishing that Myra wouldn't answer the phone. I've been wishing she wasn't even there. I've been wishing this whole thing was just a dream. But it's not. I mean, she does answer the phone, and the next thing I know, we get to arguing. Usually about money. I mean, yesterday, she was upset because there was a sale on sneakers at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Marsh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jordan Marsh</a> and I didn't have enough for Megan to get a pair. Well, listen man, I want Megan to have sneakers, too. I can remember when Myra couldn't wait for me to get home at night. And now she can't stand for me to touch her. Ah, just the sound of my voice... We haven't made love since she was pregnant with Timothy."<br />
<br />
Shirley interrupts. Mr. Lukovic is on the phone. Jack tells her to tell Lukovic that Jack isn't there.<br />
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Peter arrives at home. Myra tells him that Megan's asleep, and there's meatloaf to eat, but Peter ignores her. Fight begins. This time, however, Myra's going to be the one to leave. "For once, you stay and you deal with it."<br />
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Back in the E.R., Jack spots Mr. Lukovic, watching through a window while Shirley performs CPR on one of his friends. Jack steps in, and with the defibrillator, they save the man's life. When Jack tells Lukovic that his friend will be alright, Lukovic is anything but grateful.<br />
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isn't dead.</td></tr>
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"You bastard!"<br />
<br />
"I said he'll be okay."<br />
<br />
"He could have died because you didn't come. He went through all this pain just now because of you. Because you didn't come when I called. You selfish, lazy--"<br />
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"That's enough. All right? I've heard enough. When am I gonna learn? Every time I stick my neck out, I end up regretting it. Don't you see, if you hadn't brought him in here, he'd be dead now? So don't give me that. About how rotten I am and how this world stinks. It was different in your time. I know it's changing. It's changing too fast. And I know it's terrifying for you. It terrifies me, too. I'm going to be a father. I have to bring my children into this world. I don't want to be left behind any more than you do. But it's not my fault. So don't lay it on my shoulders."<br />
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"Okay. I won't call you again."<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Rain":</i><br />
<ul>
<li>This episode contains the first mention of Dr. Craig's mentor, Dr. David Domedion.</li>
<li>Dr. Craig lectures Ehrlich about the dangers of a surgeon being careless with his hands. Mark does exactly that in the season four finale, <a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/er.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"E.R."</a>.</li>
<li>Ray Liotta, who played Murray, would go on to movie stardom. He's probably best known for playing mobster <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hill" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Henry Hill</a> in Martin Scorsese's <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=goodfellas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Goodfellas</i></a>.</li>
<li>Continuity error: When Wayne is chasing Murray, Murray runs towards a window, in front of which is a statue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eligius" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">St. Eligius</a>. After he crashes through the window and runs away, we see the window from the outside, and there's no statue there, allowing the viewer a clear view of Fiscus in pursuit, gun drawn. </li>
<ul>
<li>It's possible, however, that Murray knocked over the statue, and they just didn't show it. But given how much they equated "action" with "stuff being knocked over and glass being broken" back in those days (what I call a "<i>Hill Street Blues</i> moment"), I would think they would have shown that. I'd guess it was more a matter of shot composition.</li>
</ul>
<li>Candace Cameron was not credited for her appearance as Megan White.</li>
<li>Just my personal opinion here... With all respect to Tom Fontana, who is an excellent writer, this is my least favorite episode of the entire series. That's because Mr. Lukovic is my least favorite character of the entire series, and his story is my least favorite story of the entire series. Also not a fan of Ralph's shrill squawking as he squats by the window. If those characters weren't meant to be sympathetic, mission accomplished.</li>
<ul>
<li>The rest of the episode is really good, actually. I think it's just these two performances that irritate me.</li>
</ul>
<li>To me, the speech that Mr. Lukovic gives Jack about how things used to be different in his day, when people cared about each other, has a very similar feel to the speech that Mr. Popovich (also an Eastern European immigrant) delivers on the <i>Hill Street Blues</i> episode, "The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue", about how things used to be nicer back in the day: </li>
<ul>
<li>"When Mary and me were raising up our little ones, this was a nice neighborhood. I could send my daughter Libushka down to the grocery store for milk anytime, day or night. There was this Polish bakery, they made fresh bread every day. You would bring it home still warm from the oven. Now, you go to the supermarket, you pay a dollar-eighty for what? A loaf of chemical garbage. People used to keep up their places. Now, you got the n-----s, and s---s, and gy----s, and there is garbage all over and no one gives a damn about it anymore." etc.</li>
</ul>
<li>There's a lesson we can learn from this episode. If you don't want someone to call you, asking you to help them, don't reinforce the behavior by helping them every time they call you.</li>
</ul>
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Here's "Rain", on DailyMotion:<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norman Lloyd</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Dr. Daniel Auschlander</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116885/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellen Bry</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Nurse Shirley Daniels</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594540/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Miyori</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Dr. Wendy Armstrong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604420/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">George Morfogen</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Mr. Lukovic</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Marcus</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Ralph</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924695/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deborah White</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Nina Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485071/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Karen Landry</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Myra White</span><br />
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Co-Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000501/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ray Liotta</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Murray</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485637/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric G. Laneuville</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Luther Hawkins</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507722/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sagan Lewis</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Dr. Wade</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0674977/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara Perry</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Dietician</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788814/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Billy Ray Sharkey</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Cowboy</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2747032/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nora Ekserjan</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Dawa's Mother</span><br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere</i> on Hulu or elsewhere? Feel free to comment on this episode below.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-36828701605479887012019-10-23T20:00:00.000-04:002019-10-29T19:07:39.511-04:00"Tweety and Ralph"<i>Description</i>: Beale must decide if Ralph, the "Birdman of St. Eligius", is fit to be released along with his mate Tweety. The search for the source of Legionnaires' continues. Fiscus, traumatized by his recent assault, starts carrying a handgun in the ER. Cavanero befriends a young woman facing a hysterectomy. Ellen Craig deals with the elusive Dr. Barnum.<br />
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"Tweety and Ralph" is the 8th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired December 21, 1982.<br />
Teleplay by Elizabeth Diggs<br />
Story by Joshua Brand & John Falsey and Elizabeth Diggs<br />
Directed by Mark Tinker<br />
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<i>Recap:</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Craig has received another message from the elusive<br />
and fictional Dr. Pat Barnum.</td></tr>
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8:42 AM at the nurses' station... Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels), flanked by Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney) and Dr. Vijay Kochar (Kavi Raz), has received another message from the elusive Dr. Pat Barnum. After Craig leaves, Ben expresses his confusion. He's been the one leaving messages from Barnum as a joke, but he didn't leave this one. Vijay confesses that he decided to get in on the prank.<br />
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Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.) passes by with Dr. Annie Cavanero (Cynthia Sikes). He's struggling to understand why a patient would have a "coming out party" for her hysterectomy. Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) notices that Orderly Luther Hawkins (Eric Laneuville) is tired. He was up until 5 AM, and he's also got a box with holes in the lid.<br />
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Rosenthal checks in on the pregnant psych patient Jane Sondell (Laraine Newman), who's consumed with food cravings. Helen describes her first pregnancy, during which she gained 45 pounds and a set of stretch marks.<br />
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Dr. Daniel Auschlander (Norman Lloyd), having returned from his vacation in Mexico, is standing in the sequestered ward five with Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders), who briefs him on the developments of the Legionnaires' Disease outbreak that occurred while Daniel was away. They haven't yet found the source of the contamination.<br />
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Luther has a medical inquiry for Dr. Philip Chandler (Denzel Washington). He's wondering if animals, such as pigeons, can suffer from psychosomatic disorders.<br />
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Dr. Cavanero and Dr. Samuels are descending the stairs. Annie spent the weekend sailing the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Harbor,_Maine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bar Harbor</a> with her new beau, Patrick. Ben is impressed that she chose pleasure over work. Patrick also cheered up a young girl who was a patient of Annie's. Ben hasn't felt that way about someone since he was newly married and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateaugay_(horse)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chateaugay</a> won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Derby" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kentucky Derby</a>.<br />
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Cavanero visits dancer Leslie Stevenson (Molly Cheek), who's in for a hysterectomy. Her room is decorated for a party. Annie is coming to her party, and asks if she can bring her <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=chubby+checker" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chubby Checker</a> records, given that she excelled in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_(dance)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twist</a> contest in her youth. As Cavanero leaves, the look on Leslie's face suggests she's not as comfortable with the procedure as she's been letting on.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Beale attempts to defuse the standoff between <br />
Ralph and Bill the security guard.</td></tr>
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In a storage room, security guard Bill Austin (Charlie Robinson) has orders to dispose of the nest that has been built out of stolen medical supplies by avian-delusional psychiatric patient Rockin' Ralph (Richard Marcus), but Ralph is defending his territory by pelting Bill with building materials. Psychiatrist Dr. Hugh Beale (G.W. Bailey) arrives to mediate the situation. When asked if he would move his creation, the unstable Ralph unleashes a squawk and a torrent of paranoid verbiage: "Cuban speculators are buying up all the 'E' tickets at Disney World! Provocateur! Defoliator! Free <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=rachel+carson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachel Carson</a>!" Beale tells Bill that he'll take responsibility if he lets Ralph keep the nest in its place for the time being. Ralph squawks and struts in triumph.<br />
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In the cafeteria, Annie is discussing Leslie Stevenson's case with Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori). The hysterectomy is necessary because of her stage 2 cervical carcinoma. Wendy is not a fan of the paternalistic Dr. Allenson, the attending physician on the case, who doesn't seem to think it's a big deal to remove a woman's uterus. Annie's mother went into early menopause after her ovaries were removed. Cavanero feels like Leslie is someone she could be friends with. Wendy suggests that there would be a lot fewer surgeries if it were men who were affected.<br />
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At another table, Ehrlich has a stack of textbooks to peruse ahead of a lecture by Dr. Craig on pediatric cardiac surgery. Chandler suggests he "take the offensive"--ask some obscure, intelligent question to impress Craig and head off any questions. Chandler sees Craig heading their way and gets in on the fun. "But, if I were you, I'd ask Dr. Barnum. Yeah, you see, he's the only one who could understand the complexities of a case like this." Craig stops to listen, and Victor drops his textbooks on Craig's feet.<br />
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In the psych ward, Ralph explains the ins and outs of nest-engineering to Jane. Unlike the academics who study the topic, Ralph got his hands dirty and built one using materials from his environment. Jane refuses to raise her child in an open-topped nest, not even for science. But a two-storey house in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex,_Massachusetts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Essex</a> would be just fine.<br />
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Luther approaches Ralph. He thinks his pigeon, Julius, has a psychological problem. They take Julius to a supply closet for a closer look. Luther raises <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_racing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">racing pigeons</a> for sport, and the competition is fierce. Ralph asks for some <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=mercurochrome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mercurochrome</a>, mineral oil, and cotton swabs. He inspects Julius further, and finds a thorn that was wedged under Julius's wing, out of reach. Luther asks how Ralph knows so much about birds. Ralph replies, "I <i>am</i> a bird."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Craig is disappointed by Ehrlich's hollow attempt to <br />
impress.</td></tr>
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In a lecture room, Dr. Craig is discussing <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=tetralogy+of+fallot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tetralogy of Fallot</a>. Victor tries Phil's method of asking a question to demonstrate his knowledge of the subject, but he's not prepared for Dr. Craig's follow-up question. Craig begins explaining, and calls Ehrlich a moron. "You think I wouldn't know a loaded question? Residents have been trying to get away with that kind of crap ever since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Semmelweis</a> first washed his hands. I'm disappointed. I thought you were better than that."<br />
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Craig asks Chandler, who knows the correct explanation. Samuels, also in attendance, checks his watch. A moment later, a page is heard over the intercom, calling Dr. Pat Barnum to the ICU. While Craig's back is turned, Samuels nods to a doctor across the table, who then gets up and leaves. Craig becomes flustered, thinking he's just missed the elusive Barnum. He quickly excuses himself and chases after the man, giving everyone a good chuckle.<br />
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Jane is waiting in Dr. Beale's office. He doesn't see any reason why Jane needs to stay in the hospital. Jane admits that she can't leave Ralph behind, and she thinks he's ready to be out in the world with her. Beale doesn't agree. Jane cites Ralph's exemplary academic achievements, and Beale acknowledges that Ralph is highly intelligent, but doubts that he can handle day-to-day life. Jane wants Ralph to have a chance. Beale suggests taking them out to dinner, but reminds Jane that on Ralph's last day pass, he was gone for a week and returned with slit wrists. Beale, nonetheless, will grant Ralph this test, and Jane is grateful for the opportunity.<br />
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Dr. Auschlander regales Westphall with a big-fish story from his vacation. Donald gets a phone call from the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/" target="_blank">CDC</a> in Atlanta. They found the source of the Legionnaires' Disease, in the head of an auxiliary shower off ward five used for patient overflow. They can re-open the ward.<br />
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Beale is in an elevator with Rosenthal and Ralph's nest: Beale is letting Ralph keep the nest in his room. As odd as Jane and Ralph's situation is, she's optimistic that Jane's instincts will ensure a positive outcome for their baby. The elevator doors open, and Helen leaves to greet Ellen Craig (Bonnie Bartlett).<br />
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Ellen is aware that Mark is in surgery, but she's seeking someone else, and spots him: Dr. Ben Samuels. She wants to talk somewhere private, and they adjourn to the doctor's lounge.<br />
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"I want to talk to you about Barnum."<br />
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"Who?"<br />
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"Dr. Pat Barnum."<br />
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"Oh, yeah, right, um... He's a good man, I'm told."<br />
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"You're Barnum. And don't try to deny it. There's a sucker born every minute, but I'm not one of them. Mark wouldn't be one either if he had any kind of memory. Like the time you had the nurses set up an abdominal tray instead of a cardiac tray for a triple bypass. Okay, let me tell you what's been going on since Dr. Barnum entered our lives. Mark spent all day Saturday and Sunday washing, polishing, vacuuming that car, just in hopes that Dr. Barnum would materialize. Last night he spent three hours trying to get the ping out of the cylinders... Yesterday, he cut his hand. You know how that can scare a surgeon? He's obsessed, Ben. And I'm here to tell you that it's gone far enough."<br />
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"I'm sorry. I'll, uh, I'll tell him."<br />
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"Thank you. My stomach's been in knots. I was afraid I'd have to be the one."<br />
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"Probably because you smoke too much. You want some coffee?"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leslie Stevenson's mother isn't happy about her daughter's<br />
"coming out" party.</td></tr>
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There's a group of people waiting outside Leslie Stevenson's room as Annie approaches. Mrs. Stevenson (Nan Martin), Leslie's mother, tells Annie about how Leslie was always full of life, even as a small child. When Annie suggests that Leslie can still adopt a child, her mother doesn't think that will happen. "I know the way she is. This will settle it for her. You younger women, you want your careers. Maybe you think children are a burden. It's not that I, I want grandchildren, it's just that nothing can bring so much joy into your life. Nothing. Now she'll never know that. That's why she can act like this. She just doesn't know."<br />
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In the E.R., Wayne is treating a child with "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pac Man</a> fever", when something falls on the floor. He bends to pick it up, and Nurse Louise notices that Wayne has a gun in a holster strapped to his belt. She asks to speak to him in private, <i>now</i>. She informs him that guns are not allowed in the hospital. He protests that yesterday he had a Gomer (Get Out of My Emergency Room) with a sawed-off shotgun. He asks her to hold it, proud of his acquisition, but she tells him he'd better get rid of it.<br />
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Jane is trying to prepare Ralph for dinner at the restaurant. Ralph is insulted at the notion that he, a scientist, has to be tested like this. Jane wants to role-play a situation at the restaurant to at least reduce her stress about the outing, but Ralph can't resist clowning around. She wants him to take it seriously. He doesn't see why he can't have fun. "What's my next test, huh? Do you want me to walk across the <a href="http://b.u./">B.U.</a> bridge without jumping off?" He sees her concern, apologizes, and promises her he won't screw up.<br />
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At 6:04 PM, Dr. Craig is finishing up with a patient, whom he advises to stop smoking and start exercising, or the next time Craig sees him will be at his wake. Ben asks Mark if they can talk. He explains that Dr. Barnum doesn't exist, and confesses that he made Barnum up.<br />
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"Why would you do a thing like that?"<br />
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"Well, it was, uh, sort of a joke. I'm sorry, I guess I, I should apologize..."<br />
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"No, no, don't."<br />
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"I mean, I know I made you feel stupid, and..."<br />
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"Oh, boy, you really got me this time, Samuels."<br />
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"Yeah."<br />
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"I really went for it, didn't I?"<br />
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"Um... Hook, line, and sinker."<br />
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"Well, it's funny, right?" Mark lets out a strained laugh.<br />
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"Well, I'm glad you see the humor in the situation."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Mark Craig shows Dr. Ben Samuels how well he<br />
can take a joke.</td></tr>
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"The humor, are you kidding? It's hysterical. I mean, when I think of the, uh, pages on the intercom, and the, uh, and the phone messages..."<br />
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"Yeah, the ping in the cylinders..."<br />
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"And the name, Barnum. I mean, really, the name..."<br />
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"P.T. Barnum... You get it?"<br />
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"I got it." Mark punches Ben in the jaw, sending him sprawling to the floor. "You're demented."<br />
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At 8:18 PM, Westphall visits Auschlander in his office. The wards are operating smoothly again. Donald asks Daniel why he didn't tell him about losing the federal grant. Daniel didn't want to pile on. Donald realizes they'll have to wait another year for the new <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=emi+scanner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EMI scanner</a>. (Both of these are things Administrator B.J. Cummings was concerned about in the previous episode.) Daniel says they'll have to work harder to find the money somewhere else. Donald doesn't like that money is such a concern in medicine, and that public relations is more important than patient care. Maybe "<i>as</i> important," suggests Daniel. There's a knock on the door--it's Donald's daughter, Elizabeth, whom Donald promised he would take shopping. <br />
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At the restaurant, Ralph, Jane, and Hugh are eating dinner. It's going fine. Hugh is telling a story from his childhood in Mississippi. Ralph looks across the room. A woman has a grey cat in her lap. He returns his attention to Hugh. He looks back. The cat is staring at him. The woman lets the cat climb down to the floor, where she feeds it some food. Ralph is looking stressed. The cat heads his way, and looks up at him, meowing. Ralph snaps, jumps up on his chair, and begins squawking loudly, flapping his arms like wings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The reality of Leslie Stevenson's hysterectomy has set in.</td></tr>
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Back at St. Eligius... Annie is at the nurse's station, and a nurse tells her about her leukemia patient, who is tired of giving so much blood. The nurse asks if she should move up giving Leslie Stevenson her medication, given that her surgery will now be earlier on the schedule. Annie offers to do it. Leslie is worried that men will consider her "damaged goods." She wonders when you tell someone that you can't have children. On the first date, over dinner? When you fall in love, then spring it? She starts crying. She was pregnant once, five years earlier. Her boyfriend wanted to marry her, but she wanted to focus on her dance career.<br />
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Annie asks Ben to give Leslie some bedside manner tomorrow morning. She confesses that it's probably not going to work out with Patrick. She can already see the signs. Leslie Stevenson's case has her worried: she wanted a career so she put having a family on hold until it was too late. Annie doesn't want that to happen to her. Ben says he'll take good care of her friend tomorrow.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane says goodbye to Rockin' Ralph.</td></tr>
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At 9:14 AM, Ralph is back in the hospital, sitting in his nest. Jane enters his room. She tells him not to be angry at himself. She spoke to her father for the first time in a long time, and he wants to help. Ralph stares, not acknowledging her. "Ralph, do you hear me? I remember when we first met. I was in my room, crying so hard they had to put me in restraints. You came in and started talking to me about flying. About the swallows in Mexico, and how you migrated fifteen hundred miles with them to the steeple in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Capistrano,_California" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">San Juan Capistrano</a>. How you soared the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blue Ridge Mountains</a>, in an Indian summer sun, and landed finally on the highest branch of a thousand-year-old pine tree, and looked down on a field of absolute stillness. Are you there now, Ralph? Is the wind filling your ears? The thing I'm trying to tell you is that the greatest day of my life was the day I met you. And no matter what anybody says about either of us, our child will know that, in his heart. Goodbye, my high flying bird. My eagle."<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Tweety and Ralph":</i><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateaugay_(horse)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chateaugay</a> won the Kentucky Derby in 1963.</li>
<li>Charlie Robinson (a.k.a. Charles G. Robinson) who played security guard Bill Austin, would go on to play the no-nonsense make-up man Newdell on <i>Buffalo Bill</i>, and he would star on <i>Night Court</i> as the court clerk, Mac.</li>
<li>Molly Cheek, who played Leslie Stevenson, would go on to star on <i>It's Garry Shandling's Show</i> and <i>Harry and the Hendersons</i>, and played Jim's mom in the <i>American Pie</i> movies.</li>
<li>I don't usually get on a soapbox about issues with the show, but I seriously dislike the way they portray patients in the psych wards on this show, at least in season one. Doesn't jibe with my experience in the slightest. People there just hang out, pass the time, and talk to each other. It wouldn't make for good TV. Nothing as goofy as what they portrayed.</li>
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<li>It's enough of a stretch that there would be two patients like Ralph and Jane in the same psych ward who thought they were birds, but there's also a patient named Henry who has "an owl fixation."</li>
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<li>Mark cut his hand working on the car, which worried Ellen. In season five, Mark deals with the nerve damage he suffered when he cut his hand punching a picture frame in <a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/er.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"E.R."</a>.</li>
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Here's a compilation of the Dr. Craig/Dr. Barnum storyline:<br />
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Here's "Tweety and Ralph" on DailyMotion:<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
and<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norman Lloyd</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Daniel Auschlander</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116885/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellen Bry</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Shirley Daniels</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594540/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Miyori</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wendy Armstrong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628170/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Laraine Newman</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Jane Sondell</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Marcus</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Ralph Selover</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0154882/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Molly Cheek</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Leslie Stevenson</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552832/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nan Martin</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mrs. Stevenson</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058783/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bonnie Bartlett</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Ellen Craig</span><br />
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Co-Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485637/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t21" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric G. Laneuville</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Luther Hawkins</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0732455/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charlie Robinson</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Bill Austin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716067/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roxanne Reese</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Louise</span><br />
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With<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706176/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lisa Rafel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044133/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Martin Azarow</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Fat Man</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795038/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dana Short</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Elizabeth Westphall</span> <br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere</i> on Hulu? Feel free to comment on this episode below.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-68856263238727491752019-10-22T15:19:00.000-04:002019-10-26T12:54:38.152-04:00"Legionnaires (Part 2)"<i>Description</i>: Westphall orders the closure of a ward due to a Legionnaires outbreak, leaving the hospital vulnerable to a loss of funding. Beale discovers that a psychiatric patient was impregnated during her hospital stay. Fiscus gets mugged in the ER. Cavanero dates the fisherman who helped her deliver the baby by phone. Samuels pretends to be a buyer interested in Mark's classic car.<br />
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"Legionnaires (Part 2)" is the 7th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired December 14, 1982.<br />
Teleplay by Charles Rosin<br />
Story by Joshua Brand & John Falsey and Charles Rosin<br />
Directed by Mark Tinker<br />
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<i>Recap:</i><br />
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Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) gives a briefing to the hospital board about the evacuation of ward five due to a possible outbreak of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Legionnaires' Disease</a>. The ward will remain closed until they receive confirmation from Dr. Borovay from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. Hospital Administrator B.J. Cummings (Christopher Guest), who opposed closing the ward before they had made a conclusive diagnosis, wants to open the floor to questions. 44 patients have been moved to ward four, which was already at capacity. Cummings wants to know how the staff can possibly handle the workload.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ehrlich can't find one of his patients in the chaos that resulted<br />
from closing ward five.</td></tr>
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Cut to the ward. The hallways are buzzing with activity, and there's a chaotic pile of charts stacked at the nurses' station. Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.) can't find the chart for one of his patients, a woman named Carol Alaimo. Orderly Rooney (Lance Guest) tells Nurse Lucy Papandrao (Jennifer Savidge) about the illness he thinks he might have. Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels) gives a sales pitch for his classic car to Dr. Hugh Beale (G.W. Bailey). Expectant father Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse) asks Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox) about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamaze_technique" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lamaze</a>. Supply Manager Ramon Lopez (Rafael Campos) tells Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) about what's gone missing since they moved patients out of ward five: 2,100 tongue depressors, 5,400 cotton swabs, and 3,000 plastic strips. A patient named Mrs. Sabin (Edith Fellows) insists to Nurse Shirley Daniels (Ellen Bry) that she be released. Dr. Philip Chandler (Denzel Washington) gives a medication order to Nurse Skilling (Vivian Bonnell), who responds with an icy glare (see <a href="http://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/samuels-and-kid.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Samuels and the Kid"</a>). Rosenthal tells Morrison that their situation reminds her of her third marriage.<br />
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Rosenthal and Daniels notice that there's another call from room 412, where Shirley had just been ten minutes ago. The patient, Martha Mulvahey, has been a "pest", wanting her pillow propped up. Helen is sympathetic, given that Martha has a serious case of arthritis. Victor still can't find Carol Alaimo.<br />
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Helen takes the call from Martha Mulvahey (Ann Bronston). She wants help adjusting her bed, even though Helen points out that it takes the same amount of effort as pushing the call button. Martha apologizes, knowing that the staff is stretched beyond their limits at the moment.<br />
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Back in the board meeting, Cummings accuses Westphall of not taking responsibility for his actions. Donald insists that the measures he took were necessarily to save patients' lives, and he'd take the same measures again if he had to.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Craig provides a lesson in proper hand-washing methodology.</td></tr>
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In the surgical department, Dr. Craig and Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori) are scrubbing for surgery. Craig carries on about his car, and criticizes Wendy's hand-washing technique. Wendy complains to Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney) about Craig's obsession with his car: "I didn't spend four long years in med school to become a used car salesman."<br />
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Psychiatrist Dr. Hugh Beale is seeing his patient, Jane Sondell (Laraine Newman). Jane, a.k.a. Tweety, used to think she was a bird, and she had left the hospital two months earlier, seemingly in good shape. She had a panic attack while riding on public transit, so she came back to the hospital.<br />
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After the meeting, Westphall and Cummings share an elevator. Westphall comments that Cummings went "straight for the jugular." Donald says he doesn't know what's bugging Cummings, given that they've worked together before. Cummings replies that the only doctor he's worked with is Auschlander, who never would have let this situation happen.<br />
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Back in the chaos of ward four, Ehrlich finally loses his temper and yells to get everyone's attention. They stop and listen, and once more, he asks if anyone has seen Carol Alaimo. No one has, and the action resumes.<br />
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In Westphall's office, Ehrlich expresses his frustration. "I mean, when I was at Berkeley Memorial, I dealt with it all. You're talking bikers, mainliners, acid freaks, hardcore burnouts, I mean, heavy, heavy East Bay grease. But this place, this place is bonkers, Dr. Westphall. I mean, clinically, you know, beyond extradition. Hey, how am I supposed to know that, uh, what's her name, Carol Alaimo was transferred to Beth Zion. I mean, I'm not the attending... You know, it's like, uh... It's like we're always on the wrong end of an outside set at Santa Cruz, you know, and I'm out there scratching the water, trying to get out to get through to the wave, and all of a sudden, I see, uh, fifteen other surfers on their boards. Only none of them know how to surf, you understand? And they start wiping out, they're crashing, boards, bodies, cords, falling over each other, and, uh, and ultimately I feel like it's my fault, I don't know. But I'm not a flake, Dr. Westphall."<br />
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"Flakes don't graduate first in their class, doctor. Not even in California." Victor is concerned about Westphall's situation. Westphall assures that he's okay, despite rumors that Westphall's about to be fired.<br />
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In the cafeteria, Shirley comments that she heard that Westphall was suspended right after the board meeting. Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) is dining with Dr. Annie Cavanero, and he suspects that Annie's upbeat demeanor is indicative of a new romantic interest. Wayne confesses that he's single again. Wayne's suspicion is correct. She's seeing a fisherman named Patrick McFarlane--the man who helped her deliver Mrs. Rodriguez's baby over the phone.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane tells Beale about how she ended up pregnant.</td></tr>
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Also in the cafeteria, Jack suggests Peter take his wife to the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=bay+tower+room+boston+ma" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bay Tower Room</a> for her birthday, but Peter can't afford that. He's more interested in getting a good night's sleep. Beale approaches and asks Jack why he changed Jane's medication. Jack tells Beale that it's standard procedure to take a pregnant woman off thorazine.<br />
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Back in Beale's office, Jane tells him how she met a man named Bob while listening to a chamber music ensemble in the park near her workplace. She says he's gone, and he doesn't live in Boston.<br />
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Wayne spots a man in the hallway holding two containers of Chinese food. It's Patrick (Robert Davi), and he's waiting for Dr. Cavanero. Wayne kids him, "What's it like being as big as all outdoors?" before Annie intervenes and leaves with her date.<br />
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At the nurses' station, Rosenthal and Daniels are again occupied with a Martha Mulvahey call when Dr. Vijay Kochar (Kavi Raz) approaches with the news: they just heard from the CDC, and it is indeed Legionnaires' Disease.<br />
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Later, in the doctor's lounge, the staff has gathered to watch a television news broadcast where a reporter is asking Dr. Westphall about the Legionnaires' situation. Phil asks Peter what he's still doing there, which reminds White that he needs to get home to his wife. Wayne is not thrilled to see Cathy enter the room. Samuels asks Wendy how Craig's car sale is going. Phil calls the news report an "anticlimax". Jack comments that if they'd caught it sooner, the patients wouldn't have died, and Wendy adds that Phil wouldn't have had his issue with Nurse Skilling. Not what Phil wants to hear.<br />
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Martha Mulvahey has called for a nurse for the fifth time that night, this time to turn on the faucet. Shirley tells Martha to run it for twenty minutes, until Shirley's shift is over.<br />
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Westphall stops by Beale's office to see if Hugh needs a ride, but Beale is riding home with Samuels. Beale tells Westphall that Jane is back in the hospital, and pregnant. "She spent one very passionate afternoon in the arms of a total stranger, and now she's three months pregnant. The problem is she's only been out of here for two months. Somebody stole the cookies from the cookie jar."<br />
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Hugh invites Donald to join him and Samuels for a beer, but Donald wants to prepare the house for his son's birthday. Beale offers him a compliment: "Donald, don't let this stuff get you down. As coach <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=bum+phillips" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bum Phillips</a> once said of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=earl+campbell" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Earl Campbell</a>, 'You may not be the only one in your class, but it sure wouldn't take long to call roll.'"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wayne incurs the wrath of a pair of Irish gang members.</td></tr>
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Wayne has drawn the night shift in the E.R. He treats Willie Andrews (David Packer), an Irish gang member with a knife wound to his hand. Andrews and his associate do not appreciate Dr. Fiscus's sense of humor.<br />
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In the on-call room, Jack is sleeping when Peter wakes him up. It's two in the morning. Peter has generously offered to take over Jack's shift, as he "happened to be in the neighborhood." Jack correctly guesses that Peter and Myra had a fight.<br />
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Wayne learns a valuable lesson: don't make fun of gang members. After recommending that Willie Andrews take a bath, his associate breaks a bottle over Wayne's head. After Wayne collapses to the floor, they take his wallet and run away. The next morning in the cafeteria, Wayne recounts the incident to Victor, Vijay, and Wendy. Victor recalls an incident in Berkeley where he ran afoul of some bikers, and tells Vijay he's lucky because his patients are out cold.<br />
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At the nurses' station, Mark is on the phone, trying to get a hold of someone named Dr. Pat Barnum. Helen has never heard of him, and suggests he try another hospital. Shirley tells Helen that she's not dealing with the latest Martha Mulvahey page, so Helen takes it herself. Martha is very sorry for the inconvenience, but she wants someone to wash her hair, even though they washed it yesterday. Helen lays down the law: they don't have enough staff for someone to spend forty minutes washing her hair. Martha apologizes, and her sympathy play works: Helen says someone will be coming within the hour.<br />
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Ramon is again discussing the $6,000 in missing supplies with Westphall. He thinks it's an inside job, but Westphall disagrees, as there's no money in it. Why would they steal tongue depressors when they could be stealing drugs? Ramon says Cummings won't pay for the missing materials, so Donald says he'll speak with him.<br />
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At the nurses' station... Lucy gives Dr. Craig a message that says that a Dr. Barnum wants to talk about buying Mark's car. Craig snaps when Lucy tells him that Barnum didn't leave his phone number. Morrison tells Rooney that he's being a hypochondriac. Helen tells Luther that Dr. Beale wants to see him. Mark places another phone call in search of Dr. Barnum. Skilling presents Rosenthal with a petition from the patients in 435 about the peeling paint in the bathroom.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Westphall and Cummings consider the possibility of<br />
shutting down St. Eligius.</td></tr>
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Dr. Borovay (Carl Byrd) discusses the plan for locating the source of the Legionnaires in ward five. If they can't find the point of origin in that ward, then potentially the entire hospital's water system could be compromised, and St. Eligius would be shut down. Borovay commends Westphall and Cummings for acting quickly, validating Donald's controversial decision.<br />
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Luther arrives at Dr. Beale's office. Hugh wants Luther's help in locating the father of Jane's baby. He explains his reasoning, citing St. Eligius's information flow:<br />
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"When you need help with a personal problem, you go to Dr. Westphall. When you need to get something done, you go to Nurse Rosenthal. But when you need to get right down to the dirt, you go to the eyes and the ears of this hospital."<br />
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"Doc, what you're asking me to do is to snoop and sneak and pry in other people's business."<br />
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"Fifty dollars."<br />
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"I'll ask around."<br />
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Back at the nurses' station... Helen takes a call from the computer service technician. Phil asks Skilling why one of his patients hasn't had his medication yet, to which Skilling responds with an epic eye-roll. Ehrlich can't find another patient's chart. Rosenthal gets angry with the computer guy, and with Luther, who took his time coming back from Beale's office. Helen tells Luther to clean up after the man with the peptic ulcer and to get a vase for another patient. And then room 412 rings again.<br />
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This time, Mulvahey has a friend coming to visit and she wants help putting on makeup. This time, Helen has had enough. "First it was the pillow, then the bed, then your hair needed washing. No more. Do you understand? No more. What do you think we do around here? This isn't a country club. Now look, Martha. I'm very sorry that you've got arthritis and I mean that. I'm very sorry that this happened to you, and you're sick, and I know that's hard for you. But we cannot cater to your every need. You are not the only patient in this hospital. If you keep calling like this, no one will respond when it's really important. Do you understand? When it is <i>really</i> important!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cummings isn't happy about St. Eligius's financial prospects.</td></tr>
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Westphall asks Cummings to sign the voucher for Ramon Lopez and the missing supplies. Cummings says no. Donald asks about the contingency money. It was spent on the ward closure. Westphall is getting annoyed, and feels Cummings is punishing him for their disagreement, even though Donald was proven right. Cummings is exasperated. "You've done a hell of a job, Donald. I just hope that other people remember what a good job you've done six or seven months down the line when we don't have the money for the new CAT scan, and we lose our backing from the Zellman Foundation, all because of the terrific job you've done." Cummings points out that the notoriety from the closure, as well as the media attention Donald garnered, will be a detriment to St. Eligius's fundraising efforts. "CDC reports don't make the evening news."<br />
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Back in the ward... Mark asks Hugh if he knows a Dr. Barnum. He explains the pressing need: Ellen wants a new car for her birthday, so he has to ditch his classic to make room. Annie doesn't know any Dr. Barnum, either. Skilling tries to get a patient to take his medication. Phil tries to help, so Skilling hands him the pill and walks away. A fight breaks out between two patients. Cathy catches up to Wayne. She heard about his mugging, and is concerned. He's not exactly thrilled to see her.<br />
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Helen checks in on Martha Mulvahey. She's lying on her side, hiding her face, clearly upset. Her ordeal has been getting worse over the past six years, and she can't even turn the pages of a book anymore. She had tried to put her makeup on by herself, unsuccessfully, and she doesn't want her friend to see her in this state. Helen, now sympathetic, offers to help.<br />
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Beale is still resisting Mark's sales pitch about the car, and Samuels asks why he doesn't want to buy it. Beale, in addition to some wisdom about not buying from someone who might operate on you, says that there's another buyer named Barnum who's interested. Ben confesses: he's Barnum.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rockin' Ralph serenades his Tweety bird.</td></tr>
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Luther approaches Beale: he's found the father. They quietly enter what appears to be a storage room. They can hear a man's voice, singing "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(Beatles_song)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blackbird</a>". It's Rockin' Ralph (Richard Marcus), perched atop the nest he's been building out of stolen medical supplies, serenading his love, Tweety a.k.a. Jane. That's why Jane came back.<br />
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Westphall enters Cummings's office. Cummings ended up approving the money for the stolen supplies, for which Donald is grateful. Westphall admits that he forgets that the two of them are ultimately working towards the same goal--keeping St. Eligius running--but they approach it from different angles. For doctors, medicine is a calling, but for Cummings, it's a business. Cummings is working on his resume. Knowing the board and the situation, it's only a matter of time before he'll be replaced.<br />
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After checking in on a patient, Phil finally apologizes to Skilling. "I've been twenty years with this hospital young man," Skilling replies. "Twenty years. That's practically as long as you've been on this planet. My way of doing things may not be to your liking, but it doesn't give you the right to attack my ability. Twenty years."<br />
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"Yes, ma'am." <br />
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"Here's some advice from an old lady who's seen many young men come and go. Pick your friends with great care. There's so many out there who would love to see you fail."<br />
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Meanwhile, at a local jewellery store that also sells guns and ammo, Wayne wants to buy a gun.<br />
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"What kind?" asks the shopkeeper.<br />
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"The kind that shoots."<br />
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Helen visits Donald in his office, advising that a patient is getting too fond of her medication. Donald is wrapping a present for his son's tenth birthday. Westphall's father was a school teacher, and was good at working with people. Donald doesn't feel like that every day. He resented the time his father spent with other people. Now he sees himself letting time with his children slip away from him.<br />
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Before going home, Helen pays one last visit to Martha Mulvahey's room. Her friend is visiting, and Martha looks happy.<br />
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At home, Donald's house is dark, still decorated for his son Tommy's party. He's greeted by his daughter, Lizzie (Dana Short). The party was okay, and Tommy's asleep. Lizzie's tired, too. He turns off the light, and they embrace.<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Legionnaires (Part 2)":</i><br />
<ul>
<li>There will only be one other two-part episode in the six seasons of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>: season four's Emmy-winning "Time Heals". </li>
<li>Thomas Babson, who played a reporter in "Legionnaires (Part 2)", "Bypass", and "Dr. Wyler, I Presume", also played one of the barfiles on <i>Cheers</i>. Despite the crossovers between <i>Cheers</i> and <i>St. Elsewhere</i> (I've counted three), it's a different character. The reporter signs off as "Larry Fishkin", while on <i>Cheers</i>, Babson was credited as "Tom".</li>
<li>I wonder if the show's writers had seen this <a href="https://www.bostonmagazine.com/best-of-boston-archive/1982/bay-tower-room-4/" target="_blank"><i>Boston Magazine</i> piece about the </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Bay Tower Room</a>, which they named Best Romantic Restaurant for 1982. Jack said, "It's a lovely view. Food's not bad, either." <i>Boston Magazine</i> said that the view is the best in town, but the food is "inconsistent." It is no longer in operation. Here's a story about it, <a href="https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2006/05/15/high-crimes/" target="_blank">from 2006</a>.</li>
<li>Hugh Beale on the phone: "Mrs. Stephens, I don't think your daughter-in-law is a witch. You saw it levitate? Well, perhaps it was an optical illusion." This reference to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bewitched" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Bewitched</i></a> is the writers' first clear shout-out to another TV show. Allusions like these will become a staple for <i>St. Elsewhere</i>'s writing staff and fans as the series progresses.</li>
<li>Looks like it used to be a lot easier to go to a store and buy a gun. (I'll admit, I don't know how easy it is to buy a gun in Boston nowadays.) </li>
<li>Again, it's yet to be established that Tommy is autistic. Given what Tommy is like later, maybe that's why the party was only "okay." I'd say at this point, it looks like Tommy is just a regular kid. It's hard to guess what the writers' intentions were. </li>
<li>This is the first appearance of Dana Short as Elizabeth Westphall.</li>
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Here's the episode, on DailyMotion:<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
and<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara Whinnery</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Cathy Martin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594540/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Miyori</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wendy Armstrong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116885/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellen Bry</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Shirley Daniels</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001302/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christopher Guest</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as B.J. Cummings</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628170/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Laraine Newman</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Jane Sondell</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001108/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Davi</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Patrick McFarlane</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111563/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ann Bronston</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Martha Mulvahey</span><br />
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Co-Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0346411/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lance Guest</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Orderly Rooney</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Marcus</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Ralph Selover</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0133310/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rafael Campos</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Ramon Lopez</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485637/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric G. Laneuville</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Luther</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767651/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jennifer Savidge</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Lucy</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125998/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carl Byrd</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Borovay</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094870/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vivian Bonnell</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Skilling</span><br />
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With<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271515/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edith Fellows</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mrs. Sabin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795038/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dana Short</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Elizabeth Westphall</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2715951/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kathryn M. Hayden</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0655478/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Packer</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Willie Andrews</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045057/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Babson</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Reporter</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3092916/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patti Rooney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0889191/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howard Vann</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Gun Shop Proprietor</span><br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere</i> on Hulu? Feel free to comment on this episode below.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-4305788618541646942019-10-21T15:17:00.000-04:002019-10-26T12:55:20.644-04:00"Legionnaires (Part 1)"<i>Description</i>: After a series of deaths, Westphall and administrator Cummings clash over the decision to close a ward that could be home to an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease. White finds himself in dire financial straits when he loses his beeper. Martin breaks up with Fiscus when he starts to get too serious. Cavanero clashes with a hostile nurse.<br />
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"Legionnaires (Part 1)" is the 6th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired December 7, 1982. <br />
Teleplay by Joel Surnow<br />
Story by Joshua Brand & John Falsey and Joel Surnow<br />
Directed by Thomas Carter <br />
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<i>Recap:</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Peter White discovers that his beeper is missing.</td></tr>
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The episode begins with a continuous shot that pans through multiple conversations: from Dr. Hugh Beale (G.W. Bailey) to Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels) and Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.) to Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) and Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox) to Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori), whose beeper goes off, to Dr. Cathy Martin (Barbara Whinnery) and Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney). Wendy's beeper leads to Peter discovering that his own beeper is missing.<br />
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Victor invites Wayne to join him for night fishing at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_Hill_Reservoir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chestnut Hill Reservoir</a>, but Wayne is not interested in illegal fishing, and has plans with his girlfriend of the past month, pathologist Cathy Martin.<br />
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At the nurses' station, Dr. Annie Cavanero (Cynthia Sikes) complains to Nurse Losef (Rita Taggart) that the patient Annie was awakened to see could have waited until rounds. Her stomach pains turned out to be a missed bowel movement, which is not an emergency. When Annie explains this, Losef turns away and ignores her.<br />
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Peter is talking to his wife on the pay phone, asking her to look for his missing beeper, which will cost $260 to replace. Victor strikes up a conversation with him. White missed the morning's tumor board because his daughter fell off a swing at a playground, and he's not interested in Samuels' surgery later. He checks the on-call room for his beeper (where Orderly Gunderson is taking a nap), but to no avail.<br />
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Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) catches up to Westphall and asks him to look in on a patient, Francine Delgado. She was in for a mitral valve replacement seven days earlier, but took a turn for the worse in the past day. After looking in on her and recommending a course of treatment, he agrees with Helen's suggestion that they isolate her.<br />
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In another room, Dr. White is treating an elderly patient, Mr. Andover (John Steadman), who's been producing green sputum. The man was a two-pack-a-day smoker for forty years, but Nurse Losef suggests it might be another case of pneumonia. White recommends a course of medication and a consult from respiratory therapy.<br />
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Ramon, the Supply Manager (Rafael Campos), complains to Westphall that fifteen boxes of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemostat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hemostats</a> have disappeared in the past two months. He suggests that people have been stealing them for use as <a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/roach+clip" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">roach clips</a>. Donald proceeds to the records room, where he requests the files on Brenda Perez and Lila Rothlein, the patients of Dr. Chandler's who died the previous week.<br />
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Dr. Philip Chandler (Denzel Washington) and Wendy are in the x-ray room, looking at a classic case of bronchogenic cancer, when Westphall enters. He asks if autopsies were performed on Perez and Rothlein. Together with Delgado, the symptoms sound like Legionnaires' Disease. He tells them to keep it quiet while the situation is still speculative. Donald proceeds to the morgue, where he asks Cathy to prioritize the potential Legionnaires' case.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Administrator Cummings hesitates to risk funding, while<br />
Westphall insists on preventative measures.</td></tr>
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Westphall meets with Dr. Daniel Auschlander (Norman Lloyd), Chief of Services, and Hospital Administrator B.J. Cummings (Christopher Guest) about the recent deaths on ward five. Cummings wants to wait until conclusive test results come in before taking action, but Donald wants to close the ward immediately. Cummings is worried about the upcoming state census, as the amount of subsidy the hospital receives is based on the number of beds used. Westphall is not moved by the argument, but Cummings cites a number of other possibilities that could explain the situation. Auschlander suggests waiting for the test results.<br />
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In the cafeteria, Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) is dining with Victor and Nurse Shirley Daniels (Ellen Bry) when he spots Cathy. He insists she join them, but she's hesitant about eating lunch "with everyone." She sits down and Wayne carries on with his story. At another table, Dr. Beale advises Dr. Vijay Kochar (Kavi Raz) that he would benefit from some training to improve his grasp of the English language.<br />
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At yet another table, Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse) is sitting with White and two other staffers, telling a story that becomes part of local medical lore:<br />
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"He's going on and on about how a, uh, certain patient died of <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/congestive-heart-failure" target="_blank">CHF</a> from <a href="https://www.merckmanuals.com/en-ca/home/heart-and-blood-vessel-disorders/heart-valve-disorders/mitral-stenosis" target="_blank">mitral stenosis</a>. Talks for about two hours. When it's time for pathology to give its findings, a third-year path resident stands up, looks Frazier right in the face, and says the mitral valve was perfectly normal. Frazier gets totally bent out of shape. 'I know what is mitral stenosis. I heard the murmur, I should know.' The resident holds up his hand. He's got the valve in a jar. He says to Frazier, 'I have the valve. You got the murmur?' It was perfect."<br />
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They laugh, but then Westphall approaches the table to inform White that Mr. Andover is allergic to penicillin. The methicllin White prescribed would have put the patient into anaphylactic shock, and the dangerous mistake will be going on his evaluation.<br />
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At another table, Cavanero is telling Armstrong and Samuels about the difficulties she's having with Nurse Losef. She doesn't know what Losef's issue is with her. Ben suggests it's case of resentment between a female nurse and a female doctor. He advises Annie to "fight fire with fire" and use her authority to make Losef do unpleasant work. It's not Annie's style, she says, but she thinks about it.<br />
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In a ward room, Dr. Morrison explains to hernia patient Leo Roshcom that they need to lift him out of the bed to weigh him. Leo survived the Depression, World War II, a boxing career, and three marriages, but the hernia has him down for the count. He's not happy about the embarrassment of having to use a catheter.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jackie wants Wayne and the unusual Dr. Cathy Martin, who is<br />
dressed in white for a funeral, to come over for dinner.</td></tr>
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In the on-call room, a page comes over the intercom for a sleeping Dr. Annie Cavanero. Dr. Jacqueline Wade (Sagan Lewis) interrupts Annie's slumber to advise her of the page. Annie was dreaming about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Selleck" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tom Selleck</a>, but she gets up to resume her duties.<br />
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Cathy enters the on-call room, carrying a white dress. Jackie is impressed, and comments that she's never seen Cathy in white before. Dr. Martin, who always dresses in black, is on her way to a funeral, and she explains that in Asia, white, the absence of color, is symbolic of the absence of life, while black, the combination of all colors, is a symbol of life. The funeral is for an indigent man who is being buried anonymously in the city cemetery. Jackie, fascinated by the unusual pathologist, invites Cathy to dinner with her and her husband. She asks Cathy to bring Wayne, because her husband Robert loves Fiscus, to which Cathy replies unenthusiastically, "Everybody does." Jackie wishes her "low key," "analytical," "workaholic," and sometimes "boring" husband had Wayne's sense of humor.<br />
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Annie examines her patient's abdomen. The patient, Mr. Prensky (David Wiley), who just had an upset stomach, told the nurse it "was no kind of big deal." Annie is not amused. She heads to the nurses' station to confront Losef. Annie reiterates that complaints that aren't emergencies can wait until rounds. Losef replies, "I'm not paid to make those judgments, Dr. Cavanero." When Annie explains that she's been up for 36 hours and needed to sleep, Losef snips, "I'm sorry, but that's not my problem." Annie, now angry, takes a page out of Ben's book and instructs Losef to give three enemas and daily weights for all her patients.<br />
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In an isolation room, Drs. Ehrlich and Chanlder and Nurse Daniels have been attempting to revive Francine Delgado for thirty-five minutes. They give up CPR efforts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Westphall chews out technician Joe Rocklin for joking <br />
about a patient's death.</td></tr>
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Later, Phil briefs Westphall on the patient's death, and a distressed Donald orders an autopsy. When Luther says that pathology is closed, Westphall tells him to open it. The technician jokes that "people are dying to get in." Westphall asks for the technician's name, and chews him out for his tasteless comment.<br />
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In the hallway, Vijay is posting a notice on the bulletin board when Dr. Craig yells at him for covering up his flyer. Craig chastises Kochar's request for English lessons: "Yeah, well you should have thought of that before you came over here, you know, I wouldn't go to India to live if I couldn't talk to the natives. Shows a lack of respect, Kochar." Mark suggests Vijay find a tutor at the foreign languages department at Boston University--Mark has a car to sell.<br />
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In the purchasing office, Ramon advises Peter that a new beeper will cost $300, not $260 like Peter thought. Peter wants to be billed for it, but Ramon laughs, and insists on immediate payment. Peter pleads for Ramon to give him "a break, this one time," and Ramon reluctantly caves.<br />
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Jack pays another visit to Leo Roshcom to see how he's faring. Jack gives him forty-five minutes to go to the bathroom before the catheter goes back in.<br />
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At home with Dr. Peter White... Peter is studying at the dinner table, while his daughter Megan (Candace Cameron) is playing with her spaghetti and singing a child-like version of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". He asks Megan to be quiet so he can concentrate. His wife Myra (Karen Landry) tells Megan to stop playing with her food as she sits down to feed baby Timothy, who has begun to cry. Megan wants ketchup for her spaghetti. Myra informs Peter that the diaper service needs to be paid. Megan asks why Daddy is always reading. Peter doesn't see why Myra can't wash the diapers herself. Timothy's food spills on the floor. Peter complains about hiring a maid to clean the house and hiring a babysitter while Myra goes to grad school. Megan still wants ketchup. Myra tells Megan to be quiet and storms into the kitchen. Peter hands Megan the ketchup. Myra is annoyed that Peter can spend $300 on a beeper but they can't spend $20 on the diaper service. She's had enough, and tells him that he's not a husband or a father anymore, just a damned resident. Peter says he'll get the money.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Annie chews out Nurse Losef for insubordination, but <br />
Losef has a few words of her own for the good doctor.</td></tr>
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Annie enters a ward room, where Nurse Losef is taking the blood pressure of a patient, Mrs. Sylvester. The patient tells Cavanero that she's still having pains in her abdomen, and Annie asks her to roll over. Mrs. Sylvester won't budge, so Cavanero asks Losef for a hand. Losef says she'll be finished in a minute. Cavanero asks Losef to step out into the hallway with her. Annie finally lets Losef have it. She's tired of Losef undercutting her authority, and insists on being obeyed. Losef waits for her moment. "May I speak? I don't like you. You're a good doctor, but you're an inadequate woman. I know it. Everybody knows it. You've got a cold heart." Annie walks away in hurt silence while other staffers stare.<br />
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Jack checks in on Leo Roshcom, who's in the bathroom, rinsing his hands in the sink. Leo pleads for a few more minutes, loathing the prospect of using the catheter again. Jack tells Leo his time's up, leaves the bathroom, and asks the nurse for a #16 Foley catheter. They hear a stream coming from the bathroom, and Leo triumphantly announces his successful evacuation.<br />
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At Wayne's apartment, Cathy is eating Chinese food and tells Wayne she saw <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninotchka" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Ninotchka</i></a> yesterday at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles_Cinema" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orson Welles Cinema</a> on a double bill with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot%27s_Delight_%28film%29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Idiot's Delight</i></a>. She was disappointed there wasn't more action, but Garbo was funny. Wayne has a surprise for Cathy--her choice of three potential weekend getaways for the two of them, and he's arranged for someone to cover pathology for her. But something's up with Cathy. She's not happy. She says she needs to leave, and Wayne is confused.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cathy breaks Wayne's heart.</td></tr>
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"Wait a second, talk to me."<br />
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"Don't you understand? I've got to get out here, now."<br />
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"Well, tell me why."<br />
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"If you really knew me, then you'd know."<br />
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"If I really knew you, I'd know what? What does that mean? I don't know what that means... Please, you, you can't just, wait a second, you know, you can't just walk out the door. I don't understand. Tell me what's going on."<br />
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"All you wanted out of this was a good time, remember? That's what you said you wanted, and that's what I want. But now, Wayne, its..."<br />
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"Say it."<br />
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"I don't want to have a relationship."<br />
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"What do you mean? We have a relationship... All, all right, you don't want a relationship, we won't have a relationship. You wanna call it something else? It's just a word. It'll be a brouhaha, a bagatelle, a bric-a-brac..."<br />
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"Will you listen to me? You never listen to what I'm saying."<br />
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"I do too."<br />
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"I don't want a relationship."<br />
<br />
"You mean you don't want a relationship, or you don't want a relationship with me?"<br />
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"...With you. I like you, Wayne... I don't love you. I... You've been so nice to me, I don't want to hurt you. But every time I try to get serious, you always turn it into a joke. I'm sorry."<br />
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She leaves. It's over.<br />
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At 8:22 AM, Wayne is back in the hospital, in the doctor's lounge. Annie asks him what he's doing there, as he had the night off. Wayne glumly explains how the excitement of a medical challenge is preferable to "real life." Annie suspects something's off, but Wayne insists on joking through his pain, chiding her lack of "outside interests". She doesn't respond to what nowadays would be considered grounds for a sexual harassment complaint.<br />
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Peter and Wendy are also in the lounge. Peter hangs up the phone and asks Wendy for a favour: he needs someone to cover for him while he takes an hour and a half to pick up his car. She reluctantly agrees, and doesn't seem pleased when he says he owes her one.<br />
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Also in the lounge are Dr. Craig and Dr. Beale, playing chess. Mark asks Hugh if he's still painting. <br />
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"Still lifes," Hugh responds, trying hard to figure out his next move.<br />
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"You try to make them look real? Or are you a fan of that abstract malarkey?" asks Mark. "I got an artist to paint a picture of my wife, my son, and myself. You should have... Boy, I had real problems with him. I mean, he caught my wife all right, but what he did to my son... You'd have thought he had a cleft palate. It was a just a little dimple, was all. Never hurt <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=kirk+douglas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kirk Douglas</a>."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hugh draws Mark's ire for considering smoking a cigar.</td></tr>
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Hugh makes his move, looking pleased, and pulls a wrapped cigar from his coat. Mark immediately counters. Hugh unwraps the cigar and is about to light it when he realizes Mark is glaring at him.<br />
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"Damn smoke gets into everything. A man wants to kill himself you'd think he'd have the decency to not stink up everything. For crying out loud, we're in a hospital. I mean, you... We've got enough germs crawling around as it is. Sure, they wash the floors, but, you know, they don't get into the corners. And did you ever check under the beds? Tumbling tumbleweed under there." Hugh puts away the cigar. Mark continues. "Hair in the sink, window smudges, crud in the soap dishes." Hugh takes a knight with his pawn, and Mark immediately counters with his queen. "Check and mate."<br />
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At the nurses' station, Helen is on the phone with her husband, Ira, telling him they've got a problem there and she won't be home for a while. Annie asks if they have any aspirin, and Helen directs her to the back. Nurse Losef is in her street clothes, and looks sad. She sees Annie and hangs her head. She's been crying. Annie silently offers Losef a handkerchief, and she accepts.<br />
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"I just feel so lousy. I don't even know why. I'm thirty-seven years old. I come to work. I go home to an empty apartment, and I go to sleep. Twelve years. And I hate it. I used to fantasize. I'd meet someone, and my life would be different. Now I can't even imagine living with someone again. You seem to have everything going for you. That makes me hurt even more."<br />
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Annie sits down and commiserates. She may have her career, but her love life is a nowhere road. She wants to succeed at both, but it's not happening. "Sometimes I feel as though I've been sold a bill of goods."<br />
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In the cafeteria, Peter recognizes a lawyer he knows (James Keane) who has started a new law firm. Peter suggests working out an arrangement where he refers patients in need of legal representation, in exchange for a finder's fee. The lawyer has similar arrangements with doctors from Boston General, but he advises that under Peter's municipal contract (St. Eligius is owned by the city), such a setup wouldn't be legal. He tells Peter to think it over, and leaves.<br />
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Rosenthal describes a patient's symptoms to Westphall as they head towards the ward. It's the same set of symptoms as the other potential Legionnaires' Disease cases, but this time, it's a nineteen-year-old with no history of respiratory illness. After recommending treatment, he leads Helen into the hallway, and orders the ward to be closed.<br />
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At a large office tower, Peter is waiting in an office. A man (Matthew Faison) enters, sits down at his desk, and asks Peter a few questions to confirm his job and family status. He gives Peter a form to give to the woman out front, who will explain the procedures and write him a check. He encourages Peter to recommend this to his colleagues--they're always happy to have a doctor donate sperm. Looks like Peter found a way to pay for his beeper <i>and</i> the diaper service.<br />
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Westphall gives the rundown to the staff about the procedures for closing down the ward. To be continued in <a href="http://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/legionnaires-part-2.html" target="_blank">"Legionnaires (Part 2)"</a>...<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Legionnaires (Part 1)":</i><br />
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<li>My research suggests that it is no longer illegal to go <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=chestnut+hill+reservoir+fishing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fishing at Chestnut Hill Reservoir</a>. </li>
<li>This episode picks up the story from the previous episode, <a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/samuels-and-kid.html" target="_blank">"Samuels and the Kid"</a>, in which three patients died suddenly. The first two were described as having had pneumonia.</li>
<li>B.J. Cummings held the position of Hospital Administrator. The position is not mentioned again during the series.</li>
<li>The "I have the valve, you got the murmur?" story gets told again (we will hear the punchline) at least three more times during the course of the series.</li>
<li>Ramon complains about missing supplies. This is foreshadowing. We will find out what's going on in <a href="http://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/legionnaires-part-2.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Legionnaires (Part 2)"</a>.</li>
<li>In <a href="http://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/downs-syndrome.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Down's Syndrome"</a>, Hugh tells Rhinehardt that surgeons like Dr. Craig "only play chess but a few ways. Once they get something stuck in their head, it's there forever." But here, Hugh seems to walk right into Mark's trap.</li>
<li>Mark's car-for-sale will be a storyline in the next two episodes. </li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Guest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christopher Guest</a> would soon achieve fame as a member of the fictional band in the "mockumentary" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Spinal_Tap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>This Is Spinal Tap</i></a>. He holds a hereditary British peerage and sat in the House of Lords as the 5th Baron Haden-Guest. He married actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Lee_Curtis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jamie Lee Curtis</a> in 1984.</li>
<li>Paul Mace (credited simply as Mace) who played Orderly Gunderson in this episode and the previous one, was killed in a car crash in 1983.</li>
<li>Rafael Campos, who played supply manager Ramon, was the sixth husband of singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Washington" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dinah Washington</a>, from 1961 to 1962. His film credits include playing a juvenile delinquent in 1955's <i>Blackboard Jungle.</i> He died of stomach cancer in 1985.</li>
<li>This was the first professional acting role for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Cameron_Bure" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Candace Cameron</a>, who played Peter White's daughter, Megan. Cameron would go on to star in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_House" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Full House</i></a>. Her brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Cameron" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kirk Cameron</a> starred on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_Pains" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Growing Pains</i></a>, and she married NHL hockey player <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Bure" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Valeri Bure</a> in 1996.</li>
<li>Rita Taggart, who played the difficult Nurse Losef, was married to Oscar-winning cinematographer <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=haskell+wexler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Haskell Wexler</a> from 1989 until his death in 2015. </li>
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Here's Jack telling the "I have the valve, you got the murmur?" story:<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norman Lloyd</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>as Dr. Daniel Auschlander</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara Whinnery</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Cathy Martin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594540/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Miyori</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wendy Armstrong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116885/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellen Bry</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Shirley Daniels</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758692/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Albert Salmi</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Leo Roshcom</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001302/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christopher Guest</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as B.J. Cummings</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846525/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rita Taggart</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Losef</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485071/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Karen Landry</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Myra White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443856/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Keane</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Lawyer</span><br />
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Co-Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0265673/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matthew Faison</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mr. Woodman</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507722/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sagan Lewis</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wade</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532083/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mace</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">as Orderly Gunderson</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485637/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric G. Laneuville</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Luther</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0133310/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rafael Campos</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Ramon </span><br />
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With<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757999/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jessica Salem</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Francine</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guy Killum</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Lexie</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1254812/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harry Stephens</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Technician</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928822/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Wiley</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mr. Prensky</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824113/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Steadman</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mr. Andover</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121026/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Candace Cameron</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Megan White </span><br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere</i> on Hulu or elsewhere? Feel free to comment on this episode below.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-72651659000988999862019-10-20T15:15:00.000-04:002019-10-26T12:55:42.638-04:00"Samuels and the Kid"<i>Description</i>: Samuels operates on a precocious and likable boy admitted for surgery, and is reminded of his painful past. When his patient dies suddenly, Chandler tries to get Nurse Skilling fired for incompetence. Fiscus surprises Martin with a romantic dinner for their one-month anniversary. Cavanero, while vacationing for a weekend, delivers a baby by telephone. Craig receives the Cushing Left Anterior Descending Artery Award for Surgeon of the Year.<br />
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"Samuels and the Kid" is the 5th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired November 30, 1982. <br />
Teleplay by John Masius<br />
Story by Joshua Brand & John Falsey and John Masius<br />
Directed by Thomas Carter<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nurse Skilling calls a code.</td></tr>
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At 1:14 AM, Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) is working in the E.R. along with a "new" doctor named Bernie Arguello (Rudy Ramos), who's not good at taking blood. A man with a laceration over his left eye (Paul Lieber) is brought in by a police officer. The man asks Wayne for help getting rid of his clothes. He's wearing women's underwear underneath his shirt and jeans, which would likely land him in trouble with his jail-mates.<br />
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Nurse Skilling (Vivian Bonnell) is monitoring the nurses' station when one of the monitors shows a flatline. She calls the code and rushes to the room, where nurses are performing CPR on the patient. Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse), who had been sleeping, arrives to attempt to revive the patient.<br />
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Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.) and Dr. Fiscus are chatting when Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney) approaches, asking them if they'd bet on a horse named "Gomer". Wayne replies, "Gomer? You mean, Get Out of My Emergency Room? I'd rather play a horse named 'Leukemia'." Samuels notices Ehrlich's white dress shoes: "Have you been rummaging around in Pat Boone's closet?" Ehrlich has a penchant for vintage clothing, which was not stylish in 1982. Dr. Daniel Auschlander (Norman Lloyd) passes by, and also notices Victor's sartorial statement: "Spiffy shoes, never thought that style would come back." The doctors comment on Auschlander's liver cancer. Fiscus and Samuels speculate on his prospects, but are taken aback by Victor's suggestion that they start a pool to bet on how long he'll live.<br />
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Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori) congratulates Jack on his wife's pregnancy, and then Wayne needles her about focusing on her career instead of having children. Given her age, Wayne suggests she'll need to conceive as soon as possible, offering his services.<br />
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Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) informs Dr. Philip Chandler (Denzel Washington) that one of his patients died overnight, Mrs. Perez. He asks who was on duty, and when she tells him it was Skilling, he gets angry. "Again?"<br />
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Dr. Samuels arrives at the room of his patient, a boy named Robbie (Jeremy Licht) with an air cast on his right leg. They have a natural rapport with each other. Ben offers to take the kid to an upcoming Patriots-Jets football game.<br />
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In the morgue, Wayne pays a visit to his love interest of late, Dr. Cathy Martin (Barbara Whinnery). Wayne asks if she'll be coming to his place that evening, even though she's already said yes twice. She's got a full house, and overflow in the hallway, including Mrs. Perez.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phil thinks Nurse Skilling can't cut it.</td></tr>
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Dr. Chandler questions Nurse Skilling. He's annoyed because she missed a medication he'd written on Mrs. Perez's chart, and he says it's not the first time she's made a mistake with one of his patients. Phil is blunt, and says that she's not cutting it. She says he can take it up with Rosenthal and Westphall, and when he says he intends to do just that, Skilling stops him. "My, my... The monsters our children have become. Remember your roots, Dr. Chandler. It was not too long ago the cotton you were picking wasn't from an aspirin bottle."<br />
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In the office of Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders), Rosenthal complains about Phil's treatment of Skilling, especially unhappy that he chose to dress her down in a public hallway. Phil is adamant that Skilling is incompetent, even though he knows it was pneumonia, and not the flubbed medication order, that killed Mrs. Perez and Mrs. Rothlein, another patient. Donald is sympathetic, but agrees that Skilling's performance is deteriorating. Phil wants her gone, but Helen protests that they're shorthanded and they can't afford to lose a trained nurse with twenty years experience. Donald decides to transfer her to another floor. <br />
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At 11:45 AM. Westphall discusses the city-wide blood shortage with Orderly Gunderston (Mace), and chats with a worker named Andy who is patching a bullet hole in the wall. Dr. Annie Cavanero (Cynthia Sikes) explains to a very pregnant Mrs. Rodriguez (Bridget Sienna) that she was experiencing false labor. Her husband has to work, but a neighbor, Mrs. DeJesus keeps her company in the afternoons.<br />
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In the cafeteria, Wendy is eating with Dr. Cavanero. She's telling a story about her surgery tour, and a procedure she was invited to observe. The patient was a young woman, lying naked on the table, but it wasn't the comments from the male staff that bothered her. When they cut the patient across the abdomen, Wendy got sick. She's worried that she doesn't belong in medicine, that "medicine is still a man's world." Annie says that things are a lot better than when she started. There were two surgical dressing rooms, one for doctors, and one for nurses. She wasn't a nurse, so she "really shook things up in there". She takes her leave, about to start 36 hours of R&R in Pittsfield.<br />
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At another table, Phil describes his ideal death: a massive coronary, right after a steak and a bottle of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=lafite+rothschild+1961" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lafite Rothschild 1961</a>, and right before the check. Morrison is splitting a shift with White, and Ehrlich offers to finish Shirley's fruit salad.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robbie is eager to learn the ways of Dr. Ben Samuels.</td></tr>
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Ben is visiting Robbie Durant, playing a game of electronic football. Rosenthal arrives to take blood. Robbie is scared, but Ben comforts him. Robbie is interested in learning the ins and outs of gambling from Ben, and when Ben suggests that next he'll want to know how to pick up girls, Robbie says he already knows: you tell them what they want to hear.<br />
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In the on-call room, Jack wakes up Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox) to take over his half of the shift. Peter has heard the news about Jack's impending fatherhood, but he doesn't offer congratulations. "First Nina's gonna want to quit her job and be a full-time mother, and that's less money coming in and more mouths to feed. Then the two-door isn't big enough, she's gonna want a wood-paneled station wagon, and you're busting your tail off to pay off a thirty-year mortgage in Newton... Plus you never see the kids. I mean, they're awake, you're here. Matter of fact, they're asleep, you're here."<br />
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A code is called over the intercom, and Peter is annoyed that it's his turn to respond. The woman is unresponsive as Peter performs CPR. Peter won't give up, still pounding the woman's chest, but Phil pulls him away. Luther observes, "That's the second lady today."<br />
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Wayne's apartment is adorned with lit candles as he pours a glass of champagne for his date, Cathy. He's dressed up, wearing a white tuxedo jacket. Cathy wonders what they're celebrating, and Wayne offers a wrapped gift. It's a cuticle cleaner, "what every pathologist needs," but that's a prelude to the real gift, a heart-shaped necklace for their one-month anniversary. She is hesitant to accept it, even though it's a nice gesture. As she protests, Wayne calls for Mel, the accordionist hiding in the kitchen, who begins playing. He pulls her to her feet for a slow dance. "Dr. Fiscus, you are terrific," she says.<br />
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The next morning, Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels) complains about his morning schedule. Donald comments on Mark's nice suit, in advance of the annual Cushing Left Anterior Descending Artery Society luncheon, where Mark will receive the award for Surgeon of the Year. Mark says it's important to him to get positive feedback from his peers. "Sometimes I feel I'm not too well-liked around here." It's about the work, not the recognition, but he "should have won last year."<br />
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Dr. Samuels wheels Robbie out of his room, telling him a story from his days as a competitive swimmer. Ben was psyched, and had shaved his entire body for less resistance, but he committed two false starts and was disqualified. As a result of his shaved head, he couldn't get a date for six weeks.<br />
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Dr. Auschlander is in his office, looking at a brochure for a vacation in Cabo San Lucas, and he turns down Donald's offer to attend the Cushing Society luncheon with him. Auschlander has decided on a more upbeat treatment for his cancer: a week in Mexico with his wife.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben and "Dr. Dembones" explain Robbie's upcoming<br />
surgery.</td></tr>
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Westphall runs into Ben and Robbie, and asks Robbie about his injury. He got his cleats caught in the turf while running during a football game. In Westphall's day, he played football in a leather helmet with no face mask. Samuels is about to explain what will be done to Robbie with "Dr. Dembones"--a life-size model skeleton. Robbie has a broken tibia, and will have pins inserted. He's scared about the surgery.<br />
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In the E.R., Nurse Shirley Daniels (Ellen Bry) asks Wayne about his "affair to remember" with Cathy Martin. Shirley tells him that rumors are flying that they've "been everywhere except Dr. Auschlander's office." Wayne is annoyed about the lack of privacy in the hospital, but confesses that he thinks he's in love with Cathy. Shirley says the necklace was a wonderful thing to do, "but the accordion was a little schmaltzy."<br />
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At the Cushing Society luncheon, Ellen joins Mark and Donald. Mark is annoyed that the luncheon is sparsely attended. He receives his trophy--a plaster cast of his own hands--and begins his speech.<br />
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Annie is having lunch in a restaurant, presumably in Pittsfield. After dealing with her disappointed waiter (for whom she left a small tip as a comment on his service), her beeper sounds. She calls the hospital from the pay phone--her patient, Mrs. Rodriguez is in labor. She asks the waiter for change, but he's not in the mood to open the register. A diner sitting nearby (Robert Davi) overhears, and offers to help: she intends to deliver the baby over the phone.<br />
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Mark continues his speech, wishing to thank those who made the moment possible, and pulls out a stack of 3x5 index cards. Ellen asks Donald if he minds her lighting up a cigarette.<br />
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Annie talks to Mrs. Rodriguez, and asks for the number for Mrs. DeJesus. Mrs. DeJesus isn't home, but a child named Juan answers, and Annie insists that he must help, and she'll talk him through it. Juan and another child, Paco, open the door to find Mrs. Rodriguez on the floor and ready to give birth. First up--they need scissors and string. After Juan says he can see the head, Paco loses his nerve and leaves.<br />
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Ben operates on Robbie, with Victor assisting and Dr. Vijay Kochar (Kavi Raz) delivering anesthesia. Nurse Louise (Roxanne Reese) comments, "what a cute boy." Louise is about to go on her honeymoon to Niagara Falls. The surgery is a success, and Victor begins putting on the cast as Ben leaves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Annie celebrates a successful delivery with her helpful<br />
bystander.</td></tr>
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Following Annie's instructions, Juan slips the loops over the baby's head, uses the string to tie off the umbilical cord, and cuts it with the scissors. The delivery-by-phone was a success.<br />
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In the surgical dressing room, Ben chats with a Dr. Anspaugh (Douglas Rowe), who is looking for "the perfect tax shelter". Mark arrives with his trophy. Ben is annoyed that the Celtics didn't cover the spread. Ehrlich enters, looking distressed. Robbie "threw a fat embolus in recovery, he went into full arrest. He died, Ben, just like that."<br />
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Later, at a bar, Samuels is drinking, and chatting with a pretty young theatre arts major at <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=boston+university" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">B.U.</a> (Ally Sheedy). We learn his back story. His wife was an actress, but he is no longer married.<br />
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"I was at Dartmouth and Cynthia was at Holyoke, and we fell in love and got married. Cynthia always thought that I did it to beat the draft."<br />
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"Did you?"<br />
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"No, I went to med school to beat the draft. UCLA. See, Cynthia wanted to be an actress, so we moved to Los Angeles, and I went to the University of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Center_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chad Everett</a>. It's a hell of a place... Anyway, I'm working my tail off in med school and Cynthia finds someone, uh, more artistic than me. She thought the karma was better--a lot of karma going around in 1970. You think, uh, you think directing television is artistic? Want to see her picture?"<br />
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"Sure."<br />
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"It's a little on the old side."<br />
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"She's pretty. Is that your son?"<br />
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"William. Billy. Named after my Dad. Cynthia was leaning towards, um, Eugene, you know, as in McCarthy, or, uh, Freedom, as in America, but I figured, you know, why give that kid a reason for a fistfight every day for the rest of his life? What a sweet baby."<br />
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"Does he live with his mother?"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ally Sheedy as Diane.</td></tr>
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"Well, Cynthia got very paranoid. Living in L.A. does that to you. Um, I don't know, Manson was on the loose. And she bought a .44 Magnum, you know, kept it in a bedside table, and, uh, must have been a Clint Eastwood fan, right? And, um, Billy found it one day, and blew a hole the size of a softball in his chest. It's a very stupid way for a little boy to die."<br />
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"I'm sorry."<br />
<br />
"Cynthia thought it happened because I didn't go to Vietnam and die. She began to get very weird. I mean, that's the bottom line, isn't it? I mean, whether it's cancer, or napalm, or a safe falling on you, we're all out here alone, dodging the bullets. Except for Billy boy, he didn't know enough to duck. A toast, to Robbie Durant, another poor soul who never knew what hit him."<br />
<br />
"Who's Robbie Durant?"<br />
<br />
"A friend." <br />
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Ben asks for another drink, but the bartender cuts him off. He's in no shape to drive. He asks his companion, Diane, to call him a cab. She helps him off his stool, and they leave together.<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Samuels and the Kid":</i><br />
<ul>
<li>The Cushing Left Anterior Descending Artery Award will become a running joke throughout the series. The cast of Mark's hands gets broken more than once.</li>
<li>In <a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2012/09/bypass.html" target="_blank">"Bypass"</a>, Mark claims that Ellen used to smoke, but he "nipped it in the bud". Well, not quite. This is Ellen's first appearance. Bonnie Bartlett is married to William Daniels in real life.</li>
<li>Jeremy Licht would go on to be a series regular in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hogan_Family" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Valerie/Valerie's Family/The Hogan Family</i></a>. Ally Sheedy would go on to movie stardom as a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brat_Pack" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brat Pack</a>.</li>
<li>After Mark comments on the cut on Donald's face from shaving, Donald explains that his daughter used his razor to shave her legs. Mark replies, "These days, be thankful it wasn't your son shaving his legs." Later, we learn that Donald's son is ten years old, autistic, and mentally disabled. Mark's comment could still apply in that case, but it would be a strange thing to say if they had established the character at that point. A bit of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">retroactive continuity</a> happens there.</li>
<li>The actor who played Mrs. Rodriguez's husband, Berto, was not credited. Neither was the actor who played the waiter who complained about Annie's tip (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020730/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kevin Scott Allen</a>).</li>
<li>The necklace Wayne bought Cathy was from Boston-based <a href="https://www.shrevecrumpandlow.com/" target="_blank">Shreve, Crump and Low</a>, the oldest purveyor of luxury goods in North America. Established in 1796, the firm is responsible for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Cup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Davis Cup</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Young_Award" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cy Young Award</a> trophies.</li>
<li>The cause of death for the three patients who coded in this episode will be revealed in the next episode, <a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/legionnaires-part-1.html" target="_blank">"Legionnares (Part 1)"</a>. As Phil will see, it was not Nurse Skilling's fault.</li>
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Here's the episode, on DailyMotion:<br />
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I guess they weren't as concerned about spoilers back then.<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
and<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norman Lloyd</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Daniel Auschlander</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara Whinnery</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Cathy Martin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594540/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Miyori</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wendy Armstrong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116885/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellen Bry</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Shirley Daniels</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0508993/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeremy Licht</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Robbie Durant</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000639/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ally Sheedy</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Diane</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509349/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Lieber</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Arrested Suspect</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001108/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Davi</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Patrick</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058783/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bonnie Bartlett</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Ellen Craig</span><br />
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Co-Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485637/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric G. Laneuville</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Luther</span> <br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0708784/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rudy Ramos</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Bernie Arguello</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094870/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vivian Bonnell</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Skilling</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532083/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mace</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Orderly Gunderson</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0797204/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bridget Sienna</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mrs. Rodriguez</span> <br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716067/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roxanne Reese</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Louise</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193897/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barry Cutler</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Orderly</span><br />
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With <br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0406203/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter Iacangelo</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Policeman</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746503/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Douglas Rowe</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Anspaugh</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148090/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Henry Celis</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Juan</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005398/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Saucedo</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Paco</span><br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere</i> on Hulu? Feel free to comment on this episode below.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-83846086400740946832019-10-19T15:12:00.000-04:002019-10-26T12:56:27.035-04:00"Cora and Arnie"<i>Description</i>: A homeless couple face separation when the woman's impending amputation means show won't be able to care for her mentally challenged husband. A vacationing middle-class couple get a crash course in medical costs after a series of routine tests for an unexplained fainting. Beale tells Rhinehardt that he is fit for trial, and will be sent to prison. Fiscus treats a parolee whose back pains turn out to be a gunshot wound. Kochar feels homesick. Katherine McAllister dies, and her husband's grief turns deadly.<br />
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"Cora and Arnie" is the 4th episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Originally aired November 23, 1982.</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Teleplay by Neil Cuthbert</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Story by Joshua Brand & John Falsey and Neil Cuthbert</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Directed by Mark Tinker</span> </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recap:</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's Friday night at St. Eligjus, and Luther (Eric Laneuville) is practicing his martial arts skills with a pair of nunchuks in the halls of St. Eligius while Dr. Vijay Kochar (Kavi Raz) writes a letter to his parents back in India. (It's not clear why an anesthesiologist would be hanging out in the emergency room on a Friday night while writing a letter, but... whatever. It's exposition.) Dr. Annie Cavanero (Cynthia Sikes) asks Dr. Jack Morrision (David Morse) about the terrorist bombing victim, Katherine McAllister, and her husband, who spends all his time at her bedside.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lilian and George Rogers begin their whirlwind trip through<br />
the many departments of St. Eligius.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also working in the E.R. is Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel). His patient is Lilian Rogers (Anne Gerety), who is vacationing in Boston with her husband George (Bernard Behrens). She fainted in their hotel room. Wayne tells her it could be nothing, or it could be something more serious.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jack treats a homeless woman, Cora (Doris Roberts), who is complaining about itching and sore feet. She's accompanied by Arnie (James Coco). Jack removes her footwear and finds that her two big toes have turned black, and she has no feeling in the lower half of her foot. Jack decides to admit Cora to find out what's happening with the vessels in her feet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wayne recommends that Lilian spend the night in the hospital so they can run tests in the morning. Thus begins the charges on her medical bill: $221 for the E.R. exam and admission.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cora receives a bath while Arnie waits patiently in the hallway. Back in her room, Jack asks her questions about her health and her medical history. She and Arnie scrounge for food. She hasn't seen her mother since she was 17, and she never knew her father. Her brother, a drinker, was killed in a car crash. Her sister, who hates her, lives in Florida, but she doesn't have a man in her life like Cora does. Jack explains they need to inject dye into her feet and take some pictures.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wayne meets Jack in the hallway. As they step on to an elevator, Wayne discusses baby names, the news of Jack's impending fatherhood still fresh. Wayne explains how he hates the name, "Cathy", which is the only ordinary thing about his unusual new girlfriend, pathologist Dr. Cathy Martin. In another hallway Jack approaches Mr. McAllister (Jack Bannon) and asks him how his wife is doing. She died.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) leads a group of residents on rounds, explaining how a thorough case history is the best thing for discovering what's wrong with a patient. Dr. Cavanero is doing just that with Lilian Rogers. After she answers "no" to all the questions, Annie determines the problem wasn't cardiac in origin. She suggests an EEG up in neurology. The consult and EKG add $160 to her bill.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rhinehardt is not happy with Dr. Beale's assessment.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dr. Hugh Beale (G.W. Bailey) is playing chess with the terrorist bomber, Andrew Rhinehardt (Tim Robbins). Rhinehardt explains the philosophy of the group of radicals to which he belongs: class struggle, oppressed people overthrowing their oppressors through violent insurrection, and the destruction of societal institutions. After he confesses that he'd be willing to commit another violent act without showing any remorse, Beale announces that he will be recommending that Rhinehardt should be locked up in a maximum security prison. Rhinehardt responds by spitting in Beale's face. "When I get out of here, I'm gonna off your mother, Beale."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arnie brings Cora a hand-picked bouquet of flowers (from the cemetery). He slept in the park across the street the previous night. He saw Big Tommy in the park, and the junkies stole everything from him, about which he was screaming. Cora tells Arnie that they can't go home, because the doctor needs to take pictures of her feet. Arnie doesn't like hospitals. He also forgot to eat, and isn't interested in going out to get some food. She tells him to go eat, and promises they'll go home after her tests.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In neurology, Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.) admires the alpha waves of Lilian Rogers that appear on her EEG scan. He tells the story of a yogi he observed in Berkeley who could light up the scanner like it was a pinball machine. There's nothing wrong with her scan, but perhaps it could have been some kind of embolism, so Ehrlich suggests taking a look at her ear, nose and throat. The neurology consult and EEG will cost $301.90.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the on-call room, Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney) encounters Vijay, who is listening to sitar music. "Why can't you listen to Springsteen, you know, like a normal human being?" he kids. Ben tries some of the tea Vijay's mother sent him from Darjeeling. Vijay shows Ben some family photographs. The Kochars are the leading family in their village. Vijay's great uncle is a swami. His mother is "a real Yenta", a term he learned from Woody Allen. Ben asks for Vijay's cousin's phone number.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the morgue, Wayne pays a visit to his love interest, Dr. Cathy Martin (Barbara Whinnery), who is performing an autopsy. She doesn't seem to care much for his kidding around, but she enjoyed their date the night before. Wayne proposes that she come over to his place that evening for some eggplant parmesan, Jiffy Pop, and <i>To Have or Have Not</i> on television (as well as "roll[ing] up some oregano"). She seems concerned that they'd be spending two nights in a row together, but she agrees to the date.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is it Viola Tri-Color or Johnny Jump-Up? No, it's Footsteps<br />
of Spring.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Westphall's office, Mr. McAllister admires the native plant poster on the wall, a gift from Westphall's daughter, Elizabeth. Westphall confides that he is not married. It's just him and the kids. McAllister points out what he thinks is a Viola Tri-Color. Westphall corrects him, guessing Johnny Jump-Up. McAlllister looks closer. "Footsteps of Spring, that's what it is... My wife Katherine and I went to college in New Hampshire. There was a section of the campus where we used to play touch football that was bordered by Footsteps of Spring, hundreds of 'em. I remember this one Sunday, we were playing. Katherine was the quarterback on the other team, and as she faded back, I came in from the right, from the blind side, and she didn't see me. She looked so hopeful, scanning the field, looking for somebody to throw to. Almost didn't want to disturb her, but it was a one-in-a-million shot, and I took it. Caught her just below the hip, and we both went flying into the Footsteps of Spring... I would like her body flown home to Minnesota."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back in the E.R. Wayne treats a man (Lionel Smith) who has come in after feeling a sharp pain in his lower back while getting in his car. The man takes off his jacket, and Wayne finds the problem: he's been shot. The man gets up to leave. He's on parole, having just served three years of a ten-year sentence, and he doesn't want his parole officer finding out about this. Wayne is worried about the injury, and is dismayed to learn the man gave his real name. The man had business with some friends who are "criminally affiliated", and he gets up to leave. After pushing his way past a security guard, he collapses to the floor.</span></span><br />
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In Cora's room, Arnie eats a sandwich while Cora flips through a magazine. She tells Arnie that the women in the magazine are smiling because "they got their good looks, they got their nice big houses, they got plenty of dough in the bank, and they got their Joes, that's why." Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) arrives to take Cora for a set of x-rays. Cora tells Arnie that it's time to go feed their dogs, and he takes his leave. Cora explains to Rosenthal why Arnie is scared of hospitals. As a child, he saw his family die in a house fire, and after acting out, he was put in a "loony park, and twenty-five years later, when the money ran out, they put him back on the street." She thinks he suffered damage from shock treatments and drugs. She met him two years earlier on Comm. Avenue. He was yelling at random people, and she took him to the Mission.<br />
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Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori) examines Lilian Rogers's ears, and finds nothing wrong. But she hasn't had her eyes checked recently, so Wendy sends her upstairs for a look. Another $385.74 is added to her bill.<br />
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Vijay is listening to music on his walkman in a park. A pretty young woman walks by, and Vijay is inspired to follow her. She sits on a bench, sees him approaching, makes eye contact and smiles. Vijay smiles back, but is overcome by nerves and walks away.<br />
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Dr. Morrison shows Cora's x-rays to Dr. Westphall. The angiography showed severe obstructions, and the vascular specialist agreed the only option is bilateral amputation of both her feet at the ankles. Jack delivers the bad news to Cora. Cora is more worried about looking after Arnie, but Jack presses: her feet must be amputated to prevent the infection from spreading. She tells him not to worry about her: "Cora can take a punch. It's okay."<br />
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Westphall enters Rhinehardt's room, and with an angry glare, informs the patient that the woman he injured in the bombing has succumbed to her injuries. Rhinehardt's response is flippant: "Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wild." Westphall tells him that he'll be transferred to the jail ward that night.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cora tells Arnie the bad news.</td></tr>
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Arnie looks for Cora in her room, but she's not there. He wanders the hall, calling her name, and collapses in a corner, crying and panicked. Rosenthal comforts him. Later, Cora is back in her hospital bed, and she discovers that Arnie had been struck in the head with a bottle. She asks him why he didn't have the sense to run. Arnie spies the I.V. and speculates that hospitals take patients' blood and sell it. She tells him about her diagnosis. He just wants to go home and offers to take care of her. Her emotions overtake her. "They're gonna cut off my feet! Don't you understand anything? You can't go running around like a chicken without a head because I can't chase after you no more." Cora takes a moment to consider her situation. She tells Arnie to tell the nurse to give him her things.<br />
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Wayne visits the man with the bullet in his bac, who is not happy about going back to prison. Wayne then drops in on Mrs. Rogers. All the tests have failed to explain her fainting, so Wayne tells her to visit her family doctor when she gets home for more tests. They go to the billing office and learn the extent of the damage: $1,380.90 (or $1,665.90, according to the print-out... Whoops!). Vacation ruined.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. McAllister takes justice into his own hands.</td></tr>
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Jack stops Cora and Arnie on their way out of the hospital. He explains that the infection is going to kill her if she leaves. But Arnie is the only meaningful thing left in her life, and she cares about him too much to leave him. She has accepted her fate.<br />
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As he is cuffed to his wheelchair, Rhinehardt tells Westphall that he'd be doing the hospital a favor if he blew it up. As they wait at the elevator, Mr. McAllister is lying in wait. He turns towards Rhinehardt and pulls a out a gun, firing a single shot into Rhinehardt's chest. Westphall tries to stop him, but it's too late. The policeman handcuffs McAllister while Rhinehardt lies dying on the floor.<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Cora and Arnie":</i><br />
<ul>
<li>Doris Roberts and James Coco won the 1983 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for this episode. After Alfre Woodard won for Supporting Actress the following year for a guest appearance on <i>Hill Street Blues</i>, the Television Academy created awards for Outstanding Guest Actor and Outstanding Guest Actress.</li>
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<li>Roberts was sitting beside Coco at the ceremony, and when she went up to the stage to accept the award, she asked him to hold on to her purse for her. When Coco's win was announced moments later, he had to carry the purse with him.</li>
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<li>A production mistake was made when the Rogers couple learns the amount of their hospital bill--the number read aloud does not match what was on their bill.</li>
<li>A commentary track for this episode with Mark Tinker and Doris Roberts appears on the season one DVD release.</li>
<li>This episode appears on the VHS four-tape set, <i>The Very Best of St. Elsewhere</i>.</li>
<li>We find out what becomes of Mr. McAllister in the season four episode, "Cheek to Cheek", when Morrison does community service doing medical exams in a local prison. It does not go well for Jack.</li>
<li>The Johnny Jump-Up/Footsteps of Spring conversation is referenced in season four's "Black's Magic", the episode immediately following "Cheek to Cheek". Phil buys Roxanne a bouquet of flowers. "Roxanne loves Johnny Jump-Ups." Dr. Kiley tells him that he's actually purchased Footsteps of Spring. Robert Thompson, in his book, <i>Television's Second Golden Age</i>, points out the connection, the writers' way of alluding to what McAllister was like before he turned vigilante.</li>
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Here's the episode, posted on DailyMotion:<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
and<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara Whinnery</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Cathy Martin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594540/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Miyori</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wendy Armstrong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168394/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Coco</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Arnie</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005368/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Doris Roberts</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Cora</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052433/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jack Bannon</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Stephen McAllister</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809117/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lionel Smith</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Man shot in back</span><br />
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Co-Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485637/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric G. Laneuville</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Luther</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0067049/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bernard Behrens</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as George Rogers</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000209/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tim Robbins</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Andrew Rhinehardt</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314251/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anne Gerety</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Lillian Rogers</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0038997/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Camila Ashlend</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Billing Clerk</span><br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere </i>on Hulu or elsewhere? Feel free to comment on this episode below. Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-14523343514697273352019-10-18T15:00:00.000-04:002019-10-26T12:56:51.113-04:00"Down's Syndrome"<i>Summary</i>: A couple learns their baby will be born with Down's Syndrome, and the husband pushes for an abortion. Beale assesses the bomber to determine his fitness for trial. Westphall shows members of the board around the hospital. Fiscus and Martin get trapped in an elevator; Fiscus worries that their relationship is only physical. White, fending off persistent phone calls from his wife in the E.R., nearly kills a patient. Morrison learns his wife is pregnant.<br />
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"Down's Syndrome" is the 3rd episode of season 1 of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>.<br />
Originally aired November 16, 1982. <br />
Teleplay by Tom Fontana<br />
Story by Joshua Brand & John Falsey and Tom Fontana<br />
Directed by Mark Tinker<br />
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<i>Recap:</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rooney tells Westphall about the latest child junkie.</td></tr>
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The episode begins with the residents learning about a case of liver cancer from Dr. Daniel Auschlander (Norman Lloyd). When he asks the residents how they would handle the patient in this case, Ms. Taylor, Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori) says she would tell the patient the truth, that her condition is terminal. Auschlander stumps Wendy when he asks her <i>when</i> the patient will die. Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) compares having Auschlander (who also has liver cancer) discuss this case to having Marie Antoinette talking about the "inner mechanisms of the guillotine."<br />
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Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) gives a tour of St. Eligius to two members of the hospital's board of directors (Virginia Kiser, Thomas Hill). One of them, a judge (Hill), mentions that there's talking of closing down the facility and moving it to one of the better suburbs, like Newton or Wellesley. Donald counters that closing the hospital would leave a hole in the neighborhood. They encounter orderly Rooney (Lance Guest), who complains to Westphall that sanitation didn't show up, and they had "another kid in here, twelve years old". Donald explains that sanitation is supposed to dispose of syringes so that the kids, who are intravenous drug users, don't re-use the needles.<br />
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Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox) is working in the E.R. when he receives a phone call from his wife, Myra, who is looking for the ticket for the laundry.<br />
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Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.) spots Wayne talking to Dr. Cathy Martin (Barbara Whinnery), with whom he recently began a relationship. After Cathy leaves, Wayne asks Victor to cover for him while he and Cathy go on their first date, to a pistol range. Wayne is worried about the relationship becoming too serious, but also that it's been purely physical up to that point.<br />
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We meet the Whitehill family, Bill (Tony Bill) and Denise (Maureen Anderman) and their two daughters. Denise is pregnant, and sleeping late in advance of her doctor's appointment at St. Eligius. Bill wants the child to be a boy. Denise insists that this will be their last child, given her age. <br />
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Dr. Hugh Beale (G.W. Bailey), the hospital's psychiatrist, introduces himself to Andrew Rhinehardt (Tim Robbins), the injured terrorist bomber. Beale must determine if Rhinehardt is fit to stand trial. We learn that Rhinehardt was an honor student who won a science award in school before he dropped out to become a radical. Beale mentions that he plays chess with Dr. Craig. Rhinehardt calls Beale "doctor pig".<br />
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Next stop on the board members' hospital tour is the animal research lab. Someone named Belznik
sent a dead mouse from upstairs through the hospital's pneumatic tube
messaging system. The judge comments that the tube system is
out-of-date. Donald explains that it's the only wing that still uses it,
and if they could get more money, they could do something about it.
Mrs. Beardsley (Kiser) isn't comfortable with the use of dogs for
medical research. Donald replies that if she's got a better system for
developing medical treatments, they'll try it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Whitehills learn that their child will have Down's<br />
Syndrome.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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At the hospital, Bill and Denise Whitehill meet with Dr. Annie Cavanero (Cynthia
Sikes), who informs them that their child-to-come has Down's Syndrome.
Bill chides Annie's suggestion that some parents take pleasure in raising a Down's child. It's little consolation to him that the child is a boy.<br />
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On rounds with Auschlander, the residents examine Miss Taylor (Betty Cole), the liver cancer patient. After leaving the room, White comments that her liver was hard as a rock. Auschlander asks them what the treatment options are. Armstrong suggests that they should just keep her comfortable.<br />
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Stephen McAllister visits his wife, Katherine, who was seriously injured in the terrorist bombing. Her eyes are open, but she is unresponsive. He tells her that they'll go skiing again once they get back to Minneapolis.<br />
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The hospital tour continues with a trip to an operating room, where Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney) is performing surgery and chatting up the two guests while pop music plays on the O.R. stereo.<br />
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Back at the Whitehill house, Denise and Bill are getting ready for bed. She is optimistic, but he does not like the idea of raising a "damaged" child. Their daughters are in bed, but one of them overhears the conversation and listens at their door. Bill gets angry, calling their unborn child a "mongoloid", and Denise doesn't like Bill's implication that he wants to "throw it away". She doesn't like the thought of having an abortion, and their daughter doesn't like it either, running back to her room.<br />
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In the E.R., Peter is stitching up the wrist of a woman, Mrs. Lawson (Sandy Martin) whose husband is watching through the window while she complains about the "constant humiliation" she endures in their marriage. He asks her to keep her arm still, but she insists on keeping up her animated rant. Eventually, Peter snaps. He tells her he doesn't care about her problems, and he's sick of her continually attempting suicide after their fights and coming back to the E.R. to be stitched up. Dr. Phil Chandler (Denzel Washington) tells Peter his wife is on the phone, but the agitated White refuses to take the call. He finishes the stitches and tells the patient she "ought to see a shrink or somebody."<br />
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The Whitehill's daughter awakes in the middle of the night, shouting for her mother. She had a bad dream. She dreamed that her parents were mad at her and threw her in the ocean. When Denise asks her daughter where she would get an idea like that, she says she knows they are planning to get rid of the new baby.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Someone needs to teach Vijay the rules of Scrabble.</td></tr>
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The next day, in the St. Eligius cafeteria, Phil is playing Scrabble with Wendy, Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse), and Dr. Vijay Kochar (Kavi Raz). Phil is now Rhinehardt's doctor, and he wonders how Jack put up with him. Vijay tries to play the word "shamash", the sun god of Assyria. At another table, Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels) complains to Beale about doctors wearing gym shoes.<br />
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At yet another table, Mrs. Whitehill sits down with Dr. Cavanero. Her husband wanted a son to carry on the family name. Denise wants Annie's take on the situation. Like Annie's mother, Denise is a "very traditional woman."<br />
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In the E.R., Rooney confides to Nurse Shirley Daniels (Ellen Bry) that he has aspirations of becoming a scrub nurse. Shirley has been considering getting out of nursing herself. Myra White calls again. Peter is treating a patient, and suggests that Shirley add 30 mg of potassium to the patient's IV to help with his dehyrdation. He leaves to take the phone call. While explaining that he can't interrupt his shift to pick up his wife's mother, Rooney interrupts and tells him to "come quick". Ehrlich is performing CPR on the patient. After defibrillation brings the patient back to life, Ehrlich informs White that the potassium almost killed the man.<br />
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Back at the Whitehill house, Denise insists to her husband that she wants to keep the baby. Brian protests. He insists the child is a "defective accident." She insists that abortion is "murder." He says he doesn't have the strength to handle it.<br />
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Later, at St. Eligius, Wayne meets Cathy in an elevator, having enjoyed their date at the shooting range. The elevator gets stuck between floors. She starts getting upset, relating that during the Manhattan blackout in '79, she was stuck in an elevator at the Biltmore with an Arab prince and four Labradors. Cathy insists Wayne hold her tight and kiss her. Meanwhile, Dr. Craig complains about the elevator to Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles). She has a key to get it moving again. When the doors open, Cathy calmly leaves the elevator, while Wayne is standing in the corner, zipping up his fly. A man steps in, and Wayne asks him, "going down?"<br />
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Nina Morrison (Deborah White) arrives to meet her husband Jack. Rather than go out for lobster at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durgin-Park" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Durgin-Park</a>, she wants to go home, since they hardly ever get to spend time together. She's got a bottle of champagne. They walk past Mr. McAllister, who is eyeing the room where a police officer is standing guard. Nina isn't thrilled about the prospect of an evening with the Whites, who are "going through a rough patch." Jack defends Peter, saying he's under a lot of pressure and he has a baby, to which Nina replies, "so do you." Jack is thrilled with the news.<br />
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Back at the Whitehill house, Denise is already in bed when Bill gets home from work. He'd talked over the baby situation with someone at work, but it's too late--she had the abortion.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Auschlander tells Westphall about his childhood trips<br />
to the opera with his father.</td></tr>
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Later, at St. Eligius, Dr. Auschlander is listening to opera music in his office when Westphall, on his way home, stops by. He tells Donald, "When I was a little body in New York, my father used to take me to the Metropolitan Opera House, the old one at Broadway and 39th Street... My father and I. Every week, we'd stand and watch Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, Wagner, and my father would cry. Once I asked him, 'why are you crying, papa?' And he turned to me and said, 'Be quiet. Listen.'" He considers the treatment options for his liver cancer. Donald tells him he should see a doctor, and takes his leave. Auschlander pays a visit to Ms. Taylor, and joins her for a game of gin rummy.<br />
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<i>Trivia for "Down's Syndrome": </i><br />
<ul>
<li>This was the first episode of episodic television written by a young Tom Fontana, who went on to create the series <i>Homicide</i> and <i>Oz</i> after his run as a <i>St. Elsewhere</i> writer and producer. A copy of <a href="http://www.tomfontana.com/scripts/" target="_blank">the original script</a> can be found on Fontana's website.</li>
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<li>One of the scenes cut from the episode features Rhinehardt's parents explaining how their son fell in with the group of radicals that inspired the terrorist bombing he committed.</li>
</ul>
<li>Wayne comments on the slideshow of microscope images, "Who took these pictures, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Garner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Garner</a>?" Garner was the commercial pitchman for Polaroid cameras.</li>
<li>According to Westphall, Dr. Osterwald, the doctor napping in the hallway when the board members pass by, is the best cardiologist in New England. This is his only appearance.</li>
<li>I'm familiar with <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553036/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sandy Martin</a>, who played Mrs. Lawson, from her role as Mac's mother on <i>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</i>, and her roles in <i>Big Love</i> and <i>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</i>.</li>
<li>I'm familiar with <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384718/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Hill</a> as Jim Dixon on <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhart" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Newhart</i></a>.</li>
<li>This episode earned a positive review in the <i>New York Times</i>: "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/16/arts/tv-nbc-s-stylish-st-elsewhere.html" target="_blank">NBC's Stylish 'St. Elsewhere'</a>".</li>
<li>Dr. Auschlander's story about seeing the opera with his father turns up again when he tries marijuana for the first time, in season 2's <a href="https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/2019/02/hearing.html" target="_blank">"Hearing"</a>.</li>
<li>Guest star Tony Bill won an Oscar along with Michael and Julia Phillips as producers of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sting" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Sting</i></a>. He also directed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bodyguard" target="_blank"><i>My Bodyguard</i></a>, among others.</li>
<li>They could have just told Vijay that you can't use names in Scrabble. English dictionary words only.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=durgin-park" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Durgin-Park</a>, the restaurant where Jack wanted to dine, closed its doors permanently on January 12, 2019. It opened in 1827, and a restaurant had been operating in that location since 1742.</li>
</ul>
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Here's the scene with Peter White and Mrs. Lawson in the E.R.:<br />
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And here's the episode in its entirety:<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Flanders</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Donald Westphall</span><br />
and<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083709/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Birney</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Ben Samuels</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047265/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.W. Bailey</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Hugh Beale</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461679/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence Knox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Peter White</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713576/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kavi Raz</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Vijay Kochar</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cynthia Sikes</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Annie Cavanero</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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and Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><b> </b><br />
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Guest Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norman Lloyd</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Daniel Auschlander</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara Whinnery</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Cathy Martin</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594540/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Miyori</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wendy Armstrong</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116885/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellen Bry</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Shirley Daniels</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082300/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tony Bill</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Brian Whitehill</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025972/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maureen Anderman</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Denise Whitehill</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052433/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jack Bannon</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Stephen McAllister</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924695/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deborah White</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nina Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457170/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Virginia Kiser</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mrs. Beardsley</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384718/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Hill</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as the Judge</span><br />
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Co-Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0346411/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lance Guest</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Sean Rooney</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000209/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tim Robbins</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Andrew Reinhardt</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170452/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Betty Cole</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Miss Taylor</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553036/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sandy Martin</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mrs. Lawson</span><br />
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With<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553036/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeanna Barron</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Michelle Whitehill</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553036//" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michelle Walker</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Stephanie Whitehill</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204897/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Walter Davis</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Bram Hammond</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2209536/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vance Colvig, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Mr. Pechar</span><br />
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Watching <i>St. Elsewhere</i> on Hulu? Feel free to comment on this episode below.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-20361861156870834982019-10-12T14:45:00.000-04:002019-10-12T14:46:21.241-04:00Interview with Kim Miyori<i>An interview with Kim Miyori, who played Dr. Wendy Armstrong on seasons one and two of</i> St. Elsewhere.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kim Miyori on <i>People Now</i> with Bill Tush in 1983.</td></tr>
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I found this clip on YouTube the other day. It's an interview with Kim Miyori from a talk show called <i>People Now</i>, hosted by former TBS and CNN entertainment reporter Bill Tush. The interview took place in between seasons one and two, after the show had been saved from cancellation. Miyori also discusses her guest appearance with Tom Selleck on an episode of <i>Magnum P.I.</i><br />
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The YouTube clip, from a VHS tape, fast forwards through the clip from "Family History", which was the first episode that featured Wendy. I presume it was because clips from season one aren't allowed on YouTube due to copyright restrictions.<br />
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Some interesting tidbits from the interview:<br />
<ul>
<li>The producers thought Kim Miyori was "too pretty" for the part, so she attended her final reading without makeup and wearing glasses.</li>
<li>Miyori aspired to become a doctor, but pursued acting instead.</li>
<li>Wendy's story in "Family History" involved her diagnosing a patient with Gaucher's Disease, a rare genetic disorder mostly found among Ashkenazi Jews. This led to a viewer discovering the cause of her grandson's undiagnosed bleeding disorder. </li>
</ul>
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Here's the clip:<br />
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Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-39768305864382070012019-09-24T14:20:00.000-04:002019-09-24T14:20:51.853-04:00St. Elsewhere on CHCH-TVAttention, residents of Ontario, Canada: Hamilton's CHCH-TV, available on most cable systems in Southern Ontario, is now running episodes of <i>St. Elsewhere</i> weekdays at 2 pm, starting with the pilot episode on Tuesday, September 24.<br />
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A few years back, CHCH changed its daytime programming format to "Retro TV"--i.e. showing reruns of old shows, like most local TV stations used to do. <i>St. Elsewhere</i> replaces <i>Starsky and Hutch</i> in the 2 o'clock time slot.<br />
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And if you're a fan of other classic MTM shows, CHCH will be running <i>Hill Street Blues</i> in the 4 pm time slot, starting September 30.<br />
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Link to the CHCH promo page:<br />
<a href="https://www.chch.com/st-elsewhere/">https://www.chch.com/st-elsewhere/</a>Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-84906631420350112252019-03-19T18:13:00.000-04:002019-10-12T14:09:05.846-04:00Interviews with St. Elsewhere Creator Joshua Brand<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">From TelevisionAcademy.com's interview on YouTube, here are two clips of Creator Joshua Brand discussing </span></i><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">St. Elsewhere</span><i><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In the first clip below, Joshua Brand tells the story of how St. Elsewhere came to be. In the second clip, he explains why his involvement in the show was short-lived.</span></span></span><br />
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Thanks to the efforts of nostalgic TV viewers on YouTube, you can watch old promos for upcoming episodes of <i>St. Elsewhere</i>. I have compiled them into a new page added to the main menu bar, "Promos".<br />
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Most of them are from NBC broadcasts, and include promos for other classic shows. I am particularly amused by the presence of the short-lived Geena Davis-Bronson Pinchot sitcom, <i>Sara</i>.<br />
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Here's a promo for the series finale to get you started on your trip down memory lane:<br />
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<br />Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-28295871544085850212019-02-12T17:52:00.000-05:002019-02-12T17:52:20.877-05:00New Site Feature: Episode PagesIf you've clicked on this website over the past two days, you may have noticed that I've been making posts that are titled with episode titles and contain a description of the episode.<br />
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The purpose of this is to populate the Episode Guide with individual pages for each episode. I've added a link to each of these posts in the Episode Guide page, and this enables those who are watching the series on Hulu to post comments on an episode-by-episode basis. If and when I have time, I can go back through these pages and add trivia and comments myself.Daniel Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14373444939654297721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-48945664527901021432019-02-11T21:40:00.000-05:002019-10-19T15:30:24.890-04:00"The Last One"<i>Description</i>: A plane crashes into the hospital. The Craigs' reconciliation faces a major test when Ellen is offered a job in Cleveland. Auschlander and Gideon work together to save St. Eligius when Weigert decides to pull out. Novino pushes Morrison to decide between her and Joanne. Griffin places his future in God's hands. Ehrlich returns from his odyssey. Fiscus's last ER patient is an opera singer with laryngitis. The hospital is revealed to be a figment of Tommy Westphall's imagination.<br />
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Originally aired May 25, 1988.<br />
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<b>Cast</b><br />
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Starring<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Daniels</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Mark Craig</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norman Lloyd</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Daniel Auschlander </span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001074/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ronny Cox</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. John Gideon</span><br />
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Also Starring (in alphabetical order)<br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058783/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bonnie Bartlett</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Ellen Craig </span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ed Begley, Jr.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Victor Ehrlich</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299122/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stephen Furst</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Elliott Axelrod</span> <br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339304/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bruce Greenwood</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Seth Griffin </span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485637/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric Laneuville</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Luther Hawkins </span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507722/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sagan Lewis</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jacqueline Wade </span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howie Mandel</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Wayne Fiscus</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001556/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Morse</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Jack Morrison</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638395/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">France Nuyen</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Paulette Kiem</span> <br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681882/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cindy Pickett</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Carol Novino</span> <br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681943/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Pickles</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Helen Rosenthal</span><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767651/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jennifer Savidge</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Nurse Lucy Papandrao</span> <br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denzel Washington</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as Dr. Philip Chandler</span><br />
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