"Monday, Tuesday, Sven's Day"

Description: Further racial violence in response to a recent beating has the ER flooded with fighting patients. A prostitute in for an appendectomy has a steady stream of well-wishers. Craig throws a party for a visiting surgeon, forcing Ehrlich to scramble for a date. White's wife wants money for an abortion. Morrison discovers the truth about the beating that sparked the violence.

"Monday, Tuesday, Sven's Day" is the 15th episode of season 1 of St. Elsewhere.
Originally aired March 1, 1983.
Teleplay by John Masius, Tom Fontana
Story by Joshua Brand, John Falsey
Directed by Bruce Paltrow

"Remission"

Description: Auschlander faces the prospect of more chemotherapy for his liver cancer. A female flasher makes the rounds. The fastidious Ehrlich has a nightmare of a roommate when the free-wheeling Fiscus moves in temporarily. Cavanero faces a difficult choice about a fellowship. Chandler and Morrison treat a patient beaten in a racially-motivated gang fight.

"Remission" is the 14th episode of season 1 of St. Elsewhere.
Originally aired February 22, 1983.
Teleplay by Leigh Curran
Story by Joshua Brand, John Falsey
Directed by Mark Tinker

R.I.P. John Falsey, St. Elsewhere Co-Creator

The Co-Creator of St. Elsewhere and other shows has passed away at age 67.

Just came across this bit of news from a few weeks ago... John Falsey, who created St. Elsewhere with writing partner Joshua Brand, died at the age of 67 on January 3. According to Variety he died of complications of a head injury resulting from a fall in his home.

The Variety profile provides a summary of his career. He met Brand as a writer on Bruce Paltrow's MTM series, The White Shadow, and was recruited by Brand to work on his hospital drama idea which became St. Elsewhere, which was based on Brand's experience at the Cleveland Clinic. Brand and Falsey served as show-runners on season one of St. Elsewhere, but were dismissed before the season concluded. They had earned the nicknames, "Dr. Death and Mr. Depression".

Brand and Falsey went on to create more series and win Emmys, including A Year In The Life, Northern Exposure, and I'll Fly Away. Falsey was set to serve as Executive Producer on a reboot of Northern Exposure, which was announced in November.

Variety: John Falsey, 'St. Elsewhere' and 'Northern Exposure' Co-Creator, Dies at 67

Original Closing Credits From the Series Finale

A clip of the original credits from the series finale, with Mimsie the Cat on life support.

Mimsie the Cat has seen better days.

St. Elsewhere was known for its occasionally morbid sense of humor, and they pulled no punches when it came to the closing credits for the series finale, "The Last One". Under normal circumstances, the credits appeared over an image of a surgical team at work (I believe the shot is from the pilot episode). Following the credits, the MTM Productions card appeared, a spoof of the MGM "lion" logo, with the lion replaced by a clip of a meowing orange kitten named Mimsie. (For St. Elsewhere, Mimsie was outfitted in surgical scrubs. Mimsie wore a policeman's cap at the end of Hill Street Blues, and meowed in the droll voice of Bob Newhart at the end of Newhart. There were other versions as well.)

For "The Last One", the surgery picture was replaced with an image of Mimsie lying unconscious, hooked up to a beeping heart monitor, and as the credits end, the beeping changes to a flatline. After killing off patients and doctors alike for six seasons of St. Elsewhere, they killed off Mimsie the MTM cat.

Here's a YouTube clip of the original closing credits from "The Last One", without the NBC announcer. From what I've heard, the Hulu version does not include this special credits sequence. So enjoy it here!

William Daniels Interview

William Daniels, St. Elsewhere's Dr. Mark Craig, discusses the show in an interview about his career.

The Television Academy Foundation has posted an interview with William Daniels from August, 2017. On YouTube, the interview is conveniently broken down into clips, but you can watch the whole thing on the Television Academy Foundation website.

Here are the links:

William Daniels complete interview at interviews.televisionacademy.com.

YouTube playlist of selections from the interview.

It's all good, but for St. E related stuff, check out:

• On working with his St. Elsewhere castmates
• On working with an advisor while preparing to play Dr. Craig
• On winning his first Emmy award
• On why St. Elsewhere resonated with viewers
• On St. Elsewhere being canceled after the first year
• On shooting walk and talks on St. Elsewhere
• On getting cast in St. Elsewhere
• On doing medical jargon on St. Elsewhere
• Bonnie Bartlett and William Daniels on playing a married couple on St. Elsewhere
• On their separation storyline on St. Elsewhere
• On Bonnie joining the cast of St. Elsewhere

Replica St. Eligius Snow Globe

The Queen Of Snow Globes has created a replica of the snow globe from the series finale.

The Queen of Snow Globes's
stunning replica of the
legendary series finale
artifact.

Thanks to Jim Mitchell for this tip... Leah Andrews, the Queen of Snow Globes, has described a custom snow globe project that was requested of her: a reproduction of the snow globe from the final scene of St. Elsewhere's series finale.

Follow the link above to read about her process for creating the snow globe. The video link in the article was to my YouTube video of the final scene, which perished along with the rest of the videos in my channel. As you may know, the final scene of St. Elsewhere depicts autistic child Tommy Westphall staring into a snow globe containing the St. Eligius hospital building, and it is suggested that the entire series was a figment of Tommy's imagination as he spent his days staring into the globe.

Want one for yourself? According to her comment at the bottom of the post, the Queen of Snow Globes can duplicate her work on this gem as a custom project for $1000 USD.

Happy 104th Birthday, Norman Lloyd!

The St. Elsewhere Experience is delighted to extend belated birthday greetings to living legend Norman Lloyd, St. Elsewhere's Dr. Daniel Auschlander, who turned 104 years old this past Thursday, November 8.

Apparently, Lloyd was the target of a recent internet death hoax, as reported by MediaMass. We are happy to report that he is alive and well.

St. Elsewhere Complete Series Available on Hulu

Finally, something resembling an official release of seasons two through six of St. Elsewhere.

A big thanks to John DiMaggio for this tip--evidently, video streaming platform Hulu is now carrying the complete series of St. Elsewhere.

I live in Canada and can't access Hulu, so if anyone cares to leave comments as to the quality and completeness of the episodes, that would be awesome. In particular, I'm wondering if the episodes are the full 48-minute episodes, and if the background music is still intact.

Here's a news clip from 2017 about the deal between Hulu and 20th Century Fox Television Distribution. This is the first bit of movement on releasing St. Elsewhere since the first season DVD came out over a decade ago.

Update, November 10: Good news! According to our commenters, the episodes are full-length, and the original background music (soundalikes of pop songs, that is) has been preserved, which wasn't the case with the season one DVD release.

Update, February 1, 2019: It would appear that some of the music has been re-recorded. I watched "Sweet Dreams", and the guitar music during Jack's dream has been replaced. The new version sounds less like Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" than the original sound-alike. Fortunately, the "Legs" music video remains intact.