tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post1330896385597512831..comments2024-03-27T00:18:24.085-04:00Comments on St. Elsewhere Experience: On Call, Vol. 1, No. 3 - Physical Plant: The Set... "St. Elsewhere's Silent Co-Star"Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06486660044959549624noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-14096217781749699022022-06-29T15:18:07.268-04:002022-06-29T15:18:07.268-04:00The set is Amazing as for the details. I adore th...The set is Amazing as for the details. I adore this show and love the set even the front entrance. On a Christmas episode of the nanny they use the front steps of St Eligiusbut decorated for Christmas as the entrance to a hospital on this episode<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-6260113774296278872021-05-18T08:21:03.285-04:002021-05-18T08:21:03.285-04:00Tuesday, May 18, 2021--7:15 am
I was also wonderi... Tuesday, May 18, 2021--7:15 am<br /><br />I was also wondering, were the homes of Dr, Mark Craig, Dr. Westphell, Dr. Aushlander's homes also sets? "St. Elsewhere, mostly showed the home of Dr. and Ellen Craig's home and Dr. Westphall's home. They really didn't show Dr. Aushlander's home very much.terrymarvin63https://www.blogger.com/profile/08136167794114783682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-44656227662249988612020-05-27T10:23:33.153-04:002020-05-27T10:23:33.153-04:00This is a fascinating article - thank you. However...This is a fascinating article - thank you. However, it doesn't address a number of questions that occur to me when I watch the show, and I would love to know if anyone has any further information, particularly with regard to question 3 below:<br /><br />1. Normally a set like this would be built on the solid floor of a sound stage, but sometimes a shot will show people walk along the corridor and go through the door to the stairwell, and you see the first few steps going down. So was the entire set built above floor level to allow for that? Or was there an actual stairwell on the sound stage which they accommodated into the set?<br /><br />2. The plan of the set layout doesn't show the cafeteria which I presume was on a separate stage.<br /><br />3. In later seasons of the show they added another set to represent the hospital's main entrance, reception area, gift shop etc. This set was remarkable as the front doors opened onto a recreation of a sizeable portion of the front facade of the building, which was used for exterior shots. I would love to know more about this set, such as whether it was based on original plans of Franklin Square House, whether it was full size or built to a reduced scale, etc.; but despite having scoured the web several times over the years I've found nothing. (Although searching for "st elsewhere set" did lead me to this site, for which I'm very grateful!)<br /><br />The most notable difference between the real Franklin Square House in Boston and the exterior recreation of it on St Elsewhere is that the front entrance of the real building doesn't lead into a ground-floor hallway. Immediately inside the doors is a flight of steps, the full width of the entrance, leading up to the next floor. You can often see this in the show, in establishing shots filmed on location in Boston, which makes for an odd continuity glitch when compared with shots filmed using the exterior set.Phil Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09070347097147180846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-37392771973928646442020-04-09T13:01:26.765-04:002020-04-09T13:01:26.765-04:00It was shot on a set, and not in a real hospital, ...It was shot on a set, and not in a real hospital, and that's what this article is about. It was the biggest set, by length, in television history. And they made it work through behind-the-scenes TV magic. I thought they did a particularly good job of lighting the exterior windows to look like daylight.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06486660044959549624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474373967694036822.post-30435666940576244872020-03-17T23:02:45.172-04:002020-03-17T23:02:45.172-04:00What hospital was the actual FILMING of st elsewhe...What hospital was the actual FILMING of st elsewhere? Abandoned hospital used for tv? Was it a set? Seems unlkely as the layout is so large and flows together much too realistically, right? I understand, the outside of the hospital was in Boston, but was that also the hospital they filmed in or what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com