![]() ![]() Cheers begat Frasier and another short-lived spin-off called The Tortellis. Cheers, being as successful as it was in its day, ended up creating crossovers with other series on its own. This happened in an episode when characters from St. ![]() Elsewhere crossed over with Cheers at one point. Elsewhere were paged through the school’s announcements system. The reverse of this was used on the Canadian show, Degrassi Junior High, where doctors from St. Elsewhere was used at various times to call doctors from other series, even though they were not appearing in that episode. Elsewhere in a way that makes it clear they are intended to be in the same world. Outside of this, there are shows that reference St. Crossing Jordan, Cheers, Boston Public, Chicago Hope, The Bob Newhart Show, M*A*S*H, and Homicide: Life on the Street are among the shows where this happened. The show did numerous crossover episodes where characters from one series appeared on St. Elsewhere was a very popular, and it continues to be well-respected among people who make decisions for television. How does a show like this, with all the good it did for its craft, end up ruining television? The answer comes in two parts. Elsewhere followed this new direction, and almost the entirety of the current hour-long medical genre owes its place on TV to “a show that ruined television.” Welcome to the Multiverse The thinking of the time was, “Who wants to turn on their television only to be depressed? The advertisers certainly wouldn’t like that.” That strategy worked fine for many years, but it turned out not to work on the slightly-more-cynical younger generation. The patients always got better, the doctors never made mistakes, and everyone, as Garrison Keillor might put it, was above-average. The television portrayal of doctors until that point was more in line with what we think of as super heroes. What separated it from its predecessors was the reality with which it treated its subject matter. Elsewhere, it was the first of the modern ilk of medical dramas. ![]() If you are of the population not fortunate enough to have seen St. ![]() There’s a much larger story to be told about the series. Right now, television buffs are probably screaming at their computer screens about snow globes and children with autism, but that’s not even the half of it. It drove forward the careers of such Hollywood heavyweights as Helen Hunt, Denzel Washington, Howie Mandel, and Ed Begley Jr., but it was also the beginning of one of the most interesting factoids in all of television trivia. Chandler, I don't care.If you watched television in the mid 1980s, there’s a good chance you saw, or at least have heard of, a little medical drama called St. Philip Chandler: Well, he's just upset about.ĭr. So I'm not gonna listen to any lectures about responsibility.ĭr. We just supply Band-Aids for a lousy world. You want us to go out and give more to the community? When it's the community that doesn't care. Wayne Fiscus: You don't think we care about the people we deal with. Wayne Fiscus: Maybe nobody stepped forward because we're already doing enough.ĭr. So now I'm gonna assign each one of you.ĭr. The rest of you are just waiting for the board to turn down that project. I told all of you to start thinking about where you're going to do community services. It's always someone else's fault isn't it? The people who work in the lab, the ward clerks, complaints that you don't have enough time. You know that's all I seem to get from you people. Wayne Fiscus: She can't help it if someone else screwed up.ĭr. ![]()
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