St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time; both series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines. St. Elsewhere was filmed at CBS/MTM Studios, which was known as CBS/Fox Studios when the show began; coincidentally, 20th Century Fox wound up acquiring the rights to the series when it bought MTM Enterprises in the 1990s.
Known for its combination of gritty, realistic drama and moments of black comedy, St. Elsewhere gained a small yet loyal following over its 6-season, 137-episode run; the series also found a strong audience in Nielsen's 18-49 age demographic, a young demo later known for a young, affluent audience that TV advertisers are eager to reach. The series also earned critical acclaim during its run, earning 13 Emmy Awards for its writing, acting, and directing. St. Elsewhere was ranked #20 on TV Guide's 2002 list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.", with the magazine also selecting it as the best drama series of the 1980s in a 1993 issue.
![]() | Season 1 Episode 1 St. Elsewhere Air Date: 1982-10-26 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 2 Bypass Air Date: 1982-11-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 3 Down's Syndrome Air Date: 1982-11-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 4 Cora and Arnie Air Date: 1982-11-23 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 5 Samuels and the Kid Air Date: 1982-11-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 6 Legionnaires (1) Air Date: 1982-12-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 7 Legionnaires (2) Air Date: 1982-12-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 8 Tweety and Ralph Air Date: 1982-12-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 9 Rain Air Date: 1983-01-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 10 Hearts Air Date: 1983-01-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 11 Graveyard Air Date: 1983-01-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 12 Release Air Date: 1983-02-01 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 13 Family History Air Date: 1983-02-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 14 Remission Air Date: 1983-02-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 15 Monday, Tuesday, Sven's Day Air Date: 1983-03-01 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 16 The Count Air Date: 1983-03-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 17 Brothers Air Date: 1983-03-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 18 Dog Day Hospital Air Date: 1983-03-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 19 Working Air Date: 1983-04-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 20 Craig in Love Air Date: 1983-04-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 21 Baron von Munchausen Air Date: 1983-04-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 22 Addiction Air Date: 1983-05-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 1 Ties That Bind Air Date: 1983-10-26 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 2 Lust Et Veritas Air Date: 1983-11-02 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 3 Newheart Air Date: 1983-11-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 4 Qui Transtulit Sustinet Air Date: 1983-11-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 5 A Wing and a Prayer Air Date: 1983-11-23 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 6 Under Pressure Air Date: 1983-11-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 7 Entrapment Air Date: 1983-12-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 8 All About Eve Air Date: 1983-12-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 9 AIDS & Comfort Air Date: 1983-12-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 10 A Pig Too Far Air Date: 1984-01-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 11 Blizzard Air Date: 1984-01-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 12 Hearing Air Date: 1984-02-01 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 13 In Sickness and in Health Air Date: 1984-02-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 14 Drama Center Air Date: 1984-02-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 15 Attack Air Date: 1984-02-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 16 After Dark Air Date: 1984-02-29 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 17 Vanity Air Date: 1984-03-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 18 Equinox Air Date: 1984-03-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 19 The Women Air Date: 1984-03-28 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 20 Cramming Air Date: 1984-05-02 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 21 Rough Cut Air Date: 1984-05-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 22 Hello, Goodbye Air Date: 1984-05-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 1 Playing God (1) Air Date: 1984-09-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 2 Playing God (2) Air Date: 1984-09-26 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 3 Two Balls and a Strike Air Date: 1984-10-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 4 Strikeout Air Date: 1984-10-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 5 Breathless Air Date: 1984-10-24 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 6 My Aim Is True Air Date: 1984-10-31 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 7 Fade to White Air Date: 1984-11-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 8 Sweet Dreams Air Date: 1984-11-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 9 Up on the Roof Air Date: 1984-11-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 10 Girls Just Want to Have Fun Air Date: 1984-11-28 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 11 Homecoming Air Date: 1984-12-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 12 The Children's Hour Air Date: 1984-12-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 13 Dr. Wyler, I Presume Air Date: 1984-12-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 14 Whistle, Wyler Works Air Date: 1985-01-02 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 15 Bye, George Air Date: 1985-01-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 16 Saving Face Air Date: 1985-01-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 17 Give the Boy a Hand Air Date: 1985-01-23 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 18 Any Portrait in a Storm Air Date: 1985-01-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 19 Red, White, Black and Blue Air Date: 1985-02-13 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 20 Amazing Face Air Date: 1985-02-20 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 21 Murder, She Rote Air Date: 1985-02-27 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 22 Tears of a Clown Air Date: 1985-03-13 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 23 Bang the Eardrum Slowly Air Date: 1985-03-20 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 24 Cheers Air Date: 1985-03-27 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 1 Remembrance of Things Past Air Date: 1985-09-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 2 Fathers and Sons Air Date: 1985-09-25 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 3 Haunted Air Date: 1985-10-23 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 4 The Naked and the Dead Air Date: 1985-10-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 5 Slice O'Life Air Date: 1985-11-06 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 6 Lost and Found in Space Air Date: 1985-11-13 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 7 Close Encounters Air Date: 1985-11-20 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 8 Watch the Skies Air Date: 1985-11-27 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 9 Sanctuary Air Date: 1985-12-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 10 Loss of Power Air Date: 1985-12-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 11 Santa Claus Is Dead Air Date: 1985-12-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 12 The Boom Boom Womb Air Date: 1986-01-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 13 To Tell the Truth Air Date: 1986-01-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 14 Family Ties Air Date: 1986-01-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 15 Family Feud Air Date: 1986-01-29 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 16 Family Affair Air Date: 1986-02-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 17 Time Heals (1) Air Date: 1986-02-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 18 Time Heals (2) Air Date: 1986-02-20 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 19 Out on a Limb Air Date: 1986-02-26 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 20 Come Home, Oh Sapien Air Date: 1986-03-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 21 Cheek to Cheek Air Date: 1986-03-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 22 Black's Magic Air Date: 1986-03-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 23 The Equalizer Air Date: 1986-04-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 24 E.R. Air Date: 1986-05-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 1 Where There's Hope, There's Crosby Air Date: 1986-09-24 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 2 When You Wish Upon a Scar Air Date: 1986-10-01 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 3 A Room with a View Air Date: 1986-10-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 4 Brand New Bag Air Date: 1986-10-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 5 You Beta Your Life Air Date: 1986-10-29 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 6 Not My Type Air Date: 1986-11-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 7 Up and Down Air Date: 1986-11-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 8 Nothing Up My Sleeve Air Date: 1986-11-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 9 After Life Air Date: 1986-11-26 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 10 Once Upon a Mattress Air Date: 1986-12-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 11 Lost Weekend Air Date: 1986-12-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 12 Cold War Air Date: 1987-01-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 13 Russian Roulette Air Date: 1987-01-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 14 Visiting Daze Air Date: 1987-01-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 15 Getting Ahead Air Date: 1987-01-28 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 16 Jose, Can You See? Air Date: 1987-02-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 17 Schwarzwald Air Date: 1987-02-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 18 You Again? Air Date: 1987-02-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 19 Rites of Passage Air Date: 1987-02-25 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 20 Women Unchained Air Date: 1987-03-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 21 Good Vibrations Air Date: 1987-05-13 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 22 Slip Sliding Away Air Date: 1987-05-20 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 23 Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball Air Date: 1987-05-27 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 1 Resurrection Air Date: 1987-09-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 2 The Idiot and the Odyssey Air Date: 1987-09-23 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 3 A Moon for the Misbegotten Air Date: 1987-09-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 4 Ewe Can't Go Home Again Air Date: 1987-10-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 5 Night of the Living Bed Air Date: 1987-10-28 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 6 The He-Man Woman Hater's Club Air Date: 1987-11-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 7 Handoff Air Date: 1987-11-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 8 Heart On Air Date: 1987-11-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 9 Weigh In, Way Out Air Date: 1987-12-02 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 10 No Chemo, Sabe? Air Date: 1987-12-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 11 A Coupla White Dummies Sitting Around Talking Air Date: 1987-12-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 12 Final Cut Air Date: 1988-01-06 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 13 Heaven's Skate Air Date: 1988-01-13 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 14 Curtains Air Date: 1988-02-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 15 Fairytale Theater Air Date: 1988-02-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 16 Down and Out on Beacon Hill Air Date: 1988-02-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 17 Their Town Air Date: 1988-04-20 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 18 The Naked Civil Surgeon Air Date: 1988-04-27 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 19 Requiem for a Heavyweight Air Date: 1988-05-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 20 Split Decision Air Date: 1988-05-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 21 The Abby Singer Show Air Date: 1988-05-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 22 The Last One Air Date: 1988-05-25 Duration: 60 min |
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Writing | Channing Gibson | Writer |
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