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This show was unlike anything on network TV before. Elsewhere' the road to peak television would look different, IMHO.

Now we're in 'peak television' with the overwhelming amount of quality programming being produced across so many platforms, but without 'St. I've seen NBC's 80s and 90s lineup called a second golden age for TV. Elsewhere' ran six seasons from 1982 to 1988. Now it's time to re-watch the show, which my wife didn't see much of back then, it's going to be great! was a neighbor just down the street, along with George Wendt, Norm from Cheers. In the late 90's I bought a house in my Studio City neighborhood, very close to the CBS Radford Studio lot where the show had been filmed. It was also a good lesson for this new Angeleno, just because you had been on a big TV show didn't mean everything was set for life. I see she is alive and well today, godo do to know she got past that illness. I remember she was frighteningly thin, clearly suffering from anorexia nervosa. Cathy Martin (Barbara Whinnery) was there. Elsewhere's unforgettably sexy pathology resident Dr. I found myself filing for unemployment benefits at the Santa Monica office and St. I recall asking him if he knew if the show was coming back and he didn't know. One summer while working as a host at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Restaurant Season One star David Birney arrived with his family. Elsewhere 'Brush with Greatness' memories have been coming back. As I've been enjoying reading through this thread a number of St.

Elsewhere connected with me unlike any other shows of that era. While I had also watched and enjoyed Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere from my late teen through college years, the show was absolute must see TV for me. Shows with ongoing storylines/arcs tend not to do as well in syndication as shows with standalone episodes. NBC kept it on because it was a prestige show and because (as the third-ranked network with few hits) they had nothing to replace it with that would do better.Ģ. My recollection is that it rarely got higher than the top thirty, and often was rated much lower than that. My guess is that the show wasn't successful in syndication for two reasons:ġ. It's kind of the opposite of the Seinfeld finale, which is lousy for two hours and then amusing for the final scene where they are in jail. It shouldn't overshadow the fact that the rest of the final episode is extremely well done, a textbook example of a great finale that ties up the storylines of every character in interesting and sometimes ironic ways. It's only two minutes at the very end of the episode, and as such it's easy enough to ignore and forget about. Click to expand.I think too much is made of that last scene.

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