Built in , the Franklin Square house currently serves as elderly housing. In the past it was used as a hotel and as part of the New England Conservatory of Music. Byron Stewart played the orderly Warren 'Cool' Coolidge. But it wasn't Stewart, or Coolidge's, first time on a TV series. The actor portrayed the same role on The White Shadow from to The story goes that after injuring himself playing hoops, Cool took a job at a hospital in Boston.
One episode featured a psych patient named a Elliot Carlin played by Jack Riley. Riley played the same character, Mr. Elsewhere in this episode called Close Encounters. Betty White had a guest spot in the same episode during Season 4.
A John Doe in the psych ward couldn't remember who he was and turned to TV viewing to help him recover his identity. When Betty White walked into the hospital portraying a U. Navy doctor, she was very confused when the patient called her Sue Ann the name of her MTM character.
Fiscus, played by Howie Mandel, awakened from a coma after being shot. They put surgical gloves over their heads and inflated them by blowing through their noses. The comedian on TV was Mandel himself, who came to fame performing the rubber glove bit as a stand-up before being cast on St. During Season 5, St. Elsewhere had a nod to one of William Daniels' most beloved roles, playing John Adams in When his character, Dr.
Craig, visited Philadelphia with his wife, he commented on the weather by singing a line from one of the film's songs, "Sit Down, John! Harmon left the series at the end of Season 4 and Caldwell's death was memorialized in an episode during Season 6. At the service a nurse noted that the doctor thought he was the sexiest man alive.
In a crossover episode Dr. Westphall, Dr. Auschlander and Dr. Craig stopped by the Boston bar Cheers for a drink. The episode recalled a statement barmaid Carla Rhea Perlman had made years earlier on Cheers that she had delivered one of her eight children at St.
The episode also revealed that Norm George Wendt had been Auschlander's accountant and had at one time put him into some hot water with the Internal Revenue Service. In one of the most memorable finales of all time, Tommy, Dr. Westphall's autistic son, put down his snow globe depicting St. Eligius Hospital. At that moment viewers realized the whole series, and all its characters, existed only in Tommy's imagination. It set off a lot of discussion, theorizing and even college classes about the "Tommy Westphall Universe," which assumed that if St.
Taking into account all the interconnected offshoots of the crossover shows, the running total of Tommy's imaginary series stands at Mark Harmon Dr. Robert Caldwell as Dr. Robert Caldwell. Terence Knox Dr. Peter White as Dr. Peter White. Kavi Raz Dr. Vijay Kochar as Dr. Vijay Kochar. More like this.
Watch options. Storyline Edit. This hour-long dramatic series featured life at St. Eligius Hospital, headed by Drs. Donald Westphall and Daniel Auschlander. Every year, new residents would walk down the halls of St.
Eligius; learning to deal with perfectionist Cardiovascular Surgeon Mark Craig was only the beginning of the way the hospital and its interesting patients would change their lives forever. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia The show never won high ratings but it lasted six seasons on NBC because it appealed to the desirable for advertisers educated year old demographic.
Goofs Throughout the series, Dr. Daniel Auschlander suffers from late-stage Liver Cancer and yet he is seen repeatedly as drinking "very good" Scotch after hours with his staff in his office. Alcohol consumption only aggravates Liver Cancer and hastens death. Quotes Dr. Crazy credits After the credits, they show the MTM kitten wearing a surgical mask and smock to match the show. In final episode, the MTM kitten is shown underneath the credits, hooked up to life-support.
At the end of the credits, the kitten flatlines. Alternate versions The versions shown on Bravo cable network in the United States have many of the songs used throughout the series replaced with generic stock music, probably due to licensing issues.
User reviews 47 Review. Top review. An addictive and well-written show. This series concerned St. Eligius, a hospital in a less fashionable section of Boston, and the day-to-day lives of its staff and patients.
The institution had acquired its unfortunate nickname from statements made by doctors at other institutions to the effect that, if patients could not afford treatment in a respectable hospital, they would have to go to "St. Eligius consistently showed itself to be a place full of concerned and highly skilled medical personnel. The central character was Donald Westphall, the chief of medicine and also the one in charge of the new residents who came in every year St.
Eligius was, among other things, a noted teaching hospital. He was depicted primarily as a caring, understanding, and reserved even repressed individual, but he could also be seen slugging it out occasionally with the administration, his residents, and even his colleagues if the situation required it The other two "old-timers" who were present throughout the run of the series were Daniel Auschlander, the chief of services, who had already been diagnosed with cancer in the first episode but wouldn't seem to die though he certainly talked about dying enough and Mark Craig, the brilliant and extremely pompous heart surgeon who always said exactly what was on his mind to everyone, regardless of the reaction it got.
Ehrlich, though, was content to good-naturedly absorb the barrage of insults as best he could and go on learning from the master. Ehrlich, unfortunately, was only slightly more adept than his mentor in interpersonal relations, and his conversations with other residents frequently ended with them telling him, "You're a pig, Ehrlich," and walking off.
Other main characters in the sizeable cast included people every part of the hospital, from the residents to the regulars at the nurse's stations to people in custodial services to patients to administrators.
As in real life, doctors came and went every couple of years, with some making greater impact than others. Indeed, the "star" of the series, David Birney, was gone after a single season.
Cheers spun off the long-running series Frasier , and that series had its events referenced or its characters cameo on shows like Caroline in the City, The John Larroquette Show, and even The Simpsons. This means that all of those series — and other media that they referenced in-universe, which in the case of The Simpsons is ridiculously extensive — technically take place in the same universe as St.
The show also has connections to series that came after it, largely thanks to one of its writers and producers, Tom Fontana. He went on to create the acclaimed series Homicide: Life on the Street in which a character from St. Elsewhere , Alfre Woodard's Dr. Roxanne Turner , appeared and Oz in which a company that briefly owned St. Also, consider that each connection from St.
Elsewhere to another series likely has additional connections of its own — and for a sterling example of this, look no further than Homicide. You can follow any one of these connective threads down a series of increasingly convoluted rabbit holes, and it probably won't surprise you to learn that a number of fans have done exactly that. Even some of the more innocuous-seeming connections can lead to some shocking places — take The John Larroquette Show , which all but the most dedicated TV fanatics could be forgiven for not remembering.
According to Mental Floss , that series once mentioned a firm called Yoyodyne, which also was a client of a fictional law firm Wolfram and Hart, which appeared in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off Angel. That series' creator, Joss Whedon, also created Firefly , in which it's established that Wolfram and Hart had also represented a mega-corporation by the name of Weyland-Utani.
That fictional firm appears in Doctor Who, Red Dwarf , and of course, the Alien feature film franchise. Dedicated fans attempting to chase down every connection to St. Elsewhere have discovered it be a never-ending task, and they have posited the "Tommy Westphall Universe" as the grand, unified universe at the center of virtually everything you've ever watched on a screen, from I Love Lucy to Malcolm in the Middle to Knight Rider to Star Trek to It's not even that much of a leap to make a connection to the Mighty Marvel Cinematic Universe you can get there a number of ways, according to Polygon.
In an interview with Paley Matters in , Fontana — who co-wrote the finale — expressed his ongoing surprise and weird sense of pride at how that final scene has, well, snowballed into the mother of all pop culture fan theories. The Ending Of St. Elsewhere Explained.
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