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ER: Created by Michael Crichton. With Noah Wyle, Laura Innes, Laura Cerón, Deezer D. The doctors who work in the ER at the County General Hospital in Chicago grapple with ups and downs in their personal and professional lives while trying to give apt medical care to their patients.
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- 1994-09-19
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ER follows the inner life of the emergency room (ER) of Cook County General Hospital, a fictionalized version of the real Cook County Hospital, in Chicago, and the various critical professional, ethical, and personal issues faced by the department's physicians, nurses, and staff.
Sep 20, 1994 · ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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- September 20, 1994
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In 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room, but the screenplay went nowhere and Crichton went on to focus on other topics. In 1990, he published the novel "Jurassic Park" and in 1993, he began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film ad...
Following the broadcast of its two-hour pilot movie on September 19, 1994, ERpremiered Thursday, September 22, 1994 at 10:00. It remained in the same Thursday time slot for its entire run. The show is NBC's third longest-running drama, after Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unitand the longest-running American primetime medical drama of...
A typical episode centered on the ER, with most of the scenes set in the hospital or surrounding streets. In addition, most seasons included at least one storyline located completely outside of the ER, often outside of Chicago. Over the span of the series, stories took place in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, France, Iraq and Sudan. One early...
ER was filmed in 1.78:1 widescreen from the start, even though it was not broadcast in widescreen until the seventh season, when it began appearing in the 1080i HD format.[citation needed] Since the sixth episode of season 7, it has appeared in letterbox format when in standard definition. As a result, the U.S. DVD box set features the widescreen v...
Ratings
In its first year, "ER" attracted an average of 19 million viewers per episode, becoming the years second most watched television show, just behind "Seinfeld." In the following two seasons (1995-1997), it was the most watched show in North America. For almost five years, the series battled for the top spot against "Seinfeld", but in 1998, "Seinfeld" ended and then "ER" became number one again. The series finale attracted 16.4 million viewers. The show's highest rating came during season 2 epi...
Critical Reception
Throughout the series' run, "ER" received positive reviews from critics and fans alike. It scored 80 on Metascore, meaning "generally favorable reviews" based on 21 critics. Marvin Kitman from Newsday gave the show a very positive review, saying: "It's like M*A*S*H with just the helicopters showing up and no laughs. E.R. is all trauma; you never get to know enough about the patients or get involved with them. It's just treat, release and move on". Richard Zoglin from Time stated that it's "pr...
The series has been nominated for 375 industry awards and has won 116. It won the George Foster Peabody Award in 1995 and won 22 of the 124 Emmy Awards for which it was nominated. It also won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Television Dramatic Series" every year from 1995 to 2002. Over the years, "ER" has been nominated for and/or won numer...
DVD Release
Warner Home Video (Warner Archive Collection) has released all 15 seasons of the series in regions 1, 2 and 4 on DVD. The first six DVD box sets of "ER" are unusual in the fact that they are all in anamorphic widescreen even though the episodes were broadcast in a standard 4:3 format. Only the live episode "Ambush" is not in the widescreen format.
Soundtrack
In 1996, Atlantic Records released an album of music from the series' first two seasons, featuring James Newton Howard's theme from the series in its on-air and full versions. The selections from the weekly scores were composed by Martin Davich (Howard scored the two-hour pilot, Davich scored all the subsequent episodes and wrote a new theme used from 2006–2009 until the final episode, when Howard's original theme returned) and songs used on the series. Tracklisting 1. Theme From ER – James N...
Other Media
1. An ER video game for Windows 2000 and XP was released in 2005. 2. A book about emergency medicine based on the TV series called "The Medicine of ER: An Insider's Guide to the Medical Science Behind America's #1 TV Drama" was published in 1996. Authors Alan Duncan Ross and Harlan Gibbs M.D. have hospital administration and ER experience, respectively & are called fans of the TV show in the book's credits.
The series is NBC's second longest-running drama (after "Law & Order") and at fifteen seasons, it is the longest-running American primetime medical drama.It is the most Emmy-nominated show in television history at 123 nominations.Due to a lack of time and money to build a set, the pilot episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Community Hospital in Los Angeles, an old facility that ceased operating as a medical ce...Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) was supposed to be brain-dead from a suicide attempt in the first episode, but the character was revived for the series. For the first episode, she was credited...The pilot for the popular TV series is set during 24 frantic hours in the lives of a group of doctors, nurses, and staff members of a busy emergency room at a Chicago hospital. They deal with the seemingly endless casualties that stumble into their place of employment.
Set in Chicago, this medical drama deals with the personal and professional crises of the doctors in the emergency room at County General Hospital.
ER - Emergency Room. Relive every heart-pounding moment from one of TV's most popular and influential medical dramas. The brainchild of best-selling Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, ER ...
