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Along with es­tab­lished ac­tors Ed Flan­ders, Nor­man Lloyd and William Daniels, St. Elsewhere's en­sem­ble cast in­cluded David Morse, Alfre Woodard, Bruce Green­wood, Christina Pick­les, Kyle Secor, Ed Be­g­ley Jr., Stephen Furst, Howie Man­del, Mark Har­mon, Den­zel Wash­ing­ton and Helen Hunt. No­table guest stars in­clude Tim Rob­bins, whose first major role was in the se­ries' first three episodes as do­mes­tic ter­ror­ist An­drew Rein­hardt, and Doris Roberts and James Coco, who both earned Emmy Awardsfor their sea­son-one ap­pear­ance as, re­spec­tively, a bag lady and her men­tally chal­lenged hus­band.

St. Elsewhereran for six sea­sons and 137 episodes; the first sea­son (1982–83) aired Tues­days at 10 p.m. (ET), with re­main­ing sea­sons air­ing Wednes­days at 10 p.m. St. Elsewherewas note­wor­thy for fea­tur­ing episodes with un­usual as­pects or sig­nif­i­cant changes to the se­ries' sta­tus quo. Some of those episodes in­cluded:

St. Elsewhere was known for the in­ser­tion of sev­eral al­lu­sions, large and small, to clas­sic movie, pop cul­ture, and tele­vi­sion events (the lat­ter es­pe­cially) through­out its run, in­clud­ing other shows that were pro­duced by MTM En­ter­prises.Some of the more note­wor­thy al­lu­sions have in­cluded: 1. The St. Eligius public address loudspeakers periodically summoned characters from other television series, often going unnoticed by the show's characters. 2. The character of hospital orderly Warren Coolidge (played by Byron Stewart) was carried over from The White Shadow, where Coolidge had been a student at Carver High. (Before St. Elsewhere, Bruce Paltrow served as Shadow's showrunner.) Coolidge occasionally sported a Carver High T-shirt while working at St. Eligius. In third-season episode "Any Portrait in a Storm", Coolidge sees guest star Timothy Van Patten (another Shadowalumnus) in an elevator and calls out "Heyyyy!! Salami!!", to which Van Patten, playing an unre...

St. Elsewhere won 24 out of 106 award nom­i­na­tions. The se­ries gar­nered 62 Prime­time Emmy Award nom­i­na­tions, win­ning 13 of them. Out the thir­teen wins, Ed Flan­ders won once and William Daniels won twice for Out­stand­ing Lead Actor in a Drama Se­ries; Bon­nie Bartlett and Doris Roberts each won for Out­stand­ing Sup­port­ing Ac­tress in a Drama Se­ries; James Coco won for Out­stand­ing Sup­port­ing Actor in a Drama Se­ries; John Ma­sius and Tom Fontana won two awards for Out­stand­ing Writ­ing for a Drama Se­ries and Mark Tin­ker won for Out­stand­ing Di­rect­ing for a Drama Se­ries. It re­ceived five Golden Globe Award nom­i­na­tions, with four of them for Best Tele­vi­sion Se­ries – Drama. St. Elsewhere re­ceived seven TCA Award nom­i­na­tions, win­ning once for Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment in Drama. The se­ries also won three out of four Q Awards. Ad­di­tional ac­co­lades in­clude a Peabody Awardand Peo­ple's Choice Award for Fa­vorite New TV Dra­matic Program.

In May 2003, Walden Media an­nounced a part­ner­ship with Roth Films to cre­ate a film adap­ta­tion of the tele­vi­sion se­ries. The film was re-de­signed to be sim­i­lar to Walden's pro­ject Holes. It was never made.

After its ini­tial run, re­runs of St. Elsewhere aired for a time in syn­di­ca­tion, with later runs on Nick at Nite, TV Land, Bravo and Amer­i­can­Life TV Net­work. Also a pop­u­lar se­ries in the United King­dom, St. Elsewhere has been aired twice by two sep­a­rate British broad­cast­ers. Chan­nel 4 aired the se­ries be­tween 1983 and 1989, with Sky One later air­ing re­peats in a daily Mid­day times­lot dur­ing 1992–93. In 2009, Chan­nel 4 began show­ing the se­ries again, usu­ally at around 03:30AM, and have re­peated the en­tire se­ries sev­eral times since then. All 137 episodes are also avail­able to view on­line at 4OD. Nick at Nite first added St. Elsewhere to its reg­u­lar lineup on April 29, 1996 as part of an all-night sneak peek of sis­ter net­work TV Land. After the sneak peek, Nick at Nite aired St. Elsewhere reg­u­larly from May 4 until July 6, 1996 every Sat­ur­day night as part of a short-lived pro­gram­ming block called Nick at Nite's TV Land Sampler. St. Elsewher...

On No­vem­ber 28, 2006, 20th Cen­tury Fox Home En­ter­tain­ment re­leased the com­plete first sea­son of St. Elsewhereon DVD in Re­gion 1. In Re­gion 2, Chan­nel 4 DVD re­leased the first sea­son on DVD in the UK on April 2, 2007. All episodes have been made avail­able on Chan­nel 4's UK on-de­mand in­ter­net stream 4OD (4 On-De­mand) in the UK and Ire­land, though these episodes are edited ver­sions for syn­di­ca­tion and not as they were orig­i­nally aired. As of Oc­to­ber 2018, all six sea­sons of the se­ries are avail­able for stream­ing on Hulu.