St elsewhere david morse series#

(The South End's Franklin Square House Apartments, formerly known as the St. Eligius Hospital, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood. 4 Broadcast history and Nielsen ratings.

St elsewhere david morse series#

51 on its list of the '60 Best Series of All Time'. 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. The series also earned critical acclaim during its run, earning 13 Emmy Awards for its writing, acting, and directing. Elsewhere gained a small yet loyal following (the series never ranked higher than 47th place in the yearly Nielsen ratings) over its six-season, 137-episode run however, 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 were eager to reach. Recognized for its gritty, realistic drama, St. Elsewhere quoted a critic that called the series ' Hill Street Blues in a hospital'). The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for St. 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. The series stars Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd, and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988.