St. Elsewhere

As I comment under Hill Street Blues, this was a trail blazerfrom MTM (as in Mary Tyler Moore). Channel 4 ran a repeat series of these in the middle of the night some time ago (I hope more will be forthcoming) and they still come up as fresh as paint. It was the first programme to really get into the politics of health care and to introduce sometimes gruesome, but interesting, medical cases. Out of this grew the likes of ER and Chicago Hope. Many of the performers went on to greater things, in fact Hector Elizondo (who is a mean guitarist, by the way) became the CEO of Chicago Hope, but as a different character. This is one for the Hall of Fame, I ...  Read the complete review