St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that aired on NBC between October 26, 1982 and May 5, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd, and William Daniels as teaching doctors in a hospital in Boston with a modest reputation who provided interns with a promising future in making crucial medical and life decisions. The series was created by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a comparable NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, at the same time; both series were frequently contrasted for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized plots. St. Elsewhere was recorded at CBS/MTM Studios, which was known as CBS/Fox Studios when the show debuted; curiously, 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to the series when it acquired MTM Enterprises in the 1990s. Over the course of its 6-season, 137-episode run, St. Elsewhere acquired a tiny but devoted fan base; the series also found a solid audience in Nielsen's 18-49 age group, a young demo later identified as a young, affluent population that TV advertisers are eager to reach. During its run, the sitcom garnered 13 Emmy Awards for writing, acting, and direction. St. Elsewhere scored #20 on TV Guide's 2002 list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time." The magazine also named it the finest drama series of the 1980s in a 1993 issue.
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St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that aired on NBC between October 26, 1982 and May 5, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd, and William Daniels as teaching doctors in a hospital in Boston with a modest reputation who provided interns with a promising future in making crucial medical and life decisions. The series was created by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a comparable NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, at the same time; both series were frequently contrasted for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized plots. St. Elsewhere was recorded at CBS/MTM Studios, which was known as CBS/Fox Studios when the show debuted; curiously, 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to the series when it acquired MTM Enterprises in the 1990s. Over the course of its 6-season, 137-episode run, St. Elsewhere acquired a tiny but devoted fan base; the series also found a solid audience in Nielsen's 18-49 age group, a young demo later identified as a young, affluent population that TV advertisers are eager to reach. During its run, the sitcom garnered 13 Emmy Awards for writing, acting, and direction. St. Elsewhere scored #20 on TV Guide's 2002 list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time." The magazine also named it the finest drama series of the 1980s in a 1993 issue.
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