Eligius comes to a close in the final episode of St. Elsewhere’s six-year run and says it lasted “three years.” In the series’ original airing, I didn’t catch on immediately that each season only represented about six months and it took two seasons to complete a year. Some units of measure adhere to that three year span-Norman Lloyd’s Dr.ĭon’t follow that timeline too closely-contradictions abound.
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Daniel Auschlander began the series in 1982 at the age of 72 and, in the final episode that aired May 25, 1988, Auschlander tells Luther (Eric Laneuville) that he’s 75.
Tom Fontana and John Masius, the show’s longest-running writer-producers, penned an ending during that sixth season much different than the one viewers ended up seeing (and that the world still debates to this day).Įlsewhere brought a new level of realism to the medical drama on TV, the show’s other elements weren’t bound by those same rules of logic and continuity. That unfilmed ending leaped 25 years into the future-to 2013-with Auschlander, dying of liver cancer since the show’s debut Oct. I’ll let readers work out the logical flaws in that math. I know we said a two-part series, but we changed our minds.) On the other hand, I don’t recall the first season explicitly stating 1982 was its starting point-perhaps St.
Elsewhere took place in the future from the get-go. #St elsewhere theme song seriesĬertainly in many respects, the series often was ahead of its time. Television shows routinely kill off major characters now, often at unusual points in a season, but St. Elsewhere knocked off or wrote off regulars right and left. Wendy Armstrong became the first regular to take the fall near the end of season two. After escaping an assault by the rapist terrorizing St.
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