She fell in love with him, and when he realized, he had to let her down gently. On the other side of the hospital was a girl who had several large, disfiguring facial tumors, and was given extensive surgery by Mark Harmon. My favorite moment, of many, was when they had the story arcs on two different sides of the hospital - two circus clowns, husband and wife, and the wife, because of her MS, was going to have to stop performing. Yes, it became too self-aware, cute, became sexist and crass, but then turned itself around again. No drama delivers pure emotion, shameless emotion, the way St. Elsewhere will always have my heart, especially the first, dingy-looking, rough as hell season. Elsewhere better and I do think up until perhaps it's final season, it was fairly consistant in terms of quality where HSB fell off after the 3rd season. I always felt this show was overshadowed a lot by Hill Street Blues which was excellent its first 2-3 years, but I always enjoyed and liked St. I was so young at the time, I don't recall if the show received praise or criticism in light of this. Mark Harmon I know at the time expressed a desire to leave the show and that was one of the main reasons his character was killed off, but they also did it in a way that not only incorporated a relatively new and I have to say, socially unacceptable way at the time through AIDS and were not afraid at shying away from it, but also weren't afraid to tie it to a character that was perhaps not the "stereotypical" AIDs victim at the time. No doubt the cast was exceptional, but what I think I liked most about the show was their uncanny ability to intertwine humor and drama so effortlessly and also not shy away from telling stories around series issues like rape, murder, AIDS and involve, and in some cases, implicate, key characters on the show into these stories in a very compelling way, yet they never really relied on gimics or some of the more graphic images in some of the more current medical and crime dramas over the years. I'm not certain as to what the issues are in respect to that, but the show really didn't start hitting its stride until mid season 2. I remember watching the show when I was younger and I think its disgraceful that only the first season of this brilliant show is available on DVD. as a movie actor in She-Devil, and William Daniels as Mr. * For the record, I met Mark Harmon as a movie actor (I'm not sure if he'd gotten far enough to be called a star) in Summer School, Howie Mandel as the voice of Bobby Generic in Bobby's World, Ed Begley, Jr. What say you, guys? I'd love to get the perspective for those who were old enough to watch and/or appreciate this show. It's too bad that they don't rerun this show in syndication because I have a feeling that I'd appreciate it as an adult. Needless to say, I was pretty much surprised to learn that this was a groundbreaking show that dealt with hot-button topics such as AIDS and sexual assault with their lead characters before many other higher-profile primetime shows did. Elsewhere (with the exception of, well, Denzel Washington) and it reminded me of how I remember watching it as a kid (as per my memories of the theme song being loud and clear), yet couldn't for the life of me remember anyone* (other than Denzel) being on this show or any episodes of this show. I flipped through Entertainment Weekly's reunion issue a few days ago and discovered that they'd profiled (most of) the cast of St.
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