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Broadwater: But Doctor, there must be SOMETHING. Your father died of a heart attack when he was 42. If we obstruct the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain. They carry the blood and oxygen from the heart. Craig: Let me show you something, Mr Broadwater - what does this look like to you? Mr. And the angiography - do you remember when we put the dye through the heart? Revealed obstructions.

Craig: No, but when we put you on the treadmill, your electrocardiogram indicated ischemia. Broadwater: Did I have a heart attack? Dr. Craig: You didn't feel 'fine' when you had those chest pains walking up a flight of stairs, now did you? Mr. Two of the major vessels to your heart, the left anterior descending artery, and the circumflex artery, are 90% obstructed. Craig: Well, I have some good news, and I have some bad. Craig: I cut when I'm ready! Not tonight, not tomorrow, today!ĭr. Tell her I'm alive and being held captive at St.

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Ehrlich: Anything else I can do for you out in the free world? Dr. Word is he's infected half the staff, Wendy. Elsewhere! A dumping ground, a place you wouldn't want to send your mother-in-law!ĭr. Craig: Do you know what people call this place? Not St. How do you ask your aunt to sleep with you?ĭr. She wants to take me out for an evening on the town. Ehrlich: What can I say, she's into grapes. Ehrlich: My Aunt Charisse is in from Forestville, California. Every time I just think of him, I get my palms sweaty.ĭr. Elsewhere'' got its second season and, with a solid core of devoted viewers, five more. In light of emerging competition, NBC decided that there might be room after all for a category of headier show that appealed to a smaller, smarter audience (and a prosperous one to boot). Moving away from the brain candy on the networks, cable television was venturing into stronger material. Ratings were poor enough to encourage the show's principals to look for other work in anticipation of cancellation.īut then came a reprieve. During the first season many mainstream viewers were put off by the less than idealized view of medicine. Primarily, the show is remembered for the sophistication and irreverence of its storytelling and the breed of viewer attracted by that kind of writing.

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''It taught people how to watch good complicated television,'' Mr. Elsewhere'' specialized in recurring elements. Elsewhere.'' Television, he explained in an interview, is the one medium that can keep a story going without end, and with its ensemble cast and myriad interwoven plot lines developed by writers who remained with the show year after year, ''St. In his book ''Television's Second Golden Age: From 'Hill Street Blues' to 'E.R.' '', he writes extensively about ''St. ''Sometimes you'd get a tiny bit of dialogue in season 1 that would have a reference to it in season 4. ''You were asked to remember,'' said Robert Thompson, a professor of television and film at Syracuse University and director of its Center for Popular Television. The prison episode isn't included but it is alluded to, and fans of the show are likely to remember the McAllister business, from 1982 and later in 1986, very well.

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The New Video series is drawn from all seven seasons of ''St. The man had less than an hour to notify relatives and secure permissions. On the bright side, Craig breezily announced that he was about to save him with a triple bypass. With his arteries 94 percent clogged, the fellow was a walking dead man. Mark Craig (William Daniels), Eligius's totally assured chief surgeon, delivered bad news and good news to a pudgy patient suffering from chest pains. In one strand of the tale, a psychiatrist worked with a patient who thought she was a bird (''I see we're Tweetie today''). Elsewhere'' from New Video, several story lines were taking shape in the layered, complex manner of the ''workplace family'' series, a genre introduced a season earlier by Steven Bochco in the cop series ''Hill Street Blues'' and carried on today in shows like ''N.Y.P.D. On other floors in that early episode, one of eight hourlong shows in a new boxed set of ''St. In another room, a young woman was dying, a victim of the terrorist's bomb, anguished over by her husband, Mr. Eligius, the worn old hospital called Elsewhere, a beleaguered institution on the bottom rung of Boston's famed medical establishment, lay a wounded terrorist named Rhinehart (Tim Robbins in the early stages of his career). Elsewhere'' was in its second episode and busily stirring the dramatic pot.

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