Phillip Chandler.Īlthough amassing an impressive eight Emmy Awards during the course of its five- year Robert Caldwell, and showing the early promise which would eventually make him a major motion picture star, the young Denzel Washington as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, Mark Harmon (later to become a regular on Chicago Hope) as Dr. Amongst the ranks of the more junior actors where such future household names as Ed Begley Jnr. Mark Craig, and hugely respected character actor Norman Lloyd as the terminally cancer stricken, but still dedicated to his profession, Dr. Westphall, the core triumvirate of seasoned performers who represented the hospital's most senior staff were made up of William Daniels (the voice of the super-car, KITT, in Knightrider), as the egotistical but brilliant senior heart surgeon, Dr.
Hospital through the expert use of hand-held camera work, multiple intersecting storylines andĪgain, as with Hill Street Blues, a large and talented ensemble cast was employed to bring life to the varied characters of the hospital staff with uniformly excellent effect.
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Medical issues, the series successfully and effortlessly conveyed the sense of a fast-paced Mixture of warmly intimate drama on a human scale and the ever present backdrop of larger scale Elsewhere was partly inspired by the real lifeĮxperiences of a friend of Brand's who had worked in a Cleveland teaching hospital.
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Tales of personal and professional triumphs and failures, which form the core of hospital life.Ĭreated by the accomplished team of Joshua Brand and John Falsey, who would later go on to create Donald Westphall, the series charted the constant merry-go-round of the daily Led by the sensitive, but toughĪdministrator, Dr. Inhabitants of an area which is also in the same predicament. Once great institution long since past its prime, which serves the urgent medical needs of the Elsewhere was the derisive nickname given to St. Version of the critically acclaimed cop show. Knowledge that amongst MTM executives that the series was seriously considered to be a medical Elsewhere was another quality product from MTM, the company that produced the superior policeĭrama Hill Street Blues, and shared many of the innovative cinema verite techniques andĮdge of gritty realism that marked the Blues as cutting edge drama.
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