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The Best Episodes of St. Elsewhere

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St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #1 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    In this intro to the series, Dr. Jack Morrison treats a young girl with dysentary; Dr. Annie Cavanero searches for a missing patient -- who happens to be a large, permanent resident of a local mental institution; Dr. Ben Samuels tries to recall all of his conquests after being diagnosed with VD; Dr. Daniel Auschlander's liver cancer is revealed; a bombing victim is brought into the ER, as is the young man who set off the bomb; and Dr. Wayne Fiscus and Dr. Cathy Martin begin a relationship.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writers:John Falsey, Joshua Brand

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  2. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 17 - Brothers
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Brothers

    S1:E17

    A fisherman lobbies Dr. Westphall to let his brother die in peace and dignity; Fiscus substitutes for Ehrlich on a date with Shirley Daniels; and Helen's stress mounts as the hospital suffers computer glitches and she faces a radical mastectomy. Peter celebrates his birthday and runs into Myra and a gentleman friend.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writers:John Tinker, Mark Tinker

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  3. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 2 - Bypass
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Bypass

    S1:E2

    Morrison treats the obnoxious bank bomber; Mr. MacAllister arrives to find his wife in a coma; Dr. Craig holds a news conference and badgers a patient into a surgical consent; and Dr. Samuels tries to teach Dr. Beale how to swim.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writers:John Falsey, Joshua Brand

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  4. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 3 - Down's Syndrome
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Down's Syndrome

    S1:E3

    Cavanero tries to counsel a couple expecting a Down's syndrome child; White makes a near-tragic mistake in the E.R.; Martin and Fiscus are caught in a stalled elevator; Morrison learns his wife is pregnant; and Dr. Beale visits the bomber.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Tom Fontana

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  5. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 4 - Cora and Arnie
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Cora and Arnie

    S1:E4

    Morrison tries to help a bag woman and her husband; Fiscus admits a relatively healthy woman who had fainted for some very expensive tests; V.J. feels homesick; and the bomber and his victim both leave the hospital.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 5 - Samuels and the Kid
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Samuels and the Kid

    S1:E5

    Dr. Samuels becomes attached to a boy in for leg surgery; Fiscus surprises Martin with a romantic gesture; Chandler challenges a veteran nurse's competency; Dr. Craig receives his coveted `Surgeon of the Year' award; and Cavanero's weekend away is interrupted by a patient delivering her baby at home with just a teenage boy to help.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writer:John Masius

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  7. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 6 - Legionnaires (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Legionnaires (1)

    S1:E6

    While coping with a fussy new administrator, Dr. Westphall investigates suspicious deaths in Ward Five; Martin shocks Fiscus by breaking off their affair; Cavanero has to deal with a very hostile nurse; and White goes to desperate lengths to raise the money to replace his on-call beeper.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 7 - Legionnaires (2)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Legionnaires (2)

    S1:E7

    Dr. Westphall risks his job by creating an isolation floor to stem the spread of the suspected Legionnaire's Disease (and the PR fiasco causes administrator Cummings to fall on his sword to save the hospital); Dr. Beale learns that Tweety got pregnant while in the hospital; Fiscus is assaulted in the E.R.; and Dr. Craig decides to sell his car.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writer:Joel Surnow

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  9. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 9 - Rain
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Rain

    S1:E9

    Morrison regrets making a couple of house calls for an insistent old man; Fiscus has another run-in with a gang member; Ralph takes up eating garbage; White's daughter eats some mothballs; and Dr. Craig bawls Ehrlich out for spraining his little finger.

    Director:Joshua Brand
    Writer:Tom Fontana

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  10. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 11 - Graveyard
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Graveyard

    S1:E11

    Dr. Samuels breaks up a late night poker game to perform emergency surgery on a gunshot victim; Morrison lets a Chinese couple perform a folk healing ritual on their dying son; and Ralph's manic stage reaches a crescendo.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writers:John Falsey, Joshua Brand, John Masius

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  11. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 12 - Release
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Release

    S1:E12

    A sadistic doctor orders White to get his first autopsy consent; an old friend of Dr. Craig's checks in a sex-change operation; Chandler takes over the case of the John Doe gunshot victim; and Drs. Samuels and Paxton argue over the care of a patient after renewing their intimate relationship.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Tom Fontana

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  12. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 13 - Family History
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Family History

    S1:E13

    Craig continues to regret his friend's sex-change operation; John Doe #12 becomes sullen and uncooperative when his real parents arrive to take him home; White's reconciliation falls through; and Armstrong delves deeply into a man's medical and family history to find out why he has persistent nose bleeds.

    Director:Kevin Hooks
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 14 - Remission
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Remission

    S1:E14

    A lady flasher enlivens the halls and rooms of St. Eligius; Fiscus moves in with Ehrlich; Cavanero faces a difficult choice about a fellowship; Dr. Auschlander's cancer remission appears to be ending; Morrison and Chandler try to help a young man injured in a street beating whose brother is determined to get revenge.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 16 - The Count
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Count

    S1:E16

    Cavanero helps hide her patient, a porno movie star, from a process server; Armstrong worries about the ethics of a surgeon who does unnecessary heart surgery for kickbacks; Ehrlich and Fiscus nearly come to blows over their living arrangements; and Dr. Craig considers moving.

    Director:Kevin Hooks
    Writers:John Falsey, Joshua Brand

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  15. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 18 - Dog Day Hospital
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Dog Day Hospital

    S1:E18

    Helen returns to work following her mastectomy; Fiscus and Daniels visit his aunt Sirca; a pregnant woman invades the OR and holds Ehrlich and Dr. Craig hostage while demanding to see the doctor who performed her husband's vasectomy.

    Directors:Victor Lobl, Joshua Brand
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 19 - Working
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Working

    S1:E19

    Morrison tries to reason with a patient determined to drink himself to death; Chandler faces a malpractice suit after a patient dies unexpectedly in an elevator; White goes crazy with jealousy; and Dr. Craig enjoys the company of a visiting Hungarian surgeon.

    Director:Bruce Paltrow
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 21 - Baron Von Munchausen
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Baron Von Munchausen

    S1:E21

    White attends a drug rehabilitation program; Morrison becomes suspicious that his patient may be a surgery addict; Dr. Craig grapples with an inner-city medical scholarship group; Cathy tries to arrange a double date with Daniels and Fiscus; and a deranged bag lady tries to assault Daniels in the E.R..

    Director:Joshua Brand
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. St. Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 22 - Addiction
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Addiction

    S1:E22

    Morrison's wife goes into labor; White loses a girlfriend and gains a wife, while falling under suspicion when drugs are stolen; Dr. Craig's son Steven arrives for a period of observation and cause problems for Ehrlich; Martin casts her spell over Fiscus again; and Dr. Auschlander and an old friend get into a fist fight as they reminisce about the past.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writers:Tom Fontana, John Masius

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  19. St. Elsewhere Season 2 Episode 1 - Ties That Bind
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Ties That Bind

    S2:E1

    A pushy, abrasive man literally drives into the E.R. to get help for his wife; Ehrlich finds an unusual girlfriend at the laundromat; Fiscus loses both Cathy and Shirley; Dr. Craig clashes with the newly appointed city comptroller, Joan Halloran, over his proposed heart transplant for schoolteacher Eve Leighton.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Tom Fontana

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  20. St. Elsewhere Season 2 Episode 2 - Lust Et Veritas
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Lust Et Veritas

    S2:E2

    Medical student Elliot Axelrod and plastic surgeon Dr. Bobby Caldwell join the staff; Eve Leighton's sister expresses reservations about the planned transplant; a resident dropped from the hospital program badgers Cavanero to reevaluate him; and Dr. Craig enlists Dr. Caldwell's help in opposing Joan Halloran's plan to shut down an outpatient surgery clinic.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. St. Elsewhere Season 2 Episode 3 - Newheart
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Newheart

    S2:E3

    The men attend a rather staid bachelor party for Kochar; White learns about the dangers of nuclear medicine; Fran Singleton refuses to see her husband, but later walks out of the hospital by his side; everyone opposes Joan's idea of including St. Eligius in a government nuclear disaster contingency plan; Martin gives Kochar a unique wedding present; and the transplant team goes into action.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writers:Tom Fontana, John Masius

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  22. St. Elsewhere Season 2 Episode 4 - Qui Transtulit Sustinet
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Qui Transtulit Sustinet

    S2:E4

    Dr. Craig performs the transplant amidst a publicity barrage; Morrison tries to adjust to his loss; Luther and Fiscus split an investment in silver futures; and Rosenthal counsels a group on breast cancer.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writers:John Tinker, Mark Tinker

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  23. St. Elsewhere Season 2 Episode 5 - A Wing and a Prayer
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - A Wing and a Prayer

    S2:E5

    Dr. Craig and Ehrlich both prepare turkeys for the staff forced to work the holiday; injuries from the Thanksgiving Day parade pour into the ER; and a depressed Dr. Auschlander takes a special interest in an ailing 11-year-old.

    Director:Bruce Paltrow
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. St. Elsewhere Season 2 Episode 6 - Under Pressure
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Under Pressure

    S2:E6

    Rosenthal gets arrested just before her scheduled breast reconstruction; Mr. Entertainment sets up in a hospital elevator and meets Dr. Ridley, the new psychiatrist; and Morrison worries over an Irish teenager whose near-fatal beating brings the Catholic-Protestant conflict of northern Ireland to St. Eligius.

    Director:David Anspaugh
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. St. Elsewhere Season 2 Episode 7 - Entrapment
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Entrapment

    S2:E7

    Martin decides she's in love with Dr. Craig; White regrets helping out an exhausted mother pleading for sedatives in the E.R.; Eve's sense of cabin fever and anger is calmed by a visit from her students; Morrison learns more about Eddie Carson and the `Troubles'.

    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "St. Elsewhere". It scored 8.3/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Thomas Carter and written by John Falsey, Joshua Brand, it aired on 10/26/1982. This episode scored 0.8 points higher than the second highest rated, "Brothers".