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The Worst Episodes of St. Elsewhere

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The Worst Episodes of St. Elsewhere

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...

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  1. Background image for Monday, Tuesday, Sven's Day
    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Monday, Tuesday, Sven's Day

    S1:E15

    Samuels operates on a hooker, who invites all her friends to visit her; Myra White gives her estranged husband some news; the racial tensions reach a climax when the truth about O'Connor's beating surfaces; and Ehrlich makes a fool of himself by drinking too much at a party given by Dr. Craig.

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  2. Background image for Tweety and Ralph
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Tweety and Ralph

    S1:E8

    The search continues for the source of the Legionnaire's Disease; Cavanero befriends a young woman facing a hysterectomy; Tweety makes a decision about her future; and Ellen Craig deals with the elusive Dr. Barnum.

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    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Hearts
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Hearts

    S1:E10

    Ralph masquerades as a doctor; an obese woman gives birth unexpectedly; an old friend of Dr. Samuels joins the staff; and Ehrlich faints during surgery.

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    Director:Mark Tinker
  4. Background image for Craig in Love
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Craig in Love

    S1:E20

    Dr. Craig continues to enjoy Dr. Anya's companionship; Morrison worries over White's erratic behavior; and Chandler becomes upset over the casual attitude everyone seems to taking towards his malpractice suit.

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    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for All About Eve
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - All About Eve

    S2:E8

    Dr. Caldwell suffers for his work on Eddie Carson; Joan reveals a secret in the E.R.; Ehrlich meets a brand-new Roberta; Dr. Westphall's housekeeper announces she's returning to Italy; Eve Leighton takes a turn for the worse.

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  6. Background image for Vanity
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Vanity

    S2:E17

    Dr. Craig tries to stop the TV documentary; Cathy has a rough first day back; Mr. Entertainment finds his true calling; Armstrong continues to feel traumatized; and Rosenthal finally has her breast surgery.

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  8. Background image for Remembrance of Things Past
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Remembrance of Things Past

    S4:E1

    The hospital review board acquires a new member from the psychiatric floor; Chandler experiences long-suppressed resentments when he treats a Vietnamese patient; and Dr. Turner counsels an upwardly mobile couple who can't conceive a child.

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  9. Background image for Good Vibrations
    6.3/10(56 votes)

    #8 - Good Vibrations

    S5:E21

    The representative of a foreign medical group interested in the hospital visits to absorb the psychic `aura' of the place (via flashbacks) but collapses from a heart attack before he can recommend the sale.

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  10. Background image for Down and Out On Beacon Hill
    6.7/10(50 votes)

    #9 - Down and Out On Beacon Hill

    S6:E16

    Fiscus can't understand his nihilistic cystic fibrosis patient or her punk friends; Dr. Gideon suspends Dr. Craig because of the Spooner malpractice suit; Ehrlich and Lucy are unable to console each other when she miscarries; and Rosenthal admits herself to the chemical dependency unit.

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  11. Background image for The Naked Civil Surgeon
    6.9/10(55 votes)

    #10 - The Naked Civil Surgeon

    S6:E18

    Wade and Kiley liberate their psyches during a study of OR infection vectors; Dr. Auschlander meets the son he never knew; Morrison and Novino grow closer as they work in the ICU; and Rosenthal adjusts to life in the chemical dependency unit.

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  12. Background image for Split Decision
    6.9/10(58 votes)

    #11 - Split Decision

    S6:E20

    Brett Johnston's parents come to visit; even in death Axelrod doesn't get any respect; Rosenthal waits for her release while her roommate runs away; Luther proposes to Penny; and Dr. Craig returns to St. Eligius to do a multiple transplant.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Bypass
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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  14. Background image for Down's Syndrome
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Mark Tinker
  15. Background image for Cora and Arnie
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Samuels and the Kid
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Thomas Carter
  17. Background image for Legionnaires (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Legionnaires (2)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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    Director:Thomas Carter
  19. Background image for Rain
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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    Director:Joshua Brand
  20. Background image for Graveyard
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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  21. Background image for Release
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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    Director:Victor Lobl
  22. Background image for Family History
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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    Director:Kevin Hooks
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Remission
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Mark Tinker
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Count
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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  25. Background image for Dog Day Hospital
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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  26. Background image for Working
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Director:Bruce Paltrow
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Monday, Tuesday, Sven's Day" is the worst rated episode of "St. Elsewhere". It scored 4/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Bruce Paltrow and written by Tom Fontana, John Masius, it aired on 3/1/1983. This episode scored 2.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Tweety and Ralph".