St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | ||
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| S1 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 8.2 | 8.2 | |||
| S2 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 8.7 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 9.1 | 8.8 | |||
| S3 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 8.8 | 9.2 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 8.9 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 9.1 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 8.0 | |
| S4 | 8.7 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.3 | 8.9 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.8 | 9.0 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 8.3 | 8.9 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 8.8 | |
| S5 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 9.0 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.5 | 6.6 | 8.5 | 8.7 | ||
| S6 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.7 |
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About
"The scrappy hospital drama that invented the genre's rules"
St. Elsewhere follows the doctors, nurses, and interns at St. Eligius, an underfunded teaching hospital in Boston that gets the cases fancier institutions won't touch. It's an ensemble drama that mixes soapy hospital crises with sharp, often bleak comedy, treating illness, death, and hospital politics with unusual honesty for its era. The tone shifts fast between wry humor and genuine tragedy, and the large cast means storylines overlap and recur across seasons. It rewards patience with messy, human characters rather than tidy medical miracles, and it laid groundwork for basically every hospital drama that followed.
the ensemble cast and gritty, character-driven storytelling that later shaped every hospital drama.
you want polished medical procedurals rather than messy, downbeat 1980s realism.
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