Where to watch ER (1994–2009)
ER is available to stream in ES on Netflix.
This medical drama follows doctors, nurses, and other staff working in a crowded urban teaching hospital emergency room. Alongside urgent patient care, they face demanding training, difficult decisions, workplace pressures, and the challenge of balancing professional responsibilities with complicated personal lives.
Cast: Alice Amter, Anthony Edwards, Catherine MacNeal, Corbin Allred, Darrow Igus, Ernest Perry Jr., Felicity LaFortune, Googy Gress, Goran Višnjić, Jackie O'Brien, Jana Lee Hamblin, Joe Costanza
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Trivia & production notes
- Michael Crichton wrote the screenplay for ER in 1974 as a spec script titled "EW" based on his time as a medical student, but producers rejected it and he shelved the project for nearly two decades.
- Steven Spielberg chose to develop ER as a television pilot rather than a feature film after the success of Jurassic Park, seeing potential for ongoing stories in the emergency room setting.
- The original 1974 script required minimal changes for production; the main alterations were converting a male character to Susan Lewis and changing Peter Benton to African-American, plus trimming 20 minutes for TV time.
- The pilot episode was shot at the abandoned Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles, which had closed in 1990, due to budget constraints and lack of time to build a set.
- NBC initially rejected ER as a made-for-TV movie and only agreed to greenlight a pilot after the creators first pitched it to rival networks.
- David E. Kelley's Chicago Hope, which debuted in the same Thursday time slot on CBS, was expected to dominate ER but failed to do so.
- ER's medical consultant team included emergency physician Joe Sachs and pediatricians Lisa Zwerling and Neal Baer, ensuring accuracy in medical procedures and terminology.
- David Zabel became the series' most prolific writer, contributing scripts to 41 episodes across the show's 15-season run.
- James Newton Howard composed the original theme and pilot score, but Martin Davich scored all subsequent episodes and created a new theme that ran from 2006 until the finale, when Howard's original theme returned.
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