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Season 1 – E/R

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A medical staff handles patients in a hospital's emergency room.
E/R — Season 1

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Critics Consensus

Elliott Gould picks the scalpel back up for E/R, a hospital-set sitcom that proves clumsy with its gallows humor but features an amiable enough staff to elicit some chuckles.

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John J. O'Connor New York Times 10/11/2022
E/R is a fairly standard sitcom, tumbling over one-line jokes that don't quite come off when matters of life and death are hovering in the immediate vicinity. Go to Full Review Tom Shales Washington Post 10/11/2022
Microcosmic, teetering on tragedy and concerned with group psychology as M*A*S*H was, E/R mixes black comedy, sick comedy and sudden drama somewhat uneasily but very entertainingly. In time, this could jell into the sitcom equivalent of Hill Street Blues. Go to Full Review Richard Zoglin TIME Magazine 10/11/2022
Gould's anarchic persona has been straitjacketed with tired gag lines, and the show's attempt to mix laughs with medical traumas is gratingly out of kilter. Go to Full Review Bill Carter Baltimore Sun 10/11/2022
Gould has exceptional comic timing; the writing is crisp on the opener, the backup cast, headed by Conchata Ferrell, is solid; there is ample room for chaos and black humor in the emergency room setting. Go to Full Review Mark Wolf Charlotte Observer 10/11/2022
E/R is promising but schizophrenic. Gould is very funny and parts of the script are bright and witty, but at other times, E/R is formula sitcom stuff. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Elliott Gould

Dr. Howard Sheinfeld

Mary McDonnell

Dr. Eve Sheridan

Marcia Strassman

Actor

Conchata Ferrell

Nurse Joan Thor

Lynne Moody

Nurse Julie Williams

Shuko Akune

Maria Amardo

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 16, 1984 Pilot George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) visits an emergency room. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 16, 1984 Pilot George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) visits an emergency room. Details Episode 3 Aired Sep 18, 1984 The Sister Sheridan's father is senile; Sheinfeld likes Sheridan's sister. Details Episode 4 Aired Sep 25, 1984 My Way A former baseball player (Harvey Vernon) wants to end his suffering. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 2, 1984 Son of Sheinfeld Sheinfeld's son (Jonathan Silverman) shows up unexpectedly, with an overdosed pal. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 9, 1984 Save the Last Dance for Me Sheinfeld's ex-wife announces she may be pregnant; Eve struggles with leaving to emergency room to go on a date. Details Episode 7 Aired Oct 16, 1984 Say It Ain't So Dr. Sheinfeld faces fatherhood and divorce; a patient doesn't remember how he got a hole in his head; a retired doctor reports to work. Details Episode 8 Aired Oct 23, 1984 Growing Pains An offer to do profitable genetic research tempts Sheinfeld. Details Episode 9 Aired Oct 30, 1984 All's Well That Ends The staff deals with an explosive situation. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 7, 1984 Only a Nurse Sheridan pulls rank on Thor; Cory expresses her love for Dr. Sheinfeld. Details Episode 11 Aired Nov 14, 1984 Sentimental Journey A patient courts Sheridan; Sheinfeld dates a younger woman. Details Episode 12 Aired Nov 21, 1984 Mr. Fix-It A full moon brings weird happenings to the emergency room. Details Episode 13 Aired Nov 28, 1984 A Cold Night in Chicago A patient's religious practices threaten Sheinfeld's career. Details Episode 14 Aired Dec 12, 1984 Both Sides Now Sheinfeld asks Sheridan to testify as a character witness in a malpractice case; the emergency room deals with a case of date rape. Details Episode 15 Aired Dec 19, 1984 The Storm A blizzard brings Sheinfeld's daughter (Pamela Segall) and strands the staff. Details Episode 16 Aired Dec 26, 1984 Enter Romance Sheinfeld cozies up to his engaged ex-wife (Karen Black). Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 16, 1985 Brotherly Love Sheinfeld's famous brother (Ray Colbert) gets to know Sheridan. Details Episode 18 Aired Jan 23, 1985 I Raise You Sheinfeld relocates his Saturday poker game to the E.R. Details Episode 19 Aired Feb 6, 1985 The Merry Wives of Sheinfeld Thor copes with her condition; Sheinfeld is in trouble. Details Episode 20 Aired Jan 30, 1985 The Merry Wives of Sheinfeld Thor's illness interrupts Sheinfeld's marital woes. Details Episode 21 Aired Feb 20, 1985 All Tied Up Drug thieves lasso the staff and hold them hostage. Details Episode 22 Aired Feb 27, 1985 A Change in Policy Stickley catches Sheinfeld moonlighting; Dr. Sheridan ponders motherhood. Details

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E/R — Season 1

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Season Info

Director
Peter Bonerz
Executive Producer
Saul Turteltaub, Bernie Orenstein
Screenwriter
Saul Turteltaub, J. Kahn, Gary X. Gilbert, Mark Masuoka, Richard Raskind, Milt Rosen, Ron Clark, Kimberly Hill, Mark Schaefer, Joe Martin, Sally Wade, Bernie Orenstein, Eve Brandstein, Susan Borowitz
Network
CBS
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 16, 1984