ER TV series
ER is a popular NBC serial drama primarily set in a teaching hospital's emergency room, the fictional County General (based loosely off Cook County General, a real hospital) in Chicago, Illinois. The series was created by novelist Michael Crichton. The first episode, known as "24 Hours", "Pilot", or "E.R.: The Movie", aired in the United States on September 19, 1994.
It has won at least one Emmy every year of its production up to and including the 2003 awards and won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Television Dramatic Series" every year from 1997 to 2002. Over the years, it has been nominated for and/or won numerous other awards including BAFTAs, Screen Actors Guild awards, TV Guide awards, Image Awards, GLAAD awards and Golden Globes.
Before the 11th season it was announced that Alex Kingston's (Dr. Corday) contract was not being renewed, and she recently left the series. Also, Noah Wyle (Dr. Carter) has announced his intention to leave the show at the end of the 2004-2005 season.
The complete first season of ER was released on DVD on August 26, 2003.
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Current Stars of the Series
- Noah Wyle (Season 1 to present), as Dr. John Carter
- Laura Innes (Season 2 to present), as Dr. Kerry Weaver
- Ming-Na (Season 1, 6 to present), as Dr. Jing-mei (Deb) Chen
- Goran Višnjić (Season 6 to present), as Dr. Luka Kovač
- Maura Tierney (Season 6 to present), as Dr. Abby Lockhart
- Sherry Stringfield (Seasons 1-3, 8 to present), as Dr. Susan Lewis
- Mekhi Phifer, (Season 9 to present), as Dr. Greg Pratt
- Parminder Nagra (Season 10 to present), as Neela Rasgotra
- Linda Cardellini (Season 10 to present), as Nurse Samantha Taggart
- Shane West (Season 11 to present), as Dr. Ray Barnett
Former Cast Members
- George Clooney (Seasons 1-5), as Dr. Doug Ross
- Anthony Edwards (Seasons 1-8), as Dr. Mark Greene
- Alex Kingston (Season 4 - 11), as Dr. Elizabeth Corday
- Eriq La Salle (Seasons 1-8), as Dr. Peter Benton
- William H. Macy (Seasons 1-4), as Dr. David Morgenstern
- Julianna Margulies (Seasons 1-6), as Nurse Carol Hathaway
- Kellie Martin (Seasons 4-6), as Lucy Knight
- Paul McCrane (Seasons 4-10), as Dr. Robert 'Rocket' Romano
- Erik Palladino (Seasons 6-8), as Dr. Dave Malucci
- Gloria Reuben (Seasons 1-5), as Jeanie Boulet
- Sharif Atkins (Seasons 7-10), as Dr. Michael Gallant
Other Long-serving Regular Cast not Credited as Stars
- Abraham Benrubi (Season 1-6, 8 to present) as Jerry Markovic
- Conni Marie Brazleton (Season 1 to present) as Connie Oligario
- Laura Ceron (Season 1 to present) as Chuny Marquez
- Ellen Crawford (Season 1 to present) as Lydia Wright
- Deezer D (Season 1 to present) as Malik McGrath
- Yvette Freeman (Season 1 to present) as Haleh Adams
- Lily Mariye (Season 1 to present) as Lily Jarvik
- Gedde Watanabe (Season 4 to present) as Yosh Takata
- Kristin Minter (Seasons 2-10) as Randi Fronczak
- Vanessa Marquez (Seasons 1-3) as Wendy Goldman
See also
External links
- NBC's ER website (http://www.nbc.com/ER/index.html)
- Warner Bros. official ER website (http://www2.warnerbros.com/ertv/home.html)
- ER entry on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108757/)
- Google archive of alt.tv.ER newsgroup (http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?dq=&num=25&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=alt.tv.er&start=0)
- A comprehensive collection of episode guides and reviews (http://www.digiserve.com/er/episodes/) (Note: This collection ends with series 9 (2002-2003) and appears to have no intent of updating. It is however the better of the two episode guides.)
- Another set of episode guides (http://www.tvtome.com/ER/)
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