St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere was a serial hospital drama that first aired on NBC in 1982, running for six seasons and 137 episodes until 1988. The series was made by MTM Enterprises, which also made Hill Street Blues, a show with which St. Elsewhere is often compared.

Trivia

• The building used in exterior shots of the hospital, while only a block away from Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), is an apartment building and was never used as a hospital.
• In the opening credits a rare (and, by the end of the show anachronistic) shot of an MBTA Orange Line train can be seen on the elevated tracks above Washington Street. This line was demolished and relocated below ground in 1987.
• The last episode is of particular note because it explains that the entire course of events of the show's run were a figment of an autistic boy's (Tommy Westphall) imagination.