St. Elsewhere is an American
medical drama television series that originally ran on
NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988. The series starred
Ed Flanders,
Norman Lloyd and
William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, underrated
Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by
MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama
Hill Street Blues, during that same time; both series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for
St Elsewhere quoted a critic that called the series "'Hill Street Blues' in a hospital").
St. Elsewhere was filmed at CBS/MTM Studios, which was known as CBS/Fox Studios when the show began; coincidentally,
20th Century Fox owns the rights to the series when it bought MTM Enterprises in the 1990s.