I don’t know what it is about the theme tune but it always gave me a warm glow inside, a sort of feeling of security knowing for the next hour everything would be alright in the world. Loved St Elsewhere!
The 80s there was this show, The A Team, Magnum, PI, Murder, She Wrote, Macgyver, The Equalizer, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Perfect Strangers, A Different World, LA Law, Dukes of Hazard, The Incredible Hulk, Cheers, Moonlighting, The Golden Girls, Night Court etc. All in the same decade. Talk about a tv golden era.
you forgot knight Rider Michael Knight A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent helpless powerless in a world of criminals who operate above the law
my old man passed away recently and I just listened to this theme tune and it brought a huge smile to my face because I remember my parents watching it and hearing the theme tune and being annoyed by it as a young boy but boy do i remember it with fondness now
St Elsewhere. Me and dad would be the only ones in the house to watch it. We’d be banished to the basement and watch it together. He’d chain-smoke and let me sip his beer as long as I didn’t tell mom. I had no idea how good I had it.
So happy RU-vid has a place for these. This one really takes me back to a time when my only two problems were getting homework done and getting dinner by the time this theme started playing. I actually got a lump in my throat...I miss the 80s....and my parents... and the home they provided...And this one small piece of music just captured those moments from my childhood.
I also agree, such simpler times when families actually ate dinner together & watched sitcom’s, these are missing in today’s world……the 80s was just such a great time to be a kid
@@25Soupy ditto mate, my old man passed away recently and I just listened to this theme tune and it brought a huge smile to my face because I remember my parents watching it and hearing the theme tune and being annoyed by it as a young boy but boy do i remember it with fondness now
Same thing Leather, great post... and btw that goes for tons of shows from yester-decade. I absolutely love watching the opening of _Room 222_ though I've never watched a single episode.
I just wish they would put out the rest of this show on DVD. This was not just a great medical drama but a one of the best shows ever on TV. Maybe Shout! Factory will pick it up like they've done for other stalled shows. All 6 seasons deserve a DVD release, not just Season 1.
@elcaifo I've learned not to trust streaming stuff like Netflix and Hulu it's too temporary. I rather have the DVDs because they last much longer and even if something happens to them you can always buy them again.
First there was "St. Elsewhere," and then there were all those imitators that have come along since. The long story arcs of this and "Hill Street Blues" were the talk of the office every week. It was heady.
Great theme. Great all-star cast (including the voice of KITT from Knight Rider!!!). Great stories. And one of the greatest series finales of all time. I adored this show!!!!!
This series ruined me for all future medical dramas. Never cared about E.R., never cared about Grey’s Anatomy. To me, St. Elsewhere was as good as primetime doctor shows could get.
At the time this show was first airing, my cousin was in medical school. She is the one who got me to watch St. Elsewhere. Was hooked from the get go!! 🙂
📺 for sure here, I do miss great televisions from the 80s and the 90s. Who doesn't here. We had best of the best back then and it was all great as well, unlike nowadays. It's nothing but a bunch of reboots, remake and nothing but a bunch of reruns plus nonsense today. I am so glad that I grew up throughout the 80s and the 90s back then. Time of my life and I wish i could go back and relive it all. If I could I would.
Every decade of T.V. from the 1950's & up has had a favorite/best cop show, medical drama, lawyer or western T.V. show. St. Elsewhere was the best of the 80's, then Hill Street Blues for police drama, and L.A.Law the best of the law shows. Unfortunately, the western genre died in the 70's, not counting The Waltons, and Little House on the Prairie, which both were remarkably in a class of their own. Only one true T.V. western (miniseries) would emerge itself in the later 1980's..."Lonesome Dove". Thank you Larry McMurtry!😊
My Favorite TV Theme Song, and TAXI and Cheers right behind this one. Great TV Show series while it lasted. I'm still an 80's Nostalgic guru. Bring me back that decade, and I'd be just fine. 😘❤️👍
Loved this show, has there ever been a more terrifying, head surgeon than Dr Mark Craig . And yet when the patient he was treating for weeks using his new experimental procedure suddenly died you saw his caring vulnerability beanth the tough exterior.
I was young when this show was on, and I watched it. I don't remember much about it though. This might be something to binge if I can find it streaming. Also, that cast was HUGE for a 1980's show!
Such a shame that after the show ended Ed Flanders became a recluse and eventually committed suicide. As an ironic counterpoint, Norman Lloyd is still alive at the age of 101.
I think what made this show so amazing was that it didn't Glamourize life in a Hospital unlike Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, or even Marcus Welby. I had no idea David Morse's Father was in the Original Production of How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying not to mention Mad Men. They even had a Lesbian Storyline before ER or even Grey's Anatomy but they scraped it.
Thats what worked for alot of shows back in the 80s, they tried to make it as realistic as possible unlike today where shows start out as great dramas and end up being soap operas.
@DarkLordDiablos ain't that the truth. Shows like Barney Miller, L.A.Law, Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, The Rockford Files etc. were entertaining but super realistic as far as the lifestyles and profession of the characters. Now a days it's nothing but supermodels playing cops or doctors or lawyers and like you said a daytime or nighttime soap opera
@@yesfandavidb No I didn't know about that one but I remember a City councilman having AIDS who was in The Closet. Also the Flashback Episode with Edward Hermann was brilliant. Also so many folks guest starred before becoming famous in their own right.
This theme feels so weird now that we've seen all these other medical dramas where the theme is serious and dramatic. This sounds like the opening to the 6 o clock news.
One of the things great about this show the way they presented the AIDS crises by showing Mark Harmons character contracting it a promiscuis straight man instead of a homosexual who sadly eventually died from it.
Wasn't there any episode in which the words "AIDS" appears in an empty elevator that opens to a stunnee group of nurses/doctors? If not that specific scene, I recall something that dramatic, especially, as you mentioned, considering the time and storyline. I learned more about the disease and its potential from the show than any education I had at the time, i.e. early grade school.
I've had this theme song stuck in my head..for the last few days!! Since looking up stuff on Howie Mandell, although I already knew he was in this show..🚑 😷 I wished I could've enjoyed it more. But, I was too young. Can't forget this theme. I know it was a good show 📺 :)😊 👍👍
And he was 93 when he passed away. Not 106. He was born in 1914 and died in 2021. For those of you who know how to subtract, that's 93 years. Whoever came up with 106 needs to go back to school. lol
Now to most of us this is an all star cast but then these were actors just getting started!! I think it’s neat to see how far they came. I had no idea Nancy Stafford was in here who would later star in Matlock.
David Bonnema She played Joan Halloran, who was originally a city-budget advisor, but was fired from that position near the end of season 2. Season 3 saw her hired as an assistant to Dr. Auschlander, which she remained until season 4.
Difference between Season 1 & Season 2 credits - dropped from Season 2 G.W. Bailey & David Birney - added Kim Miyori, Eric Lanueville, Norman Lloyd, Ellen Bry, Mark Harmon and Nancy Stafford.
I wished that when he released the Theme from St. Elsewhere on his album Night-Lines, Dave Grusin did a remixed edit of that version for the TV on-air credits. Somewhere along the lines of what Mike Post and Quincy Jones did for their themes from The Rockford Files and Ironside respectively.
Okay, if you have Hulu and go to season 2 episode 20, the theme sounds completely different and it is the only time that version aired - I want to know why.
I remember being 6 pleading with my Mother to let me stay up later than usual so I could watch this show , cant remember any episodes but remember the theme....anyway it was in the north of Ireland , during the death and conflict that was etched into our everyday lives and I think this show was my comfort blanket tbh....