ER (1994) (TV Show)

format_quote Abby Lockhart: These are the desk clerks, Jerry and Frank, please don't feed them.

stars  In the episode where Dr. Romano is showing his prosthetic arm to the staff at the desk, one of the other doctors refers to him as "Robodoc". Paul McCrane played one of the bad guys in RoboCop (1987).

stars  Producers wanted the character of Carol, played by Julianna Margulies to switch from being a nurse to a doctor and even filmed episodes of her starting medical school. Margulies objected to the idea, saying that her character would be so proud of being a nurse she would never want to change, so the idea was dropped. Years later, the character of Abby, played by Maura Tierney did go from being a nurse to a doctor.

stars  Of all the major characters, only Sherry Stringfield and Sharif Atkins have never been shown as patients in the ER.

stars  Some of the operations in the series were dramatized versions of real-life operations. The writers scouted out hospitals around the L.A. area to get ideas for new episodes. An early episode, in which a baby gets a coat hanger stuck in it's throat, was based off a real emergency in a Los Angeles hospital. However, the situation was dramatized by adding a scene where the baby bleeds profusely, and requires a tracheotomy (in real life, they simply reached in and pulled the hanger out).

stars  This is the most Emmy-nominated show in television history at 123 nominations.