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ER (1994)

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Directed by
Christopher Chulack, Jonathan Kaplan
Genre
medical drama
Country
United States
Length
15 seasons, 331 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 940 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The show takes place in the emergency room of a Chicago hospital. It follows the doctors and nurses as they handle life-threatening cases and deal with their own personal conflicts.

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What happens

ER is an American medical drama television series created by Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning 15 seasons. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. Television. ER follows the inner life of the emergency room (ER) of Cook County General Hospital, a fictionalized version of the real Cook County Hospital, in Chicago, and the various critical professional, ethical, and personal issues faced by the department's physicians, nurses, and staff. The show is the second-longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history behind Grey's Anatomy. The highest-awarded medical drama, ER won 128 industry awards from 442 nominations, including the Peabody Award, TCA Award for Program of the Year, and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. As of 2014, ER had grossed over $3 billion in television revenue. It is considered one of the best medical dramas of all time, pioneering the field of medical fiction and setting a model for other contemporary medical dramas to follow. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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