<p>Wasn’t the character’s name Nancy? Married to Elliott? I also remember that plot development very well.</p>
<p>Yes, Nancy. She’s now on Brothers and Sisters??? (I think it’s the same actor)</p>
<p>I am not a huge Abby fan either. Luca was my favorite of the “hot” guys.</p>
<p>Patricia Wettig played the mom with cancer. What has the character’s name? Ugh. And what was the name of her red-haired dh? I know I could cheat and go on IMDB.com, but I refuse.</p>
<p>I always thought it so weird how she and Michael were married in real life but not on the show.</p>
<p>H and I still make reference to thirtysomething on occasion. Not only were we the right age/stage of life when the series aired, but we live in the same area where it took place, so we got all the references. When Gary died I was very, very upset. I never have liked driving on the Schuylkill Expressway…</p>
<p>Dingdingding! That’s it.</p>
<p>Luka was hot, but he was no doug Ross! The way, he’d kind of look down and kind of **** his head to the side. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>And I can’t believe I’m having to wait 60 seconds to defend Doug! :D</p>
<p>LMAO! Can you figure out the word that got ****'d out??</p>
<p>LMAO! Can you guess which word I was trying to use there that got ****'d out?</p>
<p>I still watch ER–thank heavens for Tivo. I must say, though, that I’ve been wondering how they’re going to finish off the season if they keep killing off the major characters. I have an image of a last show where Helay (the nurse who’s been there from the beginning) is standing in a bombed out ER (another exploding helicopter incident, perhaps) saying “there’s no building left” over the microphone as the ambulances stack up outside the door.</p>
<p>I also assume the setup is Luca and Abby in Boston as the next new show.</p>
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<p>Elliot, played by Timothy Busfield who has probably had the most successful acting career since thirtysomething, with the possible exception of Patricia Wettig. He was always my favorite. :)</p>
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<p>Yep. And her husband, Ken Olin, who played Michael, is the exec. producer.</p>
<p>On November 13, the ER episode will receive a visit from Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene. There will be some flashbacks to a time when he was there, and it will tie in with some other things going on in that episode. It is new footage, so it should be fun to watch. I have not watched ER for years, but I might have to tune in to this episode.</p>
<p>and Ken Olin had a guest role on Brothers and Sisters as Holly’s old lover and the father to Rebecca…</p>
<p>You guys need to let me know when Ken Olin is going to be on TV! Does my old crush still look good?</p>
<p>There was a theater major Husband and I were in college with. He was very talented and quite good looking. He has been on TV some - the largest part was the dad in the short lived series My So Called Life. But then a few years later, we saw his name on the credits of Seventh Heaven…we hadn’t recognized him, but when we saw it again we picked him out and he was old and heavier and balding. I know that I’m old, too, but I so wanted him to stay good looking!</p>
<p>Edited to add: I can’t get that version of *Somewhere Over the Rainbow *out of my head today. Thank a lot.</p>
<p>I can still remember the ending with St Elsewhere and the snow globe…OMG, I was so surprised…</p>
<p>Of course, the unfortunate thing is that so many people, because of that show, think that is the only manifestation of austim…the way his son was.</p>
<p>You guys need to let me know when Ken Olin is going to be on TV! Does my old crush still look good?</p>
<p>Um…no. </p>
<p>He has gotten considerably heavier…at least he did on B&S.</p>
<p>just found this:</p>
<p>Ken Olin’s brief appearance as Holly’s lover David Caplan on Brothers & Sisters last season was no flash in the pan. The veteran TV actor and director, who is also one of the ABC drama’s executive producers, will resurface sometime after the sixth episode of the season, when David resumes his relationship with Holly (played by real-life wife and former thirtysomething costar Patricia Wettig) and works to mend fences with their daughter Rebecca (Emily Van Camp). </p>
<p>But his sudden return will only be half the surprise: Olin has dropped 35 pounds since he was last in front of the camera. “When Holly saw David for the first time last season, he made some comment that he’s not looking that great,” recalls Wettig, who credits a regimen of acupuncture and herbs for her husband’s dramatic weight loss. “Now he’ll get to say, `Yeah, I’m looking good!’” </p>
<p>[Brothers</a> and Sisters Pictures, Ken Olin Photos - Photo Gallery: Ken Olin](<a href=“http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ken-olin/photos/182898/2]Brothers”>http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ken-olin/photos/182898/2)</p>
<p>So odd that thirtysomething is not available on DVD. I would rent that once for old times sake. Loved that show.</p>
<p>I wonder how thirtysomething would hold up.</p>
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<p>That’s Tom Irwin! He’s a fabulous actor and has done lots of episodic tv since MSCL. Much of his time now is spent doing theatre (he’s still a member of Steppenwolf Theatre Co.) and teaching theatre. He singlehandedly made me a fan of Without a Trace (which coincidentally is related to this thread, because that’s when I stopped watching ER) in a two part episode called Fallout. Good stuff.</p>
<p>You are correct, alwaysamom. There were two theatre guys in college that I thought, “If anyone makes it, he will.” One was Tom Irwin. The other was Gary Cole (the boss in Office Space, the Brady dad, etc.)</p>