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<p>Yes! ISU produced so many wonderful actors in the 70’s, many of whom ended up at Steppenwolf. A few others - Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Joan Allen.</p>
<p>Suzanne Douglass and Bill O’Leary were also there when we were. Husband is better at spotting our aging classmates than I am.</p>
<p>My favorite show was Everwood. Season 1 is out on DVD but that’s it. It was on the WB (now the CW). </p>
<p>Ken Olin looks terrible. We’ll see how he improves. Glad he’s coming back.</p>
<p>Another lifer for ER here.</p>
<p>My favorite romantic pair was Carter/Abby; I never liked Abby/Luka, even though they eventually ended up together. Never saw the chemistry. And I do think Carter was always my favorite character on the show, but I’ve not really liked any of the guest appearances he’s done.</p>
<p>Beside the Mark Greene dying episode, my other favorite is when Carol quits and goes to Doug, and they play that Eagles song, Taking You Home - I always cry when I hear that song. Also love the episode where Mark is down in his basement building something and he’s rocking to Come Sail Away by Kansas. He played a great air guitar!</p>
<p>No one here has mentionted the series Sisters, with Swoozie Kurtz and Sela Ward. I wish some channel would play reruns of that series… I loved it.</p>
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<p>MOWC, my H and I loved Everwood, too. I don’t know many people who watched it. Coincidentally, I was watching a rerun of Law & Order SVU last night and Sarah Drew who played Hannah was on it. Everwood was a very good ensemble show. One of my favorite storylines was the one with James Earl Jones. The only part of Everwood that I didn’t like was the character, Madison. She drove me crazy. :)</p>
<p>I am an ER lover. Last night’s episode was terrific.</p>
<p>Reading about the doomed pregnancy episode of ER (I think it was called “Love’s Labour Lost”) has started me pondering how TV shows have a different place in our lives now as opposed to not that many years ago. I remember coming into work after that show aired and EVERYONE being in total “omigod did you see it?” mode. ER was appointment television in those days, and the same was true for Thirtysomething. (I, too, was gobsmacked by Nancy’s words about her kids in the episode where she got ovarian cancer, and even more destroyed in the episode where Elliott moved out and she actually helped him pack…but I digress.) Today, with hundreds of cable channels and a zillion shows, to say nothing of the entertainment available online, we seem to have many fewer shared experiences. Even within my own home, there are often two TV’s (on different channels) plus one computer entertaining three people. Another example is the family car trip where one kid watches a portable DVD and another is immersed in his iPod, while the driver listens to the radio. We may occasionally unite over a particular Youtube video, but otherwise we are so fragmented in our entertainment experiences. I’m no sociologist, but I wonder about the long-term effects of this trend on family dynamics and society in general.</p>
<p>Well, thanks to all of you, I learned to hook my laptop to the TV and watch back episodes of ER online. I get too busy and forget to watch them on the right day - but come a lazy Friday night and it’s carry-out pizza and 4 episodes of ER. I can almost figure out who’s sleeping with who these days!
I think MommaJ is right that the audience is more fractured these days and fewer are watching any one show.</p>
<p>LOVED Sisters. Especially George Clooney. Anyone seeing a pattern here? : D</p>
<p>Count me in on the George Clooney fan club.</p>
<p>I am another one who, once I start a show, I stay with it to the bitter end so I am still watching ER. I think this season is the strongest in a long time. I always felt that Abby was too much of a downer but I was glad they gave her a happy ending. I do wonder how they are going to bring back Dr. Greene in a flashback when he’s got to have aged along with the rest of us. I did look at the You Tube clip that someone posted – how young they all looked compared to recent seasons. I was also a big fan of thirtysomething and St. Elsewhere (could never think about Green Eggs and Ham – “I do so love Green Eggs and Ham, Thank You, Thank You, Sam I Am” – without remembering the episode with Mark’s son and his simple expression of his grief) and I loved, loved, loved Picket Fences. I thought that was an intelligent, quirky and compelling show with really great acting. I’m pretty sure I cried my way through many an episode on that show.</p>
<p>Add my name to the list of ER watchers!</p>
<p>I called my OB-GYN and scheduled a repeat C-section the morning after I watched that pregnant woman episode (VBAC’s were popular those days) - she turned 13 this month : )</p>
<p>Another ER fan. And SNL and the Office. And Arrested Development.</p>
<p>I liked Homicide: Life on the Street. And the PBS documentary about making the one episode.</p>
<p>youdon’tsay - yep! A strong pattern there.</p>
<p>I called my OB-GYN and scheduled a repeat C-section the morning after I watched that pregnant woman episode (VBAC’s were popular those days) - she turned 13 this month : )</p>
<p>I guess it didn’t scare me as much as it did you, because my little VBAC will be 13 in two weeks!</p>
<p>Happy Teenager Day!!! As she was 8 1/2 lbs when she was delivered two weeks early, I don’t think I would have had the choice anyway lol!!!</p>
<p>Still can’t believe the show has been on for that long!!</p>
<p>Time for a page 3 bump! Ray Barnett is back on his artificial legs! I could not have seen that coming!</p>
<p>momof3sons - I did, but with help from reading spoiler websites. But I did it so long ago that I can’t remember if he’s staying or not.</p>
<p>I decided to forgo ER tonight because the CW is showing “Rock Horror Picture Show.” I can’t believe my parents let me see that movie at midnight showings week after week at the age of 14.</p>