E/R
Format	Sitcom
Developed by	Bernie Orenstein Saul Turtletaub
Starring	Elliot Gould Mary McDonnell Conchata Ferrell Lynne Moody Shûko Akune Bruce A. Young Corinne Bohrer Luis Avalos George Clooney
Theme music composer	Jimmy Webb Lou Rawls
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	22
Production
Executive producer(s)	Bernie Orenstein Saul Turtletaub
Producer(s)	Eve Brandstein
Running time	30 minutes (approx. 22 min)
Distributor	CBS Television
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 16, 1984 – July 24, 1985

E/R (referring to the Emergency room of a hospital) is an American television sitcom that aired in 1984 and 1985. The series was produced by Embassy Television and lasted a single season. The series was developed from a successful play of the same name.

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The show starred Elliott Gould as emergency room doctor Howard Sheinfeld, a recently divorced ear, nose, and throat specialist who moonlights at fictional Clark Street Hospital to keep up with his alimony payments. His colleague Dr. Eve Sheridan was played by Marcia Strassman in the pilot, and by Mary McDonnell in the regular series. The cast also included Conchata Ferrell, Jason Alexander, Lynne Moody, Bruce A. Young (one of the writers of the original play), and George Clooney, who would go on to appear in the similarly titled popular drama ER. The premiere episode also featured Sherman Hemsley as George Jefferson, who was the uncle of Lynne Moody's character, Julie Williams.

The show itself was perhaps most noted for having a theme song deemed catchy and for the Filipino-American secretary's (played by Shûko Akune) manner of stating her catchphrase; "Stay back of the white line!". Akune was reprising her role from the original Chicago production of the play.

The program was canceled after 22 episodes due to low ratings, mainly due to competition from the Top 10 hit The A-Team, despite being placed between the Top 20 hit AfterMASH and the Top 30 hit CBS Tuesday Night Movies.

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• E/R at the Internet Movie Database
• E/R at TV.com