ER is a popular NBC serial drama primarily set in a teaching hospital's emergency room, the fictional County General Hospital (based loosely off Cook County General, a real hospital) on Division Street in Chicago, Illinois. The series was created by novelist Michael Crichton. The first episode, known as "24 Hours", "Pilot", or "E.R.: The Movie", aired in the United States on September 19, 1994. The show is produced and co-written by John Wells.

It has won at least one Emmy every year of its production up to and including the 2003 awards and won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Television Dramatic Series" every year from 1997 to 2002. Over the years, it has been nominated for and/or won numerous other awards including BAFTAs, Screen Actors Guild awards, TV Guide awards, Image Awards, GLAAD awards, and Golden Globes.

Before the 11th season it was announced that Alex Kingston's (Dr. Corday) contract was not being renewed, and she recently left the series. Also, Noah Wyle (Dr. Carter) has announced his intention to leave the show at the end of the 2004-2005 season.

The complete first season of ER was released on DVD on August 26, 2003.

ER is aired in more countries in the world, like in Italy, where it is called ER-Medici in prima linea (RaiDue), or in France (Urgences - France2).

George Clooney (Dr. Doug Ross) previously starred in the shortlived medical sitcom series E/R in 1984-1985.

Contents

1 Current stars of the series 2 Former cast members 3 Other long-serving regular cast not credited as stars 4 Broadcasters 5 See also 6 External links

Current stars of the series

• Noah Wyle as Dr. John Carter
• Sherry Stringfield as Dr. Susan Lewis (1994-1996, 2001-present)
• Laura Innes as Dr. Kerry Weaver (1995-present)
• Goran Visnjic as Dr. Luka Kovac (1999-present)
• Maura Tierney as Dr. Abby Lockhart (2000-present)
• Mekhi Phifer as Dr. Greg Pratt (2002-present)
• Parminder Nagra as Dr. Neela Rasgotra (2003-present)
• Linda Cardellini as Nurse Samantha Taggart (2003-present)
• Shane West as Dr. Ray Barnett (2004-present)

Former cast members

• George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross (1994-1999)
• Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene (1994-2002)
• Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton (1994-2001)
• Julianna Margulies as Nurse Carol Hathaway (1994-2000)
• Gloria Reuben as Physician's Assistant Jeanie Boulet (1995-1999)
• Alex Kingston as Dr. Elizabeth Corday (1997-2004)
• Maria Bello as Dr. Anna Del Amico (1997-1998)
• Paul McCrane as Dr. Robert Romano (1997-2003)
• Kellie Martin as Lucy Knight (1998-2000)
• Erik Palladino as Dr. Dave Malucci (1999-2001)
• Ming-Na as Dr. Jing-Mei ("Deb") Chen (1994-1995, 2000-2004)
• Michael Michele as Dr. Cleo Finch (2000-2001)
• Sharif Atkins as Dr. Michael Gallant (2001-2004)

Other long-serving regular cast not credited as stars

• Abraham Benrubi as Jerry Markovic (1994-1999, 2002-present)
• Conni Marie Brazelton as Connie Oligario (1994-2003)
• Laura Cer�n as Chuny Marquez (1995-present)
• Ellen Crawford as Lydia Wright (1994-2003)
• Deezer D as Malik McGrath (1994-present)
• Troy Evans as Frank Martin (1994 pilot, 2000-present)
• Yvette Freeman as Haleh Adams (1994-present)
• Lily Mariye as Lily Jarvik (1994-present)
• Gedde Watanabe as Yosh Takata (1997-2003)
• Kristin Minter as Randi Fronczak (1995-2003)
• Vanessa Marquez as Wendy Goldman (1994-1997)
• Lisa Vidal as Sandy Lopez (2001-2004)
• Michael Ironside as Dr. William Swift (1995, 1998)
• CCH Pounder as Dr. Angela Hicks (1994-1997)
• Mont� Russell as Curtis Zadro (1995-present)
• Emily Wagner as Doris Pickman (1994-present)
• Sally Field as Maggie Wyczenski (2000-2003)
• Sam Andersonn as Dr. Jack Kayson (1994-1995, 1997-1999, 2001-present)
• Kyle Richards as Dori (2000-present)
• John Aylward as Dr. Donald Anspaugh (1996-present)
• Jorja Fox as Dr. Maggie Doyle (1996-1999)
• John Terry as Dr. Div Cvetic (1994-1995)
• Ron Eldard as Ray Shepard (1995-1997)
• Lisa Nicole Carson as Carla Reese Simmons McGrath (1995-2001)
• Christine Elise as Dr. Harper Tracy (1996-1999)

Broadcasters

• NBC (United States) (new episodes)
• TNT (United States) (reruns only)
• Raidue (Italy) (new episodes)
• FOX Life (Italy) (reruns only)
• France 2 (France)
• TSR 1 (Switzerland)
• RTL-TVI (Belgium)
• CTV and SRC (Canada)
• Channel 4 (new) and Sky One (re-runs) (UK)

See also

• Chicago Hope

External links

• NBC's ER website (http://www.nbc.com/ER/index.html)
• Warner Bros. official ER website (http://www2.warnerbros.com/ertv/home.html)
• ER entry on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108757/)
• Google archive of alt.tv.ER newsgroup (http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?dq=&num=25&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=alt.tv.er&start=0)
• A comprehensive collection of episode guides and reviews (http://www.digiserve.com/er/episodes/) (Note: This collection ends with series 9 (2002-2003) and appears to have no intent of updating. It is however the better of the two episode guides.)
• Another set of episode guides (http://www.tvtome.com/ER/)

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