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From: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: St. Elsewhere, Mark Harmon
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 11:47:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 22 11:47:32 1985
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In article <5424@allegra.UUCP> giw@allegra.UUCP (Jerry Weil) writes:
>The report I heard is that he will contract AIDS from a heterosexual
>encounter.
 
I also read this (in the Washington Post).  The article also said he
will continue to appear on the show until February.  Wasn't the show
that aired on Nov. 20 a lot of fun?  I really have to compliment the
writers for all their clever TV references, particularly to other MTM
productions.  For those of you who didn't see it, a mental patient at
the hospital became convinced he was Mary Richards from the old MARY
TYLER MOORE SHOW.  He was going around calling everyone on the show
by names from the MTM SHOW.  Betty White, who played Sue Ann Nivens on
MTM, was making a guest appearance on ST. ELSEWHERE as a character
introduced in a previous episode, Nancy Reagan's personal physician.
When this mental patient saw her he said, "Sue Ann! Sue Ann Nivens."
And she looked at him strangely and said, "I'm afraid you've confused
me with someone else." Aside from this very obvious reference, I 
caught a couple of others:
    (1) Betty White's character was at the hospital to check on an
        astronaut who had developed paralysis in the previous
        episode.  When she greeted him she said, "Commander Healy
        at NASA sends his best wishes." An obvious reference to
        Maj. Roger Healy, the astronaut from I DREAM OF JEANNIE.
        Also, the same guy who played Roger Healy appeared for
        several years on the old BOB NEWHART SHOW, which was
        also an MTM production.
    (2) One of Bob Newhart's recurring patients on his old show
        was a Mr. Carlin, who was always saying bizarre and 
        insensitive things in psychoanalysis.  The same character
        reappeared on ST. ELSEWHERE as one of the fellow mental 
        patients in the hospital.
 
   I loved it.  Let's have more!


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