Guide Note

ER is an Emmy Award-winning American television drama created by Michael Crichton for NBC. It centers around the live of Emergency Room doctors and nurses in a Chicago hospital.

It is one of the longest running shows still on the air. While the cast has changed dramatically through the years and some stories have taken place on the other side of the world, the thrust of most of the episodes is the drama that occurs between the doctors, patients, and nurses in County General Hospital.

The program has garnered critical acclaim and countless Emmy nominations and wins. NBC has announced that the fifteenth season will be its last. The show's series finale will air in the spring of 2009.

Fast Facts

1. New episodes: Thursdays, 10pm ET
2. Network: NBC
3. Genre: Medical Drama
4. Original Run: September 19, 1994 - Present
5. NBC network's second longest-running drama

1. Maura Tierney
2. Goran Visnijic
3. Mekhi Phifer
4. Parminder Nagra
5. Linda Cardellini
6. John Stamos

1. George Clooney
2. Anthony Edwards
3. Sherry Stringfield
4. Noah Wyle
5. Eriq La Salle
6. Juliana Margulies

1. "I'm a doctor and nothing gets in the way of that. Nothing." - Doug Ross, IMDb
2. "Our job is to save lives not to judge them." - Luka Kovac, IMDb
3. "So you say you're sick, you're broke, you're unemployed and uninsured. Yea, sure, come on over." - Jerry Markovic, IMDb