St. Elsewhere - Season 5

St. Elsewhere - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes23
DatesSep 24, 1986 - May 27, 1987
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Episodes

Where There's Hope, There's Crosby
Season 5Episode 160 min

Where There's Hope, There's Crosby

A depressed Father Joseph McCabe returns to St. Eligius; Morrison receives a visitor from Seattle; Dr. Craig seeks help for his injured hand from an old classmate; one of Axelrod's patients awakens in the morgue; and Luther plays musical air conditioners.
Sep 24, 1986
When You Wish Upon a Scar
Season 5Episode 260 min

When You Wish Upon a Scar

Wade tries to get a grip on her marital problems; Fiscus throws an engagement party for Morrison; Rosenthal figures out the self-serving Griffin; and John Doe #6 returns.
Oct 1, 1986
A Room with a View
Season 5Episode 360 min

A Room with a View

Dr. Craig behaves boorishly to his replacement, Dr. Paulette Kiem; Birch finds a radioactive patient; Papandrao claims Ehrlich as an escort to a family birthday party; a friend of Fiscus' is admitted with a major stroke; and a hospital neighbor becomes very upset when she observes Dr. Craig's imminent departure.
Oct 8, 1986
Brand New Bag
Season 5Episode 460 min

Brand New Bag

The Craigs try out yet another new maid; fellow employees stab Luther in the back; Axelrod is embarrassed and rude about a patient's colostomy; and Fiscus helps Mr. Ewell's daughter take him home to die.
Oct 15, 1986
You Beta Your Life
Season 5Episode 560 min

You Beta Your Life

Dr. Westphall helps a terminally ill teenager reach his parents; Griffin plays Birch and Novino off against each other to escape blame in a patient's death; Morrison calls Chandler on it when Dr. Turner gets involved in a dispute involving a sick child; and Dr. Craig tries to start his memoirs.
Oct 29, 1986
Not My Type
Season 5Episode 660 min

Not My Type

Dr. Craig's dream of saving Dr. Auschlander's life turns into a nightmare. Also: John Doe #6 helps Dr. Craig write his memoirs; Dr. Turner makes a life-or-death decision based on a patient's religious beliefs; Griffin sets up Birch to take the fall for his negligence; Ehrlich tells the details of his tryst with Lucy; Dr. Fiscus is the butt of jokes when he makes a fashion change.  

Nov 5, 1986
Up and Down
Season 5Episode 760 min

Up and Down

Dr. Craig is thrown into a tizzy when John Doe #6 thinks he's Craig. Also: Luther returns to the hospital as a paramedic, and is frustrated about an abusive bag lady; Dr. Griffin's sex drive sends him looking for love in the wrong places; Dr. Auschlander tries to help a human fly who tries to scale the hospital and fails twice.  

Nov 12, 1986
Nothing Up My Sleeve
Season 5Episode 860 min

Nothing Up My Sleeve

Dr. Morrison is haunted by the man who attacked him in prison. Dr. Axelrod is put in charge of a 14 yr. old pre-med student and a piqued Craig has the police hunting for his missing manuscript. Also: Dr. Ehrlich becomes a tyrant when he's put in charge of drug testing, and Luther recruits Dr. Craig to do a magic act for the children's award.  

Nov 19, 1986
After Life
Season 5Episode 960 min

After Life

Dr. Fiscus is shot. Afterwards, he experiences the afterlife and meets some old friends. Such people include old patients who died in the hospital, a few in limbo and a couple in heaven. However, he is condemed to hades and finds Dr. White swiming in circles for all eternity in a boat with only one oar. Meamwhile, the docs at St. Eligus try their hardest to keep Fiscus alive.
Nov 26, 1986
Once Upon a Mattress
Season 5Episode 1060 min

Once Upon a Mattress

Fiscus awakens but is deeply depressed, despite a visit from his father; Dr. Craig returns to work and his office, disregarding Dr. Kiem's feelings; Dr. Westphall decides to stop seeing Novino and his moving man comes in for a penile implant.
Dec 3, 1986
Lost Weekend
Season 5Episode 1160 min

Lost Weekend

Dr. Westphall tries to help an alcoholic poet he once admired; Dr. Craig puts his usual worst foot forward as he tries to persuade the Soviets to release Masha's husband; Rosenthal confronts McPhail about her drug problem; and Ehrlich makes friends with Papandrao's new boyfriend.
Dec 10, 1986
Cold War
Season 5Episode 1260 min

Cold War

Dr. Turner finds her confidence shaken when she learns her new patient, about to undergo a risky transfusion procedure, has a malpractice suit pending at another hospital; Dr. Peltrovich arrives but has trouble getting licensed to practice medicine; and Morrison explodes during a mock war with paint guns.
Jan 7, 1987
Russian Roulette
Season 5Episode 1360 min

Russian Roulette

Dr. Craig becomes jealous when Dr. Peltrovich is finally allowed to pursue his work with lasers; Fiscus experiences an emotional rollercoaster as he returns to work with a critical leukemia patient; and Ehrlich hits highs and lows as he accepts his ""Orphan of the Year"" award.
Jan 14, 1987
Visiting Daze
Season 5Episode 1460 min

Visiting Daze

Axelrod allows Novino and Griffin to override his judgement; Dr. Kiem worries about her long distance marriage as she tries to help an inseparable couple make a final farewell; Luther tries to help Polly make it through a day without her medication; and Ehrlich goes to great lengths to confirm the Oseranskys' story.
Jan 21, 1987
Getting Ahead
Season 5Episode 1560 min

Getting Ahead

Novino uncovers a pathologist selling body parts when one of her patients dies; Dr. Westphall learns that Lizzie is pregnant; Chandler and a visiting private practitioner learn something from each other, and John Doe #6 surfaces again, along with Craig's novel.
Jan 28, 1987
Jose, Can You See?
Season 5Episode 1660 min

Jose, Can You See?

Novino tangles again with Chandler about admitting a blind street person who's not really sick; Dr. Auschlander learns he has a son he never knew; the Craigs face their grief all over again when Ellen offers Griffin a place to stay; and Wade fears for her future when she learns she needs glasses.
Feb 4, 1987
Schwarzwald
Season 5Episode 1760 min

Schwarzwald

Rosenthal tries to help her obese daughter cope with her problems; Axelrod's father brings a dog to the hospital for chemotherapy; Dr. Turner reluctantly reveals the ultrasound results to a couple looking for the perfect baby; and Dr. Westphall continues to try and find a way to keep the hospital open.
Feb 11, 1987
You Again?
Season 5Episode 1860 min

You Again?

Morrison testifies at Nick Moat's parole hearing; Dr. Kiem buries herself in work when she learns her son has taken off from home and is missing; Fiscus diagnoses multiple sclerosis in an old college friend; and the rumors fly that St. Eligius is about to become a billing center for Boston General.
Feb 18, 1987
Rites of Passage
Season 5Episode 1960 min

Rites of Passage

Fiscus waits for a woman artificially inseminated with his sperm to give birth; three young men explore life and the hospital to relieve the boredom of their stay; Dr. Westphall relives part of his past when a childhood friend reminds him of an old pact; and Drs. Craig and Auschlander continue to search for hospital financing.
Feb 25, 1987
Women Unchained
Season 5Episode 2060 min

Women Unchained

Shirley Daniels returns to the hospital as a patient; Mrs. Craig offers Griffin a place to stay; Chandler and Novino compete to see who can correctly diagnose a difficult patient; and Ehrlich and Papandrao face wedding rumors when they return from Mexico.
Mar 4, 1987
Good Vibrations
Season 5Episode 2160 min

Good Vibrations

The representative of a foreign medical group interested in the hospital visits to absorb the psychic `aura' of the place (via flashbacks) but collapses from a heart attack before he can recommend the sale.
May 13, 1987
Slip Sliding Away
Season 5Episode 2260 min

Slip Sliding Away

Luther turns sleuth to find out who is responsible for the mercy-killings; Dr. Turner takes a chance doing experimental fetal heart surgery; Axelrod gets back at Novino and Griffin; Morrison buys a gun to protect his family; Yvonne Galecki Craig comes to claim her daughter, and Ehrlich and Papandrao have second thoughts about marriage when the new owners fire everyone in the hospital.
May 20, 1987
Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball
Season 5Episode 2360 min

Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball

Auschlander tries to stop the demolition of St. Eligius.
May 27, 1987

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