DVD : ER - The Complete First Season

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DVD : ER - The Complete First Season

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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790777887
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790777886
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Brothers Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Brothers Home Video
MPN: WARD24629D
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Warner Brothers Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Running Time: 1179 minutes
Studio: Warner Brothers Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1994

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/12/2006 Run time: 1179 minutes Rating: Nr

Amazon.com:
Inspired by creator Michael Crichton’s experiences as a medical student in a hospital emergency room, ER quickly became one of the most compelling shows of the 1990s, each episode a whirlwind of intense and involving drama, gritty realism, and offbeat humor. Heading the staff at the inner-city Chicago hospital is Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards), a doctor so good at providing care to the downtrodden, helpless, or just plain quirky patients that his career blossoms even as his personal life crumbles. Greene is the soul of the cast, but the heart is Julianna Margulies’s nurse Carol Hathaway. Her character was intended only for the pilot episode, but she ended up capturing viewers with her palpable empathy for patients and her troublesome romance with womanizing pediatrician Doug Ross (George Clooney). The rest of the central cast consisted of compassionate Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), Peter Benton (Eriq Lasalle), whose prodigious talent nearly matches his ambition, and his fresh-faced student, John Carter (Noah Wyle). Other key characters included ER heads Morgenstern and Swift (William H. Macy and Michael Ironside, respectively), overachieving student Deb (Ming Na), who returned later in the show’s run, attending physician Angela Hicks (CCH Pounder), and physical therapist Jeanie Boulet (Gloria Rueben).

The remarkably strong first season showed off its sharp ensemble cast through a variety of compelling story lines both personal (Carter’s conflicts with Benton, Lewis’s struggles with her no-account sister, Chloe, played by Kathleen Wilhoite) and professional (a holiday blizzard and especially the harrowing tale of a pregnancy gone bad, “Love’s Labor Lost,” which won five Emmy Awards). When Carter is pondering whether his future includes the ER, Green jokes, “It’s not bad: Stress, late nights, hard work, no pay–it’s hard to beat.” It’s hard to imagine people choosing to work under those conditions, but they do, and in the process these very human people perform superhuman feats as they face life and death as part of their daily jobs.

DVD features are fairly generous for a TV series box. There are two commentary tracks on the pilot episode, including one by Crichton, and crew commentaries on “Sleepless in Chicago” and “Love’s Labor Lost.” A new 39-minute documentary discusses the show’s genesis, casting, and the “Chicago hospital drama smackdown” with Chicago Hope through interviews with Crichton, executive producer Steven Spielberg, other crew members, and the principal cast members other than Eriq LaSalle. Also included are a very watchable featurette on the show’s realism (ever wonder why Ross is always looking down?) and another on post-production, a list of characters (including patients by episode, but why no actor credits?), three minor deleted scenes, outtakes, and a glossary of frequently used medical terms. Particularly notable is that the episodes are shown in anamorphic widescreen. ER was one of the first network shows broadcast in widescreen, but that was years after these episodes, which are shown in widescreen for the first time. –David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - ER Season One WOW!
The first season of ER is one of my favorite, followed only by Season 4. This is a great show with great writing and great characters, and if you love the show, you have to see where it all started!

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great Product
I can’t wait to get the second season! Great picture quality and suround sound!

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Fun to Watch Again
ER is a good ( not great ) show. It was fun to watch these old episodes again.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - ER has a structure that sets it up for the long-term
Some TV shows have a structure such that you can tell almost from the beginning how long the show has to live. As much as I love “Scrubs”, that show is built around a few core characters, and once their stories are played out, that will pretty much be the end of that show. “Cheers” basically had a double length of life due to the fact it was actually two shows instead of one - the first 5 seasons with Diane and the last 6 seasons with Rebecca as the female lead. “ER” is different. It has a large … Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - tv program
it was a gift and the person who received it stated it was excellent.

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