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St. Elsewhere Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1986 - 1987
Episode 1
Where There's Hope, There's Crosby
Wed, Sep 24, 198660 mins
The hospital's founder, Father McCabe, 90 years old and stricken with ALS, comes to visit the hospital; Craig gets some bad news regarding his hand injury; Morrison returns and gets a surprise in the morgue.
Episode 2
When You Wish Upon a Scar
Wed, Oct 1, 198660 mins
Craig tries his first surgery since his hand injury; Wade is depressed after splitting with her husband; Griffin, the new resident, clashes with Rosenthal; Fiscus and Axelrod get X-rays for a patient they believe is tennis player John McEnroe; Morrison introduces his new blended family to everyone.
Episode 3
A Room with a View
Wed, Oct 8, 198660 mins
Craig has trouble accepting the fact that the hospital hired a new Director of Surgery; an elderly woman from an adjoining apartment spies on the goings-on at the hospital; Fiscus stands up for a sick elderly man whose daughters are intent on putting him in a nursing home; Lucy invites Ehrlich to a family dinner.
Episode 4
Brand New Bag
Wed, Oct 15, 1986
Craig has trouble adjusting to life outside of the hospital; Axelrod abruptly walks out while examining a patient with a colostomy bag; Luther faces opposition in his training as physician's assistant; Fiscus and Auschlander go to the home of a dying patient who is being cared for by his estranged daughter.
Episode 5
You Beta Your Life
Wed, Oct 29, 1986
Westphall has difficulty dealing with the parents of a terminally ill teen who pretend that nothing is wrong; Craig decides to write his memoirs but has trouble focusing; Griffin plays Birch and Novino against each other; Turner gets in the middle of a difference of opinion between Morrison and Chandler regarding a diagnosis.
Episode 6
Not My Type
Wed, Nov 5, 1986
Craig gets John Doe to help him type up his memoirs; Turner faces a moral crisis when one of her patients refuses to accept blood due to her religious beliefs; Griffin sells out Novino and Birch in order to save himself; Ehrlich and Papandrao try to sort out their relationship after the news of their sexual encounter becomes public.
Episode 7
Up and Down
Wed, Nov 12, 1986
John Doe takes on his next persona: Dr. Craig; Griffin seduces Lizzy, not knowing that she is Westphall's daughter; Luther decides to give his Physician's Assistant training another shot by helping to diagnose a patient with involuntary tics; Wade and Chandler treat a patient who unsuccessfully tries to climb the hospital ledge.
Episode 8
Nothing Up My Sleeve
Wed, Nov 19, 1986
Craig initiates a search for John Doe who left the hospital with his manuscript; Axelrod is put in charge of a 14 year old medical student; Morrison continues to suffer emotional damage stemming from the prison rape; Auschlander is met with resistance when he tries to implement a drug testing program.
Episode 9
After Life
Wed, Nov 26, 1986
Fiscus is shot and while they try to save him, he finds himself meeting some people whom he knows who died.
Episode 10
Once Upon a Mattress
Wed, Dec 3, 1986
Westphall begins to doubt the long term viability of his relationship with Novino; Fiscus' estranged father comes to visit him in the hospital; Kiem begins to sees the writing on the wall when Craig returns; Auschlander finds that he has things in common with a rabbi who is a patient at the hospital.
Episode 11
Lost Weekend
Wed, Dec 10, 1986
Westphall befriends a well-respected Irish author who turns out to be a raging alcoholic; Craig attends the hearing to allow his housekeeper's husband into the country; Ehrlich takes an interest in Papandrao's new boyfriend; Rosenthal confronts McPhail about her suspicious behavior; Axelrod has a string of bad luck.
Episode 12
Cold War
Wed, Jan 7, 1987
Craig introduces Dr. Peltrovich to the hospital; Chandler, Ehrlich and Morrison embark on a game of paint ball; Turner feels pressure from Auschlander when she has to do a risky operation on a litigious patient; Griffin tries to make amends with Wade and Rosenthal; Richard becomes self-conscious about his baldness.
Episode 13
Russian Roulette
Wed, Jan 14, 1987
Craig gets jealous when Peltrovich begins to steal his spotlight at the hospital; Fiscus treats a woman with leukemia who refuses treatment; Novino treats two teens who are reluctant to return to their home situations; Ehrlich has trouble getting anyone at the hospital to buy tickets to a banquet honoring him; an abused woman comes to the hospital intent on getting revenge on her husband.
Episode 14
Visiting Daze
Wed, Jan 21, 1987
Ehrlich's world is shaken by the arrival of his long lost parents; Kiem neglects her visiting husband to spend time with a patient who just lost his wife; Axelrod nearly loses a patient after deferring to Novino and Griffin on a diagnosis; Luther is reunited with Polly who wants to go off the medication that controls her Tourette's Syndrome.
Episode 15
Getting Ahead
Wed, Jan 28, 1987
Westphall finds out surprising news about Lizzie; Craig is able to track down John Doe at a book signing; prejudices surface when Chandler clashes with a veteran private practice doctor; Novino stumbles upon a black market organ trade being done in the mortuary; the board of trustees inform Auschlander of the hospital's uncertain future.
Episode 16
Jose, Can You See?
Wed, Feb 4, 1987
Ellen invites Griffin to stay at the Craig household; Novino is reluctant to put a blind homeless man back on the street after he no longer requires treatment; Wade has to be escorted around the hospital after losing her contact lens; Auschlander gets surprising news from an old flame.
Episode 17
Schwarzwald
Wed, Feb 11, 1987
Westphall and Auschlander must put together a plan to save the hospital; an obnoxious patient creates problems for the hospital staff; Axelrod's veterinarian father visits him at the hospital with his dog; Rosenthal's daughter returns from overseas looking unrecognizable; Turner must tell an expectant young couple that their baby may not be born healthy.
Episode 18
You Again?
Wed, Feb 18, 1987
Josiah Bartlett from Boston General expresses interest in buying the hospital with an effort to recruit Craig; Morrison testifies at the parole hearing of the guy who raped him; Fiscus treats a former fraternity brother who is a dentist with fainting spells; Kiem is on edge when she cannot get a hold of her son; Ehrlich gets jealous when he sees Papandrao talking to Griffin.
Episode 19
Rites of Passage
Wed, Feb 25, 1987
Fiscus takes interest in an expectant woman who is believed to be artificially inseminated with his sperm. Three children get bored in their room and decide to wander around the hospital. Westphall is visited by a childhood friend who reminds him of an old pact. Craig and Auschlander look for ways to keep the hospital afloat.
Episode 20
Women Unchained
Wed, Mar 4, 1987
Daniels is escorted from jail into the hospital for treatment and her homecoming does not turn out to be a happy one. Westphal reunites with an old friend. Chandler and Novino compete against one another to diagnose a patient. Rumors swirl about Ehrlich and Papandrao getting married in Mexico.
Episode 21
Good Vibrations
Wed, May 13, 1987
With the prospective new buyer of St. Eligius visiting, flashbacks of memorable moments are recalled.
Episode 22
Slip Sliding Away
Wed, May 20, 1987
Luther helps out with the mercy-killing investigation; Turner performs a risky fetal surgery; the Craigs' granddaughter meets her mother; the new owners of St. Eligius make everyone feel in the pink.
Episode 23
Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball
Wed, May 27, 1987
Elliot has nowhere to go when patients and staff are relocated; the Craigs and the Morrisons are in for big surprises; attempts to save the hospital gain little attention.
