ER
It's from 1994, before you were born.
- Network
- NBC
- Genre
- Medical drama
- Premiered
- 1994
- Created by
- Michael Crichton
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About
As of 2026, it's 32 years old.
ER hit television in 1994 like a defibrillator, throwing viewers into the breakneck chaos of a Chicago emergency room with shaky cameras, overlapping medical jargon, and a body count. It made the medical drama urgent and cinematic, and it ran for fifteen seasons of trauma, romance, and the occasional helicopter incident.
It launched George Clooney to superstardom and set the frantic, hand-held template that basically every medical and procedural drama since has borrowed.
Intense, fast, and genre-defining, ER is the show that made a hospital feel like a war zone and made 'stat!' a household word.
ER season by season
ER ran for 15 seasons (1994–2008) across 331 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
