Chris Pine | ER

• Genre: Medical drama
• Created by: Michael Crichton
• Starring: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Sherry Stringfield, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies, Eriq La Salle, Gloria Reuben, Laura Innes, Maria Bello, Alex Kingston, Kellie Martin, Paul McCrane, Goran Višnjić, Michael Michele, Erik Palladino, Ming-Na, Maura Tierney, Sharif Atkins, Mekhi Phifer, Parminder Nagra, Linda Cardellini, Shane West, Scott Grimes, John Stamos, David Lyons, Angela Bassett
• Theme music composer: James Newton Howard (1994–2006; 2009), Martin Davich (2006–2009)
• Composer: Martin Davich
• No. of seasons: 15
• No. of episodes: 331
• Executive producers: Michael Crichton, John Wells, Christopher Chulack, Lydia Woodward, Carol Flint, Jack Orman, David Zabel
• Running time: 45 minutes
• Production companies: Constant c Productions, Amblin Television, Warner Bros. Television
• Network: NBC
• Release: September 19, 1994 – April 2, 2009

Michael Crichton has created a medical drama that chronicles life and death in a Chicago hospital emergency room. Each episode tells the tale of another day in the ER, from the exciting to the mundane, and the joyous to the heart-rending. Frenetic pacing, interwoven plot lines, and emotional rollercoastering is used to attempt to accurately depict the stressful environment found there. This show even portrays the plight of medical students in their quest to become physicians.

"A Thousand Cranes"

Three persons are murdered during a holdup at Doc Magoo's, and Chen's partial description of one of the perps leads to an unpleasant morning of racial profiling for Pratt and Gallant. Kovač works hard to avoid attending mandatory Psych counseling. Lewis and her terminally ill teenage patient have a nice day together, and Carter decides to propose to Abby, who is having difficulty finding someone to give her mother a ride to the bus station for her trip back to Minnesota.