World Famous Comics: ER - The Complete Sixth Season
ER - The Complete Sixth Season
Starring: Anthony Edwards, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Noah Wyle Directed By: Julianna Margulies Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Binding: DVD Format: Subtitled, Closed-captioned, Color Label: National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Number of Discs: 6 Number of Items: 6 Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 19, 2006 Running Time: 976 minutes Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1999
Product Description: It's always rush hour at the ER. Each day - each moment - brings new challenges triumphs and losses. No one ever expected those losses would include one of County General's talented med students. The pell-mell ER rotation continues with the 22-episode Season Six of the award-winning series (presented with DVD extras). New stories unfold as young doctors (portrayed by Goran Visnjic Michael Michele Ming-Na and more) face the day-in day-out rigors of life-and-death decisions as a veteran physician (guest star Alan Alda) faces a bittersweet conclusion to his career. Old stories resolve: Boulet finds love and family; Hathaway gives birth to twins and makes a decision fans have long awaited. And tragedy strikes - swiftly irrevocably and for survivor Dr. John Carter perhaps irreparably.Running Time: 976 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 012569755406 Manufacturer No: 75540
Amazon.com: ER's sixth season was one of transition, bidding farewell to an original character and welcoming several new ones. After watching Doug Ross (George Clooney) leave in the previous season, Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) is left on her own, pregnant with twins. When Robert "Rocket" Romano (Paul McCrane) makes a bid to run the whole hospital, Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes) and Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) make plans to take a stand against him. Weaver, however, double-crosses Greene and winds up getting to run the ER. Peter Benton (Eriq La Salle) is locked up in a battle over his deaf son, Jeanie Boulet (Gloria Reubens) hopes to adopt an HIV-positive child, and John Carter (Noah Wyle) heats things up with his ex-cousin-in-law (Rebecca De Mornay). When Hathaway goes into labor on Thanksgiving, she's cared for by a perky OB nurse named Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney). But Lockhart is also a third-year medical student, and she later turns up in the ER as part of her rotation. One of her first encounters is with new attending Luka Kovacs (Goran Visnjic), of whom she says, "Well, we never had doctors like that in OB... Is he single?" And on her memorable first day, she gets vomited on and bitten; she plays espionage on a scheming mother, and she misdiagnoses a patient. Former medical student Deb Chen, now known as Jing-Mei (Ming-Na), returns as a resident, Alan Alda arrives as new attending Gabe Lawrence, and "Dr. Dave" Malucci (Erik Palladino), Dr. Cleo Finch (Michael Michele), and desk clerk Frank (Troy Evans) also join the cast.
As usual, tensions ran high. Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston) crosses the line by coercing a confession out of a suspected rapist (Lawrence Monoson), which would haunt her all season. Then during one chaotic shift, it seems almost trivial that Lucy Knight (Kellie Martin) and Carter give a painful spinal tap to a patient named Paul Sobricki (David Krumholtz) whom they later find is schizophrenic. But at the end of the shift, while the staff is celebrating Valentine's Day, events unfold into the most harrowing scene in the history of the series, and one of the most gut-wrenching in the history of television drama. Guest stars include Broadway actor John Cullum as Green's father, Judy Parfitt as Corday's mother, Martha Plimpton as a pregnant waitress, The X-Files' Mitch Pileggi as a man with Huntington's disease, and Shia LeBeouf and Dakota Fanning as young patients with multiple sclerosis and leukemia, respectively. As with most ER DVDs, the sixth season has numerous deleted scenes, including one of Lucy's first encounter with Sobricki. --David Horiuchi
Season 6 was a hit! I loved season 6, it was one of the best seasons. I watched it all in two or three days
ER season 6 I have liked the series so much, but with the original cast. The truth is this season was good but not that good. They introduced new characters but they fell into too many cliches. There were just two or three episodes worth watching. Seasons 7 & 8 were way better than this. I just wanted to have nurse Hattaway's goodbye.
ER Season 6 Great season, as all the old seasons are. Have 1-7 currently, heading out to buy 8 soon. Had an ER marathon with hubby!! Amazon rocks
Most Gripping Episode of ER Is Here In Season 6 ER has had several memorable episodes over the course of its first five seasons. We saw Mark Greene attempt to deliver a baby in Season 1 that cost the life of the mother. Doug Ross in Season 2 courageously saves a boy trapped in a storm drain. And yet, as powerful as those episodes were, even they pale in comparison to Season 6's "All in the Family."
Before I comment on that episode, we see some new additions to the cast of ER. Goran Visnijic debuts as Dr. Kovac. I liked him much better in these earlier seasons before they made him a carbon copy of Doug Ross when he was a womanizer.
Michael Michele comes aboard as Dr. Cleo Finch, the new Attending Pediatric Doctor. Finch is a good doctor who really cares about her patients, and Michele does a great job of demonstrating this.
Erik Palladino is a new, young ER resident, Dr. Dave Malucci. Malucci is the gung-ho doctor who doesn't have much of a bedside manner, but who is over-eager for the most difficult cases. Malucci's impulsiveness tends to land him in hot water, especially with Dr. Weaver.
Ming-Na also makes her return here as Dr. "Deb" Chen. I really liked her in Season 1 of ER, and I was thrilled when she came back. She was always a good counterpart for Carter, as the two always seemed to be competition.
Season 6 also has the first appearance of Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney) who is doing a rotation as an OBGYN nurse before beginning her rotation down in the ER.
One of the great guest appearances here by Alan Alda playing Dr. Gabriel Lawrence. Dr. Lawrence was the doctor who trained Kerry Weaver, and when a medical condition arises in Dr. Lawrence, Weaver has a difficult time facing her mentor and friend. There is a great scene between these two characters during his final appearance that is touching.
The season is a good one, and the acting talents of Noah Wyle are really put to the test, especially in the episodes that follow after "All in the Family" when Carter tries to deal with his guilt as well as the trauma that he suffers. Wyle was always a strong actor and played Carter with an almost innocent quality. Perhaps this is truly the first time that we see Carter with a loss of that innocence.
This season also sees the exit of the third member of the original cast. One of the small problems in this season is that, at times, you have too many cast members and too little screen time. At one point, there are twelve regular cast members during the course of this season. There simply isn't enough time to really showcase them all, especially the new additions to the cast.
SPOILER ALERT BELOW
Now, on to the episode of "All in the Family." I still recall vividly the first time I saw this episode when it aired. It was unlike anything I'd seen on television before. It was so powerful and poignant, that even seeing it again moves me inexplicably.
Dr. Carter and Lucy Knight have just been brutally stabbed by a psych patient. This occurs as the very end of the previous episode. So, imagine waiting an entire week to find out what happened! This was one of the biggest cliff-hangers that I can remember, and everyone made sure they were available to watch this episode to find out what happened.
The entire ER springs to action when Dr. Weaver discovers them in the trauma room, on the floor in pools of blood. There's nothing like a team coming together for a single purpose, especially when that purpose is dire. There is something especially powerful in such actions.
Benton is nearly out of control when he discovers that Carter has been injured. Perhaps for the first time in the series, we really see and understand how the usually emotionally cold Dr. Benton feels about Carter. It's on his face and in his actions. As Benton tries to assure Carter that he will be all right, Carter says in a cracking voice, "I'm glad it's you," when he realizes that Benton is going to operate on him.
Equally strong is Dr. Corday and Dr. Romano working feverishly to save Lucy's life. Dr. Romano, who seems to care about no one at all, can't even hide his anger, frustration, and grief when it's clear that Lucy can't be saved. In many ways, Romano is the doctor who speaks for the audience. Seeing this episode for the first time, it was unbelievable that Lucy was dead. It wasn't often that a major character was killed in an on-going series, and so Romano expresses his anger and disbelief for us, and he does it well as he sends surgical instruments flying.
Just when you think that ER can no longer surprise you, they came up with this episode. Word has it that Kellie Martin no longer felt comfortable being on the show as her own real-life sister was a traumatic victim of lupus.
You have to credit the writers for coming up with this episode. Very few, if any, characters in television have had such a powerful exit as Kellie's character here on ER. I recall the following Friday everyone talking about it.
There have been previous events in ER that were terrific episodes, and there were even a couple more that would follow after Season 6, but "All in the Family" is still the premiere ER episode that truly defines the pinnacle of a great drama series.
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