1998 in TV: ER takes back the number one spot

 

I'm not sure what made me pick Exodus out of the list of ER episodes from this year, as the show recaptured the most-watched honours, but I'm glad I did. I know I've only watched 5.5 episodes of the show (explanation of the .5 episode to come) so the sample size is small, but this is far and away my favourite. A disaster movie in a hospital? With Eva Mendes? And Mickey Rooney? And a kid stuck in an elevator with minutes to live? And Alex Kingston causing a cave-in?

It's giving me even more reason to run this show through from the beginning.

The reason why I snuck in an extra half-episode was from catching sight of the thumbnail for Day for Knight and spotting Ken Kercheval doing a guest spot, and I owed it to myself to watch his scenes and make a connection back to Dallas. It's funny to think about all of the guest spots I must have seen on TV as a kid, many certainly featuring someone of note from shows before my time who I just thought was some random actor.