A Long, Strange Trip 

An elderly man is brought into the ER after being mugged, and sees things as if it were the 1960s.

Director:

Mimi Leder

Writers:

Michael Crichton (created by), Joe Sachs

Stars:

Parminder Nagra, John Stamos, Linda Cardellini

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Parminder Nagra	...	Neela Rasgotra
John Stamos	...	Tony Gates
Linda Cardellini	...	Samantha Taggart
Scott Grimes	...	Archie Morris
David Lyons	...	Simon Brenner
Angela Bassett	...	Cate Banfield (credit only)
William H. Macy	...	Dr. David Morgenstern
Leland Orser	...	Dr. Lucien Dubenko
Shannon Woodward	...	Kelly Taggart
Gil McKinney	...	Dr. Paul Grady
Laura Cerón	...	Nurse Chuny Marquez
Troy Evans	...	Frank Martin
Rance Howard	...	Dr. Oliver Kostin
Montae Russell	...	Dwight Zadro
Jake Abel	...	Dylan

Storyline

A usually eventful day or two at the ER includes admittance of an old man who has flashbacks of the hospital ER as it was 40 years before. His caretaker arrives and turns out to be a former ER staff member. Meanwhile a mother dying of cancer is given some tests after the old man indicates he thinks she has been mis-diagnosed. Sam's sister Kelly visits and tries to get Sam to agree to take on the care of their sick mother. A man who has lived most of his life in an iron lung needs an operation and a poor epileptic woman is brought in after shoplifting.

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Plot Keywords:

cancer | title directed by female | tuberculosis | polio | misdiagnosis | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Incorrectly regarded as a goof that Frank shouldn't know Dr. Morganstern, but Frank appeared in season 1 episode 1 as a police officer still when Dr. Morganstern was still at County General and before Frank retired from the police force and became the clerk at the hospital. It isn't out side of the realm of possibility that Frank would have encountered Dr. Morganstern multiple times in the years preceding the show "timeline" of the show.

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Goofs

Frank knows who Morgenstern is, even though Morgenstern left County years before Frank started working there.

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Quotes

[Dr. Oliver Kostin, the doctor who founded the County ER, is now a patient]
Dr. David Morgenstern: I was pre-med, volunteering at the hospital when they made him chief in '68. Back then, the ER was a glorified walk-in clinic, where you were seen by unsupervised interns, and residents with no training. And the community ERs were even worse. Staffed by moonlighting dermatologists and psychiatrists, or drunks who'd been banned from private practice. There was no 911, no paramedics, and if you needed an ambulance, you ...

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Connections

References Guitar Hero (2005)

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Soundtracks

Truckin'
(uncredited)
Performed by Grateful Dead

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 February 2009 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 1, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Constant c Productions, Amblin Television, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1