DISPATCHES FROM ST. ELSEWHERE
AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: Finally, something light – or, at least, a little lighter. In this new time-twisting spinoff from Jason Segel’s current AMC series Dispatches from Elsewhere, Segel’s character of Peter explores a mysterious basement in downtown Philadelphia, and finds himself in a long corridor with many, many doors, each of them a magical entrance to a TV medical series from the past. He meets such iconic television doctors as Ben Casey, James Kildare, and Marcus Welby, and the entire squadron of doctors from St. Elsewhere itself, including Donald Westphall, Mark Craig, Daniel Auschlander, Jack Morrison, Philip Chandler, Victor Ehrlich, Wayne Fiscus, Roxanne Turner, and Elliot Axelrod. Peter brings them all back through the basement to present-day Philly, and dispatches them – to help serve as reinforcements for the country’s heroic, beleaguered health workers. A feel-good medical drama, when one is sorely, sorely needed.