Untold Stories of the E.R.

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Untold Stories of the E.R.
Format	Drama, Action/Adventure
Starring	changing cast
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	50 aired
Production
Executive producer(s)	Gary R. Benz Michael Branton Elizabeth Browde John Drimmer Daniel Helfgott
Running time	60 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	TLC
Original run	April 4, 2005 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Untold Stories of the E.R. is a reality television show that airs on The Learning Channel.

In this program, real-life emergency-room doctors tell about their most bizarre cases. Usually, the cases either involve medical sabotage, violently or strangely acting patients, life-threatening injuries, or other cases where the E.R. physician is too overwhelmed to handle the caseload and can't transfer responsibility for the patient to someone else.

Often the doctors play themselves, and whenever possible, the patients take part in the reenactment. If they don't appear in the show, they are often interviewed to show the public how they turned out. Occasionally patient's names are changed and actors play their roles. All cases are said to be true however.

[edit] Episode List

#	Airdate	Title
1	4/4/2005	No Time to Think
2	4/11/2005	Red Blanket
3	4/18/2005	A Scary Feeling
4	4/25/2005	A Day From Hell
5	5/2/2005	Prepare For the Worst
6	5/9/2005	No Down Time
7	5/16/2005	We Need A Miracle
8	5/23/2005	I Need Some Help Here
9	5/30/2005	How Can This Happen
10	6/6/2005	Call the Code
11	6/13/2005	What A Day
12	6/20/2005	Nothing's Working
13	6/27/2005	We Need Further Tests
14	7/4/2005	Pressure Is Building
15	7/11/2005	Surgery Won't Help
16	10/24/2005	Say Your Prayers
17	10/31/2005	A Life In Their Hands
18	11/7/2005	Title Unavailable
19	11/14/2005	Title Unavailable
20	11/21/2005	Title Unavailable
21	11/28/2005	Exorcism In the E.R.
22	12/5/2005	The Golden Hour
23	12/12/2005	Toilet Paper Eating Patient
24	12/19/2005	Long Live the King
25	1/9/2006	Coma Woman Surprise
26	1/28/2005	Schizo And Ninja Sword
27	1/23/2006	Mystery of the Traveling Bullet
28	1/30/2005	An ER Miracle
29	2/6/2006	A Real Pain In the Neck
30	2/27/2006	From ER to Rushing River
31	6/14/2006	Jaws of Life
32	6/21/2006	Code Green In the E.R.
33	6/28/2006	Mountain Lion Attack
34	7/5/2006	Shot Through the Heart
35	7/13/2006	Hidden Dangers
36	7/20/2006	Deadly Diagnosis
37	7/27/2006	Code Black
38	8/2/2006	Life and Limb
39	9/27/2006	Liver Die
40	10/4/2006	Elements of Danger
41	10/11/2006	Deadly Impact
42	10/18/2006	Crushed
43	11/1/2006	Under Siege
44	11/8/2006	Hooked Alive
45	11/8/2006	Family Tragedy
46	11/15/2006	Officer Down
47	11/29/2006	Too Close to Home
48	12/13/2006	Director Down
49	12/20/2006	A Shot In the Dark
50	12/27/2006	Baby Blues

[edit] Trivia

The early episodes had a different opening than the later episodes. When the show went to a commercial in the early episodes would show the title with an ambulance siren wailing in the background. In the later episodes when they went to commercial it would go into kind of like a freeze-frame moment and the title would be shown.
An episode of the show "Impact: Stories of Survival" had the case of Stephen LoPresti as did this show in the episode "Crushed" but Impact: Stories of Survival showed a dramatization of how Stephen was crushed. He was pretending to lift weights using the drywall and thought it was easy until they slipped and pinned him against the wall and, hands and feet going numb, remained there for twenty minutes.