ER episodes

Famous ER episodes. Order by the date each first aired. You place all 27 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How the ER episode timeline game works

Each card is a landmark episode of ER, with a short note on what happens under the title, and you arrange them by original air date. One episode begins on the timeline with its date in view. Read each new card and set it in the gap you think is right. A good call reveals the air date; a bad one still drops the episode into its true slot but takes one of three lives.

ER ran for a very long time and its cast turned over almost completely, so the names in each hint are your main clue. Ask who was a student, who was a resident and who was running the department at the time. The big disaster episodes are memorable, but the quieter character stories from the middle of the run tend to blur together.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in exact air dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 27 of the 27 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • 24 Hours A frantic day introduces the County General ER staff
  • Day One The staff settles in as Carter finds his footing
  • Love's Labor Lost A routine checkup spirals into an obstetric nightmare
  • Motherhood Susan delivers her sister's baby on Mother's Day
  • Everything Old Is New Again Doug and Carol reunite in a Seattle snowfall
  • Welcome Back Carter! The staff returns for a new year at County
  • Hell and High Water Doug Ross rescues a boy from a flooding storm drain
  • The Long Way Around Carol is held hostage in a convenience-store robbery
  • John Carter, M.D. Carter completes his surgical internship
  • Dr. Carter, I Presume Carter begins his surgical residency
  • Fear of Flying A helicopter rescue mission goes badly wrong
  • Union Station Doug and Carol's relationship reaches a crossroads
  • Ambush A live broadcast follows a documentary crew through the ER
  • Exodus A chemical spill forces the ER to evacuate
  • The Storm, Part I Doug Ross's controversial choices catch up with him
  • The Storm, Part II Doug Ross departs County General
  • Leave It to Weaver A new year opens under Weaver's charge
  • Be Still My Heart A patient stabs Carter and medical student Lucy
  • All in the Family The team fights to save Lucy and Carter
  • Such Sweet Sorrow Carol leaves Chicago to find Doug
  • Sailing Away County General's storylines all come to a head
  • The Letter Word arrives as Mark Greene's illness worsens
  • On the Beach Mark Greene says goodbye in Hawaii
  • Freefall A helicopter accident kills Dr. Robert Romano
  • The Show Must Go On A turbulent year ends at County General
  • Old Times Doug and Carol return for a transplant case
  • And in the End... Familiar faces move on as County General's ER carries on

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