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Full Moon, Saturday Night

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Episode 020 "Full Moon, Saturday Night"
Original Air Date: March 30, 1995
Written by: Neal Baer
Directed by: Donna Deitch
Guest Stars:

  • Dr."'Wild Willy" Swift - Michael Ironside


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Mark can't stop thinking about Jodi O'Brien.  Susan tells him to go home and that she will get someone to cover for him.  There is a full moon and a lot of strange things happen in the ER.  A man strapped to a gurney sits straight up with it attached to his back and storms through the ER knocking things down and busting through windows.  He is high on some kind of drugs.  Susan says, "Full moon Saturday night." and Carter replies, "Cool".  Deb and Carter are competing to see who gets the most procedures in their procedures book.  Mark meets the new ER chief at Doc Magoo's, but he doesn't know who he is.  Dr. Swift later shows up in the ER and the rest of the staff think he is just a moon lighter.  Susan orders him around a while.  Peter argues with Tag about releasing his mother from the hospital too early.  Tag knows "Wild Willy", the new ER chief.  Susan apologizes to him, but he was impressed with her.  Peter goes upstairs to see his mother.  He finds her strapped to her bed.  He unstrapps her and wants to find out who did this to her.  Jeanie tells him that it was her and he tells her to not come back.  Susan sees a man who has had the hiccups for 2 days.  He is going to be getting married in two weeks and his fiancée is with him.  We later find that he may have AIDS and that his fiancée believes that he has not be honest with her.  Carol gets a call saying that there are 15 to 20 people being brought in that were in a night club fire and a majority of them have 3rd degree burns.  Doug gets a page telling him to come to the ER.  It is 2:30 am and he is at Diane's house.  She tells him that he can come back when he is done, but that he will have to be out before Jake wakes up.  Mark gets paged also, but he is at the arcade and does not respond.  Doug arrives at the ER in 29 minutes and 32 seconds.  It was a surprise drill by Dr. Swift.  He was testing them to see how fast they could mobilize.  He wonders why Chief Resident Mark Greene didn't show up.  Susan has told him that Mark had the flu and went home.  Deb and Carter work on a drunk with a broken finger.  Deb causes a big flame and she asks Carter not to tell anyone.  Swift holds a meeting and Mark calls to speak with Susan.  She tells him what is going on and he rushes in.  Wild Willy is surprised to see that he is the man he saw earlier at Doc Magoo's and that he doesn't seem to have the flu.  He hands Mark some stuff to read and tells him to go home and that he will speak with him in the morning.  Peter goes back upstairs to be with his mom, but she is not in the bed.  She is on the floor and should have been restrained in the bed as Jeanie had told him.  Doug is on his way back to Diane's and finds Mark waiting on the train.  He is still upset about Jodi and Doug tells him that it was not his fault.  Doug gets on the train and tells Mark to go home.  Jen finds Mark still at the train station the next morning.  Her and Mark go for breakfast.  Benton goes to Jeanie's to apologize.  Her husband, Al Boulet, meets him at the door.  Benton asks Jeanie to help get his mother in a nice home and he apologizes to her about the restraints.  Back at the ER, Carol asks Susan to be a brides maid.  Susan accepts.  Dr. Swift tells Susan that there are going to be some changes around the ER and that she would make a good Attending.  Carter has "Twist and Shout" requested on the radio for Susan.  

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-16-2000

NBC Review

NIGHT OF THE LIVING, DEAD -- Carter and Chen extend their shifts to experience the ER during a full moon, and they are not disappointed. Greene is so despondent over the breakup of his marriage that Lewis is left to run the ER. Lewis's skills impresses the new ER Chief, Dr. Swift (Michael Ironside). Patients include nine naked fraternity pledges are brought in with frostbite after a hazing stunt, a drunk man hit by a car, a hiccuping guy who "comes out" to his fiancee after being diagnosed with HIV.

TV Guide Review

March 30, 1995: Full Moon, Saturday Night: The staff welcomes the new chief (Michael Ironside), a perfectionist who shakes things up with his management style. Meanwhile, Greene remains inconsolable over a patient's death.