Crap TV Flashbacks: Doogie Howser, M.D.
So…some teenage kid is so smart that he graduates not just college, but completes MEDICAL SCHOOL before an average person would even graduate high school. Surely this is based on a true story. Starring Neil Patrick Harris as a brilliant teenage doctor who was also faced with the problems of being a normal teenager. Well…most things. He isn’t trying to figure out what kind of personalized baby clothes he needs for a bun in the oven with his girlfriend Wanda Plenn or anything. He’s just a big dork that works at a hospital as a doctor. Wanda of course is hooking up with him because the dude is rich.
HEre is an interesting, and very stupid fact: Steven Bochco, the show’s creator, revealed that the show’s cancellation came abruptly at the hands of ABC executives–before he and the show’s staff had a chance to complete the story line. Bochco believed Doogie would have left the pressures of medicine to become a writer. Now that is some lame ass writing there. I think the TV execs probably made the right call by canceling this show before Bochco could completely destroy it.
Doogie Howser, M.D. Intro/Theme:
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