Doogie Howser, M.D. : Synopsis, Pictures, Photos, Trivia, Filming Locations

This series features Douglas "Doogie" Howser, a gifted teenager, a medicine graduate at the age of 14, who exercises at the Eastman Medical Center in Los Angeles. Now aged 16, he is both confronted with the responsibilities of his profession and the problems related to his own adolescence.

Doctor Doogie (Doogie Howser, M.D.) was an American television series broadcast for the first time between 1989 and 1993. She followed the adventures of a young doctor named Douglas "Doogie" Howser, who had become a doctor at the age of 16 And who had to learn to reconcile his professional life with the problems and challenges of adolescence. The series was comical and dramatic at the same time, and featured Neil Patrick Harris in the main role.

Doctor Doogie was an innovative series for her time, because she staged an exceptionally intelligent and talented main character, who faced unique challenges because of her young age. The series tackled themes such as friendship, love, work and family, and showed how Doogie was sailing in an adult world as a young doctor.

The series was acclaimed by criticism and has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award for the best actor in a comic series for Neil Patrick Harris. She was also popular with the public, and was one of the most watched series of her time.

Although the series was arrested in 1993, she left a lasting heritage in the world of television and launched the career of Neil Patrick Harris as a comedy actor.

Star Neil Patrick Harris reportedly drew inspiration from watching Robert Young in "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1969). Learning that Young was ill and pondering death, Harris visited Young with tapes of "Doogie Howser" and helped cheer him up.

Steven Bochco stated in his interview on the Season One DVD that had he been able to finish the series and write a "final" season (as opposed to ABC's abrupt cancellation of the show in its fourth season), he would have had a season long story arc in which Doogie becomes disillusioned with medicine and in the end, becomes a writer.

Steven Bochco partially modeled the character of Doogie Howser after his father who had been a child prodigy himself as a violinist.

Filming locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

• Creation date: 2008/05/09 by abdest

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