Doogie Howser, M.D.

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1. #001

   Actor Neil Patrick Harris reportedly drew inspiration from watching Robert Young in Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969). After learning that Young was ill and contemplating death, Harris visited him with tapes of the series and helped lift his spirits.

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2. #002

   Steven Bochco modeled the character of Doogie Howser partly on his own father, a child prodigy who was a violinist.

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3. #003

   It was one of the first sitcoms to have no audience or laugh track.

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4. #004

   In an interview about the first-season DVD, Steven Bochco stated that although ABC abruptly canceled the series in its fourth season, he was able to end the show and write a "final" season. It would have depicted a season-long story arc in which Doogie becomes disillusioned with medicine and ultimately becomes a writer.

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5. #005

   Doogie's word processor program is based on Word Perfect 5.1 for MS-DOS.

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6. #006

   Doogie was born on September 21, 1973. The sixteenth birthday celebrated in the pilot episode came only two days after the pilot aired (September 19, 1989).

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7. #007

   Sometimes the dates Doogie writes in his journal at the end of each episode can be unusual.

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8. #008

   It was the first series created by David E. Kelley, who would go on to achieve great success on TV with shows such as Ally McBeal and The Practice (the latter of which he also produced for ABC).

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9. #009

   The series' opening title sequence depicts newspaper articles with headlines heralding Doogie's achievements as a young academic and doctor. The actual articles have nothing to do with the headlines and no connection to the character of Doogie Howser.

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