The 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special 1988)
Nominee clips.TV's Most Unforgettable Finales (TV Movie 2011)
The "St. Elsewhere" finale is #12."WatchMojo" Top 10 Disappointing TV Show Finales (TV Episode 2014)
"The Last One" is #5.TV (The Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time (TV Special 2016)
Listed as #7 on TV's Best Series Finales."WatchMojo" Top 10 Shocking Series Finale Plot Twists (TV Episode 2019)
It's All in Tommy Westphall's Head is #3.
"Newhart" The Last Newhart (TV Episode 1990)
The final scene in the series finale share a similiar twist on a MTM series.Homicide: The Movie (TV Movie 2000)
Ed Begley Jr. reprises his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, picking up his story from the end of the series finale."Jeopardy!" Episode #23.93 (TV Episode 2007)
Subject of $200 clue in "TV Finales" category"30 Rock" Hogcock!/Last Lunch (TV Episode 2013)
The series is suggested to have taken place in a snowglobe in a person's imagination."Midnight Screenings" Ender's Game/The Shining (TV Episode 2013)
Brian wishes The Shining ended with the camera panning away from the Overlook Hotel to reveal it was all in a snowglobe, similar to the series finale of St. Elsewhere.
First Television Broadcast NBC/RCA (Short 1936)
In the opening scene, Fiscus tells the ER patient "General Sarnoff... cut down on the time you spend watching television." This a reference to David Sarnoff who was president of RCA and helped launch NBC in 1926.Citizen Kane (1941)
A snow globe used as a powerful symbol.20 Questions (TV Series 1949)
Mark tells Ellen, "My 20 questions are up."The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series 1960–1968)
The St. Eligius barber is named Floyd Shapiro. Griffin says that he may bury us all.The Doctors and the Nurses (TV Series 1962–1965)
Lucy sarcastically says, "Oh, here we go. Another rousing episode of The Doctors and the Nurses (1962) starring Zina Bethune."
"NewsRadio" Daydream (TV Episode 1996)
Closing scene spoofs last scene of "St. Elsewhere" finale, with construction worker Dave coming home to Lisa, and Jimmy sitting on the floor staring into a snow globe