My fascination with this thread has little to do with *the fact that* various "versions" of the ER episode in question were acted out. Much, of course, can be said about this, including the observation that the episode perhaps brings to new light and awareness the fact that these actors are in fact actors, and can in fact reproduce performances much as actors typically do. Indeed, when they do tapings they must rehearse and so there is reproduction of performance there. And so on, bla bla. But I'm really struck by the need of many people here to have some kind of video access to the live show that is now, of course, gone. There is no video access. What you get video access to is something else altogether. Those of us who grew up watching tv in the 1950s understand, I think, how one can absorb and live with NOT having seen this show the other night, if indeed we didn't see it, because all shows were once-off and you either saw them or didn't. So these letters and questions, for me, raise generational issues as well as technological ones, and I continue to find this fascinating. Murray Pomerance Toronto ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite