Doogie is no ordinary teenager, he is a doctor. As smart as they come, he has been a doctor since the age of fourteen. But it's not because you are highly intelligent that you don't have the same feelings toward life. He is constantly torn between a life of teenage fun with his buddy Vinny, and a more serious and quiet life practicing medicine.
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04x22 What Makes Doogie Run Aired: Mar. 24, 1993Doogie feels his genius status is more of a curse than a blessing and looks for inspiration outside of medicine. [continue reading]
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- Stephen Cragg (11 episodes)
- Scott Goldstein (8 episodes)
- Win Phelps (7 episodes)
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- Steven Bochco (100 episodes)
- David E. Kelley (100 episodes)
- Nat Bernstein (23 episodes)
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- Goof (miscellaneous): In the Season One opening credits, the article discussing Doogie graduating from high school says that he is 12-years-old in the first line. The next article, however,…
[show]Goof (miscellaneous): In the Season One opening credits, the article discussing Doogie graduating from high school says that he is 12-years-old in the first line. The next article, however, says that he graduated from Princeton, a college, at age 10. This was later changed, in Season 2, from 12 to 9-years old.
[hide] - Steven Bochco partially modeled the character of Doogie Howser after his father who had been a child prodigy himself as a violinist.
- Star Neil Patrick Harris reportedly drew inspiration from watching Robert Young in Marcus Welby, M.D.. Learning that Young was ill and pondering death, Harris visited Young with tapes of…
[show]Star Neil Patrick Harris reportedly drew inspiration from watching Robert Young in Marcus Welby, M.D.. Learning that Young was ill and pondering death, Harris visited Young with tapes of "Doogie Howser" and helped cheer him up.
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