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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, 1993

Doogie 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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The show had 4 seasons and 97 episodes air between 1989 and 1993.

Series Info

Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Sep. 19, 1989
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
30 min.
Aired:
1989 - 1993
To-Date:
4 Seasons
97 Episodes
Network
ABC TV Network
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  • In 2008 Neil Patrick Harris appeared in TV and print ads for Old Spice deodorant spoofing his Doogie Howser character (he said that he could recommend the product as a "former make-believe…
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    In 2008 Neil Patrick Harris appeared in TV and print ads for Old Spice deodorant spoofing his Doogie Howser character (he said that he could recommend the product as a "former make-believe doctor" and because he "used to be a doctor for pretend;" (he also tried to use a stethoscope on a patient's nose instead of his chest).
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  • Steven Bochco partially modeled the character of Doogie Howser after his father who had been a child prodigy himself as a violinist.
  • 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,…
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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, says that he graduated from Princeton, a college, at age 10. This was later changed, in Season 2, from 12 to 9-years old.
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