Grey's Anatomy

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This article is about the television series. For the anatomy textbook, see Gray's Anatomy.
Grey's Anatomy
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Grey's Anatomy title screen.
Format Drama
Run time approx. 0:42
Creator Shonda Rhimes
Starring Ellen Pompeo
Patrick Dempsey
Katherine Heigl
Sandra Oh
Country USA
Network ABC
Original run March 27, 2005 – present
No. of episodes 35 (ordered)

Grey's Anatomy is an American primetime television medical drama. The pilot episode aired March 27, 2005. The show stars Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey, a surgical intern at the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital in Seattle, Washington. The plot concerns her and her fellow interns, their love lives and the struggles to handle their workloads. The title is a pun on Gray's Anatomy, a famous anatomy textbook.

The show's main title theme is a snippet of "Cosy in the Rocket", by British artists Psapp.

Contents

Cast and characters

Notable plots

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

Season 1

The first season of Grey's Anatomy was broadcast from March 2005 until May 2005. Although it only contained nine episodes, many significant events took place. Various situations included:

  • Meredith sleeps with Derek, not knowing at the time that he is one of the surgeons at Seattle Grace Hospital.
  • Cristina and Preston start sleeping with each other, putting a strain on both of their personal and professional lives.
  • Meredith places her mother, once an excellent surgeon but now suffering from Alzheimer's disease, in a nursing home. Izzie and George move in with Meredith.
  • Alex discovers a magazine with provocative pictures of Izzie posing for a lingerie advertisement. He posts copies of the pictures all over the doctors' locker room, infuriating her.
  • Preston and Derek both learn that Dr. Webber promised them his position (chief surgeon) upon his retirement.
  • Izzie throws a party for her visiting boyfriend, only to have everything blow up in her face, including the breakup of the couple.
  • Miranda happens upon Meredith and Derek making out at the aforementioned party. She later explains to Derek that he will not play favorites to Meredith over the other interns. Meredith, caught in the middle, feels an overwhelming amount of pressure and abuse.
  • After a gay male patient hits on him, George has to convince the others that he is not a homosexual as many of his coworkers originally thought.
  • Meredith comes to terms with her mother's illness after she confides in a former nurse who worked with her mother at Seattle Grace.
  • Dr. Webber asks Derek to remove a tumor that was pressing on his optic nerve. However, he emphasizes that the surgery remain low-key, so that his position as chief surgeon will not be placed in jeopardy.
  • George has a date with a nurse, Olivia, and ends up sleeping with her. The next day, he realizes that he has contracted syphilis from her. After other various hospital staff recieve syphilis, George learns that Olivia received it from Alex.
  • Cristina finds out that Preston Burke has gotten her pregnant. She contacts a doctor about having an abortion, but has second thoughts after encountering a pregnant patient. She does not tell Preston about the pregnancy. Later in season two, she collapses from an ectopic pregnancy during a surgery with Burke, and loses the baby.
  • Meredith and Derek's romantic relationship begins to grow stronger. In the season finale, however, Meredith learns that Derek is actually married. The details of Derek and his wife's marriage were left open, but were answered in the first few episodes of season two. Derek's wife, Addison, cheated on Derek with his best friend Mark, driving Derek to leave her, take his current job in Seattle, and eventually pursue a romance with Meredith.

Episodes

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Main article: List of Grey's Anatomy episodes
Season 1: 2005
No. Title Airdate
1 A Hard Day's Night March 27
2 The First Cut Is the Deepest April 3
3 Winning a Battle, Losing the War April 10
4 No Man's Land April 17
5 Shake Your Groove Thing April 24
6 If Tomorrow Never Comes May 1
7 The Self-Destruct Button May 8
8 Save Me May 15
9 Who's Zoomin' Who? May 22
Season 2: 2005 - 2006
No. Title Airdate
1 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head September 25
2 Enough Is Enough (No More Tears) October 2
3 Make Me Lose Control October 9
4 Deny, Deny, Deny October 16
5 Bring The Pain October 23
6 Into You Like A Train October 30

Season one technically contained 13 episodes, however, four of them weren't aired and are instead being added to season two. ABC has announced that season two will have 22 episodes in addition to the four being carried over; bringing the total number of episodes for season two to 26.

Apart from "The Self Destruct Button", the episode titles are taken from the names of popular songs.

Broadcasting

Grey's Anatomy is broadcast on the following channels around the world:

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