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Good news: it's one of the leading research and medical centers in the state. Bad news? It's haunted.
''Kingdom Hospital'' is a medical drama with a twist: the hospital is haunted, and its cast finds itself dealing with increasingly odd and creepy phenomena on a daily basis, punctuated by the occasional earthquake. The series opens with Peter Rickman, a helpless artist thrust into sudden dreams and paralysis by a drunk driver, being escorted to this
And all the while, there's a hospital staff wandering around, unwilling or unable to see the drama unfolding beyond their sight, with the exception of the occasional creepy incident... such as a monitor's head turning towards a doctor and speaking, or a given artist healing unnaturally fast...
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* [[Dean Bitterman]] - Stegman again. He's the head neurosurgeon at the hospital, after getting removed from a hospital in Boston... which he frequently reminds people he prefers.
* [[Flat Earth Atheist]] / [[Hollywood Atheist]] - Stegman fits both of these tropes nicely. At one point, when asked his opinion of a local religious group who believed their pastor would rise from the dead in three days, he said they should all be sterilized and sent to the gulags of Siberia as slave labor.
* [[Likes Older Women]] and [[Dogged Nice Guy]] - Elmer in regards to Lona. Unlike most [[Dogged Nice Guy
* [[Literal Genie]] - A lawyer asks for a new heart. Sure enough...he gets one.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] - The series loses focus as it goes on primarily due to its tendency to bring in at least one new character per episode without resolving anything with the previously established characters.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The so-called Old Kingdom is the hospital built in the
* [[Mood Whiplash]] - There's a lot of humor. Most of it fairly macabre, some of it just bizarre.
* [[Mythology Gag]] - In the original miniseries, Stig Helmer's [[Catch Phrase]] is "Danish scum!" When Dr. Stegman's car is vandalized in the remake, he yells "Maine hick scum!"
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