I can respect that the remake would pay homage to the original, but this episode was so exactly the same for the first ten minutes it appears as though this was the female version of the pilot, and they decided to go with the male doctor instead with Neil Patrick Harris. The opening scene was virtually identical. The doctor is taking a driver's test for a 16th birthday gift and comes upon an accident. Then decides to speed up to the dismay of the driving examiner and comes upon the scene where someone is suffering from an injury. Two cops are there and try to ward the kid off who shows the wallet threatening criminal negligence if they don't let the kid work. The victim is then treated with a hip rotation and the driving instructor asks who the kid was with the parent saying the doctor. The next scene is identical too. A heart patient that needs a transplant but the doctor doesn't agree with the head of cardiology. Just how much has to be completely identical to the original. 30 years have passed....they should at least make an attempt to put something new in.
Review of Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.
