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Hi there! I'm absolutely in love with your One Chicago timeline (I've honestly only properly seen Med, which is a travesty) but I was curious as to whether you recall which episodes show/mention specific dates in time? I mean we obviously know which years events are happening in (roughly) but I've just started rewatching Med and I can't figure out *when* events are actually happening.

Hey there, you're so nice! Thanks for the question!

Usually for all four shows, the day at the beginning of each episode is the actual date the episode airs (they probably know by now shit hits the fan on Wednesdays, especially in December and May lol)

Of course there are a few exceptions, most of the time during season mid-finales and finales, for cliffhangers. Personally, I always saw it that way: the episode resolving the cliffhanger takes place the same day, and the next episode goes back to air date (e.g. Med mid-S05 with Nat/Will/Ray, PD mid-S07 with Jay/Angela, Fire with Casey and baby vs beam idk which season, list goes on and on and on...) I figured this would make sense, since people who got hurt are often magically back to work the next episode... Looking at you PD... multiple times...

For the rest, I know Derek Haas, one of the shows' writer/producer, clears up the timeline for new episodes. I've been following him on Twitter for a couple of years, he's great! Retroactively however, I have a problem with that myself...! I thought about keeping the dates on my list, but I'm not sure if I have the time to go back and check 400 episodes! Group effort, maybe?

But anyway. Usually Med pretty much sticks to the air dates. PD's more of a mess I think.

Hope this helps!

I've finally started to watch Chicago Fire! Are you proud of me? I do have a quick question; do they ever mention the timeframe between when Chicago Med's ED is blown (CF 3x20) and when the new ED opens in the first episode of Med? It had to have been several months, right? What did the doctors and nurses *do* during that time? Work elsewhere? Take up knitting?

Hey hey!!

You started, and you’re already at 3x20??! Wasn’t that like two weeks ago you said you only watched Med?! Someone’s been binge-watching! :P

For the timeframe between the old and the new ED, I’m not entirely sure… I don’t think it was mentioned in the show, and I don’t remember the writers talking about it (but maybe they did and I missed it idk). I would assume the seven months between the finale and the next premiere would make sense, since the set is pretty different so we can assume they pretty much rebuilt it from scratch.

Not sure about the staff either, nothing really was mentioned but again, I would assume the ambos were rerouted (détournées, is that the word?) to the other hospital, and that all ER staff was reassigned to other departments in Gaffney? And came back when it reopened? Well, some of them ‘cause if I remember correctly only Will, April, Charles and Goodwin are from the pilot, so maybe the others just really liked knitting or something :P Would also make sense that not everyone comes back, seven months is a long time, but again with what happened, not everyone would like to go back.

Anyway that’s what I figured when I watched it! See you in two weeks to talk about CFD S06! ;);)

hey! it's been a while :) I've recently been binging on Med again and I noticed that they've given at least two specific dates for events. When S1 starts we know that Nat's husband is already deceased, and that she is still pregnant. In E17, we see his grave and that he died in Feb 2015. She gives birth in E06. This means that Owen has to have been born in late 2015 at the latest, depending on how far along Nat was when Jeff died. Rangers' rotations tend to be only 3-6 months (1/2)

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(2/2) but very frequent and they have far less time stateside between deployments. Using this as a baseline, Jeff would have deployed to Afghanistan between Aug-Nov 2014, which has to have been around the time Nat became pregnant. If we go with a median of Sept-Oct, that means that Owen was born between Jun-Jul 2015.

We're also given another definitive date in S2 E02 with Ethan, when he writes down the casualty of the day and lists her death as "August 1, 2016" and even gives the time (15:42), so we know that if S1 takes place in early 2015 (May-Jun based on Owen's birth happening so soon in the season; an argument could be made for late April I guess though) and the second episode of S2 takes place in Aug 2016, S1 covers more than a year's worth of time.

Man, I'm on a roll! in Med 03x15, when Maggie needs her EMT license, the expiry date is March 31 2018. She later states to Barry that she "missed the renewal date by two weeks." This would put the episode at between the 14th and 22st of April, 2018 :D But, in a different part of the episode, there's a patient visiting Chicago for a campus visit at Northwestern. and given the son is in the ED with them we can assume this to be a weekend? Which narrows it down to either 21st or 22nd, most likely.

(I combined all your asks so we can have all the info in one place! Hope you don’t mind!)

Wow, THAT is some research! Bravo! It makes sense that the time-lapse between season 1 and 2 is one year (and a little more). They seem to juggle between following the air dates and filling in what happened between the finales and premieres (from May to October/September/November).

And also that weird offset. Like the Med S03E15 episode: it aired on April 10, 2018, but from your wicked calculations, the story took place April 21-22, 2018. Maybe they had planned to air it the week after but had a change of plans. I know that happened a lot with PD (that Linstead roadtrip that was pushed back and ultimately never happened).

Now I’m curious to rewatch Med just to see if this will align with the other shows, as well as the temperature we see in the shots (now that I saw Fire 2x13 stuck in a snowstorm, then PD 1x03 running around in t-shirts). I’m keeping this post; pretty interesting, and PRETTY COOL!

Thanks a lot for your findings!! Stay safe out there!

Hi! It's been a while :) I was wondering whether there could be the potential, if it isn't already there, to add a column to the spreadsheet indicating when specific dates were either shown or mentioned. For ex, we know that Leslie dies on May 13 2014 in Fire; we also know that episode 2.02 (i think) of Med takes place on Aug 1 2016 when Ethan writes his deceased patient in his journal with her DOD. Could be handy!

Heyy! :) Long time no see! (probably my fault tho haha)

You know what, I've been thinking about that for a while too, ever since you sent that three-part ask! That could be relevant information to add, indeed!

Thing is, the spreasheet is already too large as it is, so I wouldn't currently add another column. I've started adding dates in the « Notes » column though, when a date is explicitly stated (like 2016-09-11, not like a shift after X or a week after Y).

However, I'm starting to feel as if the Justice and Law & Order: SVU cameo columns are just dead weight at this point. I'm still thinking about it, but I'm seriously considering removing them. Then that would give space to handier columns!

See you around! Hope you're doing well! 💚🍀