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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!