Mark Harmon Made Television History in 'St. Elsewhere' Before 'NCIS'
NCISstar Mark Harmon first gained a measure of television stardom on the acclaimed NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere in the role of Dr. Robert “Bobby” Caldwell, a handsome, womanizing plastic surgeon at the fictional St. Eligius Hospital in Boston. In 1985, after Harmon declared his intention to leave the series, the creative team behind St. Elsewhere decided to make Bobby the first ongoing heterosexual character in television history to be diagnosed with AIDS. Bobby learns of his HIV status in the fourth-season episode “Family Feud,” which originally aired on January 29, 1986, just a few days after Harmon was named People Magazine’s second-ever Sexiest Man Alive.
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