
In 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton turned to other topics. In 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a medical student in a busy hospital emergency room. As of 2014, ER has grossed over $3 billion in television revenue. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, while the cast earned four Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Drama Series.

It won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations. The show is the second longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history behind Grey's Anatomy, and the sixth longest medical drama across the globe (behind British series Casualty and Holby City, Grey's Anatomy, Germany's In aller Freundschaft, and Poland's Na dobre i na złe).
ER follows the inner life of the emergency room (ER) of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and various critical issues faced by the room's physicians and staff. It was produced by Constant C Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist and physician Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning 15 seasons.
