Actor Blair Williamson co-stars in an episode of Scrubs, Channel 7

SCRUBS currently screens 10.30 pm Thursdays, 7 Network

Blair Williamson plays Craig a patient of Dr. Cox, actor John C. McGinley (in "My Lawyers in love", Season 8, episode 8). Now that Dr. Cox is Chief of Staff his duties are keeping him from patient care. He promises Craig he will be there for a biopsy of his lymph node, but doesn’t show. Craig is angry, all the while J.D., Zack Braff, is consumed with his own sparse beard.

National Down Syndrome Society (USA), e-Newsletter, February 2009

On US email lists, where the episode has already screened, people have commented that the character Craig having Down syndrome is not actually explicitly stated - it's not what the episode is about. He's a patient, and just happens to have Down syndrome, and it's well done. Of course, with John McGinley being the US patron of Buddy Walk (see this post), that's what you'd expect.

SCRUBS Season 8 began screening this week, so if the schedule remains unchanged, we'd expect it to air on 19th March, but we'll confirm closer to the date.

Click here to see Blair Williamson's IMDB entry.