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Dr
Kildare
 USA
/ NBC/ x60m-e and x30m-e / 1961-66
First
Episode: Thursday 28 September 1961 / 8.30pm
Last Episode: Tuesday 30 August 1966 / 8.30pm
Producer: Norman Felton
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 Based
on a long running and popular movie series of
the 1940's Dr Kildare helped propel Richard
Chamberlain to stardom. The show, a medical dram
obviously, followed Dr James Kildare as he rose
from a fresh faced intern to (by season three) a
resident doctor at Blair General Hospital.
Dr Kildare had a mentor helping him along his
way in the form of the often cantankerous Dr
Leonard Gillespie. Popular with the female
viewing public who found Kildare very
"swoonsome" the show moved from hour
long episodes to twice weekly half hour ones
during the 1965-66 season giving the show more
of a soapy feel as stories were often now
carried over several episodes.
There was a brief syndicated revival in 1972
called Young Dr Kildare with Mark Jenkins as
Kildare and Gary Merrill as Gillespie.
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Cast
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN as Dr James Kildare /
RAYMOND MASSEY as Dr Leonard Gillespie / EDDIE
RYDER as Dr Simon Agurski (1961-62) / JUD TAYLOR
as Dr Thomas Gerson (1961-62) / JOAN PATRICK as
Susan Deigh (1961-62) / LEE KURTY as Nurse Zoe
Lawton (1965-66) |
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