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Medical Series - The half-hour
medical anthology THE DOCTOR/NBC/1952-53 starring Warner Anderson as the
Doctor featured TVs first recurring role of a physician.
DOC CORKLE/NBC/1952
with Eddie Mayehoff as Doc Corkle was the first dentist in a lead role.
In
1954, NBC premiered a 30-minute anthology series called MEDIC. Based on
actual case histories (a la DRAGNET), the series established standards for
realism and accuracy in medicine on-the-air.
THE GREATEST GIFT/NBC/1954-55
was the first medical drama with a female physician in the leading role.
Anne Burr starred as Dr. Eve Allen on this daytime soap opera, assisted by
her close friend Dr. Phil Stone (Philip Foster).
Anne Burr had starred
earlier as Dr. Kate Morrow in the medical drama CITY HOSPITAL/CBS/1952-53
where she was assistant to Dr. Barton Crane (Melville Ruick) Medical
Director at City Hospital. See also -
"Nurse Series"
and "Psychiatry Series
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