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Physically Challenged Series -
The daily 15-minute serial MISS SUSAN broadcast from Philadelphia from
March-December 1951 was the first TV series to tackle the day-to-day
struggles of a handicapped character.
The program told the story of Susan
Peters, a wheelchair-bound attorney with a spinal injury practicing law in
the rural town of Martinsville.
Susan Peters (who played herself) was
actually paralyzed from the waist down as a result of a hunting accident in
1945 (gun went off).
In the summer of 1986, the MacDonald's Corporation
released the first national television commercial featuring two deaf people.
Beth Ann Bull and Andrew Rubin, both whom had never acted before, were cast
in the "Silent Persuasion" television commercial about two young people who
conversed in sign language while enjoying MacDonald's hamburgers. See
also section on PHYSICALLY-CHALLENGED.
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