The Nurses (TV series)
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The Nurses | |
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![]() Zina Bethune, Joseph Campanella and Diana Hyland in a scene from the program, 1965. | |
Starring | |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 98 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Herbert Brodkin |
Producers | Arthur Lewis (1962–1964) Arthur Joel Katz (1964–1965) |
Editor | Lyman Hallowell |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Plautus Productions |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | September 27, 1962 – May 11, 1965 |
The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama that was broadcast in the USA on CBS from September 27, 1962, to May 11, 1965. For the second season, the title was expanded to The Doctors and the Nurses and it ran until 1965, when it was transformed into a half-hour daytime soap opera. The soap opera, also called The Nurses, ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967.
Synopsis
The series is set in Alden General Hospital (patterned after Roosevelt Hospital) in New York, and the primetime program starred Zina Bethune as Gail Lucas, the young nurse, and Shirl Conway as Liz Thorpe, her older nurse mentor.
Unlike most television dramas of the era, save for ABC's police drama Naked City (1958–1963) and the sitcom The Patty Duke Show (1963–1966), the series was filmed in New York and not Hollywood. The show was mainly filmed at the Filmways and Pathe Studios in Manhattan.
The program was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards.[1]
Cast
- Zina Bethune
- Shirl Conway
- Edward Binns (1962–1964)
- Stephen Brooks (1963–1964)
- Michael Tolan (1964–1965)
- Joseph Campanella (1964–1965)
References
External links
- The Nurses at IMDb
- Articles to be merged from May 2017
- CBS network shows
- 1960s American television series
- 1962 American television series debuts
- 1965 American television series endings
- American medical television series
- Television series by CBS Television Studios
- Black-and-white television programs
- English-language television programs
- Works about nursing
- Serial drama television series
- Television shows set in New York City
- United States drama television series stubs