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American television series
The Greatest Gift is an American TV daytime
soap opera on
NBC that ran between 1954 and 1955, featuring
Ward Costello ,
Anne Meara and
Jack Klugman as Jim Hanson.
[1] Dr. Eve Allen, played by
Anne Burr , was one of the first TV women doctors.
[2]
[3] One of the last storylines before cancellation was a couple adopting a black-market baby.
[4]
Cast
The cast included:
[5]
Anne Burr : Eve Allen
Philip Foster: Phil Stone
Athena Lorde: Betty Matthews
Will Hare : Harold Matthews (1954–1955)
Martin Balsam : Harold Matthews (1955)
Gene Peterson: Ned Blackman (1954–1955)
Ward Costello : Ned Blackman (1955)
Jack Klugman : Jim Hanson
Josef Drake: Sam Blake
Henry Barnard: Peter Blake
Helen Warren: Mrs. Blake
Margaret Heneghan: Peg
Anne Meara : Harriet (1954–1955)
References
^
TV Guide Guide to TV . Barnes and Noble. 2004. p.
264 .
ISBN
0-7607-5634-1 .
^ Paietta, Ann Catherine and Kauppila, Jean L. "The Greatest Gift", Health Professionals on Screen , Scarecrow Press, 1999,
ISBN
081083636X , p. 333
^ Mulcahy, Kevin Jr.
"Remembering NBC Soap Opera 'The Greatest Gift', Whose Cast Included Anne Meara" welovesoaps.net, May 26, 2015
^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997).
The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television . Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 193–194.
ISBN
978-0823083152 . Retrieved 22 March 2020 .
^ Schemering, Christopher (1987).
The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 128–129.
ISBN
0-345-35344-7 .
External links
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