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ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE: MARCUS WELBY, M.D.: A MANNER OF HUMANITIES {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
The pilot for the series of dramas about Marcus Welby, a general practitioner with a special understanding of his patients, and his assistant, Dr. Steven Kiley. In this portion, Lew Sawyer, one of Welby's patients, suffers from traumatic aphasia and is unable to speak. Sawyer then becomes enraged when he accidentally learns that his wife wants to commit him. Commercials deleted.
(Presented under the umbrella of the "ABC Wednesday Night Movie.")
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: March 26, 1969 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:37:50
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T80:0382
- GENRE: Drama, medical
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, medical
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1969
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- David Victor … Executive Producer, Writer
- David J. O'Connell … Producer
- David Lowell Rich … Director
- Don M. Mankiewicz … Writer
- Leonard Rosenman … Music by
- Robert Young … Cast, Dr. Marcus Welby
- Anne Baxter … Cast, Myra Sherwood
- Susan Strasberg … Cast, Tina Sawyer
- Lew Ayres … Cast, Dr. Andrew Swanson
- Tom Bosley … Cast, Tiny Baker
- Peter Deuel (see also: Peter Duel) … Cast, Lew Sawyer
- Sheila Larken … Cast, Sandy Welby
- Mercer Harris … Cast, Ray Wells
- Penny Santon … Cast, Consuelo
- Richard Loo … Cast, Kenji Yamashita
- Lawrence Linville … Cast, Doctor
- Ben Wright … Cast, Professor Randolph
- Ron Stokes … Cast, Teacher - Aphasia Rehab
- Allison McKay … Cast, Patient
- Craig Littler … Cast, Ambulance Attendant
- Fran Ryan … Cast, Nurse Prifogle
- Sheila Rogers … Cast, Mrs. Foster
- James Brolin … Cast, Dr. Steven Kiley