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The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon

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Directed by
  
Joan Kemp-Welch

Running time
  
60 min.

Original release
  
16 December 1962

Network
  
NBC

Genre
  
Medical fiction

Cast
  
Rod Taylor

Country of origin
  
United States

Original network
  
NBC

First episode date
  
16 December 1962

Director
  
Joan Kemp-Welch

Language
  
English

Starring
  
Rod Taylor Elizabeth MacLennan

Similar
  
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The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon is a 1962 American television adaptation from A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way, which was originally published in 1948. The dramatization was written by Robert Stewart, directed by Joan Kemp-Welch, and produced by Lewis Freedman. The show was the ninth episode of the second season of The DuPont Show of the Week, which was broadcast on NBC, and it starred Rod Taylor and Elizabeth MacLennan. In 1963, it was broadcast in Great Britain on ITV Television Playhouse.

The episode was filmed on location in Britain over two weeks. It was the first co-production between a regular American TV dramatic series and a production company from another country (in this case, England).

Cast

  • Rod Taylor as Robert Shannon
  • Elizabeth MacLennan as Jean Law
  • Alan Casley as the Policeman
  • Madeleine Christie as Mrs. Law
  • Finlay Currie as Sir Wilfred Challis
  • Archie Duncan as Reverend Law
  • Hugh Evans as Malcolm Hodden
  • Ronald Fraser as Dr. James Mathers
  • Betty Henderson as Mrs. Maclaren
  • Moultrie Kelsall as Dr. Usher
  • Frank Olegario as Chattergee
  • References

    The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon Wikipedia