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    Temperatures Rising/The New Temperatures Rising

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    1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 4 (USA)
    46 x 30 minute episodes

    This ABC comedy series was set at the Capital General Hospital in Washington DC and featured the adventures of prankster Dr Jerry Noland (Cleavon Little) and his colleagues, presided over by the no-nonsense chief of surgery Dr Vincent Campanelli (James Whitmore).

    Noland ran bingo games and off-track betting at the hospital while Annie Carlisle (Joan Van Ark), the sexy blonde Head Nurse, her wry assistant Nurse Mildred MacInerny (Reva Rose) and student nurse Ellen Turner (Nancy Fox) tried to cover up for him.

    Campanelli left at the end of the first season and was replaced by Dr Paul Mercy (Paul Lynde), a new uptight penny-pinching administrator with a mother complex.

    The show changed name at this point, to The New Temperatures Rising, Capital General was now a private hospital – owned by Dr Mercy’s meddlesome mother, Martha (Sudie Bond) who was permanently in residence and who kept calling her son via a beeper on his belt – and the chemistry of the series changed for the worse.

    Miss Tillis (Barbara Cason)  was the efficient accountant, “Windy” Winchester (Jennifer Darling), the romantically inclined nurse, and Dr Axton (Jeff Morrow), the cheerfully fraudulent surgeon who had recently published two books, Profit in Healing and Malpractice and Its Defense. Only intern Jerry Noland remained from the first season.

    Dr Jerry Noland
    Cleavon Little
    Dr Vincent Campanelli
    James Whitmore
    Student Nurse Ellen Turner
    Nancy Fox
    Nurse Annie Carlisle
    Joan Van Ark
    Nurse Mildred MacInerny
    Reva Rose
    Dr Paul Mercy
    Paul Lynde
    Martha Mercy
    Sudie Bond
    Miss Tillis
    Barbara Cason
    Nurse “Windy” Winchester
    Jennifer Darling
    Dr Lloyd Axton
    Jeff Morrow
    Dr Charles Cleveland Claver
    John Dehner
    Haskell
    Jerry Houser
    Edwina Moffitt
    Alice Ghostley
    Nurse Amanda Kelly
    Barbara Rucker
    Harold Lefkowitz
    Bernie Kopell
    Nurse Ferguson
    Ketty Lester
    Norman
    Larry Storch

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