DR. KILDARE: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

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• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: One of the most popular and influential medical series in television history makes its first house call in this long-awaited DVD collection. Starring Richard Chamberlain in the role that rocketed him to fame and made him a teen idol, Dr. Kildare follows the gifted young intern as he learns to practice medicine under the watchful eye of his mentor, Blair General Hospital’s chief of staff, Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Raymond Massey). Created by pulp writer Max Brand in a 1936 magazine story, James Kildare would find success in a series of M-G-M theatrical films, tie-in novels and a 1950s radio show before making his TV debut on September 28, 1961. Featuring 33 compelling episodes packed with human interest and drama, Doctor Kildare: The Complete First Season also includes appearances by Oscar¨ winners* Lee Marvin, Ellen Burstyn, Beatrice Straight and Dorothy Malone, screen legends Joseph Cotten, Mary Astor, Margaret O’Brien and more! *Dorothy Malone: Actress in a Supporting Role, Written on the Wind, 1956; Lee Marvin: Actor, Cat Ballou, 1965; Ellen Burstyn, Actress, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974; Beatrice Straight: Actress in a Supporting Role, Network, 1976.
• Cast: Richard Chamberlain; Raymond Massey; Ken Berry; Jean Inness; Eddie Ryder; Jud Taylor; Steve Bell; Clegg Hoyt; Jo Helton; Lee Kurty; Hayden Rorke; Leslie Nielsen; James T. Callahan; Lee Meriwether; Donna Loren; Tom Nardini; David Opatoshu; Maxine Stuart; Della Sharman; Martin Balsam; Andrew Prine; Diane Baker; Philip Bourneuf; Fred J. Scollay; Marlyn Mason; Patricia Barry; Joan Patrick; William Shatner; Naomi Stevens; Ann Loos; Tony Bill; Dean Stockwell; Bradford Dillman; Jack Hawkins; Hazel Court; Audrey Totter; Robert Reed; Donald Madden; Gary Judis; Josie Lloyd; Carol Andreson; Helen Wallace; Joanna Pettet; Diana Muldaur; Norman Fell; Margaret Leighton; Burt Brinckerhoff; Sheilah Wells; Len Wayland; Cloris Leachman; Irene Martin; Jeff Donnell; John Napier; Darren McGavin; Tippy Walker; Carol Anderson; William Sargent; Bert Remsen; Harvey Korman; Sam Reese; Dan O'Herlihy; Bruce Hyde; Sharon Farrell; Alan Hewitt; Jeanne Rainer; Stuart Nisbet; Jack Nicholson; Edward Binns; James Mason; Eduardo Ciannelli; Edmon Ryan; Judy Lang; Barry Atwater; Fred Astaire; Laura Devon; Kathy Garver; Elizabeth Allen; Joyce Bulifant; Richard Elkins; Dilart Heyson; Mart Hulswit; James Earl Jones; Kirk Kirksey; Ricardo Montalban; Diana Sands; Lesley Ann Warren; Suzanne Pleshette; Angie Dickinson; Jeanette Nolan; Brenda Scott; Lew Gallo; Ed Prentiss; Madge Blake; Robert Brubaker; John Fiedler; Gertrude Flynn; Peggy Rea; Claudia Bryar; Dan Tobin; Joey Scott; Ed Begley; Joan Tompkins; Michel Petit; Robert Karnes; Phyllis Hill; Adrienne Marden; Harold Gould; Susan Davis; Paulene Myers; Nelson Olmsted; Debi Storm; Ben Wright; William Swan; Dorothy Neumann; Beverly Adams; Virginia Gregg; Murray Hamilton; Susan Oliver; Joe De Santis; Burt Mustin; Shannon Farnon; George Kennedy; Sorrell Booke; Marjorie Bennett; Nora Marlowe; Elizabeth Rogers; Daniela Bianchi; Donald Harron; Mercedes McCambridge; Fabrizio Mioni; Ramon Novarro; Paul Stewart; Teresa Tirelli; Alida Valli; Audrey Larkins; James Edwards; James Frawley; Harry Morgan; Lory Patrick; Christopher Riordan; Anne Seymour; Karl Swenson; Richard Beymer; Ross Martin; Jack Carter; Pat Hingle; Robert Culp; Diana Hyland; Janice Rule; Lois Nettleton; Yvette Mimieux; Gail Kobe; Carol Eve Rossen; Herschel Bernardi; Beverly Garland; Mary Astor; Zohra Lampert; Peter Whitney; Pat Crowley; Mary LaRoche; Collin Wilcox Paxton; Harold J. Stone; Clu Gulager; Carroll O'Connor; Fay Spain; Rory O'Brien; Joyce Van Patten; J. Pat O'Malley; Charles H. Radilak; John Newland; Charles McGraw; Henry Beckman; Max Showalter; John Bleifer; Lisabeth Hush; Vito Scotti; William Fawcett; Penny Santon; Bill Bixby; Warren J. Kemmerling; Bernard Kates; Sandy Kenyon; Frank Killmond; Patience Cleveland; Susan Brown; Robert Logan; John Marley; John Anderson; David Whorf; Robert F. Simon; Ivan Dixon; Lauren Gilbert; Garry Walberg; Leonard Stone; George Petrie; Elizabeth Perry; Edward Asner; Sheila Bromley; Wilton Graff; Jason Wingreen; Laurence Haddon; Charles Alvin Bell; Bern Bassey; Mary Webster; Jewell Lain; Meg Wyllie; Francis De Sales; Paul Newlan; Jan Moriarty; Charity Grace; Alexander Lockwood; Jason Johnson; Robert Williams; Amy Fields; Jeane Wood; Jean Allison; Richard Benjamin; Edgar Buchanan; Miriam Colon; George Cisar; S. John Launer; Gina Gillespie; Glen Vernon; Dennis King Jr.; Anjanette Comer; Lee Marvin; Rip Torn; Kevin McCarthy; Ruth Roman; Kim Hunter; Sidney Blackmer; Georgann Johnson; William Schallert; Les Tremayne; Shelley Morrison; Marge Redmond; Kim Darby; Tony Monaco; Roger Mobley; Brendan Dillon; Steve Mitchell; Ford Rainey; Evelyn Ward; Frank Mahony; James Anderson; Noah Keen; Nelson Welch; Robert Jacquin; Sherry O'Neil; Bill Quinn; Clancy Cooper; Bert Freed; Isobel Elsom; Michael Panaieff; Ellen Atterbury; David Sheiner; Jennifer Gillespie; Viola Harris; Joan Granville; Corey Allen; Dick Crockett; Whit Bissell; Norma Michaels; Tom Palmer; Anthony Spinelli; Bill Zuckert; Anna Bruno-Lena; Robert Cornthwaite; Harry Townes; Jan Arvan; Harold Baker; William Bramley; Spring Byington; James Daly; Charla Doherty; James Flavin; David Frankham; Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.; Basil Rathbone; Frances Reid; Tim Rooney; Barbara Rush; Will Tynan; Melanie Alexander; Mona Bruns; Steve Carlson; Angela Clarke; Rupert Crosse; Kym Karath; Joan Marshall; Gloria McMillan; Lawrence Montaigne; Alan Reed; Beah Richards; John Saxon; Susan Silo; Diane Varsi; Bill Walker; Charles Bickford; Anne Francis; Richard Kiley; Guy Raymond; Dick York; Barbara Baxley; Lloyd Bochner; John Cassavetes; Joseph Cotten; Olympia Dukakis; Betty Field; Harry Guardino; Steven Hill; Dean Jagger; Glynis Johns; Arch Johnson; Carolyn Jones; Joanne Linville; Dina Merrill; Margaret O'Brien; Larry Parks; Robert Redford; Alfred Ryder; Joseph Schildkraut; Jeremy Slate; Claire Trevor; George Voskovec; Philip Abbott; Eddie Albert; Lauren Bacall; Fay Bainter; Polly Bergen; Peter Falk; James Franciscus; Thomas Gomez; June Harding; Celeste Holm; Brian Keith; John Larch; Nancy Malone; Mary Murphy; Patrick O'Neal; Frank Overton; Molly Picon; Susan Strasberg; Gloria Swanson; Tom Tryon; Forrest Tucker; Miyoshi Umeki; James Whitmore; John Williams; Anne Baxter; Joan Blondell; Paul Burke; Terry Carter; Jeanne Cooper; Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; Jack Lord; Sal Mineo; Walter Pidgeon; Claude Rains; Cyril Ritchard; Cesar Romero; Gena Rowlands; Robert Walker Jr.; Larry Blyden; Darryl Hickman; Dennis Weaver; Edward Andrews; Dick Foran; Dabbs Greer; Ted Knight; Rita Lynn; Kenneth MacKenna; Cathleen Nesbitt; Katherine Squire; Beatrice Straight; Gloria Talbott; Julie Adams; Theodore Bikel; Paul Carr; Michael Constantine; Frances Foster; Joan Hackett; Eileen Heckart; Victor Jory; Mike Kellin; Otto Kruger; Charles Macaulay; Dorothy Malone; Scott Marlowe; George Mathews; Hope Summers; Inga Swenson; Peggy Wood; Frank Aletter; Barbara Barrie; Charles Bronson; Vicki Cos; Irene Dailey; Elinor Donahue; Andrew Duggan; Barbara Eden; Glenda Farrell; Constance Ford; Jean Hagen; Kathryn Hays; Anne Helm; Ed Nelson; Alex Nicol; Sue Randall; Wallace Rooney; James Shigeta; Henry Silva; Everett Sloane; Lois Smith; Joseph Sweeney; Ruth White; Lola Albright; Susan Bay; Michael Callan; Yvonne Craig; Audrey Dalton; William Demarest; George Grizzard; Ann Harding; Ellen Holly; Chester Morris; Gerald S. O'Loughlin; Lee Philips; Mala Powers; Rosemary DeCamp; Peter Haskell; Carmen Mathews; Donnelly Rhodes; Mark Allen; Joby Baker; Barry Gordon; Peter Helm; George Kane; Robert P. Lieb; Gavin MacLeod; Michael McGreevey; Karl Weber; Charles Aidman; Jack Albertson; Nellie Burt; Richard Davalos; Don Dubbins; Michael Evans; Richard Eyer; Alex Gerry; Stephen Joyce; Ricky Kelman; Dorothy Konrad; Ruth McDevitt; Cliff Norton; Renata Vanni; Parley Baer; James Caan; Iphigenie Castiglioni; Anita Dangler; Tony Dow; Michael Forest; Mariette Hartley; Betsy Jones-Moreland; Judson Laire; Dale Malone; Anne Meacham; Allan Melvin; Eli Mintz; Fritz Weaver; Beau Bridges; Walter Brooke; Paul Comi; Steve Ihnat; Manuel Padilla Jr.; Diana Van der Vlis; Stuart Erwin; Gene Kirkwood; Phyllis Love; Dorothy Provine; Tom Greenway; John Straub; Vaughn Taylor; Linda Watkins; Justice Watson; Lonnie Blackman; Betty Bronson; Steve Franken; Steven Geray; Irene Hervey; Patricia Huston; Griffith James; Doreen Lang; Judee Morton; Stafford Repp; Phyllis Avery; Martine Bartlett; Jack Bernardi; Jennifer Billingsley; Bobby Byles; Herschel Daugherty; John Brahm; Elliot Silverstein; Alf Kjellin; Don Medford; Leo Penn; Lamont Johnson; Paul Wendkos; Boris Sagal; Marc Daniels; Ralph Senensky; Buzz Kulik; William A. Graham; Leonard Horn; Jack Smight; Jack Arnold; Robert Gist; Michael Ritchie; Robert Butler; Paul Stanley; Don Taylor; Allen H. Miner; Alexander Singer; Lawrence Dobkin; Robert Ellis Miller; David Friedkin; James Komack; David Lowell Rich; James Goldstone; Ida Lupino; Sydney Pollack; Richard C. Sarafian; Sidney Miller; Betty Andrews; Theodore Apstein; Don Balluck; John Blake; John W. Bloch; Janet Blumgarten; Alvin Boretz; Max Brand; Jameson Brewer; Walter Brough; Calvin Clements Jr.; Gerry Day; Joy Dexter; Meyer Dolinsky; Robert Dozier; John T. Dugan; Bob Duncan; Wanda Duncan; John Dunkel; George Eckstein; Eve Ettinger; William Fay; Mathilde Ferro; Theodore Ferro; Pat Fielder; Richard Fielder; John Furia; Harold Gast; Bruce Geller; Marshall Goldberg; James P. Griffith; David P. Harmon; Yale Peter Harrison; Max Hodge; Jean Holloway; Darlene E. Kardon; Norman Katkov; John T. Kelley; Beryl Kent; Ernest Kinoy; John Kneubuhl; Christopher Knopf; Ken Kolb; Chester Krumholz; Rita Lakin; Edward J. Lakso; Emmet Lavery; Anthony Lawrence; Archie Lawrence; Richard Levinson; Robert Lewin; Andy Lewis; William Link; Sidney A. Mandel; Benjamin Masselink; Jerry McNeely; Pete Morrow; Dick Nelson; E. Jack Neuman; Stanley Niss; Irv Pearlberg; Louis S. Peterson; Gene Roddenberry; Arthur A. Ross; Jerome Ross; Sy Salkowitz; Philip Saltzman; Donald S. Sanford; Gerald Sanford; Margaret Schneider; Paul Schneider; Lou Shaw; Peggy Shaw; Boris Sobelman; Adrian Spies; Herbert Abbott Spiro; Don Tait; Archie L. Tegland; Janet Tegland; Jerome B. Thomas; Jim Thompson; Gene Wang; Arthur Weiss; John Whedon; Irene Winston; Jan Winters; Jerry de Bono
• Director: John Newland
• Runtime: 16:40
• Company: Turner Entertainment Co., National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Archive, Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Series