The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon | |
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Directed by | Joan Kemp-Welch |
Starring | Rod Taylor Elizabeth MacLennan |
Country of origin | United States |
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Running time | 60 min. |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | 16 December 1962 |
The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon is a 1962 American television adaptation from A. J. Cronin's 1948 novel, Shannon's Way . 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). [1]