Una donna per amico (TV series)

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Una donna per amico
Genre Medical drama
Created by
  • Carmela Cicinnati
  • Peter Exacoustos
Starring
Country of originItaly
Original languageItalian
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes29
Production
Executive producerDaniela Valentini
Running time100 minutes
Production company RAI
Original release
Network Rai 1
ReleaseSeptember 27, 1998 (1998-09-27) 
April 16, 2001 (2001-04-16)

Una donna per amico is an Italian television series, which ran on Rai 1 for three seasons from September 27, 1998 to April 16, 2001. The series revolves around a group of doctors and nurses in the obstetrics and gynaecology department of a Roman hospital.

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Plot

Laura Andrei and Piero La Torre, both gynecologists in a hospital in Rome, have been married for years and have two children, Francesca and Dado. The couple begins to go through a period of crisis following the appointment of Laura to primary aid at the expense of Piero, who, frustrated and neglected by his wife, weaves an affair with Rita Lanceri Kraus, a pharmaceutical rep who has already had a relationship with Piero's dearest friend, the anesthesiologist Stefano Morandi.

In the department of Gynecology and Obstetrics where Piero and Laura work there are other doctors and nurses, always under the watchful eyes of primary Luigi Conti: there are Sister Mary, an African midwife, the nurses Debora, Gina, Anna, and Caterina, the pediatrician and neonatologist Luca Liberati, the trainees Paoletta Malindri and Sandro Tonini, the primary aid Gianclaudio Russo, and the fellow Paride.

Series overview

SeriesEpisodesOriginally aired
Series premiere Series finale
1827 September 19989 November 1998
287 April 200029 May 2000
3132 February 200116 April 2001

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