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The Greatest Gift is an American TV daytime soap opera on NBC that ran between 1954 and 1955, featuring Ward Costello, Anne Meara and Jack Klugman as Jim Hanson.^[1] Dr. Eve Allen, played by Anne Burr, was one of the first TV women doctors.^[2]^[3] One of the last storylines before cancellation was a couple adopting a black-market baby.^[4]

Cast

The cast included:^[5]

Anne Burr: Eve Allen
Philip Foster: Phil Stone
Athena Lorde: Betty Matthews
Will Hare: Harold Matthews (1954–1955)
Martin Balsam: Harold Matthews (1955)
Gene Peterson: Ned Blackman (1954–1955)
Ward Costello: Ned Blackman (1955)
Jack Klugman: Jim Hanson
Josef Drake: Sam Blake
Henry Barnard: Peter Blake
Helen Warren: Mrs. Blake
Margaret Heneghan: Peg
Anne Meara: Harriet (1954–1955)

References

^ TV Guide Guide to TV. Barnes and Noble. 2004. p. 264. ISBN 0-7607-5634-1.
^ Paietta, Ann Catherine and Kauppila, Jean L. "The Greatest Gift", Health Professionals on Screen, Scarecrow Press, 1999, ISBN 081083636X, p. 333
^ Mulcahy, Kevin Jr. "Remembering NBC Soap Opera 'The Greatest Gift', Whose Cast Included Anne Meara" welovesoaps.net, May 26, 2015
^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 193–194. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ Schemering, Christopher (1987). The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 128–129. ISBN 0-345-35344-7.

External links

Internet Movie Database

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