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The Monday Film: Operation Heartbeat

on BBC One London

starring Edward G. Robinson, Kim Stanley
One of Hollywood's greatest actors, Edward G. Robinson, stars in this made-for-television film about the life and death decisions at a University Medical Centre. He plays a leading surgeon whose own illness causes dramatic complications, when he becomes the recipient of a wealthy patient's heart and the man's wife believes that the hospital allowed her husband to die to save a colleague.
Films: page 19 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Screenplay:
A. C. Ward
Producer:
Frank Glicksman
Director:
Boris Sagal
Dr Lee Forestman:
Edward G. Robinson
Joanna Hanson:
Kim Stanley
Dr Joseph M. Gannon:
Richard Bradford
Paul G. Lochner:
James Daly
Dr George Badger:
Maurice Evans
Clifford Coswell:
Kevin McCarthy
Raymond Hanson:
William Windom
Thomas Jarvis:
J.D. Cannon
Tim Martin:
Don Quine

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