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''Dr. Kildare'' is an NBC medical drama television series which originally ran from September 28, 1961 until August 30, 1966,〔(Newcomb, Horace, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Television'' (2nd ed.). ) Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2013, p. 756-757. ISBN 978-0-203-93734-1.〕 for a total of 191 episodes over five seasons.〔("Dr. Kildare Episode Guide" ), TV.com, accessed Apr. 20, 2015.〕 Produced by MGM Television, it was based on fictional doctor characters originally created by author Max Brand in the 1930s and previously used by MGM in a popular film series and radio drama. The TV series quickly achieved success and made a star of Richard Chamberlain, who played the title role. ''Dr. Kildare'' (along with an ABC medical drama, ''Ben Casey'', which premiered at the same time) inspired or influenced many later TV shows dealing with the medical field.〔(LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski. ''Science on American Television: A History.'' ) Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013, p. 65-67. ISBN 978-0-226-92199-0.〕〔 ''Dr. Kildare'' aired on NBC affiliate stations on Thursday nights at 8:30-9:30 PM from September 28, 1961 until September 1965, when the timeslot was changed to Monday and Tuesday nights at 8:30-9:00 PM until the end of the show's run on August 30, 1966.〔(Brooks, Tim, and Earle Marsh. ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present'' (9th ed.). ) Ballantine Books (Random House), 2007, p. 371, 1584-1589. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4.〕 == Plot == Like the earlier MGM film series (1938-1942), the TV series initially told the story of young intern Dr. James Kildare (Richard Chamberlain) working at the fictional large metropolitan "Blair General Hospital" and trying to learn his profession, deal with patients' problems, and win the respect of the senior Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Raymond Massey). In the series' first episode, Gillespie tells the earnest Kildare, "Our job is to keep people alive, not to tell them how to live." Kildare ignores the advice, which provides the basis for stories over the next four seasons, many with a soap opera touch. By the third season, Dr. Kildare was promoted to resident and episodes began to focus less on him and his medical colleagues, and more on the stories of individual patients and their families.〔 In order to create realistic scripts, the series' first writer, E. Jack Neuman, spent several months working alongside interns in a large hospital. Episodes frequently highlighted diseases or medical conditions that had not been widely discussed on television, including drug addiction, sickle cell anemia and epilepsy. Episodes about venereal disease (personally requested by President Lyndon B. Johnson) and the birth control pill were written, but never produced due to network objections.〔(Stempel, Tom. ''Storytellers to the Nation: A History of American Television Writing.'' ) Syracuse Univ. Press, 1996, p. 90-91. ISBN 0-8156-0368-1.〕 Technical advice was provided by the American Medical Association, whose name appeared in the end credits of each episode.〔〔 The series was initially formatted as self-contained one-hour episodes, aired once per week. In later seasons, a trend towards serialization, inspired by the success of the prime time soap opera ''Peyton Place'', caused the network to develop some ''Dr. Kildare'' storylines over multiple episodes and, in the final season, to air two separate half-hour episodes each week instead of a single one-hour episode.〔〔(Newman, Michael Z. and Elana Levine. ''Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status.'' ) Routledge, 2012, p. 101. ISBN 978-0-415-88025-1.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dr. Kildare (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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