HALLMARK HALL OF FAME: ERIC (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramas presented by Hallmark. This drama is based on the true story of Eric Swensen's courageous struggle to experience his life to the fullest after learning he has leukemia. Eric is an athletic teenager who shows no signs of ill health. When sores on his leg prove to be an early sign of terminal illness, Eric summons all of his strength to live with dignity. While undergoing an experimental drug treatment, he continues to play soccer, attends college, and falls in love with a nurse whom he meets at the hospital. Commercials deleted.
("Hallmark Hall of Fame" aired on NBC from 1952 to 1978; network affiliation varies after 1978.)
(Beginning with the live telecast of the opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" on December 24, 1951, Hallmark has sponsored a series of dramatic specials which since 1952 have been titled "Hallmark Hall of Fame." From 1952 to 1955 Hallmark also presented "Hallmark Hall of Fame," a weekly half-hour dramatic anthology series hosted by Sarah Churchill. The first program, "Dr. Serocold," was televised in January 1952 under the title "Hallmark Television Theatre." This series also ran under the title "Hallmark Summer Theatre" in July and August 1952.)
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: November 10, 1975 Monday 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:37:32
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T85:0898
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Athletes; Cancer - Drama
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1951-1978
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Lee Rich … Executive Producer
- Philip Capice … Executive Producer
- Herbert Hirschman … Producer
- James Goldstone … Director
- Nigel McKeand … Writer
- Carol Evan McKeand … Writer
- Doris Lund … Based on the book by
- Dave Grusin … Music by
- John Savage … Theme Music by
- Patricia Neal … Cast, Lois Swensen
- Claude Akins … Cast, Stanley Swensen
- Sian Barbara Allen … Cast, Marilyn
- Mark Hamill … Cast, Paul
- Nehemiah Persoff … Cast, Dr. Duchesnes
- Tom Clancy … Cast, Murphy
- James Richardson … Cast, Tom
- John Savage … Cast, Eric Swensen
- Katherine Squire … Cast, Mrs. Harris
- Eileen McDonough … Cast, Linda
- Harry Basch … Cast, Dr. Gruder
- Nancy Wolfe … Cast, Susan Gilbert
- Ronald Joseph … Cast, Ricardo
- Peg Shirley … Cast, the Waitress
- Gene Tyburn … Cast, the Pharmacist
- Annette Ferra … Cast, Abby