The New Temperatures Rising Show
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The New Temperatures Rising Show

Year:
Duration:
30 min (46 episodes)
Genres:
Comedy
IMDB rate:
7.2
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1972-09-12
Filming Locations: Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Cleavon Little
Dr. Jerry Noland
Nancy Fox
Student Nurse Ellen Turner
Joan Van Ark
Nurse Annie Carlisle
Reva Rose
Nurse Mildred MacInerny
James Whitmore
Dr. Vincent Campanelli
Paul Lynde
Dr. Paul Mercy
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Trivia
The role of that Cleavon Little played, Dr. Jerry Noland, was not originally written for a black actor. Frankie Avalon and John Rubinstein were among the actors considered for the role. (The beach movies that Avalon had appeared in with Annette Funicello were directed by William Asher, the producer and occasional director of "Temperatures Rising".) However, Asher's wife, Elizabeth Montgomery, spotted Little doing a guest appearance in an episode of All in the Family (1971), and then recommended him to her husband. Likewise, Montgomery also recommended Nancy Fox to Asher after spotting Fox in a toothpaste commercial.
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The first season of this series was produced by William Asher and starred Cleavon Little as the jive-talking intern whose outlandish but well meant shenanigans outraged the hospital's chief-of-staff, played by James Whitmore. Joan Van Ark, Reva Rose, and Nancy Fox played the nurses who were always in cahoots with Little. Whitmore referred to Little and the nurses as "The Four Horsemen of Aggravation."
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The second season of the series was produced by Duke Vincent and Bruce Johnson and featured a "black comedy" approach similar to the film The Hospital (1971) starring George C. Scott. Paul Lynde played the new penny-pinching chief-of-staff, with Sudie Bond as his mother, the owner as well as a patient at the hospital. Barbara Cason was the hospital administrator, Jennifer Darling played a nurse, and John Dehner and Jeff Morrow alternated as pompous surgeons. Cleavon Little was the only actor retained from the original cast. Due to poor ratings the series was placed on hiatus after only 13 episodes of the second season.
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Quotes
Dr. Paul Mercy: [Hearing that Dr. Nolan's mother wants to be cryogenically frozen] You mean you want to turn her into a Fudgesicle?
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Dr. Vincent Campanelli: (to Dr. Noland) What's next, Doctor? A wheelchair slalom on the ambulance ramp?
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Photos from cast
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