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Buck
James "Riskante Entscheidung" |
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TV series |
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medical
drama |
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60 minutes
45 minutes (Germany)
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USA - November 22, 1987, 10:00pm / season 1, episode 7 / #7 of
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| PRODUCTION |
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USA |
| production |
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Columbia
Pictures Television, APAU: Lone Star Company, Inc. |
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producer |
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David
Abramowitz, associate producer: Scott Levitta, co-producer: Rick
Wallace |
| screenplay |
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Garner
Simmons |
| music |
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Robby
Weaver and Garry Schuman, Bertus Publishing (theme) |
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Andy
Gill (stunts) |
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ABC
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USA |
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| DIRECTOR |
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Jan
Eliasberg |
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| CAST |
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REGULAR
CAST
Dennis
Weaver (Doctor
Frank 'Buck' James, trauma unit surgeon, Holloman Hospital,
Texas)
Jon (Maynard) Pennell (Clint James, Buck's son)
Elena Stiteler (Dinah James, Buck's daughter)
Shannon Wilcox (Jenny James, Buck's ex-wife)
Dehl Berti (Vittorio, ranch foreman)
Alberta Watson (Rebecca Meyer)
John Cullum (Henry Carliner, hospital administrator)
Kirk Sisco (Kyle Grant)
ADDITIONAL CAST IN "SILENT PARTNERS"
E. Erich Anderson
Edward Edwards (Mark Travers)
Deborah Henrikson (Melina Geocaris)
Al Ruscio (Tomas Geocaris) |
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| SUMMARY |
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Frank "Buck" James,
a talented surgeon, is the widely respected trauma department
head of the Holloman Hospital in Texas.
With his copious amounts of common sense, and the laconic and competent
way he solves any problem thrown his way, he is much liked by his
patients and the hospital management alike.
Buck James spices up his day bantering with hospital administrator
Henry Carliner - a pen-pusher whose heart is nevertheless in the
right place - and the new, attractive doctor Rebecca, who is from
the east coast.
But when Buck James puts down his surgeon's mask, dons his Stetson,
and heads off home to his prairie ranch, his private life is far
from smooth.
Buck's wife Jenny has walked out on her workaholic husband, who had
too little time to spare for her, but deep down she is still in love
with him.
Daughter Dinah, 22, returns to the family fold, very much
pregnant and very much unmarried.
Her brother Clint works on the
family ranch, but is unhappy and rarely sees his dad, who is always
working.
It comes as no surprise that the kind and wise ranch foreman Vittorio becomes a
subsitute father to the 19-year-old.
The episode where Kabir is a guest star
is mostly about Buck's patient, Mr. Geocaris, who is admitted to
the clinic with severe heart problems.
Only a potentially fatal operation can save him, but he refuses to
give permission to his doctors.
Mr. Geocaris has a disabled daughter (Down syndrome), and who will
look after her if something happens to him?
Heart specialist Kabir is consulted and has to take the dangerous
decision over life and death... |
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| KABIR
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| Kabir's
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Kabir guest-stars
in the hospital soap - as an Indian heart specialist! His character
is called Dr. Sanjay Resta. |
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| Kabir's
showstopper |
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Kabir only appears in a single episode
of the short series.
He only has a few short scenes as the heart surgeon who is asked
to advise on a gravely ill patient that can only be saved by a
very dangerous operation.
Dressed in immaculate hospital whites, Kabir would not look amiss
in any emergency room.
After all, Kabir really is a heart specialist of sorts! |
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| INFORMATION -
QUICK BITS |
• The pilot episode,
directed by Rick Wallace, premiered on Sunday, 10:00pm EST,
September 27, 1987 on channel ABC.
• First broadcast of the series on German TV
(channel RTL) started in December
1990, ended in April 1991.
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The 19 episodes of
the series were broadcast in Germany in the same chronological
order as on
American TV - however, all the episodes were aired in a
45-minute version.
• Kabir's name
is listed in the information section of the episode's world
TV premiere in the American magazine TV Guide. |
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| INFORMATION -
GENERAL INFORMATION |
• The character of
"Doctor Frank 'Buck' James" is based on renowned Texan
physician Dr. James "Red" Duke, a professor of
emergency medicine of international reputation and a media
personality
for more than three decades. He also teaches at the University
of Texas Medical School in Houston.
Dennis Weaver and Dr. James Duke are said to have a striking
physical resemblance. |
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| INFORMATION -
PEOPLE |
• William Dennis
Weaver was born in Missouri
and died from cancer, 81-years-old, in Colorado on February
24, 2006.
• As the limping deputy sheriff
Chester Goode alongside Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness), Dennis
Weaver became world-famous in the cult classic
western series Gunsmoke (1955).
• Dennis Weaver played roles in Centennial
(1978), Magnum, P.I. (1985), Lonesome Dove (1994) - among many
other TV series and movies.
• Dennis Weaver arguably became most famous
starring as 'sheriff in New York' in the TV series McCloud (1975).
• Vegetarian and committed environmentalist Dennis
Weaver lived in a house near Santa Fe which was constructed
almost entirely out of recycled materials.
• Dennis Weaver was the president of "Love
Is Feeding Everyone" (LIFE), which fed 150,000 needy people
a week in Los Angeles County.
• Dennis Weaver published his autobiography
"All the World's a Stage" in 2001.
• Dehl Berti appeared in
1962 as a guest star in the western series Gunsmoke (1955),
alongside Dennis
Weaver who was a regular cast member in the
series from 1955 to 1964.
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Canadian Alberta Watson recently (2005) played
'Erin Driscoll' in TV series 24 (2001).
• Alberta Watson played alongside Armand
Assante, portraying his wife
in Gotti (1996).
• Alberta Watson played roles in Kane & Abel
(1985), Hill Street Blues (1984), Law & Order
(1991/92) and La Femme Nikita (1997 und 2001) - among many
other Tv series and movies.
• Jon Pennell too, acted alongside Armand
Assante - he played a young soldier in Blind Justice
(1994).
• In 1969 John Cullum had a part in Kabir's soap ONE
LIFE TO LIVE (1968).
• Edward Edwards, Kabir's co-star
in the Buck James episode, appeared also in Kabir's TV series
THE MASTER (1984).
• Edward Edwards played the part of
Jim Peterson in the popular TV series
Desperate Housewives (2004 and 2005).
• Kabir's co-star E.
Erich Anderson appeared in 1992 in an episode of
Star Trek.The Next Generation (1987).
• Kabir's co-star Al
Ruscio (born in 1924) also appeared in Kabir's TV
series RIPTIDE (1986), HUNTER (1984
and 1990), and MURDER,
SHE WROTE (1993). |
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