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This two-part, four-hour TV miniseries was adapted from the
same-named 1984 novel by Arthur Hailey. Pamela Sue Martin
headed the huge cast as Celia Gray, a young woman who rose
from humble drug store clerk to become the head of a major
pharmaceutical manufacturing firm during the 1950s and 1960s.
Along the way, of course, Celia met with formidable opposition
from the all-male medical establishment, and consequently,
her private life was often a mess. Also on hand were two other
TV stalwarts, Patrick Duffy as Dr. Andrew Jordan and Dick
Van Dyke as Sam Hawthorne. Presented as part of the syndicated
Operation Prime Time dramatic anthology (one of many pre-Fox
efforts spearheaded by a consortium of independent TV stations
to establish a "fourth network"), Strong Medicine was first
made available on April 21, 1986, though most local markets
did not run the property until May.
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