TV on DVD: 'Medical Center' with O.J.
American actor OJ Simpson shrugs as he addresses waiting media on his arrival to Granada studios Manchester May 13. Simpson, who was aquitted of the murders of his wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman last year, is giving an interview on the new live chat show "Tonight". (May 13, 1996) Credit: REUTERS/IAN WALDIE
MEDICAL CENTER
Series O.J. Simpson guests in the premiere episode of CBS' 1969-76 drama fave, starring hunky Chad Everett as a crusading young surgeon at a university hospital. NFL-bound Simpson had just graduated from USC (whose health center inspired the show), and he isn't bad in his acting debut as an ailing pigskin star. Cicely Tyson plays his worried wife. Other season 1 guest stars: Martin Sheen, Dyan Cannon, Richard Thomas, Mercedes McCambridge, William Shatner, David Cassidy, Tom Skerritt and Tyne Daly (daughter of Everett's TV boss, James Daly).
Extras None. No info, either, beyond episode titles.
List price $50 for 26 episodes on six manufactured-on-demand discs, direct from warnerarchive.com.
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