Temperatures Rising, known for part of its second season as The New Temperatures Rising Show, is an ABC network medical sitcom series developed by William Asher.
The show aired from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974, lasting for two seasons and 46 episodes.
About the show
The series centered on the adventures of the staff at the Capital General Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Cast
- Cleavon Little as Dr. Jerry Nolan
- Joan Van Ark as Nurse Annie Carlisle
- Reva Rose as Nurse Mildred "Millie" MacInerny
- Nancy Fox as Nurse Ellen Turner
- James Whitmore as Dr. Vincent Campanelli
- Paul Lynde as Dr. Paul Mercy
- Sudie Bond as Martha Mercy
- Barbara Cason as Miss Tillis
- Jennifer Darling as Nurse Windy Winchester
- Jeff Morrow as Dr. Lloyd Axton
- John Dehner as Dr. Charles Claver
- Alice Ghostley as Edwina Moffitt
- Nancy Fox as Nurse Ellen Turner
- Barbara Rucker as Nurse Amanda Kelly
Episodes
Season 1
- Operation Bingo
- Operation Fastball
- The Appointment
- Ellen's Flip Side
- The Muscle and the Medic
- The Accident Con
- Good Luck Lefkowitz
- Tenor Loving Care
- Rx – Love
- Lights, Camera, Action
- Witchcraft, Washington Style
- The Spy
- The New Head Nurse
- Rx – Christmas
- Scapel, Sponge, Typewriter
- Black Is Beautiful
- How to Cure a Doctor of Money
- Interrupted Malady
- Diagnosis, Who Knows?
- Panic in the Sheets
- Rx – Nose Job
- My Doctor, the Patient
- Creepy, Peepy
- It Don't Mean a Ping, If You Ain't Got That Pong
- Super Doc
- Gorilla My Dreams
Season 2
- The Misguided Appendectomy
- The Oldest Living American
- The Strike
- A Classic Case
- We Ain't Got No Body
- The Mothers
- Gonna Getcha
- The Night Shift
- Mercy the Surgeon
- The Physical
- The Donation
- Four of a Kind
- Big Brother
- Is There a Lady Doctor in the House?
- Kid Genius
- Three Faces of Edwina
- Healer Man
- Shafted
- Mercy Beaucoup