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Original Title :
Mercy Point
Genre :
TV Series / Drama / Sci-Fi
Cast :
Joe Morton,Maria del Mar,Alexandra Wilson
Type :
TV Series
Time :
1h
Rating :
7.4/10
Mercy Point Online

Across the Sahartic Divide from mid-twenty-third century Earth is the Jericho colony and its port of entry/hospital space station Mercy Point. Staffed by human, alien, and even android medical personnel, Mercy Point provides desperately-needed health care for the colony and any ship passing through the area.
Series cast summary:
Joe Morton Joe Morton - Dr. Grote Maxwell 8 episodes, 1998-1999
Maria del Mar Maria del Mar - Dr. Haylen Breslauer 8 episodes, 1998-1999
Alexandra Wilson Alexandra Wilson - Dr. Dru Breslauer 8 episodes, 1998-1999
Brian McNamara Brian McNamara - Dr. Caleb 'C.J.' Jurado 8 episodes, 1998-1999
Julia Pennington Julia Pennington - ANI - Android Nursing Interface 8 episodes, 1998-1999
Gay Thomas Wilson Gay Thomas Wilson - Dr. Rema Cook 8 episodes, 1998-1999
Jordan Lund Jordan Lund - Dr. Batung 8 episodes, 1998-1999
Salli Richardson-Whitfield Salli Richardson-Whitfield - Kim / - 8 episodes, 1998-1999
Trey Callaway Trey Callaway - Hippocrates 7 episodes, 1998-1999
Kirsten Robek Kirsten Robek - Nurse Davies 7 episodes, 1998-1999
Joe Spano Joe Spano - Dr. DeMilla 7 episodes, 1998-1999
Christine Willes Christine Willes 7 episodes, 1998-1999
Leanne Adachi Leanne Adachi - Mednaut Cowan 6 episodes, 1998-1999
Joe Pascual Joe Pascual - Mednaut Westhusing 6 episodes, 1998-1999
Haig Sutherland Haig Sutherland - Nagnom 5 episodes, 1998-1999
Rick Ravanello Rick Ravanello - Mednaut Thurston 4 episodes, 1998-1999
Zachary Ansley Zachary Ansley - Bortok 3 episodes, 1998-1999
Larry Cedar Larry Cedar - Charles Bantam 2 episodes, 1998-1999
Fiona Scott Fiona Scott - Nancy Vurtis 2 episodes, 1998-1999
Craig Kirkwood Craig Kirkwood 2 episodes, 1998
Olivia Burnette Olivia Burnette - Val 2 episodes, 1999
Harry Groener Harry Groener - Stenneth Lock 2 episodes, 1999


User reviews

Welen

Welen

This was an interesting show, no way around it. Sort of a cross between Star Trek and ER. Unfortunately, it was cancelled! Isn't that always the way? Put an intriguing show on the air and then dump it just because it doesn't take off right away. I only caught the last several episodes in July 1999.

When I contacted my local UPN station, they said that when the show originally aired in the fall of 1998, it received "very low ratings." They filled me in that the network aired the episodes I saw to fulfill its commitment to the producers. Interestingly, however, they noted that "it is always possible that a cable network (like the Sci-Fi Channel) will pick it up."

Keep your fingers crossed. Joe Morton was great. I can't remember having seen him in anything except "Terminator 2: Judgement Day." The entire cast was doing a great job, from what I could tell.

Agree or disagree? Feel free to e-mail me.
Nanecele

Nanecele

The great tragedy of UPN and WB is that they sucked out all the creative air in the room provided by a lot of the really imaginative stuff we were seeing in syndication in the early nineties, and replaced it with the "too many studio suits schlock" that the main three networks were still producing and still produce to this day.

The "Neat Idea" behind UPN was that they were going to create this network with a new Star Trek show at the center of it's content. But the problem was, they had to fill the rest of a schedule with content as well.

So let's do a story about a hospital on a space station. Okay, you had Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 running at about the same time, but both scheduled to come to an end soon.

What you got was a show that recycled every Medical Show Cliché imaginable into a Science Fiction slant. The old, "Anti-android bigot gets her life saved by an android." or "Injured athlete life is saved, but she has to adapt to not being the same anymore." We saw these clichés on M*A*S*H and every other medical show... and they were barely interesting then.