Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) film. In the beginning, the star of the show was Nancy Hsueh as Mia Elliott, daughter to the characters portrayed by William Holden and Jennifer Jones in the 1955 film. Mia left Hong Kong to study medicine in San Francisco, her late father's hometown, and there she became involved with two men: Vietnam War pilot Paul Bradley, and later Dr. Jim Abbott. However, CBS censors balked at an interracial love story between a white man and an Amerasian woman. The network was also uncomfortable with a developing subplot in which Jim Abbott was implicated in the death of a young
A Many Splendored Thing (Homicide: Life on the Street) the mood of the evening complaining about his romantic woes. Bolander, Munch and Linda leave together and walk to Fort McHenry, where Linda offers Munch words of encouragement. Impressed with her, Munch leaves Linda and Bolander alone, where they happily watch a fireworks show. "A Many Splendored Thing" was written by Noel Behn and directed by John McNaughton, who previously directed "Homicide" star Richard Belzer in the film "Mad Dog and Glory" (1993). Like the other three episodes, the script for "A Many Splendored Thing" was already finished by the time the ended, but due to poor Nielsen ratings throughout