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
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) of us. Goodbye, and God bless you." "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" owed its existence to CBS daytime head Fred Silverman, who openly favored serials over game shows. Its predecessor at 2:00 PM Eastern/1 Central was the original run of "Password", which had run aground against NBC's serial "Days of Our Lives" and ABC's "The Newlywed Game." Despite high hopes on the network's part, "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" struggled against that competition, and could not keep the viewers from its lead in, the #1 serial "As the World Turns". On September 11, 1972, CBS moved "LIAMST" to