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) 3:00 Eastern/2:00 Central. Procter & Gamble, which produced four of the network's serials, wanted their shows aired consecutively. CBS moved "Guiding Light", which had been airing at 2:30/1:30 since its expansion to thirty minutes in 1968, into the old "LIAMST" slot and moved "The Edge of Night" from its longtime 3:30/2:30 slot to complete the request (the schedules of "As the World Turns", which aired at 1:30/12:30, and "Search for Tomorrow", which aired at 12:30/11:30, were unaffected and the network did not program the thirty minutes in between). Shortly before the time change, the show had changed its emphasis from