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-Splintered Thing people. This made it the second most watched show on Fox's Animation Domination line up that night after "Family Guy", beating "Bob's Burgers, American Dad!", and "The Cleveland Show". The episode was met with mostly negative reviews, with Robert David Sullivan of "The A.V. Club" giving it a D+, saying, "This is an unusually focused story for The Simpsons, but it's padded out by self-deprecating cameos and perfunctory, "Family Guy"-style celebrity impressions." Rob H. Dawson of "TV Equals" said, "I just found 'Love is a Many Splintered Thing' to be completely boring and unsatisfying, is all." Love Is a Many-Splintered