Synopsis:
"Providence,"
which became television’s highest-rated new drama of the 1999-2000
season when it premiered in January 1999, is a family drama series
created by John Masius (Touched
by an Angel, St. Elsewhere) and starring Melina Kanakaredes
(Leaving L.A.)as an
altruistic plastic surgeon who abandons her career specialty and
unfulfilling lifestyle to return to her colorful family and hometown
in Providence, Rhode Island.
Dr. Sydney
Hansen (Kanakaredes) entered the field of cosmetic surgery with
noble ambitions, but several years of performing collagen lip
treatments and nose jobs for celebrities and over-privileged teenagers
in Los Angeles began to erode her sense of purpose. Sydney’s disenchantment
with her career combined with a relationship breakup and a family
crisis prompted her to move back to the safe haven of Providence
to find fulfillment working in a low-income medical clinic.
Following
the death of her mother, Lynda (Concetta Tomei, Murphy Brown),
Sydney sometimes feels that the collective weight of the close-knit
Hansen clan has become her responsibility, in particular her father
Jim (Mike Farrell, M*A*S*H), who relates better to the cuddly
animals in his veterinary practice than he does to his family.
Sydney’s younger sister Joanie (Paula Cale) is an unwed mother
who divides her time between her infant daughter and running a
trendy pet food store. Robbie (Seth Peterson, Profiler) is Sydney’s
scheming, bad-boy baby brother.
As if Sydney’s
reality check needed any more familial interference, her dreams
are frequently interrupted by the presence of her overbearing
mother, who brusquely imparts wisdom and advice from her vantage
point in the hereafter.
(Courtesy NBC Entertainment, 2001/2002)
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