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Series Description

The City Of Angels TV show was a 60 minute drama series that aired on CBS for only 22 episodes in 2000. It was about the Doctors in a metropolitan hospital with one big difference! It was the first one where most of the cast was Afro-American. It followed the personal and professional lives of the doctors and nurses working at the "Angels Of Mercy" Hospital in Los Angeles, California.

City Of Angels Cast

Phil Buckman .... Doctor Geoffrey Weiss
Viola Davis .... Nurse Lynnette Peeler
Blair Underwood .... Doctor Ben Turner
Michael Warren .... Ron Harris
Hill Harper .... Doctor Wesley Williams
T. E. Russell .... Doctor Arthur Jackson
Eric "Ty" Hodges II .... Martin Coleman
Maya Rudolph .... Nurse Grace Patterson
Robert Morse .... Edwin O'Malley
Vivica A. Fox .... Doctor Lillian Price
Kyle Secor .... Doctor Raleigh Stewart
Gabrielle Union .... Doctor Courtney Ellis