


PROVIDENCE
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01-29-1999 8:00PM
SYDNEY CAN’T CONNECT WITH ABUSIVE DRUG ADDICT; HOWIE MANDEL GUEST-STARS AS HIMSELF — Sydney (Melina Kanakaredes) is frustrated when she is constantly rebuffed while trying to treat a self-destructive drug addict (guest star Alanna Ubach) whose blood tests indicate she might also be HIV-positive. Meanwhile, normally mild-mannered Jim (Mike Farrell) risks going to jail and losing his veterinary license when he kidnaps a sickly chimpanzee from the city zoo to determine his mystery illness — and prove that an obstructive zoo official (guest star Dakin Matthews) is wrong in his diagnosis. Howie Mandel (‘The Howie Mandel Show’) guest-stars as himself when he appears in a special video valentine to Sydney from her ex-boyfriend, a Hollywood agent. (Mandel re-teams with ‘Providence’ executive producer/creator John Masius, a former executive producer of ‘St. Elsewhere,’ which starred Mandel). Paula Cale, Seth Peterson and Leslie Silva also star..
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