| Switched at Birth | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Michael O'Hara |
| Directed by | Waris Hussein |
| Starring | Bonnie Bedelia Brian Kerwin John M. Jackson Ariana Richards Erika Flores |
| Music by | Marvin Hamlisch |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Richard Heus Lawrence Horowitz Barry Morrow Michael O'Hara Jeff Wald Mayank Velhankar |
| Producer | Ervin Zavada |
| Cinematography | Robert Steadman |
| Editors | Paul Dixon James Galloway |
| Running time | 186 minutes |
| Production companies | Columbia Pictures Television Morrow-Heus Productions O'Hara-Horowitz Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | April 28, 1991 |
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Switched at Birth is a 1991 American miniseries directed by Waris Hussein. It is based on the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg, babies switched soon after birth in a Florida hospital in 1978.[1] NBC aired the production as a two-part miniseries over two consecutive nights on April 28, 1991.[2][3]
- ^ Drew, Mike (April 28, 1991). "Emotions Aren't Only Thing Being Exploited in New TV Movie". The Milwaukee Journal. Retrieved June 20, 2011 – via Google News.
- ^ "Switched At Birth". TV Tango.
- ^ Richmond, Ray (November 29, 1999). "Two Babies: Switched at Birth". Variety.
It was on April 28, 1991 that NBC rolled out a two-night miniseries entitled "Switched at Birth" that dramatized the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg, children who were unwittingly switched in a hospital nursery as infants and raised by the wrong parents for a full decade before the error was detected. The docudrama emerged as one of the year's highest-rated longforms.