First Steps

Overview

Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.

Cast

Amy Steel

Nan Davis

Judd Hirsch

Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky

Kim Darby

Sherry Petrofsky

Darlene Dotto

Reporter

Frances Lee McCain

Louise Davis

John Pankow

Fred

James B. Sikking

Jim Davis

David Packer

Brian

Ned Schmidtke

Dr. Chandler Phillips

Lucinda Jenney

Carolyn