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Episode Details: The Boy in the Bubble

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The Boy in the Bubble

Series: American Experience

Season: Season 18

Episode Number: 10

Air Date:

Duration: 55 min

The absorbing story of David Vetter (1971-84), who had severe combined immunodeficiency and lived inside a sterile plastic chamber for 12 years. Included: comments from his mother, Carol Ann Vetter Demaret; and from doctors, who discuss their feelings about the use of the plastic chamber. Also: examinations of the boy's birth and his death, which occurred following a bone-marrow transplant from his sister.

Cast and Guests

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Campbell Scott

Narrator (voice)

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