The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

Synopsis

A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.

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Key crew

• Guy GreenDirector
• Douglas SchwartzWriter
• Michael BerkWriter
• Joe FinemanWriter
• Gerald FriedOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Lindsay WagnerDr. Meg Laurel
• Jane WymanGranny Arrowroot
• Dorothy McGuireEffie Webb
• Andrew DugganJudge Adamson
• Gary LockwoodHarley Moon
• Brock PetersJoe
• John ReillyThom Laurel
• Charles TynerDoug Slocomb
• James WoodsSin Eater
• Woodrow ParfreyMesserschmidt
• Peggy Walton-WalkerMrs. Slocomb
• Kath SoucieBecca

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