
02/01/1979
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.

Lindsay Wagner
as Dr. Meg Laurel

Jane Wyman
as Granny Arrowroot

Dorothy McGuire
as Effie Webb

Andrew Duggan
as Judge Adamson

Gary Lockwood
as Harley Moon

Brock Peters
as Joe

John Reilly
as Thom Laurel

Charles Tyner
as Doug Slocomb

James Woods
as Sin Eater

Woodrow Parfrey
as Messerschmidt

Peggy Walton-Walker
as Mrs. Slocomb

Kath Soucie
as Becca

Tracey Gold
as Laurie Mae Moon

Cherilyn Parsons
as Sophie Pride

Tom Spratley
as The Dentist

Gary Graham
as Jacob Barth

Ray Young
as Joel

Gloria Stuart
as Rose Hooper

Mary Ellen O'Neill
as Granny Bacon

Meegan King
as Willis

David Gregory
as Herm

Henry G. Sanders
as Harve

Dee Croxton
as Mildred Koch

Hazel Johnson
as Vyrle Macy

Pauline McFadgen
as Corra Macy

Stephanie Smith
as Camille Kapp

Carolyn Jane Reed
as Mrs. Pride

Ronald Peterson
as Joshua Moon

John Driscoll
as Walt Ridgeway

Sam J. Jones
as Roy

Philip Schultz
as Butler

Dan Kemp
as Man #1

Diane Fetterly
as Woman #1

Sharon McGrath
as Twelve-Year-Old Meg

Marta Nichols
as Seven-Year-Old Meg

Genevieve Beauvais
as Meg Middle
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