At a time when the once prominent western programming category was virtually absent and family dramas like The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie were long gone, the arrival of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman successfully revived both genres. It premiered on CBS on this day in 1993, celebrating 30 years.
Set initially in 1867, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman featured Jane Seymour as Michaela Quinn, an independent young female doctor from Boston starting her own practice in the wild west town of Colorado Springs. Michaela makes the difficult adjustment to her new life with the aid of rugged outdoorsman and friend Byron Sully (Joe Lando) and a midwife named Charlotte Cooper (Diane Ladd). After Charlotte dies unexpectedly, Michaela is suddenly the caretaker for her three children: Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores, later Jessica Bowman) and Brian (Shawn Toovey).
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