The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

145 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 2, 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.

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

145 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 2, 1979

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Columbia Pictures Television
Original title The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
Directors Guy Green
Writers Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, Joe Fineman

Cast

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