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
