The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (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.
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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.
Rating:NR
Genre:Drama, TV Movie, Adventure
Written By:Douglas Schwartz, Michael Berk, Joe Fineman
In Theaters:1/2/1979
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Runtime:145 minutes
Studio:Columbia Pictures Television, CBS
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