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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

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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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1979-01-02

Runtime: 145 mins

Director: Guy Green

Writer: Douglas Schwartz, Michael Berk, Joe Fineman

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama, TV Movie, Adventure

Original title: The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

Production Companies: Columbia Pictures Television, CBS

Production Countries: United States of America

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