("Dr. Quinn") quickly caught on with a largely female audience, running for six seasons. Itremains very popular in syndication even today.
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As Wall Street plummets, credit markets seize up and the great nation of Iceland may be forced to put Bjork up on EBay to fend off bankruptcy, let me take this time to say "Happy Holidays!" Or, for you Bill O´Reilly fans, "Happy Kwanzaa."
The gift sets are arriving in bulk in your humble reviewers´ mail boxes at this time of year, and none have taken up more space than this leviathan called "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Complete Series."
This epic series obviously requires an epic set, and A&E Home Video has certainly stepped up to the plate. This boxed set includes 42 discs with all 150 episodes of all six seasons of "Dr. Quinn" as well as two "Dr. Quinn" TV movies.
This is an absolutely beautiful set. Inside of a sturdy faux-leather slipcase (with an admittedly somewhat chintzy glued-on photo cover) is a giant box designed like a folding file with 24 "pages" inside, including two discs each in their own sleeves with episode descriptions on each page. This set is so huge that the table of contents/episode guide in the front actually tells you what page each disc can be found on and ends with an index of alphabetized episodes and their corresponding page numbers.
I have never seen an episode of "Dr. Quinn" and I´m not about to start now. I´m not exactly the target demographic. I´m also not going to try to fake my way around my total ignorance of the series, so I will simply offer you the Wikipedia summary of the show:
The series begins in the year 1867 and centers on a proper and wealthy female physician from Boston, Massachusetts: Michaela Quinn, also called Dr. Mike (played by British actress Jane Seymour). After the death of her father Josef Quinn, Dr. Mike sets out west to the small wild west town of Colorado Springs, to set up her own practice. She makes the difficult adjustment to life in Colorado with the aid of rugged outdoorsman and friend to the Cheyenne Byron Sully (American actor Joe Lando) and a midwife named Charlotte Cooper (played by Diane Ladd). After Charlotte is bitten by a rattlesnake, she asks Michaela on her deathbed to look after her three children, Matthew (played by Chad Allen), Colleen (played by Erika Flores and later Jessica Bowman) and Brian (played by Shawn Toovey). Dr. Mike settles in Colorado Springs and adapts to her new life as a mother with the children while eventually finding love with Sully. Furthermore, she casts herself into a one-woman mission to convince the townspeople that a female doctor can successfully practice medicine.
(End of Wikipedia cut and paste.)
The show struggled in its earliest days with a poorly-reviewed 1992 pilot episode that was broadcast against the Orange Bowl. However, it quickly caught on with a largely female audience, running for six seasons. It remains very popular in syndication even today. The romance between Dr. Mike and Sully was (I have read) the show´s main driving force, but it also occasionally took on controversial topics like homosexuality in an episode that featured Walt Whitman as a guest character.
The series was created and written by Beth Sullivan. Though the stories are fictional, Sullivan made heavy use of the real time and setting of 1860s/70s Colorado Springs, and sprinkled in several historical events to lend the series more authenticity.
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