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Production and year: USA, 1993 directed by James Keach Genre: drama, western Cast: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando
Description:
It is a cult American serial, the story begins in the year 1867 in the wild west in a small town - Colorado Springs. It tells a story about a brave female physician, who has finished the faculty of medicine in Harvard University and after her father's death she abandons Boston to set up her practice in Colorado Springs. All in all, the number of episodes reached 148! Obviously in all of them dr. Michaela Quinn, also called Dr. Mike helps the local town dwellers. Her first experience was a flu epidemic. She was also struggling with burns, typhus, delivery in a stable and so on.. She even succeeded in bringing back vision to her adopted son! The serial is multi threaded, because apart from the diseases, treated using even Native American methods it shows fundamental problems of equality, women rights, problems of adolescence, love and coexistence of Whites and Native American People.
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