"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
Tracey Gold
as Laurie Mae Moon
Cherilyn Parsons
as Sophie Pride
Tom Spratley
as The Dentist
Gary Graham
as Jacob Barth
Ray Young
as Joel
Gloria Stuart
as Rose Hooper
Mary Ellen O'Neill
as Granny Bacon
Meegan King
as Willis
David Gregory
as Herm
Henry G. Sanders
as Harve
Dee Croxton
as Mildred Koch
Hazel Johnson
as Vyrle Macy
Pauline McFadgen
as Corra Macy
Stephanie Smith
as Camille Kapp
Carolyn Jane Reed
as Mrs. Pride
Ronald Peterson
as Joshua Moon
John Driscoll
as Walt Ridgeway
Sam J. Jones
as Roy
Philip Schultz
as Butler
Dan Kemp
as Man #1
Diane Fetterly
as Woman #1
Sharon McGrath
as Twelve-Year-Old Meg
Marta Nichols
as Seven-Year-Old Meg
Genevieve Beauvais
as Meg Middle
Guy Green
Director
Douglas Schwartz
Writer
Paul B. Radin
Producer
Ron Samuels
Executive Producer
Gerald Fried
Music
Al Francis
Director of Photography
G. Pat Clark
Editor
Jack De Shields
Art Direction
Audrey A. Blasdel
Set Decoration
Jim Duffy
Grady Hunt
Costume Design
Michael Berk
Joe Fineman
Terry Smith
Makeup Artist
Virginia G. Hadfield
Hairstylist
Charles Spurgeon
Special Effects