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Star Jane Seymour claimed that Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, which aired for 150 episodes and two TV movies, was nearly never real.
“I never should have done that. In an EW Role Call interview, Seymour reflects on her many memorable performances and states, “It was never even supposed to be made.” She met the CBS drama during the dissolution of her marriage to money manager David Flynn, who had led her into some regrettable transactions. “I lost everything in a terrible divorce that followed our marriage and the birth of our two children,” she remarked. “I had litigation from every big bank, including the FDIC, and I was about $9 million in the hole. I had no money, was homeless,
Thus, she received the Dr. Quinn part from Seymour’s agent. That evening at ten o’clock, I received the script. I had to decide at ten in the morning whether to go straight to wardrobe at noon and begin filming at six the next morning. I also had to sign a five-year contract.” Although the actress was concerned that it would prevent her from seeing a comedy that the Paramount guys had been developing for her, “they answered, ‘Oh, do not worry about it. The main character is a lady. This is a medical program. It involves kids and animals. movie is dusty, which indicates that movie is a Western; also, it is a historical piece with moral lessons.
But Seymour knew Dr. Quinn “simply had a charm to it” the moment she arrived on set with Joe Lando, “my dearest male buddy, to this day”: All of it was simply operating. Additionally, it made sense for me since I was at my lowest point in life and there was this woman who had returned to the West and needed to cope with all of these difficulties in addition to myself.”
