Christy (TV series)
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| Created by | Catherine Marshall (author of novel) |
| Starring |
Kellie Martin Tyne Daly Randall Batinkoff Stewart Finlay-McLennan |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 21 3 Television movies (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45–48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | The Rosenzweig Company MTM Enterprises |
| Distributor | 20th Century Fox Television |
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| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | April 3, 1994 – August 2, 1995 |
Christy is an American period drama series which aired on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995, for twenty episodes.
Christy was based on the novel Christy by Catherine Marshall, the widow of Senate chaplain Peter Marshall. Inspired by the experiences of the author's mother, the novel had been a bestseller in 1968, and the week following the debut of the TV-movie and program saw the novel jump from #120 up to #15 on the USA Today bestseller list. Series regular Tyne Daly won an Emmy Award for her work on the series.
The show starred Kellie Martin as Christy Huddleston, a new teacher arriving to the fictional Appalachian village of Cutter Gap, Tennessee, in 1912. The villagers have old-fashioned ways. For example, they maintain rules and vengeances similar to the Highland clans of old Scotland. They also have a strong belief in folk medicine. At the same time many of their ways are portrayed in an idealized fashion as well. The show emphasized their culture by making Christy, and most of the main cast, outsiders in one fashion or the other. These "outsiders" included a minister, David Grantland (played by Randall Batinkoff); and Quaker missionary woman Alice Henderson, played by Tyne Daly. The television show maintained the book's romance novel element by showing Christy drawn both to the minister and the doctor.
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