The television show maintained the book's romance novel element by showing Christy drawn both to the minister and the doctor. These "outsiders" included a minister, David Grantland (played by Randall Batinkoff) and Quaker missionary woman Alice Henderson, played by Tyne Daly. The show emphasized their culture by making Christy, and most of the main cast, outsiders in one fashion or the other. At the same time many of their ways are portrayed in an idealized fashion as well. They also have a strong belief in folk medicine. For example, they maintain rules and vengeances similar to the Highland clans of old Scotland. The show starred Kellie Martin as Christy Huddleston, a new teacher arriving to the fictional Appalachian village of Cutter Gap, Tennessee, in 1912.
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