Lindsay Wagner TV Movie Double Feature (The Incredible Journey of Dr. Meg Laurel / Passions)

The Incredible Story Of Dr. Meg Laurel (1979)

Lindsay Wagner stars in this inspiring story about a Harvard-educated doctor who returns to her home in rural Appalachia in the 1930s in order to provide much-needed medical care to the poor. But she finds her toughest job will be to win over the local backwoods folk healer (Jane Wyman) who doesn’t cotton to modern science. With Andrew Duggan, Gary Lockwood, Brock Peters, James Woods. 143 min. C/Rtg: NR

Passions (1984)

When her businessman husband (Richard Crenna) abruptly dies, the new widow (Joanne Woodward) comes to find that her heartbreak is just beginning, as she learns that he’d been maintaining a second household with a mistress (Lindsay Wagner)...who’d given him a young son. The courtroom war over the family estate makes for high drama in this made-for-TV effort co-starring Heather Langenkamp, Viveca Lindfors, John Considine, Mason Adams co-star. 83 min. C/Rtg: NR

Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.