CHRISTY

1. Christy

   Christy
   Format	Family drama
   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
   Broadcast
   Original channel	CBS
   Original run	April 3, 1994 – August 2, 1995

   Christy is an American 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. 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.^[1] Series regular Tyne Daly won an Emmy Award for her work on the series.                                                                        

   Storyline and characters

   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.
   The show's last episode was a cliffhanger concerning Christy's fate in the town and with the two rival male love interests. Later TV movies resolved the love triangle according the ending of the novel.^[2]
   Christy was developed for television by Emmy Award winning writer Patricia Green.                                credit:: Wikipedia