What To Know
- Jane Seymour and Joe Lando revealed that a rejected Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman revival would have been set 30 years after the original.
- The reboot would have focused on the evolving relationship between Michaela and Sully.
- Seymour and Lando reunited onscreen in Harry Wild Season 5, premiering June 22 on Acorn TV.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman stars Jane Seymour and Joe Lando were trying to get a revival of the beloved series off the ground a couple of years ago, but the script was rejected. Seymour and Lando aren’t any less interested in making it, however. They shared what the reboot would’ve been about in TV Insider’s studio while promoting their onscreen reunion in Harry Wild Season 5, premiering June 22 on Acorn TV.
In Harry Wild, Lando will play “Pierce Kennedy,” the new State Pathologist, a charming and handsome natural ally for Harry (Seymour). Seymour previously told TV Insider that the Dr. Quinn revival’s script would have been set at the turn of the century and covered a lot of topics from the original series that are still relevant today.
“As a series, we would take it 30 years later,” Seymour said in 2022, before the revival got a pass from studio executives. “So it would be at the turn of the century, which would make it more interesting where the women’s movement began. We would have that, immigration, intolerance, murder, mayhem, and guns, and native people being used and abused, which is sadly going on today. We really had a go at it, but it’s sadly a never-ending cycle that makes it relevant today.”
In our New York City studio today (June 10), Seymour and Lando expanded on what Michaela and Sully’s romance would’ve been like in a Dr. Quinn revival.
“At this point, the Native Americans aren’t so much in our town, they’ve been driven away, so we’d have that going,” Lando said. “But also I think, in a relationship that goes that long, we all know that there’s times when we drift apart. The danger has always been before, in Dr. Quinn, it was an outsider, it was a bad guy. But now, it’s between us two.”
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“That’s what I liked a lot about the script, is that she’s some place in her life now, which is different, no kids. Her practice is different,” Lando continued. “And Sully, a lot of his world’s changed completely. The wolf that he always had, represented kind of like the Native American, and that whole culture was slowly going away, and so his life’s changed drastically, and they drifted apart a little bit at that point.”
The duo frequently finished each other’s thoughts during the conversation, proving they still shared chemistry.
“I think that would be the ultimate not only drama, but romance, because how do you come back to romance?” Seymour replied.
“How do you recapture that magic?” Lando added.
“I think that would be incredibly interesting for our audience,” Seymour said, “because everyone knows, like you said, if you have a very long marriage, it has its moments.”
Added Lando: “There’s ups and downs. It’s not always going to end with nice music and a great ending. It’s going to be rough, and I think that would get people really involved.”
There’s another interesting angle to revisiting the series now.
“Her career is now changing, and his career has definitely changed,” Seymour said, “but now he has an actual career, and the kids are now taking over, and they have different ideas. And the town burned down, didn’t it? In real life. And our set burned down, so we figure we could shoot it anywhere now, literally.”
The stars are game. Who’s going to make the Dr. Quinn revival happen?
Harry Wild, Season 5 Premiere, Monday, June 22, Acorn TV