Sorry to interject here but why would anybody have liked this show? From what I can recall most episodes had nothing real to do with that time period. It was like watching a bunch of people dressed in period costumes dealing with present day issues. Any realism on this show was purely on accident. Seemed like a chic drama or a romance novel on film. Did anybody ever get dirt on them in this frontier town? Even the Indians looked clean! Sorry but this show was pure corny hogwash.

GO AWAY!!!!!!! If you don't like the show, you don't belong here! Geesh, how hard is that to understand?

Most people here try to respect each other and I hate the Cosby Show but I don't go to that board and bash that show, it's just rude and disrespectful.

Topanga,
So let me get this straight. You call me rude and disrespectful because I express an honest view about a TV show? I thought message boards are about conversation and debate? Sounds to me like you are so hooked on that corny show that you can't even handle an opinion! Why do you think that it got cancelled?? You know, part of the fun of these boards is stirring up emotions. In your case I think it worked very well!
If you miss "Medicine Broad" so bad just go buy a romance novel off any drug store shelf.......it's all the same.

It doesn't have violence, foul language, or nudity!!
It has a little bit of everything!!
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Adventure but most of all it is a show the whole family could watch without worrying that the parents are afraid that their kids are watching stuff like NYPD Blue!!

While I will agree that this show is void of bad language and nudity it is, however, full of liberal teachings and ideas. Some of the typical themes and story lines of this show was like watching an infomercial for the Democratic party.

I didn't think about that now like they had a poet who was homosexual. In real life, the actor playing Matthew Cooper, Chad Allen is gay and said so on the show Entertainment Tonight a few years back!!

While I will agree that this show is void of bad language and nudity it is, however, full of liberal teachings and ideas. Some of the typical themes and story lines of this show was like watching an infomercial for the Democratic party.
But what you seem to forget is that there were pioneers back then, and Dr Michaela Quinn is modeled after them. I don't find it to hard to believe, that a woman doctor back in the 1870s would fight for women's rights, or even for the rights of the ethnical minorities (like indians (native Americans), black people, Jews, Chinese people...), believe in Charles Darwin's still controversial theories about evolution, and have (for the time) questionable books in her library... So whatever some critics of this show will say, I still have to say, that the scenarios in this show actually are realistic, or at least very likely.

Considering that I'm a 24-year-old Swedish girl, I'm a real conservative. (Remember that most other young people here in Sweden, especially the girls, are really liberal.) And I'm in no way any supporter of the Democratic party. If I had been American, I would sure have been a Republican. But "Dr Quinn, medicine woman" takes place in a time period, where there still were things going on, that even I, a conservative according to today's standards, would have wanted to change. And that's excactly what the "liberal" episodes on this show are trying to tell us, that some things back then just needed to change.

But what you seem to forget is that there were pioneers back then, and Dr Michaela Quinn is modeled after them. I don't find it to hard to believe, that a woman doctor back in the 1870s would fight for women's rights, or even for the rights of the ethnical minorities (like indians (native Americans), black people, Jews, Chinese people...), believe in Charles Darwin's still controversial theories about evolution, and have (for the time) questionable books in her library... So whatever some critics of this show will say, I still have to say, that the scenarios in this show actually are realistic, or at least very likely.

Considering that I'm a 24-year-old Swedish girl, I'm a real conservative. (Remember that most other young people here in Sweden, especially the girls, are really liberal.) And I'm in no way any supporter of the Democratic party. If I had been American, I would sure have been a Republican. But "Dr Quinn, medicine woman" takes place in a time period, where there still were things going on, that even I, a conservative according to today's standards, would have wanted to change. And that's excactly what the "liberal" episodes on this show are trying to tell us, that some things back then just needed to change.

Thank you! I agree with you 100%! I am a conservative Republican myself and even I agree with some of the things on the show that are considered liberal in todays's society. It was the pioneer days and things were much different back then. I would want women to have equal rights as well as other nationalites and so on. Even though I don't agree with Darwins theory of evolution (I'm a Christian), Dr. Quinn still believed in the teachings of the Bible while still considering Darwin's theory, she wasn't ruling out what-if's or when's and so on.
She was a strong, independent woman that wasn't afraid to voice her opinions as well as being one of the first women doctors. That was a huge accomplishment in those days.
I honestly loved this show and thought it was very realistically portrayed as well as being a good, wholesome family show. It was definitely canceled too soon in my opinion. They just don't make shows like that anymore. It wasn't much different than Little House on the Prairie in a lot of ways.

I guess I'm "old-fashioned," but I think family dramas, in the Michael Landon
tradition, are few and far between. I enjoyed Little House, Highway to
Heaven, Dr. Quinn, Touched by an Angel, Promised Land, 7th Heaven and
the regrettably short-lived Life Is Wild. I don't watch television for
realism; I watch it for escapism. If you want realism, there's a ton of "reality"
shows on TV.

Thank you! I agree with you 100%! I am a conservative Republican myself and even I agree with some of the things on the show that are considered liberal in todays's society. It was the pioneer days and things were much different back then. I would want women to have equal rights as well as other nationalites and so on. Even though I don't agree with Darwins theory of evolution (I'm a Christian), Dr. Quinn still believed in the teachings of the Bible while still considering Darwin's theory, she wasn't ruling out what-if's or when's and so on.
She was a strong, independent woman that wasn't afraid to voice her opinions as well as being one of the first women doctors. That was a huge accomplishment in those days.
I honestly loved this show and thought it was very realistically portrayed as well as being a good, wholesome family show. It was definitely canceled too soon in my opinion. They just don't make shows like that anymore. It wasn't much different than Little House on the Prairie in a lot of ways.
Well, I think Dr Quinn believed in Darwin's theories. She even taught them in the town's school, when she was a substitute teacher! People kept asking her "But aren't you a Christian?", because there are still people, who don't think you can believe in evolution and God at the same time, even though that's not true, and that was even more true back then in the 1870s. But she eventually explained her views brilliantly to the reverend, how the Bible isn't that wrong either, if you only think of the seven days of creation as millions of years instead.

And I must agree, that this show was pretty similar to "Little house on the praire". It's the same time period and the same feel.

I guess I'm "old-fashioned," but I think family dramas, in the Michael Landon
tradition, are few and far between. I enjoyed Little House, Highway to
Heaven, Dr. Quinn, Touched by an Angel, Promised Land, 7th Heaven and
the regrettably short-lived Life Is Wild. I don't watch television for
realism; I watch it for escapism. If you want realism, there's a ton of "reality"
shows on TV.
Well said! You can say the same thing about the Kellie Martin/Tyne Daly drama Christy, which aired on CBS from 1994-95, and of course The Waltons.

The show dealt with a lot of issues related to that time period. Such as the Chinese people building the railroad and using nitroglycerin, and the story lines with the Indians (Wa****a, Custer, etc.). And I recall hearing Jane saying that they always checked to make sure the medical story lines were historically accurate. Even the plastic surgery one! Granted, some of the liberal issues were a bit over the top for me, but it just isn't accurate to say they didn't deal with issues of the time period.

If you don't Like the show, why are you posting in its forums?

I agree the show was pretty realistic for the most part, but it did seem to push more liberal ideas and values. I remember a friend of mine saying once it was basically 19th century life with a more modern 20th century attitude. I really enjoyed it, but they started advocating more stuff I just don't agree with. After the episode where they basically promoted evolution and the idea that God could've used evolution to make the Earth and the universe I gave up on it.

Ed.

If you don't Like the show, why are you posting in its forums?
OP is entitled to his/her opinion on the show. That's why this is posted on this particular board. It is not a requirement to be a fan of the show to post on this board.
Complaints/debates are supposed to be welcome.

I agree the show was pretty realistic for the most part, but it did seem to push more liberal ideas and values.
You have to remember that it takes place in this era, when women still had very few rights, ethnical minorities had to face discrimination on a regular basis, and etc. The writers had to be liberal compared to what many people back then were, or they would have had to defend things like sexism and racism.

I remember a friend of mine saying once it was basically 19th century life with a more 20th century attitude.
It was of course written in the 1990s, not the 1870s. So again, what did you expect the writers to do? Defend that women hardly even had the right to vote, or that a black man was almost hung just for buying a house in a "white" neighborhood?

I really enjoyed it, but they started advocating more stuff I just don't agree with. After the episode where they basically promoted evolution and the idea that God could've used evolution to make the Earth and the universe I gave up on it.
Evolution is now considered to be a scientific fact. I know that some people still refuse to accept this, but you can't expect a TV show to share all your beliefs. And besides, that was only one episode out of the six seasons of this show. But if you don't want to give it a second chance, that is your loss.

I never liked Cosby Show, but I did like Cosby in his Show before that where he played the coach.The main reason that I think CBS canceled it was because it wasn't
making money on Dr.Quinn.
There were millions of people out there that valued the show as a family show.

I watch it from time to time. Nothing wrong with conservative values or liberal values.
Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is great, but you got to get the bootstraps to pull up in the first place.

And what's your point Furienna? Slavery (the owning of other humans as property) was once accepted as a fact of life too, that didn't make it right. You can say all you want that evolution is a "scientific fact" but that doesn't make it true. But I don't have the time or the energy to waste arguing with you about it.

Ed.

Yet again, evolution was only discussed in one episode out of 149! One episode out of six seasons! There are some epsiodes on this show, that I don't like either. But that doesn't keep me from enjoying the other 140+ epsiodes. And if that makes you feel better, most of the characters in that episode did not believe in evolution. Just like most people didn't do back in 1870.

Nothing wrong with conservative values or liberal values.


The problem is not conservative or liberal values.

The problem is that TV has only liberal values. Conservative writers don't exist in Hollywood.

And the ironic part of that is that Hollywood liberals never stop complaining about the 1950's blacklist against communists yet they have done the same thing for the last 50 years against anyone that's not a radical liberal.

The problem is not conservative or liberal values.

The problem is that TV has only liberal values. Conservative writers don't exist in Hollywood.

And the ironic part of that is that Hollywood liberals never stop complaining about the 1950's blacklist against communists yet they have done the same thing for the last 50 years against anyone that's not a radical liberal.

Gotcha

The problem is not conservative or liberal values.

The problem is that TV has only liberal values. Conservative writers don't exist in Hollywood.

And the ironic part of that is that Hollywood liberals never stop complaining about the 1950's blacklist against communists yet they have done the same thing for the last 50 years against anyone that's not a radical liberal.
And yet, "Dr Quinn" generally gave us a portrayal of Christian faith.
That is not what you expect from Hollywood radicals.

(And by the way, they are not Liberals and shouldn't be called that.)