Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman: the Heart Within

Jane Seymour and Joe Lando leave their frontier town and head for Boston in this TV-movie spin-off from the long-running TV western series. But any hopes they had of turning the trip into a second honeymoon are dashed by Quinn's mother's ill health, the prejudicial treatment of Colleen (Jessica Bowman) on her graduation from medical school and the schemes of a ruthless band of city elders. Director Jerry London generates a credible 19th-century atmosphere, but it's somewhat undermined by the resort to such melodramatic set pieces as an emergency tracheotomy and a hatchet-wielding showdown between Lando and the corrupt politicians. Fans won't complain, however.