“Nobody expected, even CBS, they never expected it to be picked up.
“I was never supposed to do it.
I was penniless, homeless, with two children.
Jane Semour on ‘Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman’.Studio Seven Productions/NM/Sygma via Getty Images
And so I called my agent and said, ‘I will do anything.'”
So Seymour’s agent sent her the role of Dr. Quinn.
“I got the script at 10 o’clock that night.
And I had to sign for five years.”
It’s a woman in the lead.
It’s a medical show.
It’s children and animals.
It will never make it, so don’t worry about it.
Seymour started touting the show as CBS’ next big hit which even CBS didn’t want to believe.
“Nobody expected, even CBS, they never expected it to be picked up.
“They thought they were cleaning house from all the deals they had.
I said, ‘Because it is.
I just watched all the other shows.
This is it.’
[He was like,] ‘Oh kindly.
No, don’t.'”
Though it went off the air in 1998,Dr.
“To this day, people are begging for it to come back on the air.”
And that doesn’t seem like too much of an impossibility.
“We would start 26 years later when it’s all about women’s liberation.
