Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Sawyer calls Jack Dr. Quinn., a reference to the classic TV show Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. Dr. Quinn was a pioneer woman in medicine.
The series begins in the year 1867 and centers on a proper female physician from Boston, Massachusetts, Michaela "Dr. Mike" Quinn (played by British actress Jane Seymour). After the death of her father, Dr. Mike sets out to the small wild west town of Colorado Springs, to set up her own practice. She makes the difficult adjustment to life in Colorado with the aid of rugged outdoorsman and friend to the Cheyenne, Byron Sully (played
by American actor Joe Lando) and a midwife named Charlotte Cooper (played by Diane Ladd).
After Charlotte is bitten by a snake, she asks Michaela on her death
bed to look after her three children, Matthew, Colleen and Brian. Dr.
Mike settles in Colorado Springs
and adapts to her new life with the children while finding love with
Sully. Furthermore, she casts herself into a one-woman mission to
convince the townspeople that a woman doctor can practice medicine.
