"Ambitious, post-Civil War costume drama spanning 36 years which intertwines several stories of lust, power, greed and murder in dealing with two former army field doctors and their passion for their work and women in their lives."
David Birney
as Jonathan 'Jon' Ferrier
Barbara Parkins
as Hilda Eaton
Ralph Bellamy
as Dr. Jim Spaulding
Barry Brown
as Howard Best
Tom Bosley
as Dr. Louis Hedler/Narrator
Joan Van Ark
as Jane Robson
Ray Milland
as Jonas Witherby
Dan Dailey
as Father Maguire
J.D. Cannon
as Kenton Campion
Steve Forrest
as Martin Eaton
Cameron Mitchell
as Jeremiah Hadley
Inga Swenson
as Amelia Foster
Linda Purl
as Mavis Eaton
Margaret O'Brien
as Flora Bumpstead Eaton
Theodore Bikel
as Peter Heger
Leonard Frey
as David Paxton
David Huffman
as Harold Ferrier
Randolph Mantooth
as Father Frank McNulty
Kathleen Nolan
as Myrtle Heger
William Shatner
as Adrian Ferrier
Jack Laird
Producer
Gerald Fried
Original Music Composer
Jim Dickson
Director of Photography
William H. Tuntke
Art Direction
John E. Chilberg II
Isidore Mankofsky