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I love this show...I just reread the book, which made it bother me all the more when Margaret came "back from the dead."

And...to the person who hated the age difference between Christy and Neil...in the book, she was 19 and he was in his thirties. As much as this weirds me out, it was the case.

I absolutely loved this show and watched with my mother and daughter. Wholesome, yet entertaining family show. And I love the fact that it included a lot of scenes filmed outdoors instead of on fakey looking sets. Such a shame it was cancelled so soon!

i loved the show and am trying to find the movies but yes i hate when they change actors for the new movies it ruines the efect you spend the intire time remembering who is who. so to all the old actors please hear everyones crys and cometogether to make one finle movie together and do it right please of all of us

Although I loved the book, and liked this series, the casting of Christy and the doctor was totally unblievable - the age difference made it almost seem incestuous. I couldn't watch too much of it after their relationship began to 'blossom'.

This show was awesome. The music was beautiful, the imagery of the Smoky Mountains was breathtaking, and Dr. MacNeill was really sexy. Kellie Martin really brought life to her role, unlike the other girl in the PAX movies (she was one of the worst actresses I have ever seen - completely wooden and unconvincing). The only thing that I wonder about was Margaret the undead wife. And if that wasn't enough, then she developed tuberculosis...I picture Dr. MacNeill yelling "DIE ALREADY, YOU UNSCRUPULOUS BITCH!" in that sexy Scottish brogue. That would have been a nice touch.

I LOVED this show! I was SO upset when they cancelled it. Everything about it was perfect, except of course when dead Margaret came back. (Dramatic Sting) The book, of course, is even better, but what really impressed me was how true to the book the first movie, and then the series, stayed to the plot in the book. The TV version only helped to create real-life images of the characters and events in the book, written by Catherine Marshall. Incidentally, "Christy" is a true story, based on the life of Catherine Marshall's grandmother. Catherine Marshall wrote several more wonderful books, one in particular called "Julie", based on her mother's life, and another, "A Man Called Peter" the story of her husband, Peter Marshall. If you loved "Christy", I strongly suggest these other two books. ..Why is it though that a clean, wholesome, educational, wonderful show is finally produced, and they go and CANCEL it to make room for garbage?

It never jumped. So many of the shows I've really loved just seem to disappear. Christy was one of them. I liked K.Martin as Christy and I think Dr. O'Neil was terrific. The actress who played "Fairlight" was wonderful too. What ever ailed CBS to cancel this show? Everyone I know who saw it loved it.

I feel this show did not have enough time to jump the shark. CBS made one of their worst programming decisions in canceling this show. Christy was quality family programming. It dealt with issues that are still relevant today, that are timeless. Issues of questioning one's faith and not being afraid to step outside of our comfort zone to do a greater good. I have met some of the cast members, they are very down to earth and truly believed in what they were doing.

Catherine Marshall wrote a beautiful book about a young woman and her romances in Cutter Gap. Making the doctor's wife live again goes against everything in the book. Here Margaret was dead; she had died of typhoid. But in the tv show Margaret is alive again! And Christy is flirting with a MARRIED man. Terrible! In the book, Christy gives her heart to the widowed doctor and he learns to love again. The tv show just cheapened everything. It deserved to die as soon as Margaret came back to life and Christy was flirting with a MARRIED man. They turned an innocent young Christy into a slut. For shame. Good back and read the book. It is beautiful.

The book is one of my favorites of all time, and Kellie Martin was just right in the title role. At the outset, Christy bore a strong resemblance to Little House on the Prairie. You had a pretty, enthusiastic young schoolteacher (LHOP's Laura, Christy) determined to make a difference, and both series took place in poor communities (LHOP took place in the Western frontier, Christy in the Smoky Mountains) with colorful folk, with both heroines providing off-screen narration. Not to mention that Dr. MacNeill on Christy bore a passing resemblance to LHOP's Doc Baker! Christy could have been the Little House of the next generation given half the chance. However, the emerging love triangle is what truly made Christy great. Neil was her match in every way. There was such a deep love, passion and understanding that went unspoken between those two, and there was a unique chemistry between Kellie Martin and Stewart Finlay-McClennan that made their scenes together real and a joy to watch. I remember one scene where Neil accidentally brushed Christy's hand and they didn't break eye contact for several seconds. That was far more moving and convincing than the kiss Christy and David later shared. The "twist" of bringing the "dead" wife Margaret onto the show was the move that sent the show sailing over the shark. I was really angry when I learned Pam Long, a former soap opera actor and writer wrote that episode. Bringing back a "dead" character on soaps can work if the story is written carefully and well, but doing that to Christy cheapened the show's quality, made it nearly impossible for Christy and Neil to get together, and paved the way for the crummy PAX movies. I also wish the show had dealt more with Christy's trying struggles in her faith, which was so engrossing in the book. For those who were mad that Kellie Martin didn't reprise the role, she'd have been too old for the role at that point and (no doubt due to tragedy in her personal life) probably a bit jaded to give Christy the fresh, naive qualities that she's always had. For all its flaws, this was a quality program with gifted actors, gorgeous scenery and exceptional production values. It's too bad that CBS tossed this gem out in the trash without a second thought.

I loved this show, It should never have been canceled. In the book and then in a reunion show, Christy marries Dr. McNeil. In the book David leaves. In the reunion show, Christy is talking with her daughter who has red hair and they talk about her dad, and how he saved so many lives and then talked about how Christy and Dr. McNeil got stuck in a cabin together.

I loved the book and loved the show. There were plenty of things in the show that were not in the book that I didn't really mind. But when Margaret tuned out to be alive, it was just too much. The show was good enough, and there was already a love triangle, so there was no need for the added drama of a suddenly non-dead wife. In addition, I agree that the movies were somewhat odd due to the fact that so many actors were replaced but the doctor remained the same. As much as I like the actor, he did look more like her father than her husband.

Bringing back dead Margaret made this show jump the shark. She was dead, period. As for the new movies, they were awful. The new Christy was horrid as was the new David. The doctor guy was simply too old to play the doctor. He should have been replaced by someone younger. He looked like Christy's father or grandfather, not her groom. There is just so much that plastic surgery can do!

I know a lot of us had problems with the Christy PAX movies. And yes I was disappointed that Kellie Martin, Tyne Daly and Randall Batinkoff didn't reprise their roles. But the new actors brought different depths to their characters. The new Christy actress brought more of a refined feeling to the character, maybe closer to the real-life Christy who seemed a little tomboyish when Martin played it (I liked the Martin version better but am not to dump on someone who is asked to take over a role that is impossible to fill). The new David seemed less assured of himself than the old but hey you be whipped too if the chick you love kept saying yes,then no. We needed a conclusion to the story and we got it. If the morons at the network would have let it run longer than like two partial seasons, we could have gotten the wedding we wanted.

I liked the show a great deal, and I definately wasn't happy when they cancelled it. So I was happy to see that there was a four hour movie that wrapped up the story and showed who she married. Ir was called Christy:Choices of the heart. Instead, it should have been called, Christy: How to make a good t.v. show incredibly dull. The girl they got to play Christy was annoying, and she couldn't act. Ditto for whoever played the preacher. They still had the same guy playing the Doctor, but he couldn't carry the movie all by himself, much as he tried. The movie lagged so much in places I went to get something to eat for twenty minutes, and didn't miss a thing. Also, it was sappy and preachy, and the dialogue was atrocious. All in all, I was happy to see the end of such a poorly made piece of crap, and even Christy finally marrying the Doctor wasn't as thrilling as it should have been. Thank you, PAX, for ruining a perfectly splendid t.v. show with a truly terrible t.v. movie.