The Awakening Land

The Awakening Land is a 1978 television miniseries based on Conrad Richter's trilogy of novels: The Trees; The Fields; and The Town, published from 1940 to 1950. The series originally aired on NBC in three installments from February 19 to February 21, 1978; directed by Boris Sagal, it starred Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook. Premise The storyline follows the struggle of Sayward Luckett (Montgomery) after she travels to the unsettled Ohio Valley frontier from post-revolutionary Pennsylvania. She and her family carve out a homestead in the forest, and a community with other settlers. The series follows Sayward from a young single woman, left with three sisters to raise after their mother dies and their father abandons the family, to a married woman who has her own family of seven. Her faithful devotion to her family is recounted against the day-to-day struggle for survival. Main cast Elizabeth Montgomery ... Sayward Luckett Wheeler Hal Holbrook ... Portius Wheeler Jane Seymour ... Genny Luckett Steven Keats ... Jake Tench Louise Latham ... Jary Luckett William H. Macy ... Will Beagle Jeanette Nolan ... Granny McWhirter Bert Remsen ... Isaac Barker Charles Gowan ... Alan Hamilton Sean Frye ... Resolve Wheeler, as youth Tracy Kleronomos ... Dezia Wheeler Katy Kurtzman ... Rosa Tench Byrne Piven ... Dr. Pearsall Julie Gibson ... Lady Peddler Production notes