When Calls the Heart is an American-Canadian television drama series, inspired by Janette Oke's book When Calls the Heart from her Canadian West Series, and developed by Michael Landon, Jr. The series began airing on the Hallmark Channel in the United States on January 11, 2014, and on April 16, 2014 on Super Channel in Canada.
Another feel-good Hallmark channel type of family entertainment with likeable characters and wellcrafted positive scripting. Note director is Michael Landon Jr whose dad produced the series Little House On The Prairie for a previous generation of TV viewers.
The series originally debuted as a two-hour television movie pilot in October 2013, starring Maggie Grace as young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher and Stephen Amell as Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Wynn Delaney. In the television series Erin Krakow is cast as her niece, whose name is also Elizabeth Thatcher, and Daniel Lissing plays a Mountie named Jack Thornton, with Lori Loughlin reprising her role as coal mine widow Abigail Stanton. The series was renewed for a second season, which aired from April 25 to June 13, 2015.
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When Calls The Heart is the story of Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young school teacher in 1910 who, through the discovery of her aunt's secret diary, finds the courage to leave her big city home to accept a teaching position in a frontier coal mining town. And in the process, she also finds the potential for love with a handsome Royal Canadian Mountie. Directed and Written By Michael Landon Jr, and based off the best selling books by award winning author Janette Oke.
When Calls The Heart is the story of Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young school teacher in 1910 who, through the discovery of her aunt's secret diary, finds the courage to leave her big city home to accept a teaching position in a frontier coal mining town. And in the process, she also finds the potential for love with a handsome Royal Canadian Mountie. Directed and Written By Michael Landon Jr, and based off the best selling books by award winning author Janette Oke.