Jane Seymour and Joe Lando Reveal What Fans Would Have Seen in Scrapped 'Dr. Quinn' Reboot

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman stars Jane Seymour and Joe Lando are giving fans an inside look at what could have been with the scrapped reboot of the beloved series.

Seymour and Lando, who played Michaela Quinn and Byron Sully on the CBS Western, respectively, opened up about the rejected 2020s revival ahead of their onscreen reunion in Acorn TV's Harry Wild Season 5, premiering June 22.

"At this point, the Native Americans aren't so much in our town, they've been driven away, so we'd have that going," Lando told TV Insider on Wednesday, June 10. "But also I think, in a relationship that goes that long, we all know that there's times when we drift apart. The danger has always been before, in Dr. Quinn, it was an outsider, it was a bad guy. But now, it's between us two."

Lando said he liked that Dr. Quinn was in a "different" place in her life in the reboot script, with no kids and a practice that had also changed. Viewers would have also found Sully in a new stage of life, as "a lot of his world's changed completely."

"The wolf that he always had, represented kind of like the Native American, and that whole culture was slowly going away, and so his life's changed drastically, and they drifted apart a little bit at that point," he revealed.

Seymour chimed in that bringing Dr. Quinn and Sully back together would have been "the ultimate" drama and romance and "incredibly interesting" for the audience.

"[Dr. Quinn's] career is now changing, and [Sully's] career has definitely changed," Seymour went on, "but now he has an actual career, and the kids are now taking over, and they have different ideas."

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman originally aired for six seasons on CBS from 1993 to 1998 and was followed up by movie sequels in 1999 and 2001.

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This story was originally published June 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM.