Hallmark Channel is featuring a Love Saga movie marathon for the weekend of January 21-22, 2012. The Love Saga is a series of movies based upon the books by Janette Oke. The marathon begins with "Love Comes Softly" and continues with "Love's Long Journey," Love's Unending Legacy," "Love's Unfolding Dream," "Love Takes Wing," "Love's Enduring Promise," "Love Begins" and "Love's Everlasting Courage."
Janette Oke, America’s premier writer of faith fiction, further depicts the simple, charming life of settlers in North America who face hardships and heartaches and whose relationships are made stronger by their deep-abiding faith in one another.
Saturday, January 21
10:00 a.m. - Love Comes Softly (2003): A woman reluctantly goes with her husband to settle in the West. He dies, leaving her to fend for herself over a brutal winter. A widower invites her to stay with him to help raise his teenage daughter. Over the course of the winter, a relationship of convenience develops into one of love and a new family begins for all. Stars Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff and Skye McCole Bartusiak.
12 noon - Love's Long Journey (2005): Newlyweds Missie and Willie LaHaye have made the long journey to their new homestead. Together they face many hardships as they build a new life in the uncivilized territory. When some outlaws try to rob the couple of their life's savings, a pregnant Missie must outwit them believing that with faith and hard work they will survive. Stars Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew, W. Morgan Sheppard and John Savage. Directed by Michael Landon, Jr.
2: 00 p.m. - Love's Unending Legacy (2007): In the fifth installment, Missie and her young son return home to be near her parents, Clark and Marty Davis, two years after the murder of her sheriff husband. Returning to her work as a schoolteacher, Missie adopts a teenage orphan girl, Belinda, who implores Missie to rescue her seven-year-old brother, Jacob, who is suffering abuse at the hands of his adoptive parents. Aiding Missie in her rescue efforts are Pastor Joe and Sheriff Zach Tyler, both potential suitors for a still-grieving Missie. Stars Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Victor Browne, Samantha Smith.
4:00 p.m. - Love's Unfolding Dream (2007): Struggling to start a career in medicine, God-fearing Belinda Tyler gets her chance when she’s offered the position of physical therapist to a bitter and faithless elderly woman in desperate need of inspiration. But it’s handsome, and unenlightened, young New York attorney Drew Simpson who proves to be a personal challenge for Belinda. Stars Erin Cottrell and Dale Midkiff.
6:00 p.m. - Love Takes Wing (2009): Wounded by the recent death of her husband, Dr. Belinda Simpson arrives in the tiny town of Sikeston to take up the post of town physician. Once there, she discovers that many of the town’s residents, including children at an orphanage run by Miss Hattie Clarence, have fallen ill from an unknown ailment. Soon, Belinda begins to worry that she is in over her head, despite reassurances from her best friend, Annie. Stars Sarah Jones, Haylie Duff, Lou Diamond Phillips, Patrick Duffy and Cloris Leachman.
8:00 p.m. - Love Finds a Home (2009): Belinda is a rare female doctor working in a small Missouri town. When her longtime friend, Annie, arrives so that Belinda can watch over her in the last stages of her pregnancy, Annie brings along her mother-in-law, Mary, a seen-it-all midwife whose homeopathic remedies and folksy wisdom are at odds with Belinda’s scientific knowledge. Meanwhile, Belinda and her husband find their own relationship is suffering over Belinda’s inability to get pregnant. Stars Sarah Jones, Haylie Duff, Jordan Bridges and Patty Duke.
10:00 p.m. - Love Comes Softly
Sunday, January 22
10:00 am Love's Enduring Promise (2004): The first sequel picks up with Missie now in her 20s, and an elementary school teacher in her small town. She lives at home with Clark and Marty and their two boys, Missie's younger brothers. Missie adores reading as much as Marty, and when Grant, a handsome New Englander, asks to court Missie, she feels she has met one of the heroes from her novels. But when a strange young man named Willie helps Missie's family in a time of need, Missie finds herself torn between two worlds and the love of two very different men. Stars Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff and January Jones.
12 noon - Love's Unfolding Dream
2:00 p.m. - Love Takes Wing
4:00 p.m. - Love Finds a Home
6:00 p.m. - Love Begins (2011): On their way to the California Gold Rush, two cowboys are arrested for getting in a fight and damaging a small-town restaurant. One escapes, but Clark Davis stays to work off his debt by fixing a farm belonging to two young women, Ellen and Cassie Cates. Over time, Clark and Ellen fall in love, but will Clark gives up his plans of striking it rich out west for the comfort of a family and home? Stars Wes Brown, Julie Mond, Nancy McKeon, Jere Burns and Abigail Mavity,
8:00 p.m. - Love's Everlasting Courage (2011): Clark Davis struggles to maintain his land and support his family during a long drought. With a bank loan to repay, his wife, Ellen, takes a job in town as a seamstress, but soon becomes ill with scarlet fever. Devastated to lose his beloved wife, Clark and his young daughter Missie turn to his parents Irene and Lloyd for support. Stars Wes Brown, Julie Mond, Cheryl Ladd & Bruce Boxleitner,
10:00 p.m. - Love's Enduring Promise
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