Jane Seymour And Joe Lando From ‘Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman’ Reunite For Another Ride In ‘A Christmas Spark’

It’s a long-awaited reunion, that almost didn’t happen.

“When I first read it, I just didn’t think of him being in it,” says Jane Seymour of her co-star Joe Lando in her latest project the holiday movie A Christmas Spark.

The duo previously played opposite each other for six seasons on the wildly popular series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman — he as the long-haired mountain man, Sully, and she as the prim and proper, pioneering frontier doctor, Michaela. Throughout the course of the series, their characters met, fell in love, married, and started a family.

Seymour says that the thought of her former co-star coming onboard finally occurred to her and she thought, “Oh, I wonder whether he’d be interested in what I’m about to do? He read it and he said, ‘Oh, Jane, you’re gonna have so much fun on this one. This is like one of the best Lifetime movies I’ve ever read.’”

It wasn’t difficult for the pair to work together again, says Seymour. “We’ve done the homework, you know, over and over and over and over again,” she points out with a chuckle, referring to their Dr. Quinn days.

A Christmas Spark finds the recently widowed Molly (Seymour) having given up on ever finding love again, directing a Christmas pageant and falling for her leading man, Hank, (Lando), the town’s most eligible bachelor.

Lando says that while he was onboard to have another onscreen romance with Seymour, the original script had some moments that could have proven embarrassing for him. “There was a certain amount of singing and dancing in it. I was very worried about but said, ‘okay,’ and I took a shot at it because Jane was going to be there.”

The creative team did rewrite a bit, to ‘take care of those little problems,’ says Lando, but he does want viewers to know, “you actually do get to hear me sing.”

While he’s aware that there are rabid Christmas movie fans, Lando says that this didn’t faze him at all because, “[this is] different than other Christmas read scripts I read because it has a lot more humor to it, and I knew that [the producers] were going to let [Jane and I] kind of just be ourselves.”

It’s also an intangible element between the two that makes this film stand out, says Lando, explaining, “Chemistry is something that you can’t manufacture. It just happens and it’s happened with Jane and I.”

Seymour says that there was, pun intended, a spark between the two the very first day on Dr. Quinn that’s still there decades later. “Nearly 32 years later, we are reasonably inseparable.”

And Seymour agrees with Lando about their connection as she says, “There’s just a chemistry. We have it and hopefully we always will, but we’re also best friends and I think there’s an excitement because [we] can act without a safety net because I know that I can throw something out there and he’ll catch it.”

She explains that she and Lando worked with the Christmas Spark director to make sure she got what she needed, but then the pair would ask, “Can we have a freebie” with said ‘freebie’ being Seymour and Lando just being, “completely silly and just [throwing the scene] it upside down and backwards and see what happens,” says Seymour.

Although asked quite a bit about brining Dr Quinn back, Seymour says that she’d rather see Molly and Hank on-screen again, saying that she looks likes to look forward rather than rehashing the past.

However, she says she would do another Dr. Quinn if, “it was going to be as good, if not better, than the original. I mean, it’s got to be something really, really special.”

Lando agrees, adding, “I would love to do it again. But we won’t lower the bar and sully the reputation of Dr. Quinn. It was a fabulous show and I don’t want to do anything less than what we’ve done before which was the best writing, producing, and acting.”

Another complication to recreating Dr. Quinn, points out Lando, is that fact that the western town that was the setting for the series was destroyed in a fire a few years ago.

For right now, the duo is focused on treating the audience to this new story.

With this in mind, Seymour says that what she hopes viewers take away from Molly and Hank’s journey is, “that change is not something to be afraid of; that change can bring something magical to your life when you least expect it, and that it’s never too late to begin again.”

‘A Christmas Spark’ airs Sunday, November 27^th at 8/7c on Lifetime, and is available for streaming the next day.