Love's Abiding Joy

About this Broadcast

In this drama based on the fourth book in Janette Oke's best-selling "Love Comes Softly" series, Missie and Willie LaHaye (Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew) get accustomed to rugged frontier life, but tragedy threatens to shake up their stable family. Michael Landon Jr. directed.

2006 English Stereo

Drama Romance Chick Flick Adaptation Western Sequel

Cast & Crew

Erin Cottrell (Actor) .. Missie LaHaye

Logan Bartholomew (Actor) .. Willie LaHaye

Dale Midkiff (Actor) .. Clark

Frank Mcrae (Actor) .. Cookie

W. Morgan Sheppard (Actor) .. Scottie

Drew Tyler Bell (Actor) .. Jeff

Mae Whitman (Actor) .. Collette

John Laughlin (Actor) .. Samuel

James Tupper (Actor) .. Henry

Kevin Gage (Actor) .. Abel

Brett Coker (Actor) .. Maddy

Brianna Brown (Actor) .. Melinda

Stephen W. Bridgewater (Actor) .. Mr. Taylorson

Blake Gibbons (Actor) .. Joe

Madison Leisle (Actor) .. Annie

Thomas Stanley (Actor) .. Mark

Irene Bedard (Actor)

More Information

Did You Know..

Erin Cottrell (Actor) .. Missie LaHaye

Born: August 24, 1975
Birthplace: New

Logan Bartholomew (Actor) .. Willie LaHaye

Born: February 09, 1984

Dale Midkiff (Actor) .. Clark

Born: July 01, 1959
Birthplace: Chance, Maryland, United States

Trivia: By the time Dale Midkiff won an acting award in high school, he had a pretty good idea of what he wanted to do with his life. After attending Salisbury College, Midkiff headed to New York, where he landed a few off-Broadway jobs. He was fortunate enough to receive star billing in his very first film, Streetwalkin'. He went on to rack up a number of impressive credits, including the role of Elvis Presley in the made-for-TV biopic Elvis and Me. Dale Midkiff's most celebrated role was 22nd-century cop Darien Lambert in the weekly sci-fi crime series Time Trax (1993-95),an assignment that earned him the pinnacle of mid-1990s fame: his own site on the World Wide Web.

Frank Mcrae (Actor) .. Cookie

W. Morgan Sheppard (Actor) .. Scottie

Born: August 24, 1932

Trivia: Irish actor Morgan Sheppard has played character roles on television and in international feature films since the '80s, but he has spent most of his career on-stage.

Drew Tyler Bell (Actor) .. Jeff

Born: January 29, 1986

Mae Whitman (Actor) .. Collette

Born: June 09, 1988
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Trivia: Mae Whitman began acting at the ripe old age of six with a role in the 1994 alcoholism drama When a Man Loves a Woman. Appearances in Bye Bye, Love and Independence Day followed before multiple-episode stints on the CBS dramas Chicago Hope and JAG. In 2001, Whitman was cast in the title role of the Fox Family Channel period sitcom State of Grace, about a pair of adolescent girls overcoming cultural differences against the backdrop of 1960s America. After that show's two-season run, she could next be seen as George Michael's milquetoast girlfriend Ann on the critically acclaimed Fox sitcom Arrested Development. A starring role opposite Andre Braugher on the short-lived FX series Thief came in 2006. And in 2007, Whitman was cast in a supporting role on NBC's reimagined The Bionic Woman. In the years to come, Whitman would remain active on screen, starring on the series Parenthood, and in movies like The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

John Laughlin (Actor) .. Samuel

Born: April 03, 1953

Trivia: Actor John Laughlin is best known as Woody in the dance movie Footloose. Laughlin has also made a massive number of TV guest appearances on everything from Tales from the Crypt to Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

James Tupper (Actor) .. Henry

Born: August 04, 1965
Birthplace: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Trivia: Film and television actor James Tupper made his screen debut with a bit part in the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt before moving on to establish a successful television career with appearances on such hit shows as Gilmore Girls, CSI: NY, and How I Met Your Mother. Roles in the Michael Landon Jr. Westerns Love's Long Journey and Love's Abiding Joy followed soon thereafter, and in 2005 Tupper earned his first writing credit with work on Loudmouth Soup -- an improvisational comedy shot over the course of just one night and detailing the boozy antics of a bourgeois Hollywood dinner party. Despite his increasing onscreen presence, it wasn't his acting that eventually landed Tupper in the headlines, but the announcement that his Men in Trees co-star Anne Heche was leaving her husband, Coleman Laffoon, in favor of pursuing a romance with the rugged up and comer.

Kevin Gage (Actor) .. Abel

Born: May 26, 1959

Brett Coker (Actor) .. Maddy

Brianna Brown (Actor) .. Melinda

Born: October 02, 1979
Birthplace: St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

Trivia: Cocreated the Green Goddess Investment Club in 2008, dedicated to educating women about finance and the stock market. Founded a philanthropic women's non-profit, the New Hollywood Women's Goal Group, Inc. Owns her own production company, Brown Rose Productions. Appeared in the Blank Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival in 2011.

Stephen W. Bridgewater (Actor) .. Mr. Taylorson

Born: August 24, 1953

Blake Gibbons (Actor) .. Joe

Born: June 21, 1961

Madison Leisle (Actor) .. Annie

Born: June 02, 1999

Thomas Stanley (Actor) .. Mark

Irene Bedard (Actor)

Born: July 22, 1967

06:00 am - 08:00 am, Tuesday, December 2 on Ovation Arts Network ()