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When Calls the Heart
When Calls the Heart is a Western drama television series inspired by Janette Oke's book of the same name from her Canadian West series and created by Michael Landon Jr. and Brian Bird. The series began airing on the Hallmark Channel in the United States on January 11, 2014, and on Super Channel in Canada on April 16, 2014. As of 2026, the show has aired 13 seasons and five specials.
The show follows Erin Krakow as Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher who moves to a small coal-mining town. In 2019, during the airing of season six, the show went on a hiatus following actress Lori Loughlin's involvement in the Varsity Blues scandal. The season resumed with Loughlin's scenes edited out.
Set in 1910, the story follows Elizabeth Thatcher (Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high-society life, who moves to Coal Valley, a small coal-mining town in Western Canada which is located just south of Robb, Alberta. Thatcher meets and falls in love with Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Jack Thornton (Daniel Lissing). Thatcher works to help the children of the town, and befriends many of the townsfolk including Abigail Stanton (Lori Loughlin), who recently lost her son and husband in a recent mine explosion. The town was renamed Hope Valley in the second season following the closing of the coal mine.
The series, originally planned to be filmed in Colorado, was filmed in south Vancouver, British Columbia, on a farm surrounded by vineyards. The fictional frontier town of Coal Valley (later Hope Valley) was erected in late 2013. Some of the set trimmings and a stage coach came from the Hell on Wheels set. The Thatcher home is the University Women's Club of Vancouver.
The costuming of the first season closely resembles the clothes of the 1910s period for historical accuracy. The second season's appears more contemporary and departs from the previous season's. In April 2016, the series's Slovene-born costume designer Barbara Gregusova told TVInsider.com that Hallmark hired Gregusova to make the third season's costuming a mixture of that of the previous two seasons. She further said that such costuming mixture was done also to reduce timing to design the clothes and because the clothes accurately resembling those from 1910 would be more expensive to make.
Hallmark wanted me to still do 1910 but with a modern feel. I usually call it a "stylized 1910 period" because we are trying to keep some of the period silhouettes, but when it comes to the color palette, it’s definitely brighter and very Hallmark-ish because it's very colorful.
— Barbara Gregusova, TVInsider.com
Some viewers and critics criticized the costuming in subsequent seasons for less historical accuracy compared to the first season.
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When Calls the Heart
When Calls the Heart is a Western drama television series inspired by Janette Oke's book of the same name from her Canadian West series and created by Michael Landon Jr. and Brian Bird. The series began airing on the Hallmark Channel in the United States on January 11, 2014, and on Super Channel in Canada on April 16, 2014. As of 2026, the show has aired 13 seasons and five specials.
The show follows Erin Krakow as Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher who moves to a small coal-mining town. In 2019, during the airing of season six, the show went on a hiatus following actress Lori Loughlin's involvement in the Varsity Blues scandal. The season resumed with Loughlin's scenes edited out.
Set in 1910, the story follows Elizabeth Thatcher (Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high-society life, who moves to Coal Valley, a small coal-mining town in Western Canada which is located just south of Robb, Alberta. Thatcher meets and falls in love with Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Jack Thornton (Daniel Lissing). Thatcher works to help the children of the town, and befriends many of the townsfolk including Abigail Stanton (Lori Loughlin), who recently lost her son and husband in a recent mine explosion. The town was renamed Hope Valley in the second season following the closing of the coal mine.
The series, originally planned to be filmed in Colorado, was filmed in south Vancouver, British Columbia, on a farm surrounded by vineyards. The fictional frontier town of Coal Valley (later Hope Valley) was erected in late 2013. Some of the set trimmings and a stage coach came from the Hell on Wheels set. The Thatcher home is the University Women's Club of Vancouver.
The costuming of the first season closely resembles the clothes of the 1910s period for historical accuracy. The second season's appears more contemporary and departs from the previous season's. In April 2016, the series's Slovene-born costume designer Barbara Gregusova told TVInsider.com that Hallmark hired Gregusova to make the third season's costuming a mixture of that of the previous two seasons. She further said that such costuming mixture was done also to reduce timing to design the clothes and because the clothes accurately resembling those from 1910 would be more expensive to make.
Hallmark wanted me to still do 1910 but with a modern feel. I usually call it a "stylized 1910 period" because we are trying to keep some of the period silhouettes, but when it comes to the color palette, it’s definitely brighter and very Hallmark-ish because it's very colorful.
— Barbara Gregusova, TVInsider.com
Some viewers and critics criticized the costuming in subsequent seasons for less historical accuracy compared to the first season.
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