Between the Darkness and the Dawn

Elizabeth Montgomery stars in the gripping and emotional drama about Abigail Foster, a woman who contracts a rare condition that puts her into a coma at 17. She awakens 20 years later to a world completely foreign to her. Chronologically, Abigail is a grown woman but emotionally she is still a teenager in fragile health. Now she must compress a lifetime of experiences and maturing into a few frightening months.

Elizabeth Montgomery plays a woman who awakens from a 20-year coma. Her adjustment to the new world around her is made doubly difficult by the knowledge that her long-ago sweetheart has married her sister (Karen Grassle). Worse still, Montgomery learns that her reawakening may be temporary, and that she could lapse back into a coma at any time. Matching Elizabeth Montgomery in the noble-suffering sweepstakes is Dorothy McGuire, cast as Montgomery's mother. Lori Birdsong plays the younger version of Montgomery in the flashback sequences. The made-for-TV BETWEEN THE DARKNESS AND THE DAWN was first networkcast December 23, 1985.