Title from Midwest Tapes site. Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Jean Simmons, Ken Howard, Mare Winningham, Piper Laurie, Richard Kiley, Earl Holliman, Bryan Brown, Philip Anglim, Christopher Plummer, Barbara Stanwyck. The missing years: Richard Chamberlain, Amanda Donohoe, Simon Westaway, Julia Blake, Olivia Burnette, Zach English, Robert Taylor, Jack Thompson, Maximillian Schell. Originally released as a television miniseries in 1983 and 1996; based on the novel by Colleen McCullough.
Contents:
Disc 1. Side A. Episode 1 ; Side B. Episode 2 -- Disc 2. Side C. Episode 3 ; Side D. Episode 4 -- [Disc 3]. The thorn birds : the missing years.
Summary:
The epic story of a priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart, torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl, Maggie Cleary, desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback. The missing years: The time is World War II. De Bricassart heroically rescues refugees in Rome, then is sent by the Vatican to the sprawling Australian sheep ranch he thought he had left behind forever. A reunion with Maggie leads to new temptations and a crisis.
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