The Thorn Birds (1983)

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19831 Season121m episodes7.2

Drama

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Runtime: 121m episodes
Genre: Drama
Certificate: TV-PG
Origin: US

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Follows the Cleary family over several decades, focusing on the central, tragic romance between Meggie and Father Ralph, who is torn between his vows and his love for her.

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Writing: Lee Stanley
Status: Ended
First aired: Mar 27, 1983
Network: ABC
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, David Wolper-Stan Margulies Productions

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8 hrs

4 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Richard Chamberlain

Ralph de Bricassart

Rachel Ward

Meggie Cleary

Christopher Plummer

Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

Bryan Brown

Luke O'Neill

Brett Cullen

Bob Cleary

Stephanie Faracy

Judy

Barry Corbin

Pete

John de Lancie

Alastair MacQueen

Barbara Stanwyck

Mary Carson

Jean Simmons

Fiona Fee Cleary

Richard Kiley

Paddy Cleary

Piper Laurie

Anne Mueller

Earl Holliman

Ludie Mueller

Mare Winningham

Justine ONeill

Philip Anglim

Dane ONeill

Ken Howard

Rainer Hartheim

Allyn Ann McLerie

Mrs. Smith

SERIES

19831 Season121m episodes7.2

Drama

TMDB7.2

Votes136

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Runtime: 121m episodes
Genre: Drama
Certificate: TV-PG
Origin: US

About

Follows the Cleary family over several decades, focusing on the central, tragic romance between Meggie and Father Ralph, who is torn between his vows and his love for her.

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E1 · Airs Mar 27, 1983 · 2h 24m · ★ 9.0
Part 1
When the wealthy but now elderly owner of a large sheep farm in the outback of Australia realizes that her affections towards a banished but ambitious young priest will never be returned, she sets out to manipulate his life and career from the grave once she discovers him giving his attention to her young niece instead.
E2 · Airs Mar 28, 1983 · 1h 37m · ★ 8.8
Part 2
Having left Australia with a significant sum of holdings in hand willed to the Catholic Church by the wealthy socialite and sheep farmer Mary Carson, Father Ralph de Bricassart finds himself courted by power brokers within the Vatican. Meanwhile, the Drogheda Ranch suffers a devastating brush fire that spawns more tragedy in the Cleary family, and eventually leads to an uneasy reunion between Meggie and Father de Bricassart. However Meggie soon meets a young suitor who captures her heart.
E3 · Airs Mar 29, 1983 · 1h 37m · ★ 8.8
Part 3
Now married, living on a sugar cane plantation, and working as a maid in Queensland, Meggie finds her new husband is more interested in his own work and dalliances than in her. She bears him a child but is still unable to change his ways. Meanwhile, Father de Bricassart has moved up in the Church hierarchy and eventually returns to Australia as a Cardinal. And in yet another uneasy reunion between himself and Meggie, he finally succumbs to temptation by consummating forbidden love and breaking his vow of chastity.
E4 · Airs Mar 30, 1983 · 2h 24m · ★ 8.8
Part 4
Meggie has repeated the mistakes of her past by favoring her son over her daughter. She finally admits the truth about Dane's paternity to Ralph and reconciles with both her mother Fee and her daughter Justine.

Details

Writing: Lee Stanley
Status: Ended
First aired: Mar 27, 1983
Network: ABC
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, David Wolper-Stan Margulies Productions

Time to finish

8 hrs

4 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Richard Chamberlain

Ralph de Bricassart

Rachel Ward

Meggie Cleary

Christopher Plummer

Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

Bryan Brown

Luke O'Neill

Brett Cullen

Bob Cleary

Stephanie Faracy

Judy

Barry Corbin

Pete

John de Lancie

Alastair MacQueen

Barbara Stanwyck

Mary Carson

Jean Simmons

Fiona Fee Cleary

Richard Kiley

Paddy Cleary

Piper Laurie

Anne Mueller

Earl Holliman

Ludie Mueller

Mare Winningham

Justine ONeill

Philip Anglim

Dane ONeill

Ken Howard

Rainer Hartheim

Allyn Ann McLerie

Mrs. Smith

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