The Thorn Birds (1983)
- Directed by
- Daryl Duke
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 1 season, 4 episodes
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 133 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A priest and a woman fall in love on a remote Australian sheep station. Their forbidden relationship spans decades of longing, scandal, and family secrets.
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What happens
The Thorn Birds is an American romantic drama television miniseries, broadcast on ABC from March 27 to 30, 1983. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Piper Laurie, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham and Philip Anglim. It was directed by Daryl Duke and based on the best-selling 1977 novel of the same name by Colleen McCullough. The series was enormously successful, being the second most widely watched television miniseries in history at the time, behind Roots. The Thorn Birds scored a staggering 41.9 rating and 59 percent of the audience, and was nominated for sixteen Emmys, winning six. It was followed by a sequel miniseries in 1996, The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, showing some of what the characters experienced during the nineteen-year time gap in the original. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Waterloo Station (1983)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.