The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, an Australian author. In 1983 it was adapted as a television mini-series that, during its television run became the United States' second highest rating mini-series of all time behind Roots; both series were produced by television veteran David L. Wolper.

The mini-series starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham, Philip Anglim and Jean Simmons. It was directed by Daryl Duke.

Set primarily on Drogheda, a fictional sheep station in the Australian outback, the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1908 to 1962.

Song is from the self-titled "Heart" album, 1985

LOL, you and I might be the only ones that remember this though.

Anyone remember the miniseries North and South? It was the first time I noticed Patrick Swayze.

Would James Roe know that Boone Hall Plantation over in Mt. Pleasant was used as "Mount Royale" in the movie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scQeWuWg2g8

the plantation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJx61dyaJw

So, what are you sayin' SG, that we're OLD?

i LOVED this book and subsequently this miniseries!! ahhh ... to have the innocent heart of a young girl once again! *flutters eyelashes*

I also totally remember this miniseries, I was just a wee thing in the 80's but my mother faithfully tuned in for this one and I picked up the jist of it anyway... to this day I still kinda have a thing for men of the cloth, or at least those pre-Vatican II cassocks... rowr!

*discard

Self-discarding this video (discard called by original submitter firefly)