Thorn Birds (1983)

Editor's Note Based on Colleen McCullough's book, this is the Emmy-winning story of forbidden love. Over the course of four decades, a friendship between a boy and a girl turns sultry and stormy as they mature into adults. The boy becomes a priest and the girl becomes a wife. While Father Ralph is a model of piety, Meggie Cleary is a mother with a family. Though they have separate devotions--God for Father Ralph, a husband for Meggie--their unspoken allegiance is to each other. Will the twosome's longings overpower their better judgment? Or will they give in to their forbidden passions and risk destroying the lives around them and quite possibly their own?

	Richard Kiley
	Ken Howard
	Nan Martin
	Bryan Brown
	Wally Dalton
	Holly Palance
	Barbara Stanwyck
	Richard Chamberlain
	Rance Howard
	Rachel Ward
	Lucinda Dooling
	Chard Hayward
	Piper Laurie
	Christopher Plummer
	Vidal Peterson
	Mare Winningham
	Jean Simmons
	Sydney Penny
	Stan Margulies - Producer
	Colleen McCullough - Source Writer
	David L. Wolper - Executive Producer
	Edward Lewis - Executive Producer
	C. Timothy O'Meara - Editor
	David Saxon - Editor
	Robert F. Shugrue - Editor
	Robert C. MacKichan - Art Director
	Travilla - Costume Designer
	Bill Butler - Director of Photography
	Daryl Duke - Director