The Thorn Birds is a book that came out in 1977 which chronicled the lives of a family living in Australia in the early part of the 20th Century. In particular it chronicles the romantic struggle between Meggie and Father Ralph. A forbidden obsession, so to speak.
It came out as a TV Miniseries in 1983 and became the highest watched miniseries after Roots. The DVD shows it as 487 minutes in length. We rented it from Netflix and we had to rent it in installments because they wouldn't sent it all as a single rental.
I was curious because somehow I missed this miniseries. My life was complicated back then and we probably didn't have cable. I remember the talk of it, and that my parents had the book (and no doubt watched the miniseries). My husband had also missed it. We enjoyed it. It's interesting. It is dated in terms of the overacting that is almost laughable by today's standards (think over the top soap opera acting). It's a classic of it's time, so is worth a view if you missed it the first go round. They did a pretty good job of covering a very long book, mostly just missing out on narratives and background explanations that may or may not have been needed.
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