TY - ADVS AU - Duke,Daryl AU - Wolper,David L. AU - Margulies,Stan AU - Chamberlain,Richard AU - Ward,Rachel AU - Simmons,Jean AU - Howard,Ken AU - Winningham,Mare AU - Laurie,Piper AU - Kiley,Richard AU - Holliman,Earl AU - Brown,Bryan AU - Anglim,Philip AU - Plummer,Christopher AU - Stanwyck,Barbara AU - Culver,Carmen AU - Butler,Bill AU - Mancini,Henry AU - McCullough,Colleen ED - Edward Lewis Productions. ED - Warner Bros. Television. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - The thorn birds SN - 0790787512 PY - 2011/// CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Bros. KW - Priests KW - Australia KW - Drama KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Film adaptations KW - lcgft KW - Television adaptations KW - Fiction television programs KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Title from disc surface; Originally released as a television miniseries in 1983; Based on the novel by Colleen McCullough; Disc 1. Parts 1 & 2 -- disc 2. Parts 3 & 4; Teleplay, Carmen Culver ; photography, Bill Butler ; production design, Robert MacKichan ; music, Henry Mancini ; editor, Robert F. Shugrue, C. Timothy O'Meara; Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Jean Simmons, Ken Howard, Mare Winningham, Piper Laurie, Richard Kiley, Earl Holliman, Bryan Brown, Philip Anglim, Christopher Plummer, Barbara Stanwyck N2 - The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback ER -