The Thorn Birds

About The Thorn Birds

Follows the Cleary family over several decades, focusing on the central, tragic romance between Meggie and Father Ralph, who is torn between his vows and his love for her.

The Thorn Birds is a drama series that ran on ABC. It reached one season of 4 episodes from March 1983.

The series is filed under forbidden love, priest, love affair, and catholicism. It is adapted from a novel. Richard Chamberlain appears as Ralph de Bricassart, Rachel Ward as Meggie Cleary, Christopher Plummer as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese, and Bryan Brown as Luke O'Neill.

Brideshead Revisited, The Undoing, and The Exorcist make useful companions to The Thorn Birds, all filed under miniseries. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 135 votes and it carries a TV-PG rating.