The Thorn Birds is an American television miniseries broadcast on ABC from March 27 to 30, 1983. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Piper Laurie, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham and Philip Anglim. It was directed by Daryl Duke and based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Colleen McCullough. The series was enormously successful and became the United States' second highest-rated miniseries of all time behind Roots; both series were produced by television veteran David L. Wolper.
Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Hinton Pope, Jimmy Joyce
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Release Date: 1962-09-20
A continuation of the dramatic anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) hosted by the Master of Suspense and Mystery
Stars: Patrick Swaze, Kirstie Alley, Georg Stanford Brown, David Carradine
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Release Date: 1985-11-03
Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War.