The Thorn Birds, The Missing Years

Richard Chamberlain reprises his Golden Globe–winning and Emmy®-nominated role of the ambitious priest Ralph de Bricassart in The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, which fills in a critical period left out of the seductive saga The Thorn Birds, the highly successful miniseries based on the bestselling novel by Colleen McCollough, about the forbidden love between a man of the church and the young woman he desires. Golden Globe winner Amanda Donohoe (L.A. Law) stars as Meggie O’Neal in this sequel, which begins in the war-torn year of 1943, 10 years since Father Ralph visited Meggie and the dramatic landscape of the Australian outback, where she lives. With children at stake — including a child from her union with Ralph — and her husband back in the picture, will Meggie tell Ralph her greatest secret … or will she keep her vow of silence in order to keep his prestigious position with the church intact? The epic story continues.