Australia / ABC – Portman / 2×120 minute episodes / Broadcast 11-18 March 1984
Writer: Hugh Whitmore / Novel: D.H. Lawrence and Mollie Skinner / Camera: Peter Hendry / Music: Bruce Smeaton / Costume: James Murray / Design: Quentin Hole, Brett Moore / Producers: Ian Walker, Geoffrey Daniels / Executive Producer: Ray Alchin / Director: Rob Stewart
Period drama serial. In the 1880’s Englishman Jack Grant travels to Western Australia to work on a farm owned by relatives.
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KENNETH BRANAGH as Jack Grant
SIGRID THORNTON as Monica Ellis
STEPHEN BISLEY as Esau
JON BLAKE as Tom Ellis
CELIA DE BURGH as Mary
JOHN FRAWLEY as Mr George
PAUL SMITH as Lennie
BUNNEY BROOKE as Gran Ellis
ALFRED BELL as Dr Rackett
HOWARD BELL as Pa Ellis
FELICITY GORDON as Ma Ellis
DON REID as Mr Grant
LYNNE MURPHY as Mrs Grant
RICHARD MORGAN as Herbert
LOUIS BROWN as Ross
JAMES SUTTON as Alan