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Article: 'THORN BIRDS' TAKES FLIGHT AGAIN\SEQUEL TO 1983 MINI-SERIES FILLS IN THE 'MISSING YEARS'.(TV DIAL)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- February 11, 1996
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Byline: DUSTY SAUNDERS ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS BROADCASTING CRITIC
HOLLYWOOD -- As a mini-series sweeps project, CBS is offering The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years.
This immediately raises two questions: Do viewers recall there were missing years? Do they care?
CBS will find out this week.
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (8-10 tonight and Tuesday , KCNC-Channel 4), brings back Richard Chamberlain as Father Ralph de Bricassart, the goodhearted-but-wayward priest who this time aids Jewish refugees in Rome during World War II and then returns to Australia to again become embroiled in his illicit, suppressed love of Meggie, portrayed this ...