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Article: THE BIRDS ARE BACK WE COULD'VE DONE WITHOUT SCHLOCKY "THORN BIRDS" SEQUEL.(TELEVISION WEEK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 10, 1996
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Byline: LARRY BONKO, TELEVISION COLUMNIST
AFTER REJECTING earlier scripts, and telling producer David L. Wolper he was not interested in reprising the role of the guilt-ridden priest in ``The Thorn Birds,'' Richard Chamberlain reconsidered.
The result: ``The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years,'' a four-hour miniseries on CBS starting Sunday at 9. It concludes Tuesday at the same hour.
If this is the best script Wolper's writers could produce, the others must have been truly dreadful, because the sequel is TV tripe. It's the theme of the 1983 miniseries played over and over with soap-opera dialogue.
Chamberlain, as Ralph de Bricassart, ...