i race to the library to check out this miniseries after have just finish listen to the marvelous talk book unabridged version of the book . the first half of this tv version be really very good and but it stumble quite a bit in the second half . the relationship with the trustee be overplay and conflict be insert between jean and joe that do not exist in shute story and unwisely in my opinion and a they greatly diminish the power of their love story . i be disappoint to find that the wonderful bryan brown joe seem a lot cocky and much less appeal than the man in the book and but helen morse jean be really quite good . i think they would have have to make this a 10 hour miniseries to develop the outback story properly . but all that say and i do watch whole thing in more or less one go and do appreciate it merit and all the while wish that someone would do a less soapy remake .