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Executive Producer: Tony Essex Directors: Hugh David, Ken Hannan, Peter Weir, Peter Hammond, Gareth Davies Writers: Keith Raine, John Dorsman, Brian Wright, Donald Bull, Robert Wales, Elizabeth Kata, Tony Morphett Aired: 1976 The year is 1829: Jason Firbeck, a retired naval lieutenant recently widowed, takes sons Samuel and Luke and daughter Jassy to New South Wales to claim land bequeathed to them by a wealthy friend. A strange new world greets the Yorkshire family. Amid red-coated soldiery, yellow-jacketed convicts, and a tanned peasantry governed by a wealthy elite, the Firbecks equip themselves with arms and supplies, and set off across the sweltering plains; the hardships and hazards they face confirm Lukes resolve to become the leader of his family of pioneers.
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