The Shiralee
1988
📺 1 Season
🎬 2 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 95 min/episode
Drama
Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
Seasons
Season 1
After falling from a train in a small town in the Australian outback, Mac, a strong-willed young man, meets Lily, the daughter of the local butcher and decides to stay. A mean trick played by a rival suitor leads to Mac being bundled out of town. On returning six years later, he finds that Lily has married his old friend Jim Muldoon. His own marriage to showgirl Marge has failed and left him with nothing but his stubborn and wilful daughter Buster... his Shiralee.
Cast
Crew
Director
George Ogilvie
Writer
Tony Morphett, D'Arcy Niland
Producer
Jock Blair, Bruce Moir
Network
Seven Network
Production
South Australian Film Corporation
Keywords
based on novel or bookaustraliaminiseriesshiralee1940sfather daughter relationship