
Geronimo1967
If you thought there were a lot of the Waltons then just wait til you meet the pioneering ORiordan clan who are bent on carving themselves an home in the newly colonised Australia. Its dad Matthew (John OMalley) and wife Jane (Thelma Scott) who arrive with little but the clothes they stand up in, and over a generation raise five boys and two girls and make a go of their farm. Along the way, a neighbouring bush fire rendered the young Cathy (Wendy Gibb) orphaned, and so they have adopted her and she has become the firm favourite of Barney (Ken Wayne). Faced with the pretty exponential increase in the family, they decide that they have to branch out and with the government offering almost 500 acres per man to people who will take some risks, ...