McLeod's Daughters

McLeod's Daughters (1996)

The movie that started it all...

Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half sister Claire. Although Tess and Claire have feuded in the past, they must now work together to save the ranch from bankruptcy.

Date of release
1996-05-11
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Western, Drama, TV Movie
Director
Michael Offer

Casting

Interesting facts

McLeod's Daughters is a 1996 Australian television film, it aired on the Nine Network on 11 May 1996, which was Mother's Day. It remains the highest-rated telemovie of all time in Australia. The movie serves as a backdoor pilot for the subsequent McLeod's Daughters television series.

Production

Creator and Executive Producer Posie Graeme-Evans had the idea for the creating the show as far back as 1992. She was reading a magazine and saw a picture of a group of Australian cowgirls leaning over a farm gate, with big hats and wide grins. Evans immediately thought of a group of women running a cattle station.

The movie went into production in 1995 and was shot over 1995–1996 in and around Adelaide. Evans needed to find a location that was in reach of a major city, and it was hard to do outside of Sydney and Melbourne. She looked at doing it in Queensland, but she didn't know Queensland well as she knew South Australia. She eventually located a government owned farm which was empty, so the production was moved in and it was treated as a backlot.

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