Luke's Kingdom - The Complete Series [DVD]

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He does an awful lot of yelling into the wide blue yonder, but he does it in a terribly posh accent. Oh well - you can't have everything, and I guess if it wasn't for Network's admirable 'release it anyway' policy there would be many gems which would never see the light of day. The series shows the struggle for survival in the early days of Australia in all it's brutal, corrupt, lawless and miserable glory,no punches are pulled,and it makes the wild west look like Trumpton!

Though Australia was already fast-filling with expelled criminals, the Firbecks, a fine upstanding family, leave their Yorkshire home for the promised land. Set in Australia in 1829, follow the tale of a family led by a retired naval lieutenant recently widowed who take his two sons Samuel and Luke and his daughter Jassy to New South Wales. A far cry from the "b00bs and simper"school of "acting" of today, and the stupid "offend nobody" hysteria and trembling.

When d'Artagnan and his father are attacked on the way to Paris resulting in the father's death, the young swordsman seeks revenge on the murderer. In the early 19th Century, a man takes his children to Australia to start a new life, but finds that the land he was left by a friend has been settled by others. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

All in all I can say I am glad I watched it, as it was an interesting series that made some attempts to cover the colonisation more truthfully than the general rose-coloured versions of difficult stories that appear on the small screen, but I can't say that I really enjoyed it. Luke's father Jason (James Condon) is representative of a more naïve generation who somehow believe that all the righteousness of the empire will follow them into the wild, and he is constantly disappointed that the old guard often turn out to be the most corrupt, Fortunately for him, and the family, Luke is under no such delusion.Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.