The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier is a 1986 American-Australian television miniseries starring Linda Evans, Jack Thompson and Jason Robards. Plot The series was set in Los Angeles and Australia. Kate Adamson (Linda Evans) is a struggling single mother from Los Angeles. She meets and falls in love with Australian cattle station owner Tom Hannon (Tony Bonner) who is visiting America. The couple marry after a two week courtship. Tom leaves for Australia and Kate agrees to follow. Her two children Tina and Marty are unenthusiastic about the move but are convinced by their mother to come along. They arrive in the Northern Territory, but Tom is not there to meet them. Unaware that Tom has been killed in a plane crash on the way home from California, they make their way to Larapinta, Tom's cattle station near Alice Springs. Their arrival comes as a shock to Tom's two young daughters Zoe and Emma who were not told of Tom's marriage (he wanted to surprise them). Kate considers leaving, but realizing that she has no money for a return trip, she resolves to stay despite a desperate drought. She is soon visited by Ed Stenning (Jason Robards) and his daughter Meg (Judy Morris). Ed Stennings is a local land baron and the owner of Cutta Cutta, a huge station that borders Larapinta. Stenning wants to incorporate Larapinta into his holdings and tries to force Kate to sell. Her children want to sell and return to California but Tom's daughters insist that they keep the station going. Kate also begins a relationship with Nick Stenning, Ed's estranged son.