Picks and Pans Review: A Town Like Alice

UPDATED 07/04/1983 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 07/04/1983 at 01:00 AM EDT

PBS (9-10 p.m. ET)

Bryan Brown was in the outback before The Thorn Birds, playing an Australian who falls in love with a beautiful Englishwoman (Helen Morse) during the Japanese takeover of Malaya during World War II. This excellent miniseries is based on a Nevil Shute novel. (Repeat)

MONDAY, JULY 4