I remember seeing all episodes of the series; however, so many years have passed since I watched it. I couldn't remember the name but I do remember it being a fascinating account of convict labor sent to Australia from England. One of the convicts stole a loaf of bread in England, was caught, tried and found guilty. He was banished to Australia and all prisoners were treated like slaves, spending a good deal of their journey to South Wales in the hold of the ship.I too would love to see the series again. It was superb! The acting was excellent and the young lady was a thing of beauty. Colonial Australia was very harsh on convicts. They were forced into making bricks for buildings, building roads etc. In short, they were given way to much punishment to fit the crime.

Can anyone explain this to me? The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) has a very offhanded response to any email queries about this historical-series... I hope (at least) that the original tapes have been digitized by SOMEBODY, and will eventually be re-released to the public. Any program with a "9.1" score on IMDb has a latent market (on re-release) that "they" are overlooking--aside from the importance of preserving and promoting historical awareness of "history in general"."Against the Wind" would make a stunning companion to *another* overlooked ABC broadcasting mini-series, produced in 1987, "Captain James Cook"--starring Keith Michell-- that was also highly-rated, had extremely high production-values, and has (also) been totally overlooked for the DVD re-issue marketplace.ABC Broadcasting seems to have it's collective corporate "head" stuck in the sand!I hope somebody there "wakes up" and does the legal shuffling to allow BOTH of these fine series to be re-issued worldwide, on DVD.

I would love to see this show back on TV or released on Video, They could do Anne of Green Gables, why not this. Jon English is a great actor (and his eye make up is real, not make up) He is also a great singer. Compelling story of our early times, fairly true to life and possibly based on a number of stories of convict days.

I first saw this tv-series when I was 6 years old and it still fresh in my memmory. The music and story was fantastic as I remembred it. Now when I'm little older it would be nice to see if my memory is corrct. I'w been asking the Swedish televishion to rerun it but without success, sofar.Right now I'm just hoping for a DVD release.