The Man from Snowy River (TV series)

The Man from Snowy River is an Australian adventure drama television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as "Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River", the series was subsequently released in both the United States and the United Kingdom as "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga".
The television series has no relationship to the 1982 film "The Man from Snowy River" or the 1988 sequel "The Man from Snowy River II". Instead, the series follows the adventures of Matt McGregor (Andrew Clarke), a successful squatter, and his family. Matt is the hero immortalized in Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River", and the series is set 25 years after his famous ride. The first season was very much a soap opera with several story arcs, but the primary one concerns the arrival of Matt's American nephew, who's bent on revenge, certain Matt cheated his father out of the station Matt now owns. In subsequent seasons, there were shorter story-arcs, often featuring guest stars over a few episodes, and some episodes stood entirely on their own. Stars and guest stars of the series included notables and future notables Andrew Clarke, Guy Pearce, Josh Lucas, Victoria Tennant, Olivia Newton John, Tracy Nelson, Lee Horsley, Dean Stockwell, Chad Lowe, Jane Badler, Wendy Hughes, Hugh Jackman, and Frances O'Connor.
Nomination.
Nominated for a Logie Award for "Most Popular Drama" (1996).
International distribution.
When the series was distributed to some countries, the title was changed for various reasons.
The series was aired on Family Channel in the US and UK, and on WIC-owned and independent stations in Canada.
Video releases.
On 27 June 1995, the pilot was released on VHS 
On 5 March 2002, a number of single episode videos were released on VHS. These include episodes "New Business", "Grand Opening", "Black Sheep", "Comeback", "The Grand Duke", and "Prince of Hearts" 
In 2003, a region 1 DVD of the series pilot was released.
In 2004, season 4 was released as a 3 disk set, this time in region 4. This was followed by season 1 (3 disks) and season 2 (4 disks) in 2005, and season 3 (4 disks) in 2006.
On 25 January 2005, three 2-episode DVDs from the series were released in region 1. These episodes were the same as they had previously released on VHS.
In 2006, a 3-episode DVD was released in region 1, containing episodes previously released on VHS and DVD. In early 2007, a second DVD was released containing the remaining three previously released episodes. Later in 2007, a third DVD was released. Though the DVD case misreports two of the episodes as titles from the previous release, the actual contents are three never-before released episodes.
In 2008, all three of their previous DVDs was released as a set. The package contained one DVD case for "There was more than one wild west!" and a new double DVD case for the other two. The erroneous episode information for the third volume was corrected on the box and the double DVD case.
In 2010, a combined 2-DVD package was released containing the last two DVDs ("Adventure in the Australian Outback" and "A Different Breed of Cowboy").
In 2010, the entire series was released for region 4, commemorating the 120th anniversary of the poem.
In 2011, season 1 was released for region 2 with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish subtitles.
Notes.
Geoff Burrowes producer of the Snowy River films sued the producers of the series for using the title. The case settled out of court.