1985 television film directed by Paul Wendkos

特蕾西·惠特尼是一位银行职员，拥有令人艳羡的事业和爱情。在她结婚前夕母亲却自杀身亡，她想为母亲讨回公道, 不料因缺乏社会经验也遭陷害入狱，未婚夫也无情地抛弃了她。在狱中，她见义勇为的行为得到了州长的特赦。特蕾西出狱后精心构建了一系列陷阱，使当初陷害她们母女的坏人们得到了应有的惩罚。然而当一切都尘埃落定，特蕾西想要开始全新的生活时，才发现因为她的犯罪记录，整个社会拒绝接受现在的她。为了生存，高傲的她只能被迫沦为盗贼，但盗亦有道，她坚持偷窃的对象只是那些为富不仁，贪婪虚伪的人。凭借智慧的头脑加上百变的伪装，她一次次成功地逃脱警方的追捕。与男主人公杰夫经历了种种波折后最终结合，并功成身退。

故事发生20世纪初期的澳大利亚，以早期澳大利亚移民内陆开发为背景。神父拉尔夫（Richard Chamberlain 饰）与新西兰移民家庭克利里家族交好，家中的小女儿麦琪（Rachel Ward 饰）从少女时期起便爱上了他，神父与麦琪相爱却不能相守。成年后的麦琪嫁给了不懂风情卖力工作的丈夫，因缘际会二人又再次相遇，但还是因为世俗压力不得不分开，从此以后拉尔夫都暗中照顾麦琪和她的两个孩子，克利里家族在十几年中也发生了一系列的变化，拉尔夫一直不知道麦琪的孩子和自己有着怎样的关联，直至二十多年后最后命运悲剧的发生。

　　本片改编自澳大利亚当代作家考琳·麦卡洛的同名小说，本剧获得过七项艾美奖。

1991 television film directed by George Stevens, Jr.

"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.