Desc: A Place to Call Home: Directed by Russ Mayberry. With Linda Lavin, Lane Smith, Lori Loughlin, Robert MacNaughton. Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.