Based on a popular long-running New Zealand comic strip by cartoonist Murray Ball, Footrot Flats showcases the kind of gentle laconic humour the Kiwis do…
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Fred Dagg was actually New Zealand-born comedian and political satirist John Clarke, who appeared as Dagg on television always wearing a black singlet and gumboots.…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 3 (New Zealand) This weekly family-entertainment variety programme from NZBC was created as a mild-mannered replacement for C’mon…
1 9 8 5 (New Zealand/UK) 6 x 60 minute episodes In 1881, Ceci (newcomer Valerie Gogan) leaves her home in England and emigrates to the…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 9 (USA/New Zealand) 111 x 60 minute episodes Hercules, the legendary hero of ancient Greece, is a half god…
1 9 7 7 (New Zealand) 13 x 30 minute episodes Set in New Zealand in 1860, Hunter’s Gold revolves around 13-year-old Scott Hunter (Andrew Hawthorn), who becomes…
1 9 6 1 – 1 9 6 5 (New Zealand) This fortnightly teenage pop show from NZBC began on regional Auckland television (AKTV2), and…
Johnny Devlin was born John Lockett Devlin on 11 May 1938 in New Zealand. In 1956, Devlin heard Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel, and overnight became…
From their beginnings as a tough garage R&B band to their final years as an exciting hard rock/boogie outfit, New Zealand’s La De Da’s did…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 6 (New Zealand) This pioneering New Zealand television music show was broadcast live from NZBC’s studios in Wellington,…
1 9 9 5 – 1 9 9 7 (New Zealand) 31 x 30 minute episodes This gentle comedy from Kiwi comedy duo David McPhail…
1 9 9 2 – 1 9 9 4 (New Zealand) 39 x 60 minute episodes Marlin Bay Lodge is a luxurious, hideaway paradise with…
2 0 0 1 – 2 0 0 2 (New Zealand) 13 x 30 minute episodes 2 0 0 5 (New Zealand) 7 x 30 minute episodes…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 5 (New Zealand) Comedy duo David McPhail and Jon Gadsby rose to fame in New Zealand on the pioneering…
Heidi, the vain, singing 400lb hippopotamus star of New Zealand’s beloved and top-rated TV show, the Meet The Feebles Variety Hour, discovers her lover, bleary-eyed…
2 0 0 1 – 2 0 0 4 (New Zealand) 60 x 45 minute episodes When city doctor Nicky Somerville (Sara Wiseman) is punched by…
Mi-Sex formed in New Zealand as a long-haired hippie pub band known as The Fragments Of Time. They moved to Australia in 1978 to try…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 1 (New Zealand) 14 x 50 minute episodes 1 9 8 4 (New Zealand) 7 x 50 minute…
Mother Goose hailed from Dunedin, New Zealand, and were unique for their performances which combined mime, satire, costumes and novelty songs with virtuoso playing. Honing…
1 9 7 7 (New Zealand) 17 x 60 minute episodes Moynihan was a trade union drama series made in New Zealand as a co-production between…