Keith Aberdein is probably best known for portraying the small-town policeman who arouses Bruno Lawrence's ire, in Kiwi screen classic Smash Palace. But his screen work covers almost every angle: from journalism and directing, to writing scripts for some of the most ambitious television dramas of the 70s.
People look at us and think, ‘three million people, how do you do it?'
– Keith Aberdein in a 1985 issue of Onfilm, on New Zealand’s film and television industry