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Roger Hall

Writer

Roger Hall is New Zealand's most successful playwright. His 1976 play Glide Time became a sellout hit. Later Hall turned this satire of bureaucrats into Gliding On, New Zealand television's most successful sitcom. His second play Middle Aged Spread became an acclaimed film in 1979. Hall went on to write marital comedy Conjugal Rites for English television. His TV work spans four decades, from writing to performing.

He has identified faults and follies which highlight small monsters in ordinary people, and sometimes excite our sympathy as much as our laughter. John Clarke on Roger Hall

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Interview

Roger Hall - Funny As Interview

Interview, 2019

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Interview

Roger Hall: Sitcom king...

Interview, 2011

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Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy

2019, Subject - Television

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I Was There

2014, Subject - Television

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50 Years of New Zealand Television: 5 - Telling Stories

2010, Subject - Television

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Talk Talk - Series Two

2009, Subject (episode 10) - Television

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The Good Word Debate

2009 - 2011, Affirmitive team (2009) - Television

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Rocked the Nation

2008 - 2011, Subject - Television

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Who Laughs Last?

2006, Subject - Television

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Intrepid Journeys - Uganda (Roger Hall)

2005, Presenter - Television

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Spin Doctors - Series Four, Final Episode

2003, Contributing Writer - Television

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Spin Doctors - Election Special

2002, Writer - Television

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Spin Doctors

2001 - 2003, Writer - Television

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Spin Doctors - First Episode

2001, Writer - Television

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Breakfast

2007, Subject - Television

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Beyond a Joke!

1996, Subject - Television

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Posy Narkers - Five Episodes

1995, Writer - Milking & Movies episodes - Television

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Visual Symphonies - Otago

1991, Subject - Television

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Gliding On - The Work Experience Scheme (Series Five, Episode Two)

1985, Creator, Writer - Television

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Gliding On - Mastermind (Series Four, Episode Five)

1984, Sound, Writer - Television

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Lynn of Tawa Show - First Episode

1982, Sketch Writer - Television

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Gliding On

1981 - 1985, Creator , Writer - Television

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Gliding On - No Smoke Without Fire (First Episode)

1981, Creator, Writer - Television

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Today Tonight

1987, Subject - Television

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Middle Age Spread

1979, Original Author - Film

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Kaleidoscope

1981, 1988, Subject - Television

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Buck House

1974 - 1975, Writer - Television

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Pukemanu

1972, Writer - Television

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The South Tonight (Dunedin)

1979, 1984, Subject - Television

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Gallery

1973, Subject, Subject - Television

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On Camera

1970 - 1972, Reporter - Television