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 Loose Enz - The Pumice Land
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 Country GP - Tim's Commie Dad
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Synopsis

A family reunion is the perfect vehicle to introduce the characters of this early TV3 soap. Set in a rural hamlet just south of the Bombay Hills, it revolves around the Johnstone family who have farmed the area for 100 years; but times are changing and, following the market crash, so are their fortunes. Beneath the surface of reunion civilities lurks a marriage in tatters, a prodigal son returned, a family inheritance spat and a mystery teenager (Simone Kessell) confusing the bloodlines. The cast included Liddy Holloway, Peter Elliott and a young Karl Urban.

Credits (33)

 Ross Jennings

Ross Jennings
Director, Executive Producer

 Tom Parkinson

Tom Parkinson
Producer

 Michael Noonan

Michael Noonan
Writer

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Quotes

If any of us go to visit an aunty or someone anywhere, within three minutes of leaving even the supposed metropolis of downtown Auckland, via any of the motorways, you are in the county. And we all have aunties, uncles, grandmas, in various little towns dotted around the place. It is a constant to us all. 

– Ross Jennings (show creator)

I swear they’ll get off their faces tonight and that will loosen everything up. By 11 o’clock, you’ll have half a dozen fathers and we’ll know all about the money. 

– Tim (Karl Urban) to Hannah (Simone Kessell)

Radical, man! 

– Tim (Karl Urban)

Awards

1993 Gofta Awards
Best Writer of a Script for Series/Serial - Judy Callingham