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Letter to Blanchy - A Dinner Down Under

Television (Excerpts) – 1995

Letter to Blanchy was an old-fashioned backblocks comedy, which centered on the bumblings of a trio of mates living in a fictional small town: intellectual Derek (David McPhail), rough-diamond Barry (Jon Gadsby) and tradesman Ray (Peter Rowley). In this excerpt from the second episode, the lads plan a "traditional" hangi for local gentleman Len. Amongst much non-PC humour, railway irons are proposed in place of hot stones, pasta in place of pig, and a keg disrupts preparations. Hole-digging is much debated in the usual Kiwi bloke way.

"You can't move a hole!"
– Derek (David McPhail) to Barry (Jon Gadsby) after digging the pit too close to a wooden fence

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Isambard Productions

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from NZ On Air

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