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 C'mon to New Zealand
 New Zealand Is Yours - Nightlife
 Dear John - BASF Commercial
 Loose Enz
 Getting to Our Place

Synopsis

This Loose Enz edition sees ambitious young TV ad-man Gary attempt to climb the corporate ladder. His toady pitch to his old school superiors at a dinner party involves patronising a burgeoning Polynesian market. Open-neck shirts, wide lapels and gold chains represent the aspirational early 80s and bow ties and tartare sauce mark the Rotarian generation of Kiwi mad men. When wife Jenny decides to be heard as well as seen, Gary finds his gender stereotypes challenged as much as his business sense. The gabby teleplay was written by Vincent O'Sullivan.

Credits (16)

 John Anderson

John Anderson
Director

 Tony Isaac

Tony Isaac
Producer

 Rawiri Paratene

Rawiri Paratene
Actor

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Related Titles (5)

 Loose Enz

Loose Enz

Television, 1982

More episodes in the Loose Enz series

 New Zealand Is Yours - Nightlife

New Zealand Is Yours - Nightlife

Television, 1974 (Full Length)

An ad with some retro gender stereotyping

 Getting to Our Place

Getting to Our Place

Television, 1999 (Excerpts)

Another group of mad men discuss branding

 Dear John - BASF Commercial

Dear John - BASF Commercial

Television, 1981 (Full Length)

A famous TV ad from the era

 C'mon to New Zealand

C'mon to New Zealand

Short Film, 1969 (Full Length)

An ad from the Mad Men era

Quotes

If the wife is worth showing, she’s worth showing properly. 

– Gary

If you want to sell brown, you’ve got to think brown. 

– Aspiring ad-man Gary

Can never get Jenny away from the old coffin nails … 

– Gary, on his wife’s smoking habit

Talking nonsense for the sake of the boss? 

– Jenny gets a dig in