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Peppermint Twist’s colourful, stylised portrait of 60s puberty floated onto NZ screens in 1987, winning a solid teenage following. Something of a homegrown homage to US sitcom Happy Days, Peppermint was set amongst a group of teens in small town Roseville, and made liberal use of period songs and arrangements. This episode involves mounting rivalries over a typically pressing issue: an upcoming limbo contest. Further nostalgia value is provided by real-life 60s music show host Peter Sinclair, who makes a cameo as compere of the contest.
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Where was the set?
Photo 9 has Roger Gascoine, not Peter Sinclair...
A strange mix of 50's and 60's
I went to the film set many years ago on a car rally... wow it was really very pastel... interesting to see the building (which were real old transported in buildings in many cases) without insides - no floors etc, just ferns and plants slowly taking over the insides... is incredible to think it's probably still there slowly rotting away...
Brilliant ! They also did an episode of the first TV broadcast in NZ - would make a topical addition to this site ...
OMG!
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Television, 1987 (Full Length Episode)
Steve La Hood also directed some episodes of this series
Television, 1967 (Full Length Episode)
Peter Sinclair hosts this 60s music show
Television, 1985 (Full Length Episode)
More drama with a cartoon feel
Television, 1967 (Full Length Episode)
Pete Sinclair the 60s pop show host
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John
Posted at 04.03PM - 26.06.2010
Set is (was?) in Whitemans Valley in Stokes Valley / Upper Hutt. The buildings where mostly just 2D facades - you'd walk through the front door of a house and fall into a paddock !