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Shortland Street is a fast-paced serial drama set in an eponymous inner city Auckland hospital. A South Pacific Pictures production, the iconic show is based around the births, deaths and marriages of the staff, family and patients. Screening five days a week on TV2 it is New Zealand’s longest running drama. Characters and lines from the show have entered the culture, most famously, “you’re not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata!”. This 2007 promo, set to the theme song, collects together highlights from the first 15 years of the show.

Background

A Perspective by Mihi Murray 29.09.2008

Shortland Street is a New Zealand television frontrunner: the first five-day-a-week drama, the first fast turn-around New Zealand serial drama geared to a commercial market; it was also the first NZ soap to be exported. It has become ...

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 Simon Bennett
 Danny Mulheron
 Mark Beesley

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Comments (4)

 Jessica Gregg

Jessica Gregg

I love the old theme song because its so catchy

 robin

robin

could someone post the episodes with karl urban ?

 ross sayer

ross sayer

i would like to know if some of the furniture had been used in other south pacific productions like a leather lounge suite which i am sure ive seen before.

 Gail Fraser

Gail Fraser

I would like to know the name of the actor who played Meredith's son Andrew aged 10 in 1992?

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