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.
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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Television, 1999 (Full Length)
Presented by Paul Gittins aka Dr Michael McKenna
Available on DVD from Aro Video and Screenline.
Finalist - Most
Outstanding Website
The ONYAs 2010
Best Entertainment Website
Finalist – Website design
Qantas Media Awards 2009
NZ ON SCREEN 2010
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