Terry and the Gunrunners - Full Series

If a Belgian boy can be internationally famous since 1933, then why can’t an Antipodean one?

– Producer Logan Brewer makes comparisons to Tintin, in The Press, 18 February 1984

He doesn't wear a shiny suit, or fly across the screen, He doesn't wear his underpants outside his jeans.

– Billy T James sings the lyrics from Don McGlashan's theme song

The idea was to give the quality of a video game . . . to move the story in and out of reality as in a comic. All fighting, violence and explosions, for instance, are animated.

– Producer Logan Brewer

Now remember what the Mahatma taught us. Violence is alright for other people. Right. Well, let’s find them other people and do ‘em.

– Wisdom from Spud's (Billy T James) bikie gang, early in episode five

If I don’t come back, tell mummy to keep the green fly off the roses.

– Kaupati's sergeant (David Pringle) prepares to risk life and limb, in episode six

If Terry’s in there, he can stay put. I haven’t seen anything like that since they closed down the public bar at The Colonial.

– Searching the haunted house is a step too far for Terry’s brother Ted (Phillip Gordon), in episode four

How was I to know people in the suburbs would have so much to hide?

– Terry Teo (Adrian Bell), in episode two

You four-wheeled, fan-belted philistines!

– Spud (Billy T James), clearly not your average bikie, in episode two

Violins? Are you seriously trying to tell me that we're on the trail of an illicit string quartet?

– Arnos Grove (Robert Muldoon), after being told Ray Vegas is importing illicit violins, in episode two

Terry was special. We see echoes of his deadpan humour and unpretentious personality in Taika Waititi’s films for example, and there’s a whole generation of New Zealand comic artists, myself included, who wouldn’t be here without him. I think the books deserve credit for the path they paved. I’m going to stick my neck out here: I think Terry Teo is the great New Zealand comic.

– Comic book artist Toby Morris pays tribute to the original comic, The Spinoff, 2 November 2019

Steve and I are still trying to work out whether he's Māori, Pākehā or Samoan. His dad's clearly a Pom. Terry's mum looks Pākehā too. I can't explain it. Terry is all New Zealand children and the town is every town. In the TV show, Terry was Māori.

– Terry and the Gunrunners co-creator Bob Kerr on Terry's ethnicity, The NZ Herald, 12 July 2016

Think they can trifle with the most courageous field agents in the department, do they? Fire infernal devices at us, and think that will put us off the track? Are we intimidated?

– Field agent Thompson (David Letch), in episode six

...you've had your fun, so what do you say about coming out? We've got the place surrounded, and we can hang around a lot longer than you can.

– The sergeant (David Pringle) addresses the villains on his loudhailer, in the final episode

Let's see: unlicensed firearms, disorderly behaviour, discharging anti-tank weapon in a public place, riotous assembly, littering . . . reckon it's time we moved into an ongoing action situation sarge.

– One of the policemen counts up the charges against the villains, in the final episode