The Marching Girls is the seven-part story of a Taita social marching team who decide to have a crack at the North Island Championships. The pioneering series was conceived by actor-writer Fiona Samuel out of frustration with the lack of challenging female roles: she decreed that it was about time the [Kiwi] "alienated macho dickhead" shared some screentime with women. There's a synth-rock soundtrack, shiny tracksuits in primary colours, ghetto-blasters, smoking, and union disputes in this feminist-Flashdance-in-formation 80s classic.
Included in the Labour Day Collection - October 2009
I wrote the concept for the series in 1985 as part of a job application. The job was with TVNZ, and although I didn’t get the position I was after, the head of drama read my programme format and decided to make the series. I was astonished ...
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