Mercy Peak - First Episode

Featuring an impressive cast (including Jeffrey Thomas, Craig Parker, Alison Bruce and Tim Balme), award-winning 'sea-change' series Mercy Peak hit the right note with its down-home sincerity and quirky but complex characters. In this first episode, 'What She Least Expected', Doctor Nicky Somerville (Sara Wiseman) discovers the cheating ways of her partner (a deliciously oily Simon Prast) and decides it's time to start over in the unknown territory of Bassett. Nicky is immediately embroiled in hospital politics, medical emergencies and small-town scandal — but it all suits her adventurous spirit perfectly. 

In just 60 episodes, Mercy Peak was a fully realised world in a small town ... its strengths were the subtle interplay of characters' lives and themes combined with careful and clever scripts.

– Reviewer Fiona Rae after the final episode of Mercy Peak, NZ Herald, 1 April 2004

Key Cast & Crew

Gavin Strawhan

Creator, Storyliner, Script Editor

Sara Wiseman

As: Doctor Nicky Somerville

Craig Parker

As: Alistair Kingsley

Rachel Lang

Creator, Writer, Creator, Storyliner

Jeffrey Thomas

As: Doctor William Kingsley

Geoffrey Cawthorn

Director