No television special would be complete without a bloopers reel. 1985 marked the 25th anniversary of television in New Zealand, and one of the events celebrating it was a variety show at the Michael Fowler Centre. In this short excerpt, host Roger Gascoigne introduces a montage of humorous TV moments from across the years, some planned and others probably not — from turkeys in gumboots, Bill McCarthy’s exploding piano, and Relda Familton being judo-flipped, to Tom Bradley losing his script, and presenter Peter Sinclair disappearing in dry ice at the 1983 Feltex Awards.

This 1982 film, made for the New Zealand Council for Recreation and Sport, is an impressionistic exploration of play. Child narrators talk about what play means to them, while the images capture young people engaged in recreation. The focus is on informal play: kids and teenagers at playgrounds, hunting for frogs, reading, skylarking in the snow, doing cartwheels on the beach, fixing motorbikes, skipping, stargazing and playing Space Attack. Seagulls inspire dreams of flight for a young girl, and a fancy dress ball for adults shows the enduring spirit of play. 

After 10 years with platinum-selling, multi-award-winning pop band Goldenhorse, singer/songwriter and onetime Judo champ Kirsten Morrell embarked on a solo career in 2009 with album Ultra Violet and the singles 'Cherry Coloured Dreams' and 'Friday Boy'. Morrell's longtime Goldenhorse collaborator Geoff Maddock plays a range of instruments throughout the album, while the versatile Jol Mulholland co-produced with Morrell.