The Alone Rangers - Episode Two

It was made with no funding, no budget, and only the resources we had on hand at the house — plus whatever I shoved in my suitcase when I was leaving Los Angeles.

– Director Dean Cornish

He obviously pays homage to Fred Dagg and I’ve always wanted to be a ranger; my brother-in-law is a ranger and I love animals and I love trees and birds, and that’s a real big fixture in New Zealand so it kind of made sense to me.

– Rhys Darby on his longtime character Bill Napier, Radio New Zealand, 26 April 2020

I had this idea in the back of my head, wouldn’t it be great to do a rural chat show, he [Bill Napier] could host a show — because we love Country Calendar here. I had this in the back of my mind and it’s almost as if the universe provided the entire thing for me. Without anything else to do, any other work I was doing was cut short apart from writing, so I thought, well, now’s the time.

– Rhys Darby on his Bill Napier character hosting The Alone Rangers, Radio New Zealand, 26 April 2020