Ice TV - Best of

Ice TV was a popular 1990s youth show hosted by Petra Bagust, Jon Bridges and Nathan Rarere. This 1998 'best of' includes a 20/20 satire (a world's biggest bonsai trees scam); Bagust meets singer and actor Meatloaf; Bridges meets brother band Hanson, visits the man who 'names cyclones', and goes to Outward Bound; Rarere samples Elvis's deep fried peanut butter and bacon sandwich. Plus the trio visit the zoo and gym to discover why humans are the "sexiest primates alive". Rarere also gives a valuable lesson in flirtatious eye contact. Included is the show's trademark sign-off: L&P bottles subjected to various stresses. 

It was one of the first times when you could actually give a camera to the talent, and they could film something. Before that the technology wasn't up to it. So we would run around with these cameras, film stuff ourselves, and with a little bit of hesitation and mistrust from the powers that be at the network and the editors ... we'd ended up putting that stuff on TV.

– Ice TV presenter Jon Bridges, in an interview for 2019 TV series Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy

Key Cast & Crew

Nathan Rarere

Presenter

Petra Bagust

Presenter

Jon Bridges

Presenter

Ken Burns

Director

Bernie Cleal

Camera Operator