Heritage Rescue - 3, Series Three

I reckon that's the best thing about it actually, is you can have an aeroplane in a hangar, and people will come to see it. First they ask is 'What is it?'. And if you can put a sign on it and they say 'oh that's nice'. But if you put a story behind the aeroplane — it brings that aeroplane to life.

– NZ Warbirds museum vice president John Kelly, on having a human element in the museums' displays, at the end of episode two

What I really hope is that the people who were in the likes of Smash Palace and Goodbye Pork Pie actually come and see, and I hope that they also like what we’ve done.

– Presenter Brigid Gallagher on setting up a museum for iconic film location Horopito Motors, late in episode one

They were thrown from one side of their cells to the other ...just like being on a giant wave at sea, and they just probably hung on for dear life.

– Napier historian Michael Fowler imagines the old Napier prison in the February 1931 earthquake, in episode three

She would charge 10 pounds. If the abortion was later in the pregnancy she'd charge more: 20 pounds, 35 pounds. So in one 18 month period she made over two thousand pounds. She was known to wear a fur coat around town and to be well made up and to have a good car....

– Professor Barbara Brookes on abortionist Annie Aves, who worked in Napier and Hastings in the 1930s, in episode three

[Josiah] Firth was a very canny person. All his ventures, including Matamata and so on, are all using somebody else's money.

– Historian Philip Hart on businessman Josiah Firth's ill-fated gold mining venture, late in episode four

It's pretty hard to drive down round the country and know that this was once yours and you can't do anything about it.

– Ngāti Hauā kaumatua Alan Mokoro Gillett on the generational pain of lost whenua (land), in episode four

This time last year I could see all the way down to Manukau and there was no development; but now I stand here and I see all these new buildings.

– Protest leader Pania Newton on the development of Ihumātao, early in episode eight

Historically port towns have a special character. They're busy, rough, boisterous. They're also a magnet for entrepreneurs, risk takers and those wanting a fresh start.

– Presenter Brigid Gallagher, in the first Port Chalmers episode (episode six)

They see it as something tangible, something real.

– Teacher Robert Scott on how children can be inspired by a famous artist being local, in the second Port Chalmers episode (episode seven)

...I would like to apologise for the time it's taken to get series three to air. . . . The series was completed and delivered to ChoiceTV late last year and probably would have run by now if not for Covid-19 and the impact it's had on broadcasters.

– Note from producer Laurie Clarke, on the show's Facebook page, 9 June 2020