Joe and Koro - High Society

In the 1970s Yorkshire emigre Craig Harrison turned the odd couple tale of a Māori and a Yorkshireman into a novel, a radio play, and this popular sitcom. Joe (Stephen Gledhill) is the nervy, university-educated librarian; his flatmate is city-raised Koro (Rawiri Paratene, in one of his earliest lead roles) who works in a fish and chip shop. In this episode, Koro’s dodgy homemade wine helps inspire embarrassing scenes at a party of Joe’s friends. Among drunkard Pākehā, watch out for a paralytic Kevin J Wilson, and a rare pre-Pork Pie appearance by Claire Oberman.

You said there was no groping. You said it wasn't that sort of party.

– Koro

Key Cast & Crew

Craig Harrison

Writer

Rawiri Paratene

As: Koro

Stephen Gledhill

As: Joe

John Whitwell

Producer

Maria Rose Tempest

As: Sharon

Howard Neil

As: Arthur