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Mercy Peak - First Episode

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2001

In just 60 episodes, Mercy Peak was a fully realised world in a small town ... its strengths were the subtle interplay of characters' lives and themes combined with careful and clever scripts.

– Reviewer Fiona Rae after the final episode of Mercy Peak, NZ Herald, 1 April 2004

Our funding arrangements with the District Health Board may not be important to you but I can assure you, they mean quite a lot to me!

– Doctor William (Jeffrey Thomas) to the new doctor, Nicky (Sara Wiseman)

You're a fool, William, and arrogant. How hard do you think it is to get a decent doctor to come and work here? If you can't see that, you deserve to drown in overwork. 

– Mercy Peak Medical Centre's General Manager Louise (Alison Bruce) to doctor William (Jeffrey Thomas)

Yeah, right! I dream about a weekend off. 

– Doctor Nicky (Sara Wiseman) on the phone to a co-worker at the hospital