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Shortland Street - The end of Lionel?

Television (Excerpts) – 1999

Murray Keane was directing; he said, 'you're in this shot, and you're not in the next one'. And there was a big woosh. And they had lifeguards there.
– John Leigh describes filming his final Shortland Street scene, in his ScreenTalk interview for NZ On Screen