Shortland Street: Inside an Icon (25th anniversary)

Television (Full Length) – 2017

In this 2017 special, members of the extended Shortland Street whānau including past cast members, producers and publicists join cultural commentators to celebrate 25 years of New Zealand's iconic soap opera. Highlights include Street veteran Michael Galvin and producer Maxine Fleming recalling shakey beginnings, and fears they could all be fired. Actor Blair Strang remembers the clunky way his Māori ethnicity was first represented, which changed as the show developed into a reflection of multicultural Aotearoa; and cast member turned writer Laura Hill explains the famous Shortland Street "curse".

You do get really attached. I mean I bawled my eyes out when Joey died, and he'd murdered several people...
– Actor Lucy Elliott on the power of Shortland Street