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Spin Doctors - First Episode
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2001
In the first episode of public relations satire Spin Doctors, politics and money are top of the agenda at O'Connor and Associates. Giles O'Connor (John Sumner) Australian import Andrew (Mark Ferguson) and the rugby-obsessed Ron (Patrick Wilson) brainstorm an image revamp for National Party leader Bill English. Meanwhile office liberal Kevin (John Leigh) massages the ego (and wallet) of a banking client, and a mysterious Afghan man at reception baffles everyone except senior partner Liz (Elizabeth Hawthorne). Plus Melissa (Michelle Langstone) hunts for a celebrity to front an irritable bowel campaign.
The challenge for the writers, who include comedy-playwrights Roger Hall, James Griffin and satirist Tom Scott, will be producing a half-hour episode in two days instead of the usual five. And each episode will be shot — on location, not on a studio set — in just one to one-and-a-half days.– Excerpt from a preview of Spin Doctors, The NZ Herald, 10 October 2001
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Acknowledgements
Made with funding from NZ On Air
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