Spin Doctors - First Episode

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2001

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

I've never done anything like it in my life...there will be a great sense of pressure because it'll be really fast.
– Actor Elizabeth Hawthorne on making a fast turnaround show, The NZ Herald, 21 October 2001

An account with you guys should be like wearing a rolex, driving a merc and drinking moet all at the same time.
– PR whizz Kevin (John Leigh) sells his idea of a bank being proudly exclusive, to a bank representative (Dane Giraud)

You know we're an uncomplicated people, Andrew. The truth well told, that's all we expect of our spin doctors...
– Ron ( Patrick Wilson) schools Aussie colleague Andrew (Mark Ferguson) about doing PR in New Zealand

I hate them! I hate them more than insurance companies, and that's saying something.
– Kevin (John Leigh) lets rip on his feelings about banks

Kevin we have a client who needs his ego massaged and facts and figures turned inside out to his advantage. That's your speciality...
– Giles O'Connor (John Sumner) instructs Kevin to work his PR magic on a banking client

Whitebait's like an albino prawn, only smaller.
– Andrew (Mark Ferguson) explains whitebait to a fellow Aussie (Dane Giraud)

In my day do you know what we called a Life Skills Manager? Mum.
– Ex All Black Ron Bayliss (Patrick Wilson) isn't happy with the direction of All Blacks management