Spin Doctors - First Episode

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2001

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

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

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

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)

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

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