Regular documentary series.
The Deep End
Bill Manson is thrown into six unusual situations the results, more, often than not, are at his expense.
1) The Lieutenant: With a solid two days' training behind him. Bill sails the Frig ate HMNZS Waikato and her less than co-operative crew into chaos.
2) The Captain's Play: Bill, as an actor, hopes for revenge when Captain lan Brad-ley, Commander of HMNZS Frigate Waikato, is challenged to direct a play at the Avalon TV studios.
3) The Family: Bill has to wash up, cook. iron, vacuum and change nappies while trying to control a family of 13 children whose parents have gone on holiday.
4) The Hermit: After half a day's survival training, Bill is flown to an island where he's left with nothing but his thoughts, a knife, a length of rope and 14 matches.
6) The Wrestler: Bill (alias Dr Mind-bender), "roughly" conditioned by Steve Rickard, aims to last at least one round in the professional wrestling ring.
Producer MURRAY REECE
Moriori (14/11/1980)
Charles Solomon and his sister Margaret Hamilton are grandchildren of the last full Moriori, Tommy Solomon. At Otago University they learn some facts about their race. They travel to the Chatham Islands, visit relatives and reconstruct family history, Tommy Solomon's funeral and life as it was before the Maori and European invasions that spelled the end of the Moriori race.
Producer: Bill Saunders
Film Editor: Bil Henderson
Director: Wayne Tourell
Blair Peach - the Making of a Martyr
One year ago this week the racially sensitive London borough of Southall erupted into savage rioting. In the violence a New Zealand teacher died. His name was Blair Peach.
Reporter - Hugo Manson
Director - Jo Taylor
Te Kuiti Tanga - the Narrowing
The Maori population of Te Kuiti adapt to rapidly changing attitudes by moving between Polynesian and European roles. Yet in this small town, as in the rest of the country, new leaders must be found who can develop a sense of identity and cultural purpose.
Producers DEREK WRIGHT, JOHN KING
Director JOHN KING
Rewi Alley
New Zealander Rewi Alley has been living for over 50 years in China. At the age of 82 he travelled 15,000 gruelling kilometres with a New Zealand film crew, retracing the events and achievements of his life with the people of the world's largest nation including his outstanding contributions to small-scale industry and eco-nomic development through the "Gung-Ho" industrial cooperatives, and his pioneering achievements in education. Part one of a two-part documentary
Director GEOFF STEVEN
Trial Run
A series in which proposals were on trial rather than people.
(23/5/1980) a jury decides whether or not a system of refresher leave should be introduced to create temporary jobs to relieve unemployment.
Researcher - Diana Ward
Chairman - Ian Johnstone
Director - Ian Cumming
The Hammer and The Anvil
A Trade Union History of New Zealand:
In 1840, a Wellington carpenter called Samuel Parnell refused to work longer than eight hours a day. Since then, the struggles of successive generations of working men and women have played a significant role in shaping New Zealand-
society.
Narrated by Tony Simpson
Produced and directed by Gerd Pohlman, Merata Mita
Acute Right 200 (1980)
Dougal Stevenson joins Gray Haghson and the General Motors team for five action-filled days on the Motogard rally circuit.
Producer Peter Craven
Directors Pam Jones, Martin Didsbury, Howard Taylor
Moriori(1980)
The story of a race of people who lived on the Chatham Islands for a thousand years and then within a generation, were almost extinguished. The last Moriori died in 1933. Two of his grandchildren return to the Chathams to trace their ancestry in a partly dramatised re-creation.
Writer/producer Bill Saunders
director Wayne Tourell
You Stand Indicted (1981)
A documentary that follows the progress of a manslaughter charge from the time the man is arrested to his trial in the High Court. It shows New Zealand lawyers for the defence and prosecution preparing their case for court and talking about the tactics of an adversary system of justice.
Reporter CAROLE de COLVILLE
Producer PETER MUXLOW
A Fated Ship (1981)
The story of the Bounty, subject of the famous mutiny, and of her replica built in New Zealand for an ambitious film project by director David Lean.
Written and narrated by Bill Saunders
Producer Derek Wright
Director Wayne Tourell
Dreams In Black And White (1981)
From VE Day to the Coronation, this documentary features Aunt Daisy. Gracie Fields, Fraser, Nash and a young Keith Holyoake. National Film Unit Weekly Review newsreels have been edited, their original commentaries retained to show aspirations and mood of the times.
Editor Simon Reece
Producer Hugh Macdonald
Deviser/director Pat Mcguire
National Film Unit
Flight 901-the Erebus Disaster (1981)
This film follows the royal commission as it inquires into the disaster which made international headlines.
Producer/director JOHN KEIR
Sonor/television New Zealand
The Boozer (1982)
Anthony Noonan presents his own slant on New Zealand's drinking laws and habits (1900-1960). With drama and song he takes us back lightheartedly to the crazy days of the six o'clock swill and the after-hours trade; to a time when we drank other people's slops and had our own version of the colour bar; to a period when booze barons and earnest wowsers could put a man in parliament or keep him out.
Drinker Desmond Kelly
Publican Marshall Napier
Brewer Brian Clark
Politician John Callen
Wowser Jeremy Staphons
Temperance Lady Fran Kolly
Policeman Tony Englston
Maori Gentleman Jim Moriarty
Writer ANTHONY NOONAN
Producer PETER MUXLOW
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND
Dead on Target: The story of Operation (1982)
Jericho. On February 18 1944, New Zealanders led one of the most spectacular air attacks of World War II. Their target: a small prison at Amiens in Northern France. Their task: to smash the prison walls and release dozens of Resistance captives. Ian Johnstone analyses the raid and its consequences.
Researcher DAVID FILER
Modeller: Rex Orange
Producer MALCOLM HALL
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND/LIMELIGHT PRODUCTIONS LTD
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