"Shortland Street" (1992) TV series 1992-????

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Directors:

Helen Gaynor
Brian Lennane

Writers:

Barbara Angell (writer)
Lois Booton (head writer)

Seasons:

3 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | unknown

Release Date:

25 May 1992 (New Zealand)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Shortland Street, a five-night-a-week soap set in an Auckland City hospital, follows the complicated personal and professional lives of its staff, family and friends.

Plot Keywords:

Medical

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Faye Smythe	...	Tania Jeffries / ... (399 episodes, 2003-2009)
Michael Galvin	...	Chris Warner / ... (377 episodes, 2003-2009)
Fleur Saville	...	Libby Jeffries / ... (376 episodes, 1996-2009)
Peter Mochrie	...	Callum McKay / ... (352 episodes, 2006-2009)
Toni Potter	...	Alice Piper (341 episodes, 2007-2009)
Ben Mitchell	...	TK Samuels (332 episodes, 2007-2009)
Adam Rickitt	...	Kieran Mitchell (330 episodes, 2007-2009)
Amanda Billing	...	Sarah Potts / ... (316 episodes, 2004-2009)
Alison Quigan	...	Yvonne Jeffries / ... (308 episodes, 2003-2009)
Kiel McNaughton	...	James Scott / ... (308 episodes, 2007-2009)
Nisha Madhan	...	Shanti Kumari / ... (289 episodes, 2007-2009)
Lee Donoghue	...	Hunter McKay (287 episodes, 2007-2009)
Will Hall	...	Kip Denton (286 episodes, 2007-2009)
Anna Jullienne	...	Maia Jeffries (279 episodes, 2007-2009)
Harry McNaughton	...	Gerald Tippett (263 episodes, 2007-2009)
Lucy Wigmore	...	Justine Jones / ... (235 episodes, 2007-2008)
Kimberley Crossman	...	Sophie McKay (230 episodes, 2007-2009)
Renato Bartolomei	...	Craig Valentine / ... (213 episodes, 2004-2008)
Sarah Thomson	...	Tracey Morrison (166 episodes, 2007-2009)
Bonnie Soper	...	Morgan Braithwaite / ... (164 episodes, 2008-2009)
Laura Hill	...	Toni Warner / ... (163 episodes, 2001-2008)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

New Zealand

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Filming Locations:

Auckland, New Zealand

Company:

Grundy Television Productions

Trivia:

Ferndale High School scenes are filmed at Waitakere College

Goofs:

Continuity: Dr Li Mei Chen (2003 - 2006) arrived to New Zealand on a study program from China. After arriving with very poor spoken English skills and weak pronunciation of the English language, approximately one year after her coming to New Zealand she had a flawless English accent as if she was a New Zealand born Chinese citizen.

Quotes:

Burton, Carrie: You're not in Guatemala now, Dr. Ropata

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Asylum: (#1.2)" (1996)

NZ's most successful and daring show.

Shortland Street was first judged as a half-a***d, no-brainer of a show. However, over the years, it has become almost impossible to miss. Everyone in NZ will have their TV's switched on to watch New Zealand's most daring, successful and brave show.

The thing that makes Shortland Street such a winner is it's creativity with it's characters. Take Beanie for instance, she's a tattoo-covering-body-piercing-hair-shaving tomboy who also manages to have a largely interesting emotional side and men are attracted to her. Then there is Caroline, the nurse who we've all come to know and love as a straight and guy-attracted girl, turns out to be a lesbian when girl-getter Catalin comes along in 1999. One of the biggest stand-out characters so far has been Oscar Henry, a frightening, raping, but good man who you never know if you love or hate. The writers are always thinking up imaginative ways to get new characters and let the old ones leave, and most of the scripts written for this show are quite fascinating and intriguing. Although it has it's bad side, Shortland Street is able to deal with death, romance and several other mature elements and do it in a completely professional and believable way, making it one of the most valuable doctor-hospital-nurse TV shows in history.

All said, Shortland Street is a near-perfect TV show that sometime's goes off-track, but always manages to grab your attention when you least expect it.

I rate Shortland Street 9 out of 10.