"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

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Auckland, New Zealand

Company:

Grundy Television Productions

Trivia:

The show celebrated its 15th birthday in May 2007.

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:

Rachel McKenna: I'm gonna end up with nothing, which is precisely what I deserve.
Jenny Harrison: Come one Rachel, there's got to be a bright side to all of this.
Rachel McKenna: Where?
Jenny Harrison: What about all you've learnt from running your own business?
Rachel McKenna: How to screw it up, you mean.
Rachel McKenna: Thanks. I shall now go home and ponder my future.
Jenny Harrison: Do you want a job at the clinic? While you're thinking about things?
Rachel McKenna: My brain surgery's a little rusty.
Jenny Harrison: As P.A. for me and David.
Rachel McKenna: Thanks but I can't really see myself in a crumpling suit kissing butt in an utterly poorly-paid and meaningless form of wage slavery.

Movie Connections:

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

SIMPLY AWFUL

I regret to say that I find this television programme boring, predictable and totally lame. But what do you expect, it is a melodramatic soap opera, is it not! The characters are shallow, more predictable than the sorry plotline we endure every week. It does, however, match other soaps ie 'The Young Doctors', 'Sally Jessie Raphael' and 'The Young and the Restless'. Fortunately, this will never equal ER or even Chicago Hope.