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The Mad Dog Gang
''The Mad Dog Gang Meets Rotten Fred and Ratsguts'' is a 1978 New Zealand children's television drama. It was written by Ian Mune and Arthur Baysting and directed by Ross Jennings. It was filmed in Dunedin and the surrounding Otago country district. Cast *Suey: Julie Wilson *Tony: Ian Templeton *Harvey: Buddy Ruruku *Rotten Fred: Walt Brown *Aunt Maureen: Eve Durning *Uncle Eric: Brian Beresford *Wilkie: John Bach *Newman: Don Donner *Sergeant Daniels: Barry Dorking Plot 9-year-old Tony and 7-year-old sister Suey are sent to live on their Uncle Eric and Aunt Maureen's farm while their mother recovers from a serious illness. Enrolled at the local school, they meet tough Maori boy Harvey Kepanui, who bullies them. Teacher Mr. Newman warns the class to stay away from Rotten Fred, a fearsome local vagrant who squats in an old shack on government-owned land. When they get home, Tony and Suey quickly learn how to ride a horse - the other kids routinely ride horses to school. Suey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Mune
Ian Barry Mune (born 1941) is a New Zealand character actor, director, and screenwriter. His screen acting career spans four decades and more than 50 roles. His work as a film director includes hit comedy ''Came a Hot Friday'', an adaptation of classic New Zealand play ''The End of the Golden Weather'', and ''What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (film), What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?'', the sequel to ''Once Were Warriors (film), Once Were Warriors''. Early life and family Mune was born in Auckland, and educated at Wesley College, Auckland, Wesley College in the same city. He was married to the writer Josie Mune until her death in 2015. Acting Mune acted on stage while training to be a teacher in Wellington. After time acting in the UK, he returned to his native New Zealand and won a Feltex award in 1975 after starring in one-off television drama ''Derek''. Another award followed for playing Leo Moynihan, the secretary of a trade union in television series ''Moynihan (TV serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Baysting
Arthur Baysting (17 April 1947 – 3 December 2019Bourke, C.,Arthur Baysting: Farewell to a champion of NZ music and TV" ''Radio New Zealand'', 3 December 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2019.) was a New Zealand writer, producer and children's advocate. He lived in Auckland with his partner, artist Jean Clarkson. They have two grown children. Early career Baysting was born in Blenheim, and grew up in Nelson. From the 1990s onward, Baysting became well known for his advocacy of NZ music. Before this he worked as a journalist, scriptwriter and stand-up comedian. In Australia, his children's songs, co-written with Peter Dasent, have become popular through the ABC show ''Play School'' and recordings by the singer and its host Justine Clarke. Early in his writing career, Baysting was a journalist with the magazine ''NZ Listener'' and published ''Young New Zealand Poets'' (1973), an anthology of poetry. In 1977, Baysting (with Ian Mune) wrote the screenplay for Roger Donaldson's fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Jennings
Ross James Jennings (13 November 1944 – 25 March 2016) was a New Zealand actor, becoming one of New Zealand's most experienced television producers and directors, whose credits included ''The Mad Dog Gang'', '' Close to Home'', Moynihan, Inside Straight, feature film '' I Live with Me Dad'', Australian TV series '' Special Squad'' and Acropolis Now, NZ's soap '' Homeward Bound'', New Zealand's first reality series, '' Middlemore, Strip Search, Police Ten 7'' and '' Melody Rules''. He devised, created and produced TVNZ's highly successful 36 hr live to air Millenium Show as well as devising, creating and producing Maori Television's ANZAC Day show - a 17-hour, annual, live to air programme which played a large part in the resurgence of the ANZAC Day revitalisation in NZ, as well as becoming Maori Television's flagship programme. Born in Hawera in 1944, Jennings was raised by his mother in Taihape and Hawera, his father having died during World War II. As a member of the NZ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The city has a rich Scottish, Chinese and Māori heritage. With an estimated population of as of , Dunedin is both New Zealand's seventh-most populous metro and urban area. For historic, cultural and geographic reasons the city has long been considered one of New Zealand's four main centres. The urban area of Dunedin lies on the central-eastern coast of Otago, surrounding the head of Otago Harbour, and the harbour and hills around Dunedin are the remnants of an extinct volcano. The city suburbs extend out into the surrounding valleys and hills, onto the isthmus of the Otago Peninsula, and along the shores of the Otago Harbour and the Pacific Ocean. Archaeological evidence points to lengthy occupation of the area by Māori prior to the ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otago
Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government region. Its population was The name "Otago" is the local southern Māori dialect pronunciation of "Ōtākou", the name of the Māori village near the entrance to Otago Harbour. The exact meaning of the term is disputed, with common translations being "isolated village" and "place of red earth", the latter referring to the reddish-ochre clay which is common in the area around Dunedin. "Otago" is also the old name of the European settlement on the harbour, established by the Weller Brothers in 1831, which lies close to Otakou. The upper harbour later became the focus of the Otago Association, an offshoot of the Free Church of Scotland, notable for its adoption of the principle that ordinary people, not the landowner, should choose the ministe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Brown (actor)
Walter Brown (9 February 1927 – 31 October 2013) was a New Zealand film and television actor. He was born Ian Walter Brown in Auckland, New Zealand on 9 February 1927. Selected filmography * ''Information Received'' (1961) - Vic Farlow * ''The Frightened City'' (1961) - Billy Agnew * ''Locker Sixty-Nine'' (1962) - Craig * ''Mix Me a Person'' (1962) - Max Taplow * ''Gideon's Way'' TV series episode "To Catch a Tiger" (1964) - John Borgman * ''Two Letter Alibi'' (1962) - Mark Richards * ''Devils of Darkness'' (1965) - Bruno * ''The Brigand of Kandahar'' (1965) - Hitala * '' Dracula: Prince of Darkness'' (1966) - Brother Mark * ''Some May Live'' (1967) - Maj. Matthews * ''Shalako'' (1968) - Pete Wells * ''The Best House in London'' (1969) - Mr. Barrett * ''Farmer & Chase'' (1997) - Bank Police #1 * ''True Crime True crime is a nonfiction literary, podcast, and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people associated with and affecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bach
John Bach (born 5 June 1946) is a British-born New Zealand actor who has acted on stage, television and film over a period of more than four decades. Though born in the United Kingdom, he has spent most of his career living and working in New Zealand. International audiences are most likely to have seen Bach as the Gondorian Ranger Madril in the second and third movies of ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy (2001–2003). His leading roles in New Zealand television include playing the titular Detective Inspector John Duggan in the '' Duggan'' telemovies and television series, one of the truckdriving brothers in series'' Roche'', and time on long-running soap opera '' Close to Home''. In 1992 he starred as Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell in the telemovie The Sound and the Silence. In 1999 he played the Earl of Sackville in an episode of the TV miniseries '' A Twist in the Tale''. Bach's Australian work includes science fiction series ''Farscape,'' playing Mike Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mad Dog Gang Spooks Wilkie, Wink Wink And The Wobbler
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Children's Television Series
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1970s New Zealand Television Series
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TVNZ Original Programming
, type = Crown entity , industry = Broadcast television , num_locations = New Zealand , location = Auckland, New Zealand , area_served = Nationally (New Zealand) and some Pacific Island nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands , founded = , owner = Minister of Finance (50%) Minister of Broadcasting (50%) , key_people = Simon Power (CEO) , homepage = , divisions = , products = Television , subsid = Former TV stations , revenue = (2019) , net_income = (2019) , assets = 43.2% (2019) , predecessor = Television New Zealand ( mi, Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. All of its currently-operating channels are free-to-air and commercially funded. TVNZ was established in February 1980 following the merger of the two government-owned television networks, Television One (now TVNZ 1) and South Pacific Televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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