Producer and Director with a long career with the NZBC and corporations that followed in it's wake.
- Ah De Doo Ah De Doo Dah Day (1970-71)
- Governor, the (1977)
- Inside Straight (1984)
- Loose Enz (1982)
- Losers, the (17/4/1977)
- Moynihan (1975-77)
- Open House (1986-87)
- Pop Co (1972-1975?)
- Rachel (1978)
- Roche (1985)
People behind your screen (2)
Press, Volume Cx, Issue 32430, 17 October 1970, Page 4
PETER MUXLOW joined the N.Z.B.C. almost immediately after leaving school in 1960, save for a year spent in Australia, has been with the service ever since.
Born in Christchurch, he was educated at Christchurch West High School and joined the N.Z.B.C. as a radio technician before the advent of television. After four years, he went to Australia on a working holiday and when he returned in 1966 he worked as a television technician, then transferred to the production side as a floor manager.
He was given some production work and in 1967 went to a 12-weeks producers’ course in Wellington. His first producing job was a gardening programme with David Combridge and his first national series was called "Landscaping Your Garden” but Muxlow stoutly denies that these tasks indicate a particular leaning towards horticulture.
Peter Muxlow likes the work of a television producer I and finds it rewarding. He had no complaints about his previous employment with the service, but has found that the production side is especially interesting.
He does not have a favourite television programme. But some things have impressed him particularly—“A Song of Summer” was one and the “Invasion” another.
A wide variety of producing work has followed, including religious programmes, sports, outside broadcasts, “On Camera” and “Town and Around.” His first series was with the Rev. R. A. Lowe in “As I See It,” religious programmes with a humorous touch. One of his more recent major jobs was a documentary on Cannelite nuns. He also produced the folk music series, “Ah De Doo Ah De Doo Dah Day,” and a second series under this title will be screened next month. Muxlow also recently completed a half-hour "special’ with the Christchurch singer Dinah Lee.
But he would not make a point of staying at home simply to watch a programme in a series. Individual, outstanding productions appeal most, such as "Talking To a Stranger” which had impressively high quality of writing by John Hopkins; this was a story told four times, in different ways by different people.
Asked how it felt to sit and watch something for which one is responsible as producer, he said “You shudder at the bad bits.”
Peter Muxlow is married and has three daughters. But Justine, Kirsten and Simone are not yet old enough to become television critics.
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