Season 2

The Match (Screened on Central Television, Thursday September 14 1972, 8.17 p.m.; Northern Television, CHTV-3 and DNTV-2 in successive weeks.)
The Pukemanu Rugby Team are sure they can win when pro League Player Hemi Walker returns to town. But for his Sister and family, Hemi's home coming is not so welcome, A young Maori mother whose husband is in jail is befriended by a local man. A rugby league game between Pukemanu locals and Australian contractors has underlying emotional and social tensions.
Credits: Myra MacKay: SUE HANSEN
Tahu: GRANT MCFARLAND
Koro: JACKSON SMITH
Hemi: JOHN PAIKAU
Cass: GRANT TILLY
Mark Gold: PETER VERE-JONES
Richards: ROBIN DENE
Phyllis Telford: PAT EVISON
Angus: TOM POATA
Scotty: BILL FRENCH
Nosaka: YASUO YAGYU
Rhyder: IAN WATKIN
Dan: TONY BARRY
Also extras include : DON SELWYN, JIM MORIARTY
Producer: TONY ISAAC
Writer: HAMISH KEITH
Film Cameraman: WAYNE WILLIAMS
Film Editor: SIMON REECE
Designers: COLIN GARDINER, KEN GOODMAN
Executive Producer: DOUGLAS DRURY

Never Play Favourites,
Writer: Roger Hall.
A midweek jackpot meeting grips the town but -the new forest manager’s agreement to a company holiday leads to a showdown with Mark Gold. Producer, Murray Reece

Who Needs Enemies?
Writer: Fiona Kidman and Michael Noonan.
Life in Pukemanu could be too quiet even for a local, let alone Mrs Marion Draper from the big city. But the Drapers find more in Pukemanu than they expect.
Dell King, Lincoln Rowland, Con O'Leary, Tony Barry John Paikau, Pat Evison. Producer, Tony Isaac

If There's Anything I Can Do to Help,
Writer: lan Mune. The Rev. Peter McKelvie walks into more than a church bazaar when he arrives in his first parish. At once he is concerned more deeply than he realises in an uneasy domestic situation.
Harry Lavington, Pamela James, lan Mune, Tony Barry, Tom Poata, Pat Evison. Producer, John Charles

Takeover
Writer: Keith Aberdein.
On a school trip to Wellington Anne Weaver encounters the boyfriend she walked out on a year apo. And in Pukemanu, threatened by a takeover, Dan Harrigan finds old friends aren't aways welcome.
Tommy Barry, Aian Miller, Deryn Cooper, Michael Noonan, Pat Evison. Producer Murray Reece

Vested Interest (final)
Writer: Hamish Keith and Michael Noonan.
The struggle between pakeha land-use and Maori Ownership is as old as . European settlement. The logging company try to strong-arm local Maori into leasing them 11 000 acres of Maori land entirely surrounded by company land. Riftsdevelop in both the general community and company management over the issue, with some arguing Maori are obliged to lease the land in order to ensure the town's livelihood. A public meeting is called in an attempt to resolve the town's conflicts.
William Johnson, Robyn Cox, lan Mune, Grant McFarland, Dan Harrigan: Tony Barry
John Halloran: Michael Noonan
Koro: Jackson Smith
Alan Turner: ALAN JERVIS
Cass: GRANT TILLY
Pieter Devries: HAN VAN WAMEL
Phyllis Telford: PAT EVISON
Dr. Rhyder: IAN WATKIN
Angus: TOM POATA
Mabel Devries: GLENIS LEVESTAM
Paddy: CON O'LEARY
Jamieson: SELWYN TOOGOOD
McKelvie: PHILLIP MANN
Tamahau: BILL PARKER
Norm Sullivan: JOHNNY JOHNSTONE
Mark Gold: PETER VERE-JONES
Gary Devries: TIM EVISON
Charlie Rata: ERNIE LEONARD
Wiremu: HENRY BIRD
Tahu: GRANT McFARLAND
Frank Maddock: MICHAEL WOOLF
Crew:
Producer / Director: JOHN CHARLES
Writers: MICHAEL NOONAN, HAMISH KEITH
Script Editor: MICHAEL NOONAN
Executive Producer: DOUGLAS DRURY
Technical Producer: STUART MURRAY
Studio Cameras: MIKE ROBINSON, BRUCE ANDERSEN, MALCOLM KEMP
Film Camera: MAX PUDNEY
Film Sound: JOHN CARPENTER
Film Editor: SIMON REECE
Videotape Editor: BERNICE DEAN
Studio Sound: BILL ACKLAND
Wardrobe: MARY GAZELY
Production Assistants: MARK SANDERS, SONYA PITT
Unit Manager:BARRY LEIGHTON
Properties: REX PEKIN
Designers: RON HIGHFIELD, KEN GOODMAN
Graphics: STEPHANIE MURRAY
Technician: COLIN RICHARDS
Music: WAYNE SENIOR with the NZBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA


Above: Tony Barry, Con O'leary, Dell King, Harry Lavington, and Pamela James.

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