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Old 01-01-2007, 16:22
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bring back SHORTLAND STREET is what I say! I loved it particularly the early years. Why did the UK stop showing it?
LivingTV cable and satellite station would seem to me to be the ideal place to show it now, from the beginning. I emailed them from their website but got no reply not even an acknowledgement. Perhaps I should write?


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Old 01-01-2007, 16:27
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I agree! I loved this soap and watched it right from the start. Gutted when they stopped showing it! Problem was it was never promoted, never included in the soap sections in magazines and never got networked by ITV
And i agree, you'd think with all the different chanels we've got now that one of them would have bought it and started showing it from the start. Im still hoping.....
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Old 01-01-2007, 16:40
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Originally Posted by Dennis C
bring back SHORTLAND STREET is what I say! I loved it particularly the early years. Why did the UK stop showing it?
LivingTV cable and satellite station would seem to me to be the ideal place to show it now, from the beginning. I emailed them from their website but got no reply not even an acknowledgement. Perhaps I should write?


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Dont write. Shortland Street is a New Zealand Soap it was a gap filler between programmes
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Old 01-01-2007, 17:48
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Well I have to say that Shortland street is way better than any of the trash ITV are showing on daytime these days! It is full of cheap talk shows.
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Old 01-01-2007, 18:20
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I agree, Shortland Street was wicked especially in the early days, I used to watch it at 5:10 everyday after school, was so gutted when they took it off. I swear I had a crush on at least half the male cast
They did have some fantastic stories - I was so sad when Carmen died only months after having her baby and when Steve died in the car crash. The story with the psycho doctor (who wasn't really a doctor at all) was great, they had a really evil baddie too - Daryl I think
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Old 01-01-2007, 19:31
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yeah those were the good old days of Shortland Street! I too was gutted when ITV1 axed it as I'd watched it from episode one on Central.. thankfully I have an ROI sub to sky digital so I still watch it everyday on RTE1 and they show it twice a day!!!
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Old 01-01-2007, 19:59
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Originally Posted by e04731
yeah those were the good old days of Shortland Street! I too was gutted when ITV1 axed it as I'd watched it from episode one on Central.. thankfully I have an ROI sub to sky digital so I still watch it everyday on RTE1 and they show it twice a day!!!
Ooooh i'm jealous
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Old 01-01-2007, 21:38
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I used to love a bit of Shortland Street. It was great! Really crazy, OTT plots with very engaging characters.

I LOVED Kirsty Knight - all the traumas she went through... I'd love to see it again.

In response to a previous poster - yes, it was a filler - but that is NO REASON for someone not to write and request a showing...
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Old 01-01-2007, 22:32
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Ah, Shortland Street. Happy memories! I used to love it. One of the best soaps on at the time, I thought. I'd like it to come back but I doubt it will.
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Old 01-01-2007, 23:23
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Originally Posted by stormin norm
I agree, Shortland Street was wicked especially in the early days, I used to watch it at 5:10 everyday after school, was so gutted when they took it off. I swear I had a crush on at least half the male cast
They did have some fantastic stories - I was so sad when Carmen died only months after having her baby and when Steve died in the car crash. The story with the psycho doctor (who wasn't really a doctor at all) was great, they had a really evil baddie too - Daryl I think
You know your Shortland Street, obviously, ma'am. I gather that Mr Mckenna was killed off a good while ago, but if you look at the official New Zealand website of the show, there's not much that I recognise these days. I would like to see it again and record the early years episodes though.

I will try and find an address for LivingTV and post it here. They need a soap for their schedules in my opinion, and Shortland Street may just be the one.

I even used to love the lyrics of the theme song, can anyone remember them?

thanx for all the replies. Keep 'em coming so we can keep this thread alive for a while!

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Old 02-01-2007, 08:00
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We were talking about this a few weeks ago (not that I'm saying we can't talk about it again) . Here is the link:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...ortland+street

Loads of us loved it. It was so great to sit down for half an hour with a cup of tea and a bikkie and lose yourself in it.
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Old 02-01-2007, 15:36
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Ok then guys, Living TV's address is:-

160 Great Portland Street,
London W1W 5QA.


I'd suggest writing to Programmes Section or to Viewers Correspondence. No, I don't know if those are proper department titles or not, just ideas.

I really think that if they had just two dozen letters in January raving about Shortland Street and how they (the writer, and friends/family etc) would love to see Shortland Street from the beginning, they'd think about it. And maybe even send their own Yvette Fielding to exhume and/or interview Mr Mckenna in one of her spooky seances!

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Old 02-01-2007, 22:06
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Originally Posted by Dennis C
I even used to love the lyrics of the theme song, can anyone remember them?
I think it went something like this...

Is it you or is it me?
Lately I've been lost it seems,
I think the change is what I need,
If I'm looking for a chance of a dream

Shortland Street

Taking time to hold my space
Yesterday's another place
....missing lines....

Shortland Street

If you wanna find a way of searching for another world
It's hard to seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Shortland Street

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Old 02-01-2007, 23:00
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I loved the accents in Shortie. They used to call it "Shortland Street Midical Cintre."

Nick was called "Nuck" and if someone went away you would really "muss" them.
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Old 03-01-2007, 15:49
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Originally Posted by Tizzy
I loved the accents in Shortie. They used to call it "Shortland Street Midical Cintre."

Nick was called "Nuck" and if someone went away you would really "muss" them.
Wasn't Nick Marge's son? Now I really hated Marge, nosey old bag... mind you she was the main receptionist so when she was on screen you usually saw the other receptionist as well, sexy Kirsty, so it wasn't too bad!!

That guy Martin Henderson from Shortland Street hasn't done too badly for himself has he, in Hollywood? Didja spot him in the video for Britney Spear's TOXIC??

Tamurera Morrison who played Dr Ropata also went to Hollywood didn't he? I know he did a film called ONCE WERE WARRIORS but anything else?

Crazy Gina was my favourite!!
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Old 03-01-2007, 16:42
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Tamurera Morrison who played Dr Ropata also went to Hollywood didn't he? I know he did a film called ONCE WERE WARRIORS but anything else?
He was in one of the Star Wars movies as Jango Fett the bounty hunter.

I loved Shortland Street at the beginning. I liked both Dr Warners (Chris and Guy) and Stuart. It was be great to see it again.
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Old 03-01-2007, 17:21
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Originally Posted by mrs.deschanel
He was in one of the Star Wars movies as Jango Fett the bounty hunter.

I loved Shortland Street at the beginning. I liked both Dr Warners (Chris and Guy) and Stuart. It was be great to see it again.

I'll have to look out for that film then. I've never seen any STAR WARS films so I wouldn't know.

I preferred Guy over Chris, Chris fancied himself too much in my opinion. Was Stuart their Scottish friend who had a houseboat, ..... vague memories of mine resurfacing?

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Old 03-01-2007, 20:23
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Originally Posted by Dennis C
Wasn't Nick Marge's son? Now I really hated Marge, nosey old bag... mind you she was the main receptionist so when she was on screen you usually saw the other receptionist as well, sexy Kirsty, so it wasn't too bad!!

That guy Martin Henderson from Shortland Street hasn't done too badly for himself has he, in Hollywood? Didja spot him in the video for Britney Spear's TOXIC??

Tamurera Morrison who played Dr Ropata also went to Hollywood didn't he? I know he did a film called ONCE WERE WARRIORS but anything else?

Crazy Gina was my favourite!!
Nick was Jennys son and Stuart was Marges son, it always seemed wrong cos stuart was sweet and I couldn't stand Marge either, she drove me mad!

I liked both the warner brothers too. Guy was the nicer out the 2 but there was something about Chris I liked - he had a sweet side. I can't believe Chris is still in it now, and still pretty fit too
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Old 03-01-2007, 21:48
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My friend's dad was the on set caterer, and when she was ill or bunking off school she used to go down to the studios. When they were short on extras she used to go and play bit parts in the background, which she did for years - until her school teacher spotted her on screen !
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Old 03-01-2007, 22:27
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One of my favourite characters was Lionel. It's weird because his disappearance was never fully explained - almost as though they hoped he'd come back at some stage. Shame it never worked out with him and Kirsty.

A doughnut for the first person who can name the house they used to live in
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Old 04-01-2007, 14:20
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Originally Posted by stormin norm
Nick was Jennys son and Stuart was Marges son, it always seemed wrong cos stuart was sweet and I couldn't stand Marge either, she drove me mad!

I liked both the warner brothers too. Guy was the nicer out the 2 but there was something about Chris I liked - he had a sweet side. I can't believe Chris is still in it now, and still pretty fit too
Aaaah, Jenny, yes I remember...! Stuart who started off as a trainee priest or something as I recall.. had an elder brother called Darryl or something, the baddie wasn't he?

And Nick was so badly in need of a haircut...!

Anyone else still in it from the good ole days apart from Chris Warner then?

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Old 04-01-2007, 14:56
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Originally Posted by Tizzy
One of my favourite characters was Lionel. It's weird because his disappearance was never fully explained - almost as though they hoped he'd come back at some stage. Shame it never worked out with him and Kirsty.

A doughnut for the first person who can name the house they used to live in
I have to admit I couldn't remember so I googled it - it all came back to me then I won't post the name in case anyone else remembers.

Originally Posted by Dennis C
Aaaah, Jenny, yes I remember...! Stuart who started off as a trainee priest or something as I recall.. had an elder brother called Darryl or something, the baddie wasn't he?

And Nick was so badly in need of a haircut...!

Anyone else still in it from the good ole days apart from Chris Warner then?
I'd forgotten all about stuart being a priest but now you mention it, it does sound right! Yeah Darryl was the baddie, oooh he was nasty, and then he got together with the lovely Grace.

I do remember that everyone at Shortland street seemed to have had a relationship/slept with everyone else, especially Guy and Chris, it was very incestous.

I think Chris is the only oldie left in it these days, he's certainly the only one I recognised
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Old 04-01-2007, 15:06
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Originally Posted by CRIM NO1
Dont write. Shortland Street is a New Zealand Soap it was a gap filler between programmes

You are absolutely right.

They would never show it again and even if it was on ITV2 3 or 4 from the start it would be strange as some parts of the country would have never seen it before and for some areas (Central especially) they would be seen as repeats.
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Old 04-01-2007, 15:07
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Originally Posted by Dennis C
Ok then guys, Living TV's address is:-

160 Great Portland Street,
London W1W 5QA.


I'd suggest writing to Programmes Section or to Viewers Correspondence. No, I don't know if those are proper department titles or not, just ideas.

I really think that if they had just two dozen letters in January raving about Shortland Street and how they (the writer, and friends/family etc) would love to see Shortland Street from the beginning, they'd think about it. And maybe even send their own Yvette Fielding to exhume and/or interview Mr Mckenna in one of her spooky seances!

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I would expect that ITV still have the rights to the show even if they have no desire to show it anymore.
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Old 04-01-2007, 17:24
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Originally Posted by stormin norm

I do remember that everyone at Shortland street seemed to have had a relationship/slept with everyone else, especially Guy and Chris, it was very incestous.

I think Chris is the only oldie left in it these days, he's certainly the only one I recognised
Well your first point can be claimed of most soaps.. tho' I didn't know that Guy and Chris had slept together.. TWO BROTHERS DOING IT TO EACH OTHER?? now that must be a first..

There was an attractive woman doctor, whom I quite liked, turned out she wasn't a doctor at all but someone with mental issues.. d'you think that could happen over here in the UK?? Maybe it's going on now as we sit and think, somewhere!
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