6.6 /10 1 Votes
6/10 TV Original language(s) English No. of episodes 19 (list of episodes) Language English | 7.2/10 IMDb Country of origin New Zealand No. of seasons 2 First episode date 25 May 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Rod Johns &
Scott McJorrow Starring Nicholas Coghlan
Zoe Naylor
Mark Ruka
Caroline Craig
Stephen Hall
Nick Kemplen Cast Zoe Naylor, Caroline Craig Networks Television New Zealand, TVNZ 1 Genres Action fiction, Crime Fiction, Thriller Similar Street Legal, The Brokenwood Mysteries, Nothing Trivial, The Blue Rose, Go Girls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Orange Roughies is a New Zealand television drama created by Auckland-based film company Screenworks, the first season of which was screened on TV ONE from May to July 2006. The second season was due to be shown some time between October 2006 and January 2007, but due to poor ratings the programme was taken off the air.
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An orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus. is a type of fish.
About the show
The show centres around four main characters who are members of an elite taskforce in Auckland combining police and customs officers. Despite being an elite force, they are, as their commander Ron Maddock (Stephen Hall) remind them, underfunded, under-resourced and under the hammer. Because of this the Roughies (as they are called) have to make sure that they perform exceptionally well to avoid being canned, as they are, after all, an experiment. The Roughies are Detective Sergeant Danny Wilder (Nicholas Coghlan), Senior Customs Officer Jane Durant (Zoe Naylor), Detective Constable Zach Wiki (Mark Ruka) and Noel Bullerton (Nick Kemplen).
Each episode concerns a police or customs enquiry carried out by the taskforce, often of a high-risk nature.
The first episode deals with child trafficking from China. Jane decides to adopt one of the trafficked children, Tao Li, but several episodes later Tao is taken back to China, leaving Jane once again childless. There is also a romance that gradually develops between Danny and Jane, culminating in a kiss discovered by Maddock.
The first season ends with Jane being taken hostage by a homosexual Greek criminal and being shot in the stomach. It is uncertain whether she survives. Danny manages to track down the shooter in Melbourne and kills him.
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Music
The soundtrack for Orange Roughies was composed mostly by Don McGlashan, who also wrote the music for Screenworks' other major television series, Street Legal. However, the opening credits are accompanied by the song Long White Cross performed by an from Auckland band, Pluto.
Locations
Orange Roughies was shot in the central business district of Auckland CBD. Locations included: