Life in a rural town where the main employer is a sawmill.
Season 1
Pukemanu Welcomes You (Screened on Central TV, other regional channels after that.)
A bikie gang pass through the quiet forest town and an unexpected relationship develops as a woman seeks to escape domineering parents.
Credits: Diana Thorpe: GINETTE MACDONALD
Tahu: GRANT MCFARLAND
Phyllis Telford: PAT EVISON
Dr Rhyder: IAN WATKIN
Ray: GEOFF MURPHY
Angus: TOM POATA
Colin Thorpe: ALEX TROUSDELL
May Thorpe: DOROTHY TOOGOOD
Si Lamb: BERNIE MARSH
Denning: HARRY LAVINGTON
Bikie gang members include: BILL STALKER, BRUNO LAWRENCE
Producer: MURRAY REECE
Writer: JULIAN DICKON
Film Cameraman: MAX PUDNEY
Film Editors: SIMON REECE, TEX JONES
Designers: KEN GOODMAN, MALCOLM FARMER
Executive Producer: DOUGLAS DRURY
Risk Extreme
Writer: Julian Dickon
A man on the run aggrivates tension in a town preoccupied with a severe midsummer drought.
Kevin Wilson, Wilter Pym, Grant Tilly, Sue Hanson, Noel Trevarthen. Producer, Terry Isaac.
What would uncle Harry Say?
Writer: Julian Dickon
Mark Gold's plan to enter the trucking industry by his brother David.
Noel Trevarthan, Peter Vere-Jines, Dorothy Smith, John Johnstone, Dorothy McKegg, Tony Barry, Christine Bartlett. Producer David Stevens
Convenient Excuse
Writer: Michael Noonan
A girl is forced to re-examine her decision to teach in Pukemanu when she unwittingtly antagonies part of the community.
Derryn Cooper, Peter Vere-Jones, Han Van Wamel, Pat Evlson. Producer Murray Reece.
A Soft Answer
Writer: Hamish Keith.
Feelings run high between truck drivers and a local farmer over access to a forest block.
William Johnson, Robyn Cox, lan Mune, Pat Evison, Grant McFarland, Tom Poata. Producer Donald Hope Evans
Charlie's Rock
Writer: Hamish Keith.
A simple business decision intrudes on Maoritanga.
Ernie leonard, Helen Harte, Henry Northcroft, Jackson Smith, James Moriarty,Molly Wanikau, Peter Vere-Jones. Producer, Tony Isaac(final)
Above: Noel Trevarthan, Christine Bartlett, lan Mune, and Robyn Cox
Pukemanu was made on a large number of actual locations. Some shots of the town were taken at Atiamuri, the store is at Upper Atiamuri, the logging scenes were filmed in the Kaingaroa Forest and the Whaka Forest; the police station, pub, garage, church and doctor’s house are at Martinborough, the school is at Featherston South, the Marae is at Greytown, the airstrip at Mangaroa, one road accident is at Kaitoke, and another one at Whiteman’s Valley, the wood chop is at Reporoa and the Pukemanu sawmill was shot at the Waipa sawmill.
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