Television programmes

Date: 2006

By: Television New Zealand

Reference: EphCom-TELEVISION-2006-04

Description: TNVZ brochure advertising brand sponsorship opportunities for the television show "Big Love". Accompanying DVD contains the first two episodes of the series, which began on TVNZ channel TWO in 2006. Quantity: 1 optical disk(s). Physical Description: Computer CD, diameter 120 mm.

Date: 2006

By: Television New Zealand

Reference: EphCom-TELEVISION-2006-01/03

Description: Sampler previews from the following television series beginning on TVNZ channels ONE and TWO in 2006. Disc 3: The Evidence (Channel One); Invasion (Channel 2). Full length episodes Disc 4: Close to home (Channel One); Criminal minds (Channel 2). Full length episodes Disc 5: Life isn't all ha ha hee hee (Channel One); Supernatural (Channel 2). Full length episodes Discs 1 and 2 not held, contain: Disc 1 - Rome, Four Kings; Disc 2 - House of Tiny Tearaways, Commander in Chief Quantity: 3 optical disk(s). Physical Description: Computer CDs, diameter 120 mm.

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-418-001/021

Description: Political cartoons. The Auckland Blues win Super-12 game. As Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark soar in the opinion polls Jim Bolger considers a sex-change. Tim Shadbolt becomes deputy leader of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party. Tuku Morgan is accused of seeking a fee for an exclusive interview with the media. Public opinion on Tuku Morgan's behaviour. Maori bashing continues over Tuku Morgan, as Maori hit themselves and ask why he just doesn't resign. Maori occupy land in Waiouru during winter as temperatures hit a low. They are protesting against the wild horse mustering? Winston Peter's accepts Tuku Morgan's apology and assumes the moral high ground. International study shows kiwi kids poor at maths but good at bullying. Bob Jones suggests that the Beehive be dynamited. A look at genetic makeup in terms of race. Comment on teacher inaction over bullying in school play grounds. Jim Bolger comments on a meeting between National Party and New Zealand First MPs held in his home. Buyer beware - used car importers rip people off. Comment on what iwi-based Treaty settlements mean to many Maori. The International Rugby Board (IRB) threatens to clamp down on New Zealand style rugby. The law forbids the rich and the poor from living in shoddy housing that leads to unneccesary fires and death. School leaving age kept at 16. Winston Peters finds himself on a high-wire with pressures all around him like, 'fiscal restraint', 'Maori hopes', 'social spending' and 'NZ First's last chance'. Winston Peters goes off to Hong Kong leaving Jim Bolger and Bill Birch defending the budget. Winston Peters at the handover of Hong Kong to China, continues to warn about the Asian take over. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1966

Reference: Eph-B-RECREATION-1966-01

Description: An invitiation to a fancy dress party whose theme was based on the television programme "The Avengers", with characters John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma Peal (Diana Rigg). Shows a photograph of Macnee as Steed firing a gun. At the lower edge is a blank order form for tickets which cast 2 pounds 10 shillings for a male and 2 pounds for a female. The individuals involved in the organisation of the party are listed. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on flyer, 290 x 215 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1981

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-001/025

Description: Cartoons on international and New Zealand political and social issues. Quantity: 25 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1986

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-058/083

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 26 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary.

Date: 1975

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: C-125-050

Description: Leader of the Opposition, Robert Muldoon, on a operating table, with surgeons around him turning him into the "Six Million dollar bionic man" (a popular television programme of the 1970s). The operating theatre is the Founders Theatre, Hamilton, where the election opening address is to take place. Muldoon is being given a 'bionic eye, for seeing all opponents as Communists', and 'Bionic legs for riding roughshod over rivals', a 'bionic arm for extracting taxes'. One of the surgeons is a member of the Capital Club, a ginger group and fund-raising group acting to support the National Party at this period. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, felt-tip pen, Chinese white, 470 x 634 mm Provenance: Donation: Eric Heath, 1984

Date: 1983

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-360-209/230

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 22 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: [1958-1959]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Reference: MSX-4606

Description: Booklets accompanying BBC broadcasts to schools series, `Adventures in music orchestral concerts', BBC sound and television broadcasts to schools' and 64th season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts programme (1958) Quantity: 1 volume(s).

From: Fletcher, David :Cartoons entered in the 1992 Qantas Media Awards

Reference: A-296-127

Description: Shows a group of three men. In the first scene one of them looks a bit battered and has a broom through his head. He makes a comment about the angry woman who is standing behind them on a balcony. The next scene shows the three of them sitting down at a table drinking cups of tea and making comments about the same angry woman who is peering over their table. In the third scene, the older, scruffy man walks past a sign about keeping England tidy and in the final scene the three of them are walking down the street past the local shops. Refers to the television programme "The last of the summer wine". Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

Date: [late 1960s, late 1970s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2959

Description: Transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis circa late 1970s showing a television set at Avalon Studios, Lower Hutt. Likely from the New Zealand soap opera "Close to Home". Also includes transparencies taken by Beavis circa late 1960s showing scenes from the television show "Town and Around", including the team walking the streets of Wellington City. Transparencies showing scenes from Town and Around are continued at PA12-2960. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in June 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-76.

Date: [1972?]

By: Coates, Peter J F, 1937-

Reference: MS-Papers-1089

Description: Script of a proposed television programme on the Parihaka affair, 1879-1882 Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (13 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typsecript (cyclostyled)

Date: 1965

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-336

Description: The use of television in teaching science is illustrated here by current programmes, e.g. The adventures of Tin Tin, The Untouchables, Have a shot, in three scenarios. The fourth shows a headmaster about to cane a boy, saying, Charles Smith, for playing-up during the TV lesson, this is 'You've asked for it!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 310 x 398 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-554-021/042

Description: Political cartoons. Jenny Shipley waits for the corner to be turned in the tourism row. Fringe political games. 1. Murray McCully passes the buck on the tourism row. 2. Helen Clark spread the rumour. Comment on the barbarism of human behaviour as news tells us that Hutu rebels hack tourists to death in Uganda. Comment on Air New Zealand's growing service and safety problems. More Fringe political games... Dodging the issue - Jenny Shipley. Losing the plot: - Clem Simich. A TVNZ executive is put in the firing line over the John Hawkesby payout. Farmers celebrate the end of the draught. Monica Lewinsky's side of the Bill Clinton sex scandal. Saatch boss, Kevin Roberts is made to walk the plank by the Tourism Board. New developments in genetic modification. Comment on the resilience of Tourism Minister Murray McCully to withstand the tourism row. Jenny Shipley explains she won't support the Alliance's Bill calling for labelling of all genetically modified food until the Bill has been redrafted with the National Party logo on the front instead of the Alliance one. A look into the Serbian Police Handbook which identifies threats and instructs Serbian Police to destroy them. The British establishment congratulate themselves on rooting out greed and corruption from the IOC (International Olympic Committee?) and go back to their indulgent ways. Comment on the contradiction between Paul Holmes pitching his show to the ordinary kiwi while receiving a $770,000 salary. Helen Clark trails in the polls as Labour heads toward the next election. Jenny Shipley leads the charge of the firemen against unpopular reformer Roger Estall. Allied planes swoop low over a Serbian soldier about to execute a woman and her baby. Allied war planes are dispatched with personal messages, except the spelling isn't that flash. Comment on the publics feeling of helplessness in the face of mass killings in Kosovo and the Nato response to the violence. Comment on the thought that the APEC summit in Auckland would bring American tourists. Comment on voyeuristic television shows. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-448-022/044

Description: The Fire Service reduce their services to the public as a consequence of being restructured. North Health argue their case for not giving Rau Williams life-saving kidney dialysis treatment. Jim Bolger holds onto the National Party leadership against growing calls for renewal of the Party, starting at the top. Labour enjoys record lead in the polls. Bill English, Minister of Health, despairs over the state of the public health system. Winston Peters is increasingly alarmed by Neil Kirton's unexpected statements. The splitting of ECNZ into two competing groups has resulted in higher power prices. The TVNZ Board discuss a strategy to get the public behind selling off TVNZ. Public discussion over the death of Rau Williams who had kidney dialysis treatment withheld from him. Winston Peters and Jim Bolger disagree over the question of more frigates in the NZ fleet. Tuku Morgan argues against the TVNZ sell-off. Obituary to Rau Williams and Jim Bolger's 'kinder and gentler society'. Jim Bolger attempts to deal with Jenny Shipley's leadership bid. Comment on the current justice system where violent offenders are let free on bail and their elderly victims lock themselves up alone in their homes. Jim Anderton's Alliance Party deals with demands from the Green Party. Jim Bolger heads for Chogm as his National Government plunges to record unpopularity. Wide-spread health cuts are introduced to the public health sector. Comment on the apparent collusion between defence attorneys and their gang clients. Jim Bolger seems pleased to be on a first-name basis with many of the world's leaders. Panic spreads as stockmarkets tumble everywhere. Shows the inter-dependant relationship between the American Wall St. stock market and the New Zealand stock market. Minister of Health, Bill English doesn't comprehend the seriousness of doctors' dissatisfaction with their conditions. 'This is your life' TV programme returns. Quantity: 23 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides. Processing information: Subject headings updated in 2022 as part of inclusive metadata work.

Date: [1996-2001]

From: Sargent, Lyman Tower, 1940- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7936

Description: Letter from Stephen Innes, University of Auckland, related to book on Centrepoint Community; tables, with overheads, of Centrepoint membership (1978-1996), social characteristics of those joining (1978-1983), lifestyle, etc; samples of 75th anniversary printing of codicil to Alexander Turnbull's will, printed by the Silent Press, Wellington using the J & J Barrett Albion Printing Press from the Library's collection; and correspondence with Centrepoint Community regarding `Inside Centrepoint' Also list of television programmes relating to ohu and letter from Stephanie McKee Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Dec 1987 - 01 Dec 1987

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

By: McNeish, James Henry Peter (Sir), 1931-2016

Reference: OHInt-0574-4

Description: 1 - Interview with James McNeish part one, on Today Tonight programme 2 - 1500m final - race with commentry by Harold Abrahams 3 - Interview with James McNeish, part two, on Today Tonight programme Quantity: 1 videocassette(s). 2 interview(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1936 - 1987

Date: 15 Jan 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Macnab, Ailsa Jean, 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0593/34

Description: Jean Macnab was born in Lower Hutt in 1952. Describes the linking of the Upper Hutt Parish in 1976, attending Sunday School at home and church while father was Session Clerk. Recalls services in King Street before Iona Centre was built. Relates her inabilty to attend church due to farm work. Details the services on the radio and television, mentioning Hour of Power. Describes healing of her illnesses and accidents. Talks about her mother and positions she held in the Association of Presbyterian Women, describing their activities and those of a housegroup. Talks of charismatic services. Discusses her monetary offerings to church, Christian World Service and the housegroup. Talks of competitions and purchases from Readers' Digest, Outlook magazine's Knots and Puzzles, mentions Crosslink. Mentions George Nunny, Peter Lang. Describes driving to church with her brother, his involvement with the Domestic Affairs Committee. Mentions walking to her sit dancing exercises. Discusses changes in the farming communities of Mangaroa and Totara Park. Talks of Bible stories. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHA-009286 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2999, OHDL-000953.

Date: [1960s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2960

Description: Transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis circa late 1960s showing scenes from the television show "Town and Around", including the team walking the streets of Wellington City. Also includes transparencies taken by Beavis circa 1960s showing images of a man holding an acoustic guitar, surrounded by a vignette effect. Also includes transparencies taken by Beavis circa 1960s showing images of a woman having make up applied for a television show or commerical. Includes images of the set, equipment, and television screen broadcasting the scene. Transparencies showing images of a television set are continued at PA12-2961. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "WNTV1 | Guitar. Reject". Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in June 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-76.

Date: 1990-2000

From: Young, David Christopher, 1947- :Photographs, mostly relating to the Matahina Dam and to a South Westland canoe trip

Reference: PAColl-10090-2

Description: Comprises photographs of White Island (2000), photographs relating to Whakatohea and the pardon of Mokomoko at Opape Marae, Optoki, Bay of Plenty (circa 1990). Also photographs from the making of TVNZ 'Living Treasures' programme (circa 1990) that includes Thor Heyerdahl who visited various maraes to compare research on the art of building reed boats, North Taranaki Coast Crown Law Project at north Taranaki (2000), Kahikatea planing ceremony on property owned by Jim Glover (circa 1997-1998), portraits of Stan Butcher (circa 1990s). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 50 colour original photographic print(s).