Mortimer's Patch
Mortimer’s Patch was a popular drama series following Detective Sergeant Doug Mortimer (Terence Cooper) at work in the town of Cobham. Mortimer plays a city cop returning to his rural roots; Don Selwyn is Sergeant Bob Storey. The series was NZ’s first police drama, and a rare local drama to top ratings. Mortimer's Patch was made when the archetype of the ‘community cop’ everyone knew was still a powerful one, and it was a counterweight to the faceless riot policing of the Springbok Tour.
A series looking back at past television programmes.
Primary Title
- Mortimer's Patch
Date Broadcast
- Tuesday 29 June 2004
Start Time
- 21 : 00
Finish Time
- 22 : 00
Duration
- 60:00
Channel
- Maori Television
Broadcaster
- Maori Television Service
Programme Description
- A series looking back at past television programmes.
Episode Description
- Mortimer’s Patch was a popular drama series following Detective Sergeant Doug Mortimer (Terence Cooper) at work in the town of Cobham. Mortimer plays a city cop returning to his rural roots; Don Selwyn is Sergeant Bob Storey. The series was NZ’s first police drama, and a rare local drama to top ratings. Mortimer's Patch was made when the archetype of the ‘community cop’ everyone knew was still a powerful one, and it was a counterweight to the faceless riot policing of the Springbok Tour.
Classification
- G
Owning Collection
- TV & Radio
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Contributors
- He Taonga Films (Production Unit)
- Maori Television (Production Unit)
- TVNZ (Production Unit)
- Terence Cooper (Actor)
- Don Selwyn (Actor)
- Keith Aberdein (Writer)
- Bruce Allpress (Actor)
- John Bach (Actor)
- Chris Bailey (Director)
- John Banas (Writer)
- Ken Blackburn (Actor)
- Logan Brewer (Producer)
- Ken Catran (Writer)
- Tom Finlayson (Producer)