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The Games Affair | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by |
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Screenplay by | Michael Anthony Noonan |
Directed by | Bruce Clark |
Starring |
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Composer | Ross Harris |
Country of origin | New Zealand |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 ( list of episodes) |
Production | |
Producer | Grahame McLean |
Cinematography | Paul Leach |
Editor | Michael Horton |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Production company | Endeavour Television Productions |
Original release | |
Network | NZBC |
Release | 22 February 28 March 1975 | –
The Games Affair (1975), directed by Bruce Clark, [1] was New Zealand's first children’s television series. The Games Affair was a six-part fantasy-thriller series broadcast by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation where 3 teenagers unintentionally become involved with exposing the no-good antics of a professor and his two assistants during the Christchurch Xth Commonwealth Games. [2]
The show begins with Henry Ropata and his son Chris arriving at Harewood Airport to pick up Australian teenager Alley Jones and Canadian Paul Chapman whom they are housing during the Commonwealth Youth Conference, held in conjunction with the Games. They stumble upon a mad professor who, along with his two assistants, attempt to shoot athletes with powerful performance enhancing drugs during the Games.
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|
The Games Affair | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by |
|
Screenplay by | Michael Anthony Noonan |
Directed by | Bruce Clark |
Starring |
|
Composer | Ross Harris |
Country of origin | New Zealand |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 ( list of episodes) |
Production | |
Producer | Grahame McLean |
Cinematography | Paul Leach |
Editor | Michael Horton |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Production company | Endeavour Television Productions |
Original release | |
Network | NZBC |
Release | 22 February 28 March 1975 | –
The Games Affair (1975), directed by Bruce Clark, [1] was New Zealand's first children’s television series. The Games Affair was a six-part fantasy-thriller series broadcast by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation where 3 teenagers unintentionally become involved with exposing the no-good antics of a professor and his two assistants during the Christchurch Xth Commonwealth Games. [2]
The show begins with Henry Ropata and his son Chris arriving at Harewood Airport to pick up Australian teenager Alley Jones and Canadian Paul Chapman whom they are housing during the Commonwealth Youth Conference, held in conjunction with the Games. They stumble upon a mad professor who, along with his two assistants, attempt to shoot athletes with powerful performance enhancing drugs during the Games.