THIS IS NEW ZEALAND [PROGRAMME 13]

Bob Parker and Cathy Strong host a magazine show about New Zealand, made for US Cable networks. Some articles appear to be sourced from locally produced current affairs and magazine programmes.

000:00 Opening credits.
001:20 Bob and Cathy introduce tonight’s articles.
002:14 Ad break: ad for Air Pacific (Fiji); Dateline Tours.
003:50 Bob introduces an article on diving in Fiji; this history of the island of Taveuni; New Zealanders living on the island take their guests scuba diving on the reef.
012:25 Ad break: ad for Air Pacific (Fiji); Dateline Tours; NZ Railways; ad for Air Pacific and the Fijian Hotel.
015:02 Next instalment of the Fijian article; underwater scenes, fish and coral.
019:15 Bob introduces an article on two Aucklanders (Howard Williams and Monica Schere-Vance?) who make sculpture out of weaving and ceramics (one of which was commissioned for the Reserve Bank building in Auckland).
027:46 Ad break [black].
030:04 Two American travellers give their impressions of NZ; Bob describes the West Coast and Cathy introduces an article on West Coast coal mining ‘Coal Valley’; working a succession of small private mines near Runanga.
044:30 Ad break: ad for Fiji; NZ Railways Travelpass; Air Pacific (Fiji).
046:06 Cathy introduces an article on NASA in NZ studying the after effects of the El Chichon eruption; a flying laboratory used to study the dust cloud; closing patter; end credits.
057:47 Last picture frame.