Peter Coates
If director and producer Peter Coates was a superhero, he’d surely be ‘Renaissance Man’. His contribution to championing the arts on television is arguably heroic, and his career multi-faceted. From 1971 to 2004 Coates produced, directed or scripted hundreds of TV productions covering a smorgasbord of topics, from operas to soap operas, and from portraits of New Zealand artists to rugby coaching films.
The production of Die Fledermaus by Peter Coates was an artistic triumph. It was brilliantly conceived for the television medium, and throughly faithful to the story and spirit of this delightful comic opera. NZ Herald music critic LCM Saunders, on a 1984 TVNZ production of Die Fledermaus
Northspur
2022, As: Monk - Film
Inside Out - Final Episode
2004, Director - Television
Inside Out - Veterans Disabled by War
1999, Director - Television
Inside Out
1998 - 2004, Director - Television
Inside Out - First Episode
1998, Director - Television
Men of the Silver Fern - A Winning Reputation (1870 - 1924)
1993, Producer, Writer, Interviewer, Director - Television
Men of the Silver Fern - Power, Politics and Professionalism (1978 - 1992)
1993, Director, Writer, Producer - Television
Men of the Silver Fern - Towards the Grand Slam (1957 - 1978)
1993, Writer, Producer, Director - Television
Men of the Silver Fern - Trouble in the Engine Room (1925 - 1956)
1993, Writer, Producer, Director - Television
Sunday - Sagrada Familia
1992, Director - Television
Sunday (magazine show)
1991 - 1994, Director - Television
Logan Brewer - The Man Behind the Razmatazz
1991, Director - Television
10AM
1990, Director - Television
Kaleidoscope - Frances Hodgkins
1989, Director, Writer, Design - Television
Kaleidoscope - John Matheson
1989, Director - Television
Inspiration
1987, Producer, Director - Television
Inspiration - Margaret Mahy
1987, Executive Producer - Television
A Master of Light - The Life and Work of Brian Brake Photographer
1987, Director, Producer - Television
A Spark of Life - James Greig, Potter, Man of West and East
1987, Director, Producer, Writer - Television
Kaleidoscope - Ngāti
1987, Editor - Television
Witi Ihimaera: Roimata Toroa
1987, Director, Producer - Television
Kaleidoscope - Town Planning
1985, Series Director - Television
Sunday
1983 - 1986, Director - Television
Ashkenazy in Concert
1983, Producer, Director - Interview - Television
Kaleidoscope
1980 - 1989, Producer, Director - Television
Close to Home
1975 - 1976, Director, Producer - Television
Hunt's Duffer
1973, Co-Director, Writer, Producer, Writer - Television
Island of Spirits
1973, Director, Producer - Television
Survey - What Happened at Oruaiti
1972, Director, Producer - Television
The Prince of Nosey-Parkers
1972, Director, Writer, Producer - Television
Town and Around
1970, Director (Wellington) - Television