Tom Finlayson
Tom Finlayson has worked in television in almost every capacity: as a reporter and producer in the cauldron of daily news, developing and producing classic drama shows (Under the Mountain, Mortimer's Patch) and movies, directing documentaries (The Party's Over) — as well as commissioning programmes, during a three year stint as TVNZ’s Director of Production.
Successful productions always have many claimants to their parenthood: failed ones tend to be orphans. There were at least 10 people who claimed parenthood of Shortland Street. But Marlin Bay was a waif! Tom Finlayson
Tom Finlayson: On Town and Around and much more...
Interview, 2011
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 5 - Telling Stories
2010, Subject - Television
The New Zealand Wars 1 - The War that Britain Lost (First Episode)
1998, Network Executive - Television
The New Zealand Wars 2 - Kings and Empires (Episode Two)
1998, Network Executive - Television
The New Zealand Wars 3 - The Invasion of the Waikato (Episode Three)
1998, Network Executive - Television
The New Zealand Wars 4 - Taranaki Prophets (Episode Four)
1998, Network Executive - Television
The New Zealand Wars 5 - The East Coast Wars (Episode Five)
1998, Network Executive - Television
Out of the Dark
1996, Network Executive - Television
Beyond a Joke!
1996, Network Executive - Television
For Art's Sake - A Century of Cinema
1996, Network Executive - Television
For Art's Sake - In the Eye of the Beholder: Douglas Wright
1996, Network Executive - Television
Letter to Blanchy - Shield Fever (Series Two, Episode One)
1996, Network Executive - Television
The Game of Our Lives - Tries and Penalties
1996, Network Executive - Television
Posy Narkers - Five Episodes
1995, Network Executive - Television
Billy T James - A Celebration
1995, Network Executive - Television
For Love or Money
1995, Network Executive - Television
Godzone Sheep
1995, Network Executive - Television
Open Home - Series Four, Episode 13
1995, Network Executive - Television
Seeing Red
1995, Network Executive - Television
An Immigrant Nation - The Footprints of the Dragon
1994, Network Executive - Television
An Immigrant Nation - The Unbroken Thread
1994, Network Executive - Television
Letter to Blanchy - The Sweet Smell of Success (First Episode)
1994, Network Executive - Television
Open Home - Series Three, Episode Nine
1994, Network Executive - Television
Peter Peryer: Portrait of a Photographer
1994, Network Executive - Television
The People Next Door
1994, Network Executive - Television
A Whale's Tale
1992, Network Executive - Television
The Party's Over
1992, Director, Producer - Television
Smiling Again
1991, Director, Producer - Television
Dame Cath Moves Up - A Personal Portrait
1990, Director - Television
The Grasscutter
1988, Producer - Television
Terry and the Gunrunners - Full Series
1985, Executive Producer - Television
Under the Mountain - The Alien World Below (Episode Four)
1981, Producer - Television
Under the Mountain
1981, Producer - Television
Mortimer's Patch - Day of Judgement (First Episode)
1980, Producer - Television
Mortimer's Patch
1980 - 1984, Producer, Creator - Television
Radio Waves
1978, Producer - Television
Radio Waves - First Episode
1978, Producer - Television
Town and Around: Auckland Highlights
1967, Reporter - Television
Town and Around
1966 - 1969, Reporter (Auckland) - Television