Maddigan's Quest - First Episode

When the great chaos changed the face of the world, out of the ashes came Solis, the Shining City; our home. Every year we leave Solis to earn some bread, to spread some joy, to entertain.

– Garland (Rose McIver) introduces the show

We're Maddigan's Fantasia, best in the world. We don't just take anybody.

– Garland (Rose McIver)

The story is about the truth of children's faith. All those things that we tend to lose when we become adults or get warped by politics or whatever. They're the best things to retain. Good will triumph over evil.

– Actor Michael Hurst in an interview with The NZ Herald, 9 February 2006

It allows you to completely step outside of what you are... It's not something you can always relate to. You get to encounter all these amazing people and places and big props and all that kind of thing. It's really grand.

– Actor Rose McIver in an interview with The NZ Herald, 9 February 2006

...everyone you could think of you'd want to work with in New Zealand all grouped together. It was amazing.

– Actor Rose McIver describes the cast of Maddigan's Quest, The NZ Herald, 9 February 2006

Our home is powered by the sun through the solar converter. Everyone knows that. But what no one knows is that the solar converter is wearing out and when that dies so will Solis.

– Garland (Rose McIver)

Maddigan's Quest is aimed at 8-14-year olds but the story asks enough big questions to give it wider appeal: what if the technological advances we've made send us careering towards disaster? Where would we live? How would we survive?

– NZ Herald writer Rebecca Barry Hill, 9 February 2006

Like the tunnels of Devonport's North Head compared with the bleak landscape of the Wainui Quarry; the plains of Wheelers Farm near Bethells Beach to the wastelands of an abandoned meatworks in Southdown.

– NZ Herald writer Rebecca Barry Hill on the show's many different looks and locations, 9 February 2006

They've asked us because we always travel. No one will suspect . . . They think we can do the job.

– Maddie (Danielle Cormack) explains why the troupe has been tasked with the mission, in clip two