Mucking In - First Episode

The premise of this long-running makeover show was “celebrating people by doing their gardens”. In this very first episode, the Mucking In team rally together with Mangere Bridge locals to surprise unsung teacher Phillipa Todd, who goes the extra distance for her students. Co-presenter Jim Mora humbly describes their efforts as “more of a tidy-up than anything else”, but the show would prove enduringly popular and run until 2009, and picking up a 2004 Qantas Media Award for Best Lifestyle Programme along the way. 

You met the best people in New Zealand and all their nice mates. It was probably the nicest thing that anyone in television would ever have the chance to do.

– Jim Mora reflects on a decade of Mucking In, in a 2012 ScreenTalk interview

Key Cast & Crew

Katrina Misa

Presenter

Tessa Tylee

Producer, Director

Jim Mora

Presenter

Richard Greenwood

Presenter

Graham Wallace

Sound Mix

Gordon Goodinson

Editor