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Richard John Seddon - Premier
Television (Full Length) – 1973
This award-winning 1973 TV drama follows the career of PM Richard 'King Dick' Seddon from the events leading to his premiership in 1893, until his death in 1906. Writer Michael Noonan (The Governor) intersperses speeches and cabinet discussions with vignettes of Seddon's interaction with pressure groups and voters. Tony Currie (Close to Home) won a Feltex Award as the colourful Seddon, who forced through groundbreaking legislation. Listener reviewer Roger Hall praised it as New Zealand's "best historical documentary" to date. Watch out for broadcaster Brian Edwards as an opposition MP.
Seddon was easily the best historical documentary that we've made in this country. It was well written, directed and acted and also had the advantage that someone was willing to spend a lot of money on it ... let us hope that the success of Seddon will lead to other, equally ambitious documentaries about our past.– Roger Hall, in a Listener review, 2 February 1974, page 36
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