Roche - First Episode

Television (Full Length Episode) – 1985

...I know it's highway robbery but listen, you don't want to head all the way back to Wellington with nothing on your trailer but a paint job, do you?
– The Auckland manager (Tama Poata) persuades Mick to take on a quick job

I was great at playing dickheads.
– Actor Andy Anderson on his TV career in the 1980s, Stuff, 4 January 2019

You don't know what it's like working with a bloke like Mick . .. . He runs a tight ship: 'Double N, OTJ'— No Nookie On The Job.
– Tony Roche (Andy Anderson) describes working with brother Mick

Sorry, I can't seem to find my birth certificate.
– Mick Roche (John Bach) get cheeky with a pedantic traffic officer (John Banas)

Don't you bloody union ME, mate!
– 35.30 Mick Roche fires back at a Union Rep (Tim Lee)

There are not usually enought parts for women, and when they are written it is not usually in the three dimensional way this character is. Kate is definitely a woman in her own right. She is assertive, she's got initiative and is not scared to step forward. She's definitely not an off-shoot of men. She doesn't just react to what men do, she acts.
– Denise O'Connell on playing Kate Nolan in 1985 drama Roche, 'Ourselves in Primetime' A History of NZ Television Drama, page 166,

This is what life is for a truckie — a shit sandwich — but the more bread you have, the less shit you've gotta eat. That's my philosophy.
– A fellow truckie (Peter Dennett) yarns to Mick Roche (John Bach)

Don't talk to me with your mouth full You're insulting my family. When you insult Fa'a, you are insulting my family.
– Sione (David Sa'ene) challenges his wayward brother-in-law Tony (Andy Anderson)