Episode 1 (Shortland Street)
| "Episode 1" | |
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| Shortland Street episode | |
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| Episode no. |
Series 1 Episode 1 |
| Written by | Wendy Jackson |
| Produced by | Caterina De Nave |
| Original air date | 25 May 1992 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Anne Cathie as Lisa Stanton |
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Anne Cathie as Lisa Stanton
Krista Nobilo as Tara Milburn
Suzy Aitken as Jill Johnstone
Episode 1 of the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street, was first broadcast on 25 May 1992.
The episode starts with paramedics Tom Neilson and Sam Aleni driving down a road with their siren on. Tom's wife Marjorie Neilson answers the phone and hears of a car crash involving a young couple by a construction site. Tom and Sam arrive at the scene to find a teenager in labour having received head injuries. Tom is surprised to find his teenage son Stuart at the scene. Against protocol, Tom and Sam decide to take the women to Shortland Street Clinic as a result of her brain injury.
Meanwhile, the new doctor Hone Ropata arrives at the clinic. Director of nursing Carrie Burton welcomes him and begins to give him a tour of the building. Nurse Alison Raynor attends to a young aggressive teenage hoodlum who refuses help.
The paramedics arrive at the clinic and ask for a doctor. Carrie asks receptionist Kirsty Knight to call for Dr. Chris Warner. Meanwhile, Chris is seducing his aerobics instructor who has turned his bleeper off. Hone decides he has to deliver the baby and goes against protocol to do so. Carrie advises him not to and reminds him that he is not in Guatemala anymore, which Hone ignores. Stuart is denied entrance to the room the girl is giving birth as he is not family, to which he proclaims he is the baby's father. Tom and Marj are shocked that their highly religious son has had sex before marriage.
The teenage hoodlum Alison is seeing apologises for her behaviour and Alison tells her it helps to be polite, while her back is turned, the girl goes into Alison's handbag and steals a wad of cash.
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