Storylines of Shortland Street

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This article details the various storylines that have occurred on the New Zealand Soap Opera Shortland Street since its debut on May 25, 1992.

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[edit] 1992

Highlights

  • The First Episode airs, featuring the now infamous line "You're not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata!"
  • Kirsty Knight (Angela Dotchin) is the victim of an attempted rape by Darryl Neilson (Mark Ferguson).

For more information about 1992's storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (1992).

[edit] 1993

Highlights

For more information about 1993's storylines, please see Storylines of Shortland Street (1993).

[edit] 1994

Highlights

  • Nurse Steve Mills (Andrew Binns) and T.P Aleni are killed in a car crash.
  • The 500th episode of Shortland Street airs in April.
  • A kiss between Meredith Flemming (Stephanie Wilkin) and Annie Flynn (Rebecca Hobbs) sparks controversy.
  • Stuart Neilson (Martin Henderson) objects to the marriage of Kirsty Knight (Angela Dotchin) and Lionel Skeggins (John Leigh).

For more information about 1994's storylines please see: Storylines of Shortland Street (1994).

[edit] 1995

Highlights

  • After getting drunk and enraging a truck driver who raped her, scheming bitch Nurse Carla Crozier, Ellen Crozier's sister, managed to pursuade him to kill himself by driving his truck into the clinic. Receptionist Kirsty Skeggins (nee Knight), received the full force of the crash, and was put into a coma. On waking a few days later, she could not remember the last two years of her life, including her marriage to, and love for, cafe owner Lionel Skeggins. Kirsty eventually got her memory back, but found her love for Lionel was gone, possibly never there to begin with, and the two eventually divorced amicably.

In that same crash other characters, including newlywed Nurse Carmen Roberts (Theresa Healey), received minor injuries. While Carmen had complained of a bump to the head, she was adament that she did not need admitting to hospital, choosing instead to be at home with her family on Christmas Eve. However on Christmas Morning she dropped dead in her boathouse bedroom due to a brain aneurysm, leaving her shattered husband Dr. Guy Warner (Craig Parker) to raise their baby daughter Tuesday Warner-Roberts alone.

For more information about 1995's storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (1995).

[edit] 1996

Highlights

  • In April, Shortland Street marks its 1000th episode with an earthquake storyline and the murder of Bernie Leach (Timothy Bartlett), by his psychotic wife Carla Leach (nee Crozier?), Nurse Ellen Crozier's (Robyn Malcolm) sister. Carla then tried to commit suicide by slashing her wrists in the bathtub, only to be discovered by her neice, Minnie Crozier. When Carla eventually came to, in hospital and very much alive, she turned even more psychotic and was eventually admitted to a psychiatric facility by Ellen. Carla then tried to strangle Ellen on one of her visits, after which Ellen cut all ties with her sister.
  • Future New Zealand Prime Ministers Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark make special appearances in an episode involving Marj Neilson's (Elizabeth McRae) exit storyline as Marj visits the beehive to begin her new job as an M.P.
  • In the first of two one hour episodes of Shortland Street in 1996, the clinic staff are taken hostage.
  • The second one hour episode of Shortland Street for that year is the season finale, and features location scenes shot on location in Fiji, the storyline being David Kearney's (Peter Elliot) search for his estranged partner Ellen Crozier (Robyn Malcolm).

For more information about 1996's storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (1996).

[edit] 1997

Highlights

  • The fifth Anniversary of Shortland Street is marked by the marriage of David Kearney (Peter Elliot) and Ellen Crozier (Robyn Malcolm).

For more information about 1997's storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (1997).

[edit] 1998

Highlights

  • Rose Crozier-Kearney dies of SIDS.
  • Shortland Street celebrates its 1500th episode in May.
  • Oscar Henry rapes Minnie Crozier (Katrina Devine).

For More information about 1998's storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (1998)

[edit] 1999

Highlights

  • Lionel Skeggins (John Leigh) is presumed drowned on his wedding day to Mackenzie Choat (Ingrid Park).
  • Mackenzie Choat murders Oscar Henry by making his hospital room explode.

For More information about 1999's storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (1999)

[edit] 2000

Highlights

  • Shortland Street's 2000th episode features the wedding of Rangai Heremaia (Blair Strang and Donna Heka (Stephanie Tauevihi).
  • Nick Harrison (Karl Burnett) and his partner Ange Weaver (Katherine Hubbard) celebrate the arrival of their son Lucas.

For More information about 2000s storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (2000)

[edit] 2001

Highlights

  • A cast cull leads to the exits of 14 characters, with new characters such as Toni Thompson (Laura Hill), The Heywood and Hudson Families coming in to replace them.

For More information about 2001's storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (2001)

[edit] 2002

Highlights

  • Shortland Street celebrates its tenth anniversary in May, followed by its 2500th episode in June.
  • After a tumultous eight year courtship, Nick Harrison (Karl Burnett)and Waverley Wilson finally marry (Claire Chitham).

For More information about 2000s storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (2002)

[edit] 2003

Highlights

  • Tama Hudson and Shannon Te Ngaru (Amber Cureen) are devastated by the death of their newborn son Te Ngakau.
  • Geoff Greenlaw's (Andrew Laing) body is found frozen in a chiller, sparking off a whodunnit storyline that becomes Shortland Street's main focus over the following year.

For More information about 2003's storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (2003)

[edit] 2004

Highlights

  • Shortland Street celebrates its 3000th episode in June with an episode focusing on the two remaining original cast members, Dr Chris Warner (Michael Galvin) and Nick Harrison (Karl Burnett). In the episode Chris Warner struggles with his attraction to Lucy Swinton (Sally Stockwell), only to learn that she is sleeping with his old foe Dominc Thompson (Shane Cortese), while Nick and his wife Waverley {Claire Chitham) celebrate the birth of their new baby.
  • Dominc Thompson, having been revealed as the murderer of Geoff Greenlaw, frames Victor Kahu for thecrime and later murders Avril Luicich in a bathtub, before dying in an explosion.
  • Shortland Street screens a one hour episode on Christmas Day, featuring the marriage of Tama Hudson and Shannon Te Ngaru.

For More information about 2004's storylines please see Storylines of Shortland Street (2004)

[edit] 2005

Highlights

[edit] 2006

Highlights

  • On February 14, 2006, Shortland Street was the first soap opera to feature a Civil Union between lesbian couple, Maia Jeffries (Anna Jullienne) and Jay Copeland (Jaime Passier-Armstrong).
  • Shortland Street films two episodes on location in Rotorua.
  • Huia Samuels (Nicola Kawana) dies in a car bomb explosion meant for Anthony Richards.

[edit] 2007

[edit] Deaths in Shortland Street

[edit] 1992

  • Nurse Sarah Donnelly died of melanoma in the arms of boyfriend, Steve Mills.

[edit] 1993

  • Tom Neilson died of a heart attack.

[edit] 1994

  • Steve Mills died in a car accident.
  • Talita Pahele (TP) Aleni died in the same car accident.

[edit] 1995

  • Darryl Neilson drowned.
  • Richard Thornton died of a broken neck, caused by a fall.
  • Sir Bruce Warner died of cancer.
  • Nurse Carmen Roberts died of a brain haemorrhage.

[edit] 1996

  • Bernie Leach was bludgeoned to death with candlestick, murdered by Carla Crozier-Leach

[edit] 1997

  • Rebecca Frost died from a faulty heart valve.
  • Annabelle Lustwick - died from euthanasia, assisted by Caroline Buxton.

[edit] 1998

  • Baby Rose Crozier-Kearney died from SIDS (Sudden Infant-Death Syndrome).
  • Tiffany Marinovich died in a high-rise fall.

[edit] 1999

  • Dr. Michael McKenna died of a heart attack.
  • Lionel Skeggins went missing, presumed drowned.
  • Oscar Henry in an explosion, intentionally caused by Dr. MacKenzie Choat.
  • Earl Crombie died in a car accident.

[edit] 2000

  • Dr. Laura Hall: died of a heart attack.
  • Eamon Dempsey: died from a fall off a cliff.

[edit] 2001

  • Angela Weaver: died of cancer.
  • Rangi Heremia: died of an overdose, murdered by Kim Tiroa.
  • Jack Hewitt: died by being hit by a car (suicide).

[edit] 2002

  • James Kingi: gangland stabbing, murdered by Kurt Matakuare.
  • Connie McAllister: died of euthanasia, assisted by Dr. Geoff Greenlaw.
  • Neil Kepple: died of euthanasia, assisted by Dr. Geoff Greenlaw.

[edit] 2003

  • Lady Margot Warner: died of cancer.
  • Baby Ngakau Kahu: died from Streptoccous B.
  • Max Henley: died from a brain haemorrhage.
  • Dr. Geoff Greenlaw: froze to death in a chiller, murdered by Dominic Thompson.
  • Nurse Anne Greenlaw Kahu: was crushed in a building collapse.

[edit] 2004

  • Nurse Layla Cornwall: hanged herself (suicide).
  • Rex Treherne: died of a heart attack.
  • Avril Lucich: drowned in a bathtub, murdered by Dominic Thompson.
  • Dominic Thompson: died in a fiery explosion (suicide).

[edit] 2005

  • Baby James Warner: miscarried [6 months].
  • Norman Hanson: died of injuries sustained in a car accident.

[edit] 2006

  • Ian Jefferies: died from a fall from a cliff (suicide).
  • Dr. Li Mei Chen: died in virus outbreak (strykers virus).
  • Huia Samuels: killed in car bombing meant for Anthony Richards.
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