Behind the Scenes: Gloss (1987)
Channel: Patrick Te Pou
Date: 14/09/2020

Gloss was about the lives of the rich, famous and fashionable people involved with a fashion magazine owned by the Redfern family.

Produced in-house by the TVNZ drama department, the hour-long drama serial was the brainchild of scriptwriter Rosemary McLeod and producer Janice Finn. It screened once a week and ran for 55 episodes over three years, from 1987 to 1989/90.

It was a starting point for many actors who went on to many productions in New Zealand and around the world including Temuera Morrison, Miranda Harcourt, Peter Elliott, Lisa Chappell, Danielle Cormack and the late Kevin Smith. Many of them would go on to star in Shortland Street.

In this brief 1987 excerpt from TVNZ, Top Half reporter Cameron Bennett paid a visit to the set of Gloss and talked to actors Ilona Rodgers (as Maxine Redfern) and Simon Prast (as Alistair Redfern) about their roles in the series.

Broadcast date: 28 August 1987

Special thanks to Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (TVNZ Collection) for the use of this clip.