Duggan (TV series)

Duggan
Genre	Drama
Written by	Donna Malane Marion McLeod
Directed by	John Laing Yvonne Mackay
Starring	John Bach Fiona Mogridge Toby Leach
Theme music composer	Gareth Farr
Country of origin	New Zealand
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Production companies	Gibson Group Communicado Productions
Original release
Network	TVNZ
Release	1 October 1997 – 1 September 1999

Duggan was a TVNZ police drama from 1997, featuring New Zealand actor John Bach as Detective Inspector John Duggan and Fiona Mogridge as Ruth Duggan. Unlike other New Zealand police drama series, Duggan was produced as a series of one-off programmes, akin to British crime series of the time such as Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders. In all, 13 episodes were made between 1997 and 1999.

Premise

Duggan follows the investigations of John Duggan, an initially retired Police Detective Inspector who becomes involved in various murder investigations near his home in the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. As such, the show mainly takes place in the Sounds, Picton and Wellington.

Having retired from his job after the death of his wife, he is initially reluctant to resume his police work. However he is convinced back in the first telefeature, Death in Paradise. Through the show he works to uncover complex murder plots against the backdrop of small-town New Zealand in the late 1990s.

Ironically, production of the series was briefly delayed by a major real-life crime, the 1998 New Years Day murder of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope.

External links

• Duggan at the IMDb database