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Duggan (1997)

Duggan poster
Directed by
John Laing
Genre
drama television series, detective fiction
Country
New Zealand
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A New Zealand police detective works on murder cases in his home country. The show follows him as he interacts with his family while solving crimes.

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What happens

Duggan is 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 initially intended to be produced as a series of one-off programmes, akin to British crime series of the time such as Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders. Two stories were filmed in this way, one each in 1997 and 1998, before the decision was made to produce a series of 11 episodes in 1999. All episodes except for the first two were one hour in length; the first two were two hours long. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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