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List Of Shortland Street Characters (1997)
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street'' in 1997, by order of first appearance. Marion Seymour Marion Seymour (also Daniels) appeared in a guest stint in 1997. She first appeared in mid-1997 when she pressured her son, Ian (David Press) into having a family so as to continue the Seymour empire. Her daughter Margaret was unable to do so due to her sexuality. After discovering the truth, she attempted to expose Ian's dodgy business dealings concerning faulty heart valves and attempts at overtaking the hospital, to his partner, Jenny (Maggie Harper). However whilst arguing with Ian, she suffered a heart attack and died, with no attempts of help from Ian. References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Shortland Street Characters 1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of island countries, sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The Geography of New Zealand, country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps (), owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. Capital of New Zealand, New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and subsequently developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shortland Street
''Shortland Street'' is a New Zealand Prime time, prime-time soap opera centring on the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital. The show was first broadcast on TVNZ 2 on 25 May 1992 and is New Zealand's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 8,000 episodes and 32 years (as of December 2024). It is one of the most watched television programmes in New Zealand. The show was originally screened as five half-hour episodes each week, and received mixed reviews on its premiere. After its launch, the show suffered a drop in ratings and would have been cancelled if TVNZ had not ordered a year's worth of episodes in advance. TVNZ renewed the production in early 1993 after the show's ratings picked up, and the show has since garnered "long-term public enthusiasm". Today, it is one of New Zealand's highest-rated shows, frequently making AGB Nielsen Media Research's top 5 programmes of the week, achieving an average linear daily reach of 345,000 viewers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shortland Street Characters
Shortland Street is a New Zealand soap opera that has been broadcast on TV2 (New Zealand), TV2 since 25 May 1992. The show centres on the title hospital and its staff and their families. The following characters currently appear in the soap opera. Characters who have been portrayed by more than one actor, are listed, with the most recent actor at the top of the list. Main Characters Recurring Characters Lists of characters by year of introduction * List of Shortland Street characters (1992), 1992 * List of Shortland Street characters (1993), 1993 * List of Shortland Street characters (1994), 1994 * List of Shortland Street characters (1995), 1995 * List of Shortland Street characters (1996), 1996 * List of Shortland Street characters (1997), 1997 * List of Shortland Street characters (1998), 1998 * List of Shortland Street characters (1999), 1999 * List of Shortland Street characters (2000), 2000 * List of Shortland Street characters (2001), 2001 * List of Shortland Stree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Seymour
Ian Albert Seymour (born December 13, 1998) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut during the 2025 season. Amateur career Seymour attended Saint John's High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He went 4–0 with a 0.48 ERA as a senior in 2017. Following graduation, he enrolled at Virginia Tech where he played college baseball. As a freshman in 2018, he made appeared in 14 games (13 starts) in which he compiled a 4.17 ERA and seventy strikeouts over 69 innings. In 2019, he started 13 games, going 4–5 with a 3.97 ERA and 81 strikeouts. After the 2019 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He pitched only innings in 2020 before the remainder of the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Professional career Seymour was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the second round with the 57th overall selection of the 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Harrison (Shortland Street)
Jenny Harrison is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street''. She was portrayed by Maggie Harper as part of the show's original cast, making her first appearance in the second episode. Harper quit the role in 1998 but reprised the character briefly 4 years later. Jenny was created as the single mother of teenage rebel, Nick Harrison ( Karl Burnett) after surviving an abusive marriage with Nick's father. The personal assistant to the Shortland Street clinic's chief executive officer, Michael McKenna ( Paul Gittins), Jenny was the embodiment of the strong and wise matriarch the shows producers wished to portray. Jenny headlined numerous storylines including a secret love affair with Guy Warner ( Craig Parker), a secret revealing Nick may not be her biological son, numerous romances, a pregnancy and later abortion, breast cancer, a brief marriage to the villainous Ian Seymour (David Press) and departing the show to work in politics alongside best f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Shortland Street Characters
Shortland Street is a New Zealand soap opera that has been broadcast on TV2 since 25 May 1992. The show centres on the title hospital and its staff and their families. The following characters currently appear in the soap opera. Characters who have been portrayed by more than one actor, are listed, with the most recent actor at the top of the list. Main Characters Recurring Characters Lists of characters by year of introduction * 1992 * 1993 * 1994 * 1995 * 1996 * 1997 * 1998 * 1999 * 2000 * 2001 * 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007 * 2008 * 2009 * 2010 * 2011 * 2012 * 2013 * 2014 * 2015 * 2016 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2020 * 2021 * 2022 * 2023 * 2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shortland Street characters Fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
