Episode 1 (Shortland Street)
Episode 1 of the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street was first broadcast on 25 May 1992.
Carrie Burton delivers the infamous line to Hone Ropata "you're not in Guatemala now, Dr. Ropata"
The episode ends with a still of Chris Warner who would later go on to become the longest serving character on the soap.
Shortland Street is a New Zealand 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 7,700 episodes and 31 years. It is one of the most watched television programmes in New Zealand.
The longest running characters Chris and Rachel as they were in 1993 and 16 years later in 2009