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- Title
- The Dagg Sea Scrolls
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
In this greatest hits style compilation, John Clarke outlines the history of New Zealand's most famous farmer Fred Dagg: from describing Dagg's origins during Clarke's childhood, to the farmer's first TV appearance — duck shooting on Willis St — to hit albums and "accidentally" writing national anthem 'We Don't Know How Lucky We Are'. There are a feast of excerpts from Dagg's TV skits, plus 1976 concert A Bit of a Dagg. There's also extended footage of Dagg's classic Country Calendar episode,...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2006
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-dagg-sea-scrolls-2006
- Related subjects
- gallery / tonight at nine / country calendar / farms / citizens for dagg / robert muldoon / bill rowling / willis street / civil service / tv aerials / satire / comedy / character development / nz rural life / taihape / weather report / death in brunswick / the brush off / the games / australia / politics / dagg party / mps / daylight saving / fencing / inventions / patent office / all blacks / sport / all black selection / we don't know how lucky we are / gumboot song / fred dagg's greatest hits / emi / music / big dagg band / nz writers / janet frame / ralph hotere / finn brothers / keri hulme / curnow / poets / culture / kiwi culture / kiwi accent / nzbc / tv one / south pacific pictures / tvnz / jargon / kiwi icon / black singlet / paddock / fred dagg / rural new zealand / bribes / sheep / shearing / farnacling / woolling / trevors / voting / palmerston north / wellington / victoria university / one in five / varsity theatre / downstage / smoko / cigarettes / gumboots / tractors / corruption / moon river / crackerjack / australian films / sam neill / john hore grenell / skits / buck house / old sheila / election / elvis presley / elvis impersonation / university revue / bureaucracy / allen curnow / censorship / race caller / gillies report / improvisation / night porter / milking shed / sheepdog / edmund hillary
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