City Life(1996)
Drama
First Air Date: 1996-07-15
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 5.0
Votes: 2
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 26
City Life was a New Zealand soap opera that screened on TVNZ from 1996-1998. It was portrayed the lives and loves of ten singles who lived in an upmarket apartment building in Auckland, New Zealand. The show was touted as New Zealand's answer to Melrose Place. The show starred Claudia Black, Lisa Chappell, Laurie Foell and Oliver Driver and featured a guest appearance by well known New Zealand actor, Kevin Smith. The show had a long development period, and the original treatment for the show had it set in Wellington with the working title 96 Oriental Parade. However, it was decided to produce the show in Auckland instead, and as such, the shows setting was changed along with the name to City Life. The first episode began with a controversial first scene, featuring a drunken Damon who owned the apartment building, in a homosexual kiss with his former lover Ryan on the night before his wedding. Damon was later killed off in the same episode after being hit by a car on the way to his wedding, and he left his apartment building to all of his friends. However, Damon's fianceè vowed to fight for her share of Damon's estate, leading to a storyline that would span the show's first five episodes.
Keywords
apartment buildingauckland
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 10E01
Episode 1
Air Date: 1996-07-15
On his way to his own wedding, promising young physician Damon South is killed in a tragic auto mobile accident. Shor...
E02
Episode 2
Air Date: 1996-07-22
Rebekah makes it perfectly clear that only she is the rightful heir to the 'Ancestral Pile' because she's carrying Da...
E03
Episode 3
Air Date: 1996-07-29
Aaron discovers that the reason why Avery refuses to pay out his trust fund is because he has embezzeled Aaron's mone...
E04
Episode 4
Air Date: 1996-08-05
The gang demands to know the truth about who the father of Rebekah's unborn child is. Bronwyn tries to convince Danie...
E05
Episode 5
Air Date: 1996-08-12
Rebekah survives her fall down the stairs but loses her unborn child. Everyone wonders who could have pushed Rebekah ...
E06
Episode 6
Air Date: 1996-08-19
A little girl is stuck under a tanker and is asking for her children's TV idol Stephanie. Steph blankly refuses to ri...
E07
Episode 7
Air Date: 1996-08-26
Ryan meets Michael, whom he instantly falls in love with. Unfortunately for Ryan, it turns out that Michael likes dra...
E08
Episode 8
Air Date: 1996-09-03
Hugh runs into Helen, a woman he met on vacation in Bali. The problem is that he told Helen he works as a war photogr...
E09
Episode 9
Air Date: 1996-09-10
Kristen is helping Mr. Crabtree with maintenance work at the 'Pile', when she and Josh accidentally get locked in the...
E10
Episode 10
Air Date: 1996-09-17
Bronwyn's conservative gallery landlord, Mr. Llewellyn, threatens to evict her unless she gets rid of Zoe and Seth an...
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