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City Life

TV·1996–1998·2 seasons, 26 episodes·TVNZ 1·Drama·1h

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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.

Cast

Episodes by season

Season0110Episodes1996AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Episode 1July 15, 1996On his way to his own wedding, promising young physician Damon South is killed in a tragic auto mobile accident. Shortly after his death, Da
  2. S01E02Episode 2July 22, 1996Rebekah makes it perfectly clear that only she is the rightful heir to the 'Ancestral Pile' because she's carrying Damon's baby. Aaron moves
  3. S01E03Episode 3July 29, 1996Aaron discovers that the reason why Avery refuses to pay out his trust fund is because he has embezzeled Aaron's money and made personal inv
  4. S01E04Episode 4August 5, 1996The gang demands to know the truth about who the father of Rebekah's unborn child is. Bronwyn tries to convince Daniel to take a paternity t
  5. S01E05Episode 5August 12, 1996Rebekah survives her fall down the stairs but loses her unborn child. Everyone wonders who could have pushed Rebekah down the stairs, and Re
  6. S01E06Episode 6August 19, 1996A little girl is stuck under a tanker and is asking for her children's TV idol Stephanie. Steph blankly refuses to risk her life for a young
  7. S01E07Episode 7August 26, 1996Ryan meets Michael, whom he instantly falls in love with. Unfortunately for Ryan, it turns out that Michael likes drag, which Ryan himself c
  8. S01E08Episode 8September 3, 1996Hugh runs into Helen, a woman he met on vacation in Bali. The problem is that he told Helen he works as a war photographer in Bosnia. Hugh i
  9. S01E09Episode 9September 10, 1996Kristen is helping Mr. Crabtree with maintenance work at the 'Pile', when she and Josh accidentally get locked in the laundry room. Josh is
  10. S01E10Episode 10September 17, 1996Bronwyn's conservative gallery landlord, Mr. Llewellyn, threatens to evict her unless she gets rid of Zoe and Seth and their provocative exh

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0216Episodes1997–98AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Episode 11December 4, 1997Wiki orchestrates a plot to get back at Nick. She fills her prop gun with real bullets and plans to kill him during the shooting of one of t
  2. S02E02Episode 12December 11, 1997Siobhan survives her drug overdose and recovers at the hospital but a furious Gideon holds Aaron responsible and punches him. Josh is mortif
  3. S02E03Episode 13December 18, 1997Rose Crabtree is going to participate in a tango contest for the last time but her chances of winning the price are crushed when her long-te
  4. S02E04Episode 14January 8, 1998Derek infuriates Stephanie by making a puppet resembling her, which he names 'Little Steph'. Creeped out by Derek's increasingly psychotic b
  5. S02E05Episode 15January 15, 1998Stephanie learns she is to receive an award from her TV company but in light of what happened to Derek, she feels she doesn't deserve any aw
  6. S02E06Episode 16January 15, 1998When Gideon arrives at work, he is questioned by his boss; someone has leaked information to Roger Merritt. Gideon becomes very nervous. Bro
  7. S02E07Episode 17January 22, 1998Debra and Hugh decide to keep their love-making a secret since Wiki doesn't approve of sex between room-mates. Wrecked with a guilty conscie
  8. S02E08Episode 18January 22, 1998Aaron is interrogated by Ross, who assures him he's not after him, but Avery, the man behind Aaron. Aaron reluctantly agrees to cooperate an
  9. S02E09Episode 19January 29, 1998Debra convinces Wiki and Stephanie that Hugh has mistreated her. Wiki and Stephanie believe her and demand Hugh to move out. After being the
  10. S02E10Episode 20January 29, 1998Josh is embarrassed after his love declaration and avoids Kristen. Ryan and Michael are having love problems too. Ryan finally realizes he r
  11. S02E11Episode 21February 5, 1998Aaron's uncle, Ernest, arrives in town with a brilliant lawyer to defend him of the murder charges, but Aaron insists on being defended by A
  12. S02E12Episode 22February 5, 1998Aaron's case is going badly and Angela knows her chances of winning are small. Nicky is unable to help her because all the evidence of Ross'
  13. S02E13Episode 23February 12, 1998Bronwyn's dream comes through as she kisses Cam at the museum. However, they are observed by Wiki and the consequences are fatal. The unempl
  14. S02E14Episode 24February 12, 1998Stephanie receives news that her father has died but ignores it. Instead she works on a pilot for a game show where couples find out how wel
  15. S02E15Episode 25February 19, 1998Angela discovers she's pregnant and the father is Aaron. She considers an abortion but then Aaron shows up again. Stephanie receives her fat
  16. S02E16Episode 26February 19, 1998Uncle Ernest is comatose after his collapse and Bronwyn is wrecked with guilt. Cam convinces Bronwyn to get married but his intentions aren'

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

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