The Shadow Trader
TV ShowTitle | The Shadow Trader |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jul 9, 1989 |
Release date of last episode | Jul 11, 1989 |
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Production country | NZ |
Series status | Returning series |
Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 2 |
This two-part mini-series is set in an 80s 'New Auckland' world of mirror glass and murderous corporate conspiracy. British actor James Faulkner (latterly Bridget Jones' Uncle Geoffrey) plays a shady developer with a smash and burn approach to urban planning. Blocking his utopian waterfront scheme is a cafe. The inheritors of the greasy spoon — and a racehorse — are a duo of feisty femmes: working class Tammy (Annie Whittle), and art consultant Joanna (Miranda Harcourt). The Shadow Trader marked an early producing credit for Finola Dwyer (An Education).