Casting calls are underway for a milestone, marathon episode of New Zealand's longest-running TV drama.
Twenty years after a young Temuera Morrison and Michael Galvin first appeared in local living rooms, Shortland Street makers are gearing up to screen a 90-minute episode.
The boy-band hairdo Galvin's character Dr Chris Warnersported may have gone, but corny quotes from the hospital drama's first season are etched into Kiwi popular culture.
"You're not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata" was unlikely to be repeated in this year's special. Morrison was ruled out for the reunion, his agent Gabriella Larkin said.
The special show's script would probably be written around which old faces decided to reappear, South Pacific Pictures' publicist Rachael Keereweer said.
