About The Show
Tuesdays at 9.30pm and Mondays at
11pm
Orange Roughies is a drama series based on a covert
Police and Customs inter-agency task force working at the new
policing coal-face of the 21st century - border security.
Though the Roughies are an elite unit, they're also, as Ron
Maddock, their brusque Commander reminds them, under-funded,
under-resourced and under the hammer because, after all, this is
New Zealand.
One step removed from the usual ad hoc inter-agency groups, the
Roughies are very much on trial and depend for their survival on a
very Kiwi self-help, do-it-yourself attitude and have to be
independent, flexible and fast on their feet.
The Roughies team operate out of an unmarked waterfront base, with a Naiad and a couple of 4 wheel drives, and there's a rough-as-guts can-do number 8 wire attitude to the main men, Detective Sergeant Danny Wilder and Detective Constable Zack Wiki, leavened by the more analytical approach of Senior Customs Officer Jane Durant.