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List of Shortland Street characters introduced in 1994
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street in 1994, by order of first appearance.
Marilyn Bluck (previously Harrison) was the overbearing sister in law to Jenny Harrison (Maggie Harper). Introduced at the start of 1994 as an emergency temp receptionist, Marilyn soon got under the skin of the staff by getting names wrong, changing processes, and disturbing doctors in person to see if they were available to take phone calls - as she didn't want to disturb them by simply transferring the calls. Jenny felt there was a conflict of interest in managing Marilyn's eccentricities, as Jenny owed her life to Marilyn. It was soon revealed that Marilyn was responsible for rescuing Jenny from her abusive marriage, taking Jenny and a young Nick to her Dargaville home after a hospitalisation following an assault. However, Marilyn's husband Ian saw this as a betrayal, failing to believe his brother would be abusive towards Jenny and cost Marilyn her own marriage.
Soon after arriving in Ferndale, Marilyn tried to steal Laurie (Chic Littlewood) from Marj (Elizabeth McRae) and soon tried to steal Marj's room and job permanently. Marilyn wore her heart in her sleeve, and motivated sales person - hosting a successful lingerie party for the female staff, sparking Kirsty's entrepreneurial spirit and inadvertently was the catalyst for inspiring Stuart Neilson (Martin Henderson) by directing them to a self-help guru. Despite picking up work at the cafe, Marilyn soon left for Dargaville - realising she had burned many bridges in her short time in Ferndale and not wanting to stand in the way of Marj and Laurie's happiness. Soon after returning home, Jenny received word that Marilyn had been hospitalised with a breakdown. Gossip within the clinic alleged that Marilyn's ex-husband came home with his new, younger, and pregnant girlfriend resulting in a fish pie being thrown. Chris put Marilyn's name forward as a replacement to run the cafe, but was vetoed by Gina.
She returned in 1995 and again worked at reception. However the traumatizing truck crash saw Marilyn pack her things and leave the clinic for good. Her nickname from her colleagues at the clinic was "Motormouth Marilyn"
Dr. Simon Hilton-Jones was the hippy doctor abruptly hired to replace Katherine Blake (Margaret Umbers). Simon was the youngest of the Hilton-Jones family, and whose father held a position on the medical council. Simon proved unpopular with the staff due to his poor time management and apparent lack of interest in prescribing medication or taking comprehensive histories. Though inspirational to the young Jonathon McKenna (Kieren Hutchison). CEO - Michael (Paul Gittins) reluctantly decided to let Simon go, but not before he shred a few words of wisdom to Jonathon, something that inspired him to become a doctor.
Hilary Sturgess was a reoccurring protagonist introduced early in 1994 as a ruthless property developer and daughter of Shortland Street shareholder Noel Sturgess. After she left her electronic organiser at Kennedy's Bar, she was impressed by Stuart Neilson's (Martin Henderson) detective skills and offered him a role in her business. When the clinic had liquidity issues following the opening of the new High Dependency Unit, it is soon revealed that the construction company that is owed money belongs to Hilary. After meeting with acting clinic director Hone Ropata (Temuera Morrison), Hilary became increasingly interested in the business operations of the clinic and promptly manipulated clinic director Michael McKenna into selling his shares to her. Hone began affair with Hilary, clouding his judgement.
Noel teamed up with Jenny Harrison (Maggie Harper) to try and block Hilary's restructure plans, however Noel died the night prior to the shareholder meeting where the plans were going to be voted on. Hilary was bequeathed her father's shares in the hospital becoming the majority shareholder and replacing her father on the board of directors. Without opposition, Hilary rolled out the restructure and brought in Australian firm Ideal Health and their consultant Dr Ethan Gill to overhaul her investment. When Hilary is forced to fire Hone from his acting clinic director position, and appointed Ethan to replace him, it triggers the pair to break up.
By June, Hilary's fortune had turned. Stuart had made a series of costly mistakes for a marina redevelopment, ultimately costing Hilary too much money to continue with the plans and resulted in her firing Stuart. An offshore investment failed resulting in her company going bust, and any money in her father's estate was lost to debtors. Ideal Health then revealed their true agenda by buying rival, and larger, hospital St Catherine's and pulled out of the Shortland Street contract. Not seeing the clinic as financially viable and with Hone no longer interested in her - Hilary was forced to agree to sell her stake in the clinic for a significant loss to the staff to operate it as a cooperative model. Hone met with Hilary to make peace, with Hilary revealing plans to return to her roots and buy an arthouse movie theatre down south.
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List of Shortland Street characters introduced in 1994
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street in 1994, by order of first appearance.
Marilyn Bluck (previously Harrison) was the overbearing sister in law to Jenny Harrison (Maggie Harper). Introduced at the start of 1994 as an emergency temp receptionist, Marilyn soon got under the skin of the staff by getting names wrong, changing processes, and disturbing doctors in person to see if they were available to take phone calls - as she didn't want to disturb them by simply transferring the calls. Jenny felt there was a conflict of interest in managing Marilyn's eccentricities, as Jenny owed her life to Marilyn. It was soon revealed that Marilyn was responsible for rescuing Jenny from her abusive marriage, taking Jenny and a young Nick to her Dargaville home after a hospitalisation following an assault. However, Marilyn's husband Ian saw this as a betrayal, failing to believe his brother would be abusive towards Jenny and cost Marilyn her own marriage.
Soon after arriving in Ferndale, Marilyn tried to steal Laurie (Chic Littlewood) from Marj (Elizabeth McRae) and soon tried to steal Marj's room and job permanently. Marilyn wore her heart in her sleeve, and motivated sales person - hosting a successful lingerie party for the female staff, sparking Kirsty's entrepreneurial spirit and inadvertently was the catalyst for inspiring Stuart Neilson (Martin Henderson) by directing them to a self-help guru. Despite picking up work at the cafe, Marilyn soon left for Dargaville - realising she had burned many bridges in her short time in Ferndale and not wanting to stand in the way of Marj and Laurie's happiness. Soon after returning home, Jenny received word that Marilyn had been hospitalised with a breakdown. Gossip within the clinic alleged that Marilyn's ex-husband came home with his new, younger, and pregnant girlfriend resulting in a fish pie being thrown. Chris put Marilyn's name forward as a replacement to run the cafe, but was vetoed by Gina.
She returned in 1995 and again worked at reception. However the traumatizing truck crash saw Marilyn pack her things and leave the clinic for good. Her nickname from her colleagues at the clinic was "Motormouth Marilyn"
Dr. Simon Hilton-Jones was the hippy doctor abruptly hired to replace Katherine Blake (Margaret Umbers). Simon was the youngest of the Hilton-Jones family, and whose father held a position on the medical council. Simon proved unpopular with the staff due to his poor time management and apparent lack of interest in prescribing medication or taking comprehensive histories. Though inspirational to the young Jonathon McKenna (Kieren Hutchison). CEO - Michael (Paul Gittins) reluctantly decided to let Simon go, but not before he shred a few words of wisdom to Jonathon, something that inspired him to become a doctor.
Hilary Sturgess was a reoccurring protagonist introduced early in 1994 as a ruthless property developer and daughter of Shortland Street shareholder Noel Sturgess. After she left her electronic organiser at Kennedy's Bar, she was impressed by Stuart Neilson's (Martin Henderson) detective skills and offered him a role in her business. When the clinic had liquidity issues following the opening of the new High Dependency Unit, it is soon revealed that the construction company that is owed money belongs to Hilary. After meeting with acting clinic director Hone Ropata (Temuera Morrison), Hilary became increasingly interested in the business operations of the clinic and promptly manipulated clinic director Michael McKenna into selling his shares to her. Hone began affair with Hilary, clouding his judgement.
Noel teamed up with Jenny Harrison (Maggie Harper) to try and block Hilary's restructure plans, however Noel died the night prior to the shareholder meeting where the plans were going to be voted on. Hilary was bequeathed her father's shares in the hospital becoming the majority shareholder and replacing her father on the board of directors. Without opposition, Hilary rolled out the restructure and brought in Australian firm Ideal Health and their consultant Dr Ethan Gill to overhaul her investment. When Hilary is forced to fire Hone from his acting clinic director position, and appointed Ethan to replace him, it triggers the pair to break up.
By June, Hilary's fortune had turned. Stuart had made a series of costly mistakes for a marina redevelopment, ultimately costing Hilary too much money to continue with the plans and resulted in her firing Stuart. An offshore investment failed resulting in her company going bust, and any money in her father's estate was lost to debtors. Ideal Health then revealed their true agenda by buying rival, and larger, hospital St Catherine's and pulled out of the Shortland Street contract. Not seeing the clinic as financially viable and with Hone no longer interested in her - Hilary was forced to agree to sell her stake in the clinic for a significant loss to the staff to operate it as a cooperative model. Hone met with Hilary to make peace, with Hilary revealing plans to return to her roots and buy an arthouse movie theatre down south.