Season 1

1. Tepees, lighthouses and buoys

2009-08-01 · 23m

Marcus goes South from Bluff to Stewart Island to a tepee home stay, visits New Zealand's tallest lighthouse and finds a fitting replacement to Bluff's paua house.

2. Rocks, races and things from space

2009-08-08 · 23m

Marcus heads west to visit the site of the first flight in New Zealand, a beach covered in gems, enters a married woman's race and tells the story of the biggest thing to fall from space in New Zealand.

3. Go west young man

2009-08-15 · 23m

Marcus traverses through the hardiest bush in the land to New Zealand's windiest, most remote spot, then travels by boat through Fiordland, tracing Captain Cook's boat journey and seeking mythical mooses.

4. Power and power walking

2009-08-22 · 23m

Marcus tells the story of the Manapouri power dam - the workers, where they lived and the tales they told. He then heads inland to do the Milford Track the flash way before heading back to the coast.

5. Inland and out of the bush

2009-08-29 · 23m

Marcus recalls the amazing story of the early settlers of Marlins Bay and New Zealand's original hard man - Davey Gunn, then heads to touristville, Queenstown.

6. A river runs my life

2009-09-05 · 23m

Marcus travels the full length of the Clutha, telling its many and varied stories, covering gold, fruit, pies and a punt!

7. Home

2009-09-12 · 22m

Marcus travels from the mouth of the Clutha back to Bluff, meeting rare penguins and an amazingly inventive man in a bus.