Best Entertainment: McPhail and Gadsby Best Documentary: Wild South – Black Robin Best Information: Country Calendar Best Speciality: Kaleidoscope Best News and Current Affairs: Close Up Best Script: Protesters Steve Hosgood Award for Allied Craft: Errol Samuelson, film sound operator on National History Programmes See: 1983 in New Zealand television, 1983 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, :Category:Television in New Zealand, :Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand Film Bad Blood Hang on a Minute Mate! Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Patu! Strata Savage Islands Utu See: :Category:1983 film awards, 1983 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, :Category:1983 films Sport Athletics Graham Macky wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:21:22 in Mosgiel, while Val Lindsay does the same in the women's championship (3:11:35). Basketball NBL won by Auckland Cricket World Series Cup, New Zealand finished first in the preliminary stages of this annual triangular one-day competition in Australia, which in 1982/83 received unprecedented interest and record television audiences. England missed out on a finals berth, with Australia coming qualifying second. New Zealand's star allrounder, Richard Hadlee, tore a hamstring on the eve of the lucrative and much anticipated finals series with Australia and was forced out of the side. A demoralised New Zealand were then well beaten by the rejuvenated Australians, 2–0. Lance Cairns hit his memorable 6 sixes in front of 71, 000 in the second final at the MCG. Glenn Turner made his long-awaited international comeback in this series after six years of self-imposed exile from the New Zealand team due to a financial disagreement with the NZCC. In February, New Zealand whitewashed England 3–0 in the Rothmans Cup one-day series in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland, witnessed by sell-out crowds. Sri Lanka was then convincingly beaten in both the test and one-day series at home to cap off a memorable summer of cricket. In July history was made when the Geoff Howarth-led side won their first test match against England in England, with a five wicket victory in the second test at Headingley in Leeds. However, they lost the four match series 1–3. Prior to this series, New Zealand played in the 1983 World Cup. In a tough group with both England and Pakistan, New Zealand narrowly missed out on a semi-final place at the World Cup for the first time, after being successful in the