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Produced by The Gibson Group for TVNZ with assistance from NZ On Air

Creator: Peter Cox
Executive producer: Christopher Gist
Producers: Jan Haynes, Donna Malane, Dave Gibson
Writers: Paula Boock, David Brechin-Smith, Peter Cox, Damien Wilkins
Directors: Mark Beesley, Jonathan Brough, Brendan Donovan, Yvonne Mackay

Aired: 2004

The Insiders Guide to Happiness follows the lives of eight individuals each on their own separate journey. Their narratives at first appear disconnected from each other but set off by one spectacular inciting incident (an ambulance crash) their stories increasingly inter-weave and intersect as each character influences the others' fates.