A Lucky Life
In 2009 Lorraine Isaacs was awarded the Queen's Service Order for services to television, education and women.
Born in South Africa, Miss Isaacs moved to Invercargill with her family as an 8-year-old, and attended the University of Otago in Dunedin in 1964 "and never really left".
Lorraine worked as a secondary school teacher before beginning working from 1971 as a researcher with Dunedin-based television productions such as Spot On and PlaySchool, for DNTV2.
From 1979 to 1990 she worked as a producer for Dunedin-based Television New Zealand shows, including Play School, Beauty and the Beast, University Challenge and On the Couch.
"I loved television. A career in television beats working."
The first woman television producer in the country, she also helped produce the Otago/Southland Telethon.