Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Outrageous Fortune is a New Zealand comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and is produced by South Pacific Pictures. It began airing its fifth season in New Zealand starting on June 2, 2009, making it the longest-running drama made in New Zealand. Most recently, the fifth season finished on October 6, 2009. The central plot is that a family of criminals decide to go straight after the patriarch is jailed. Like the show itself, episodes take their names from Shakespeare quotations. The main characters each walk a fine line between right and wrong according to their respective values - the law, the criminal code of honour, loyalty to family, and respectability.