Orange Roughies is a New Zealand television drama created by Auckland-based film company Screenworks, the first season of which was screened on TV ONE from May to July 2006.

The show centres around four main characters who are members of an elite taskforce in Auckland combining police and customs officers.

Despite being an elite force, they are, as their commander Ron Maddock (Stephen Hall) remind them, underfunded, under-resourced and under the hammer.

The soundtrack for Orange Roughies was composed mostly by Don McGlashan, who also wrote the music for Screenworks' other major television series, Street Legal.

However, the opening credits are accompanied by the song Long White Cross performed by an Auckland band, Pluto.