Homicide

1 9 6 4 - 1 9 7 5 (Australia)
509 x 60 minute episodes

"The recipe for success was there must be a body, two or more suspects and plenty of clues" said Monte Miller (one of many scriptwriters who worked on the show).

Add a couple of intriguing characters who happen to make a comment about being a contemporary Australian and that was about it. The proof was in the pudding. The hatted heroes of Homicide were arresting enough (sorry!) to make this the first locally made drama to rate in the Australian TV Top Ten.

An Australian series about the Homicide Squad of the Victorian Police Force and their various cases. Homicide was the most successful drama series produced for Australian television.

The series ran for eleven years and sixteen different actors played members of the homicide squad at different times. Homicide also ushered in a new look for Australian television. It presented audiences with a different, more factual view of Australia than anything previously released.

The location shooting made the series very good to look at, typically with small time crooks being pursued by the boys in blue, down grotty back streets and alleyways with the griminess of the setting echoing the griminess of the crime.