Homicide (Australian TV series)
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Homicide was a landmark Australian television police procedural drama series broadcast on the Seven Network and produced by Crawford Productions. It was the television successor to Crawfords' radio series D24. The "Consummate Homicide cast" includes the four characters that are the best known: Det. Snr. Sgt. David "Mac" MacKay (Leonard Teale), Det. Sgt. Peter Barnes (George Mallaby), Inspector Colin Fox (Alwyn Kurts) and Sen. Det. Jim Patterson (Norman Yemm).
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Homicide | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Crawford Productions |
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Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 510 |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | Seven Network |
Release | 20 October 1964 (1964-10-20) ā 18 January 1977 (1977-01-18) |
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After self-financing the pilot episode, Hector Crawford shopped it around commercial networks for nearly a year, before a series was commissioned in 1964 by Melbourne HSV7 station manager Keith Cairns, even if Sydney would not decide to come along.[1]