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Division 4
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Division 4 is an Australian television police drama series broadcast by the Nine Network and created by Crawford Productions airing between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes.
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Synopsis
The series was one of the first to follow up on the enormous success of the earlier Crawford Productions drama Homicide and dealt with the wide variety of cases investigated by police in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Yarra Central (modelled on St Kilda but with many features in common with Port Melbourne and South Melbourne).[1] Initial publicity suggested that the 'emphasis throughout is on realism'.[2]
Division 4 was more concerned with character motivation than Homicide. The first episode included a human interest story for Frank Banner, played by Gerard Kennedy, whose pregnant wife Joy (played by Kate McKittrick)[3] dies in part due to harassment from criminals pursuing a vendetta against him. This situation was recalled in Episode 20, 'The Threat', and in other early episodes in which Banner is seen to be haunted and troubled. In episode 29, 'The Price', an old flame of Banner's, June Anderson (Margaret Dunbar) attempts to rekindle the relationship they had before he met and married Joy, with no success: his job is too demanding.
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Awards
The series won 10 Logie Awards, including two Gold Logies (for Australia's most popular entertainer) for Gerard Kennedy, who played Frank Banner.
It was also critically acclaimed, winning a number of AWGIE Awards and Penguin Awards for its scripts and actors. In 1972 Frank Taylor received the Penguin Award for the Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series.[4]
After Kennedy decided to leave Division 4, the Nine Network summarily cancelled the series; only one episode was made with his replacement John Stanton.
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Theme music
The opening library music theme Power Drive was composed by Johnny Pearson in 1967. Different versions of the same music were used across the series.
The theme was sampled by TISM in their 1998 single Thunderbirds Are Coming Out.
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Other notable cast members
Filmmaker Nadia Tass had her first acting role, aged 14, in Division 4.[6]
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Home media
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As of February 2017, twelve volumes of this series have been released on DVD through Crawfords/WinTV, representing the entire series run (with the exception of episode 102A "Conspiracy", which exists as a partial episode only and was not included).
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