''Cop Shop'' is a long-running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for seven seasons between 28 November 1977 and 23 July 1984. It comprised 582 one-hour episodes.

The show

The show revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plainclothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station. It also took a significant interest in the private lives of the characters."Cop Shop"
''Australian Television Information Archive.'' 15 July 1999. Retrieved 10 September 2013. While many Crawford Productions police dramas combined videotaped interiors with location footage shot on

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film, ''Cop Shop'' was shot entirely on video, including external scenes. Two one-hour episodes were broadcast each week and featured a specific police investigation and a guest cast whose stories formed a self-contained narrative block. Alongside this the ongoing narratives of the regular characters continued in longer, more open-ended

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-style story threads. This same soap opera-drama series hybrid format was also used in the series ''

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'' and '' Carson's Law''. After a run of six years, the show completed taping its last episode on 22 December 1983 and the final episodes were screened in the first half of 1984.

Awards

''Cop Shop'' won many awards including

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for most popular series and most popular actors, with Peter Adams and

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winning multiple times. The show also won a number of other industry awards."Cop Shop"
''Australian Screen.'' Retrieved 10 September 2013.

Cast

During its long run, many of Australia's new and established actors appeared in the show. * Peter Adams as Det Jeffrey "JJ" Johnson * Tony Bonner as Det Snr Const Don McKenna *

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as Liz Cameron * Terence Donovan as Det Sgt Vic Cameron *

as Det Const Danni Francis *

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as Const Sam Phillips * Alan Fletcher as Const Frank Rossi *

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as Insp Joyce Stratton * Alwyn Kurts as Sgt Reg Wallis * John Lee as Insp Ian Timms * Joanna Lockwood as Valerie Johnson * John McTernan as Sgt Tom Shannon * George Mallaby as Det Snr Sgt Glen Taylor * Terry Norris as Sgt Eric O'Reilly * John Orcsik as Det Mike Georgiou *Louise Philip as Claire O'Reilly *Gregory Ross as Const Tony Benjamin *

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as Det Sgt Peter Fanelli. Stalker had previously appeared as Fanelli in the Crawford series ''

''. *

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as Const Amanda King *Olga Tamara as Det Const Julie Mitchell * Gil Tucker as Const Roy Baker *

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as Pamela Taylor * John Walton as Terry Linford Jones * Patrick Ward as Const Peter Fleming

DVD releases

The first 26 episodes of the series are available on DVD as Volume 1 and were released on 28 April 2017. Guest stars in the first volume include

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, Christine Amor, Anne Charleston, Ross Skiffington, Paul Young, Peter Stratford,

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, Joan Letch,

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Seasons

Cop Shop was originally screened in a twice weekly format on Monday and Thursdays at 20.30 in Sydney and Melbourne. At various stages of the series each city was either a week ahead or behind the other or at the same stage. Later the series changed nights in Sydney to Wednesdays and Thursdays and then Thursdays and Fridays. It was eventually screened as a two hour weekly block in both cities on Mondays in Melbourne and Thursdays (later Saturdays) in Sydney. The final 36 episodes screened in a late night 23.30 slot in Sydney on weeknights from Monday 26 November 1984.

Producers and directors

Hector Crawford Hector William Crawford CBE AO (14 August 191311 March 1991) was an Australian entrepreneur, conductor and media mogul, best known for his radio and television production firms. He and his sister Dorothy Crawford founded Crawford Productions ...

- Executive Producer *Ian Crawford - Executive Producer *Ian Crawford - Producer *Terry Stapleton - Producer *Marie Trevor - Producer *Philip East - Director * Charles "Bud" Tingwell - Director

References

External links

Crawford Productions

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