''Division 4'' is an Australian

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drama series made by

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for the

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between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes.

Synopsis

The series was one of the first dramas to follow up on the enormous success of the earlier Crawford Productions crime show ''

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'' and dealt with the wide variety of cases dealt with by police in the fictional

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suburb of Yarra Central (modelled on St Kilda).

Awards

The series was both popular - winning 10

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, including two Gold Logie awards (for Australia's most popular entertainer) for

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- who played Frank Banner, the series was critically acclaimed, winning a number of Penguin and Awgie awards for its scripts and actors. In 1972 Frank Taylor received the Penguin Award for the Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series. After Kennedy decided to leave ''Division 4'', the Nine Network summarily cancelled the series; only one episode was made with his replacement John Stanton.

Theme song

The opening theme Power Drive by Johnny Pearson was sampled by

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in their 1998 single

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Regular cast

Home media

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).

References

External links

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at ''Classic Australian Television''
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at ''Crawford Productions''
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at the

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