Homicide

Homicide

1964
★★☆☆☆ 4.3/10
📺 14 Seasons
🎬 515 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 50 min/episode
DramaCrimeAction & Adventure
Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

Seasons

Season 1
1964 • 9 Episodes
A group of students stage a mock bank hold-up to publicise a charity. When the students' leader is shot dead by a bank guard, Homicide detectives have to establish whether the guard was acting within his duty or recklessly; a complication is that jealousy in the group caused the student to be 'set up' for the shooting.
Season 2
1965 • 37 Episodes
A man dies a violent death aboard a boat at dawn. Although there is an eye-witness, he claims he was too far away to identify the killer, and the Homicide detectives have some fast thinking to do as they pursue their suspects around the confusing world of the waterfront.
Season 3
1966 • 47 Episodes
Helen Burton and her daughter are happy to be reunited after a long separation, but the reunion turns out to be a prelude to tragedy when a murder is committed.
Season 4
1967 • 48 Episodes
Two men fight on a river bridge. One loses his life, the second vanishes, and the Homicide team set out to trace a man of whom they know practically nothing, except that he is tall and casts a long shadow.
Season 5
1968 • 47 Episodes
When a stripper called Lita is strangled, Homicide detectives search for the last person known to have seen her alive - a mysterious Mr. Smith. Another stripper, Trudy Wheeler, helps police with their investigation.
Season 6
1969 • 46 Episodes
A burglar, Jennings, breaks into the weekend beach house of Dr. Tarling, and trips over his body. Detectives question three suspects - the victim's son, his medical partner, and Jennings.
Season 7
1970 • 46 Episodes
Wendy Gilbert is found dead on a warehouse roof. Detectives discover that she had been getting obscene phone calls, and their investigation leads them to the zoo.
Season 8
1971 • 40 Episodes
After discovering that she is short of money in the till, Margie, a popular barmaid in a Carlton hotel, goes to the police. She learns from the investigations that she has been fooled by two confidence men who demonstrated a 'magic trick' to her, using money from the till. The subsequent investigation soon becomes a possible murder case.
Season 9
1972 • 43 Episodes
An attractive policewoman, Primrose Taylor, assisting the Homicide squad with office work, nearly becomes a murder victim when detectives search for the killer of an air hostess - and all they have to go on is anonymous telephone calls.
Season 10
1973 • 38 Episodes
A skeleton found in a lonely grave provides the Homicide team with a puzzling case. The only clues are literally "a rag, a bone and a hank of hair".
Season 11
1974 • 39 Episodes
Homicide detectives have to cope with a group of unruly girls at a mission following an apparently unmotivated bashing.
Season 12
1975 • 48 Episodes
A harmless public servant with a problem, or a scheming killer? The Homicide detectives investigating a case have a decision to make to avert a tragedy.
Season 13
1976 • 23 Episodes
The owner of a theatre restaurant teams up with an old friend to get quick money for his ailing business, but murder interferes with their well-laid plans.

Network

Seven Network

Production

Crawford Productions, Seven Network

Keywords

detectiveinspectoraustraliapolicemelbourne, australiatrue crime