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Australia / Seven-Southern Star-Liberty and Beyond / 510 episodes mostly x60m-e / 1994-2006

Creators: Tony Morphett, Hal McElroy / Executive Producers: Hal McElroy, Ric Pellizzeri / Music: Garry Hardman / Script Editor: Anna Honey / Titles: Tribal

Crime drama series. Long running popular soap about the professional and personal lives of the uniformed cops of outback/rural town Mount Thomas/ Although quite a small town Mount Thomas is seemingly crime ridden with every crime imaginable occurring in the town at one time or another. One of the most popular storylines was the long running relationship between Maggie and PJ. Fans got a major shock when main player Maggie Doyle was gunned down in the year 2000 whilst looking into police corruption. The end of March 2001 saw the show notch up it's 300th episode.

The old Mount Thomas Police Station is in reality a normal family home with most of the location filming done in Williamstown. Only three original cast members stayed with the show until the end John Wood; Martin Sacks and Julie Nihill. The show is seen in over 70 countries. There was a 2 hour explosion filled episode to mark the launch of the 2003 season and early in 2006 Channel Seven made a big splash of announcing that the show would end at the end of its then current season tying with Homicide for longest running Aussie cop show. 

key cast members
TASMA WALTON as Dash McKinley(96-99)
DAMIAN WALSHE-HOWLING as Adam Cooper (95-98)
LISA McCUNE as Maggie Doyle (94-2000)
WILLIAM McINNES as Nick Schultz (94-98)
MARTIN SACKS as PJ Hasham
JULIE NIHILL as Chris Reilly
JOHN WOOD as Tom Croyden
GRANT BOWLER as Wayne Patterson (94-96)
ANNE BURBROOK as Ros Patterson (1994)
PAUL BISHOP as Ben Stewart
RUPERT REID as Jack Lawson (-June 2001)
JANE ALLSOP as Jo Parrish
CAROLINE CRAIG as Tess Gallagher (2000-)
DITCH DAVEY as Evan Jones (From May 2001 - ) 


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