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Cop
Shop
 Australia
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Crawford
/ 582x30m-e / 1977-80
Creator:
Terry Stapleton / Producers: Terry Stapleton, Marie Trevor / Executive
Producer: Hector Crawford
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 Crime
drama series. Episodes in the lives of the coppers (both uniformed
cops and the plain clothes branch) working out of Riverside station.
Unusually for an Australian show, Cop Shop went abroad for one story,
filming a segment in Rome, Italy. Sgt Glenn Taylor was the
stations C.I. boss, in charge of the running of the station, much of
the early action centred around the home life of Taylor and his
family, wife Pamela and teenage daughter Gayle. Paula Duncan who
played Policewoman Danni Francis became the pin-up girl of the
show. Other main characters included Detective J.J. Johnson (a
womanising and drinking copper who ended up married to a stripper).
One interesting aspect is that the character of Detective Peter
Fanelli had previously been seen in the series Skyways before
appearing in this. When the Show began, many people
expected it to be merely a filler program. Its drawing power was an
unknown quantity to the bosses at Seven and Crawfords, and its
artistic value was judged to be next to nil by many critics.
But things improved. The actors expanded and developed
their characters. and, slowly but surely, the show gained a
good following.
The series was shot on videotape and was an attempt to show the human
face of policing by also showing the coppers outside of work. The
exterior of the station was the Russell Street
Police Station in Melbourne (as seen in the
opening credits). Cop Shop
was also one of the first Australian cop series to show women cops at
work. Adams and Lockwood won Logies for their roles on the show. Paula
Duncan and John Orcsik married both in the show and in real life, when
Paula fell pregnant in real life, the producers wrote it into the
script. Orcsik was actually only brought in to replace Tony Bonner but
ended up becoming one of the main players.
Working titles for the show included Palace
Guards and Saints and Sinners.
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Cast
GEORGE MALLABY as Detective Glen Taylor / ROWENA WALLACE as
Pamela Taylor / GREGORY ROGER / JO-ANNE MOORE as Gayle Taylor / PETER ADAMS as Detective Jeff
'JJ'Johnson / TERENCE DONOVAN as Vic /
PAULA DUNCAN as Danni Francis / GIL TUCKER as Roy / NICHOLAS
EADIE as Sam / ALAN FLETCHER as Frank / JOANNA LOCKWOOD as Valerie
Johnson / TERRY NORRIS as Senior Sgt Eric O'Rielly / LYNDA STONER as Amanda
King / JOHN ORCSIK as Detective Mike Georgiou / LIZ BURCH / TONY
BONNER as Det Don McKenna |
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