Cop Shop
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- Cop Shop is also an informal term for a police stationPolice stationA police station or station house is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff. These buildings often contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, along with locker rooms, temporary holding cells and interview/interrogation rooms.- Facilities...
Cop Shop was an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n police drama television
Television
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series produced by Crawford Productions
Crawford Productions
Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford; the present incarnation of the company, Crawfords Australia, is now a subsidiary of the WIN television corporation.-History:...
that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station.
While many Crawfords Productions police dramas combined videotaped interiors with location footage shot on 16mm film, Cop Shop was shot entirely on video, including external scenes.
Two one-hour episodes were broadcast each week that featured a specific police investigation and 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 soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
-style story threads. This same soap opera-drama series hybrid format would also later be used in series Skyways
Skyways (TV series)
Skyways is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network.The series, which aired from 1979 to 1981, was set at the fictional Pacific International Airport and dealt with the lives of the pilots, airline staff and management team who worked there.Skyways was...
, A Country Practice
A Country Practice
A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...
and Carson's Law
Carson's Law
Carson's Law is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network between 1983 and 1984. The series was a period piece set in the 1920s and starred Lorraine Bayly as progressive solicitor Jennifer Carson...
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- Det. Jeffrey "JJ" Johnson - Peter AdamsPeter Adams (actor)Peter John Adams was a New Zealand-born actor, best remembered for his performances in Australian television.-Early life:Born in Karanarunui, New Zealand, Adams later emigrated to Australia...
- Sen. Det. Don McKenna - Tony BonnerTony BonnerTony Bonner is an Australian television, film and stage actor and singer. Bonner became famous in the 1960s children's television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, later moving on to lead roles in the dramas Cop Shop and Skyways.-Early life:Bonner was born in Manly, a northern beach suburb of Sydney...
- Liz Cameron - Liz BurchLiz BurchLiz Burch is an actress.-Biography:Her most high profile roles are in the television series The Flying Doctors as Dr. Chris Randall, and Liz Cameron in Cop Shop. Ms. Burch is also known for her role in the Disney TV series Five Mile Creek...
- Det. Sgt. Vic Cameron - Terence DonovanTerence DonovanTerence Donovan may refer to:*Terence Donovan, Baron Donovan , British Labour Party Member of Parliament 1945–1950, Law Lord 1964–1971*Terence Donovan , Australian actor, and father of Jason Donovan...
- Det. Danni Francis - Paula DuncanPaula DuncanPaula Margaret Duncan is an Australian actress. She is prominent mainly in the genre of soap opera. Her sister is fellow soap actress Carmen Duncan....
- Const. Sam Phillips - Nicholas EadieNicholas EadieNicholas Eadie is an Australian television actor.Born in Sydney, New South Wales to actor and Australian Broadcasting Commission radio announcer Mervyn Eadie, he attended Waverley College from 1968 to 1976, studied Arts at University of New England for one year in 1977, and studied at the National...
- Const. Frank Rossi - Alan Fletcher
- Insp. Joyce Stratton - Billie HammerbergBillie HammerbergBillie Hammerberg was born Billie Lorraine Hammerberg. She was an Australian actress, best known for her role in the television series Prisoner as May Collins....
- Sgt. Reg Wallis - Alwyn KurtsAlwyn KurtsAlwyn Kurts, also known as Alwyn Kurtis, was an Australian drama and comedy actor.Kurts originally worked as a war correspondent, before moving onto radio with his program "Raising a Husband" on radio station 3XY....
- Valerie Johnson - Joanna LockwoodJoanna LockwoodJoanna Lockwood is an Australian actress who has played regular roles in various television series. After completing a brief stint in the closing episodes of soap opera Number 96 in 1977 she played the on-going lead role of police officer's wife and former stripper Valerie Johnson in police drama...
- Det.sen. sgt. Glen Taylor - George Mallaby
- Sgt. Tom Shannon - John McTernanJohn McTernan (actor)John McTernan is an Australian-based actor, known for several television and theatre roles.John's career spans thirty years working in theatre, television and film. He has appeared with all the major theatre companies and began is career training and then performing at the Ensemble Theatre in...
- Sgt. Eric O'Reilly - Terry NorrisTerry Norris (actor)Terry Norris is an Australian actor who interrupted his career for 10 years with a stint in state politics.-Acting career:...
- Det. Mike Georgiou - John OrcsikJohn OrcsikJohn Orcsik is an Australian actor of Hungarian descent.In the early 1970s he appeared in soap opera Bellbird, and played various guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police...
- Const. Tony Benjamin - Gregory Ross
- Det. Sgt. Peter Fanelli - Bill StalkerBill StalkerWilliam Robert "Bill" Stalker was a New Zealand actor, most famous for his roles in television.-Early life:Stalker was born and grew up in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, the second of seven children to Robert and ZenaStalker...
- Const. Amanda King - Lynda StonerLynda StonerLynda Stoner is an Australian actress and animal rights activist.In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stoner was known for several roles on Australian television and was popularly regarded as a sex symbol...
- Det. Julie Mitchell - Olga Tamara
- Const. Roy Baker - Gil TuckerGil TuckerGil Tucker is an Australian television actor, most remembered for his role as Constable Roy Baker in the television crime drama, Cop Shop. He has more recently played the part of the coroner on City Homicide-External links:...
- Pamela Taylor - Rowena WallaceRowena WallaceRowena Wallace is a Gold -Logie winning Australian actress, best known for her role as Patricia in Sons and Daughters.-Early life and budding career:...
- Claire O'Reilly - Louise Philip