Cop Shop
| Cop Shop | |
|---|---|
| Format | Drama/Soap opera |
| Starring | Peter Adams Terry Norris Paula Duncan Lynda Stoner John Orcsik Gil Tucker George Mallaby Rowena Wallace Joanna Lockwood |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 582 |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 0:55 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Seven Network |
| Original run |
1977 – 1984 Number of Seasons 8 |
- Cop Shop is also an informal term for a police station
Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions 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-style story threads. This same soap opera-drama series hybrid format would also later be used in series Skyways, A Country Practice and Carson's Law.
[edit] Cast
- Det Jeffrey "JJ" Johnson - Peter Adams
- Det Snr Const Don McKenna - Tony Bonner
- Liz Cameron - Liz Burch
- Det Sgt Vic Cameron - Terence Donovan
- Det Const Danni Francis - Paula Duncan
- Const Sam Phillips - Nicholas Eadie
- Const Frank Rossi - Alan Fletcher
- Insp Joyce Stratton - Billie Hammerberg
- Sgt Reg Wallis - Alwyn Kurts
- Valerie Johnson - Joanna Lockwood
- Det Snr Sgt Glen Taylor - George Mallaby
- Sgt Tom Shannon - John McTernan
- Sgt Eric O'Reilly - Terry Norris
- Det Mike Georgiou - John Orcsik
- Const Tony Benjamin - Gregory Ross
- Det Sgt Peter Fanelli - Bill Stalker
- Const Amanda King - Lynda Stoner
- Det Const Julie Mitchell - Olga Tamara
- Const Roy Baker - Gil Tucker
- Pamela Taylor - Rowena Wallace
- Claire O'Reilly - Louise Philip
