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Cop Shop Format Drama/Soap opera Starring Peter Adams
Terry Norris
Paula Duncan
Lynda Stoner
John Orcsik
Gil Tucker
George Mallaby
Rowena Wallace
Joanna LockwoodCountry 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.
Cast
- Det. Jeffrey "JJ" Johnson - Peter Adams
- Sen. Det. Don McKenna - Tony Bonner
- Liz Cameron - Liz Burch
- Det. Sgt. Vic Cameron - Terence Donovan
- Det. 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.sen. 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. Julie Mitchell - Olga Tamara
- Const. Roy Baker - Gil Tucker
- Pamela Taylor - Rowena Wallace
- Claire O'Reilly - Louise Philip
External links
Categories:- Australian television soap operas
- Australian drama television series
- Crime television series
- Seven Network shows
- 1977 Australian television series debuts
- 1984 Australian television series endings
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