
Wildside is an Australian police procedural television series broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999. The show consisted of a one hour format that followed police interactions in inner Sydney. It starred Rachael Blake, Tony Martin, Richard Carter and Alex Dimitriades. Mary Coustas joined the series in a regular role late in its run, appearing in the last ten episodes. The series was filmed in Sydney. It was characterised by its use of ad lib dialogue and hand held camera work. It won several Logie Awards, including Silver Logies for outstanding work by Rachael Blake and Tony Martin for acting, as well as the Most Outstanding Miniseries Logie in 1998. It was also nominated for several Australian Film Institute Awards. A rerun of the series began in Australia on ABC1 in the early hours of Friday mornings, starting in September 2008.
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Air Date: 1997-11-23
A ram-raid on a clothes store by a group of homeless teenagers results in a high-speed police chase. Two officers end...
Air Date: 1997-11-23
With the aid of Maxine, Bill McCoy continues to search for his missing son, only to find a second mutilated body. Bil...
Air Date: 1997-11-24
Bill tracks Candy to a strip bar where she works as an exotic dancer. From here Bill's search will take on a new ligh...
Air Date: 1997-11-24
Bill McCoy tries to help Joe turn his life around but his sudden disappearance pushes Bill to locate the man responsi...
Air Date: 1998-02-04
While Bill wrestles with his doubts over Reilly who has been accused of corruption, Maxine deals with Ralph, an elder...
Air Date: 1998-02-11
Maxine searches for Debbie, a prostitute working Canterbury Road. She's HIV positive and is possibly passing the infe...
Air Date: 1998-02-18
While partnered with Kim Devlin, Bill investigates the gang rape of a prostitute and discovers that one of the culpri...
Air Date: 1998-02-25
When a single mother is brutally killed outside her home, McCoy has 48 hours to find her killer before having to turn...
Air Date: 1998-03-04
With his father after him to find a more lucrative job, Vince takes on the case of an illegal Iraqi refugee caught up...
Air Date: 1998-03-11
Detectives McCoy and Devlin investigate the shooting of a robbery suspect by a young and inexperienced security guard...
Air Date: 1998-03-18
Maxine is called out to a Rave party to attend the drug overdose of a teenage school girl. Despite Maxine's efforts, ...
Air Date: 1998-03-18
When a bikie gang war erupts in massacre, Bill McCoy is under pressure to make arrests and lay charges. On arrival at...
Air Date: 1998-03-25
Maxine, recovering from her gunshot wound, is full with the love of life. She feels invincible, having escaped death,...
Air Date: 1998-04-01
When a high-profile activist doctor is murdered in his home, Bill is not surprised when Virginia assigns him the inve...
Air Date: 1998-04-08
Bill and Charlie become involved in the investigation of a petrol station robbery where one of the victims turns out ...
Air Date: 1998-04-15
Bill and Charlie pick up a young heroin addicted prostitute, Laurel Williams, at a Kings Cross porn shop owned by Hal...
Air Date: 1998-04-22
Bill and Charlie investigate the horrific murder of a taxi driver. Maxine discovers the involvement in the murder of ...
Air Date: 1998-04-29
Bill and Charlie are called to the train station where they find seventeen-year-old Luke, naked and bound to a train ...
Air Date: 1998-05-06
Maxine has taken her sister, Nina, under her wing to help sort out her domestic crisis, and Bill and Charlie wrestle ...
Air Date: 1998-05-13
Maxine is convinced that her sister was murdered by her husband but Bill and Charlie play it by the evidence. Bill re...
Air Date: 1998-05-20
McCoy's plans to nail a Vietnamese drug importer are complicated when a crusading Chinese mayor is gunned down.
Air Date: 1998-05-27
McCoy plays a waiting game using 80 million dollars worth of heroin as bait for "Mr. Big" while also continuing to lo...
Air Date: 1998-06-03
Bill and Deakin are searching for three escaped female prisoners, one of whom, Debbie, is a past client of the Centre...
Air Date: 1998-06-10
Bill investigates a threat made against Carol Wilson, a State MP who has outrageous views on Aboriginals. He must off...
Air Date: 1998-06-17
Four Tongans are shot dead in the 180 Club which is a known Islander hangout. McCoy and Deakin investigate the crime ...
Air Date: 1998-06-24
In a story about need to belong, Joe, Bill's son, is out on the edge and alone — an addict, and Bill knows that the o...
Air Date: 1998-07-01
Charlie finds himself faced with a conflict of interest when a childhood friend is charged with aggravated assault. P...
Air Date: 1998-07-08
Virginia becomes involved in helping her lover, Alan Sharkey, when his house is shot at in a driveby. She discovers S...
Air Date: 1998-07-15
Charlie's gambling addiction leads him into the clutches of loan sharks and into temptation. Charlie can't lose, he's...
Air Date: 1998-07-22
Bill and Charlie investigate the murder of the publisher of a fashion magazine but Charlie is distracted by an attrac...
Air Date: 1998-07-29
With Charlie still sin-binned to desk work, Deakin and Bill have teamed up. Bill and Deakin find themselves in the mi...
Air Date: 1998-08-05
The evil crime of paedophilia rears its ugly head in a powerful and moving episode of Wildside. Bill and Charlie beco...
Air Date: 1998-08-12
Bill and Charlie are called to a domestic. Bill witnesses a father, Sean O'Connor, hit his son and gets emotionally i...
Air Date: 1998-08-19
An aborigine is mistaken for a wanted man and shot during a police raid. McCoy is left to pick up the pieces. Vince's...
Air Date: 1998-08-26
Charlie goes undercover in attempt to crack a drugs and extortion racket operated by a collusion of three people: a G...
Air Date: 1998-09-02
Charlie finds himself under pressure on three fronts — his promotion, his relationship with Maxine and his deepening ...
Air Date: 1998-09-09
McCoy takes on a new partner as he investigates a series of mutilation murders. Bill is quick to set his sights on a ...
Air Date: 1998-09-16
After a murder at a male brothel, a colleague of McCoy's comes under suspicion.
Air Date: 1998-09-23
McCoy and Charlie pursue an ex-cop they suspect of being a major cocaine importer. While dealing with the news of his...
Air Date: 1998-09-30
Bill is furious with Maxine for not telling him his son is back. Bill meets with Nick and discovers the truth about h...