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Wildside(1997)

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First Air Date: 1997-11-23
Average Runtime: 50m
Rating: 5.2
Votes: 5
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 60

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.

Keywords

sydney, australiapolicepolice detectiveprocedural

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 40
E01
Episode 1

Air Date: 1997-11-23

50m

A ram-raid on a clothes store by a group of homeless teenagers results in a high-speed police chase. Two officers end...

E02
Episode 2

Air Date: 1997-11-23

50m

With the aid of Maxine, Bill McCoy continues to search for his missing son, only to find a second mutilated body. Bil...

E03
Episode 3

Air Date: 1997-11-24

50m

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...

E04
Episode 4

Air Date: 1997-11-24

50m

Bill McCoy tries to help Joe turn his life around but his sudden disappearance pushes Bill to locate the man responsi...

E05
Episode 5

Air Date: 1998-02-04

50m

While Bill wrestles with his doubts over Reilly who has been accused of corruption, Maxine deals with Ralph, an elder...

E06
Episode 6

Air Date: 1998-02-11

50m

Maxine searches for Debbie, a prostitute working Canterbury Road. She's HIV positive and is possibly passing the infe...

E07
Episode 7

Air Date: 1998-02-18

50m

While partnered with Kim Devlin, Bill investigates the gang rape of a prostitute and discovers that one of the culpri...

E08
Episode 8

Air Date: 1998-02-25

50m

When a single mother is brutally killed outside her home, McCoy has 48 hours to find her killer before having to turn...

E09
Episode 9

Air Date: 1998-03-04

50m

With his father after him to find a more lucrative job, Vince takes on the case of an illegal Iraqi refugee caught up...

E10
Episode 10

Air Date: 1998-03-11

50m

Detectives McCoy and Devlin investigate the shooting of a robbery suspect by a young and inexperienced security guard...

E11
Episode 11

Air Date: 1998-03-18

50m

Maxine is called out to a Rave party to attend the drug overdose of a teenage school girl. Despite Maxine's efforts, ...

E12
Episode 12

Air Date: 1998-03-18

50m

When a bikie gang war erupts in massacre, Bill McCoy is under pressure to make arrests and lay charges. On arrival at...

E13
Episode 13

Air Date: 1998-03-25

50m

Maxine, recovering from her gunshot wound, is full with the love of life. She feels invincible, having escaped death,...

E14
Episode 14

Air Date: 1998-04-01

50m

When a high-profile activist doctor is murdered in his home, Bill is not surprised when Virginia assigns him the inve...

E15
Episode 15

Air Date: 1998-04-08

50m

Bill and Charlie become involved in the investigation of a petrol station robbery where one of the victims turns out ...

E16
Episode 16

Air Date: 1998-04-15

50m

Bill and Charlie pick up a young heroin addicted prostitute, Laurel Williams, at a Kings Cross porn shop owned by Hal...

E17
Episode 17

Air Date: 1998-04-22

50m

Bill and Charlie investigate the horrific murder of a taxi driver. Maxine discovers the involvement in the murder of ...

E18
Episode 18

Air Date: 1998-04-29

50m

Bill and Charlie are called to the train station where they find seventeen-year-old Luke, naked and bound to a train ...

E19
Episode 19

Air Date: 1998-05-06

50m

Maxine has taken her sister, Nina, under her wing to help sort out her domestic crisis, and Bill and Charlie wrestle ...

E20
Episode 20

Air Date: 1998-05-13

50m

Maxine is convinced that her sister was murdered by her husband but Bill and Charlie play it by the evidence. Bill re...

E21
Episode 21

Air Date: 1998-05-20

50m

McCoy's plans to nail a Vietnamese drug importer are complicated when a crusading Chinese mayor is gunned down.

E22
Episode 22

Air Date: 1998-05-27

50m

McCoy plays a waiting game using 80 million dollars worth of heroin as bait for "Mr. Big" while also continuing to lo...

E23
Episode 23

Air Date: 1998-06-03

50m

Bill and Deakin are searching for three escaped female prisoners, one of whom, Debbie, is a past client of the Centre...

E24
Episode 24

Air Date: 1998-06-10

50m

Bill investigates a threat made against Carol Wilson, a State MP who has outrageous views on Aboriginals. He must off...

E25
Episode 25

Air Date: 1998-06-17

50m

Four Tongans are shot dead in the 180 Club which is a known Islander hangout. McCoy and Deakin investigate the crime ...

E26
Episode 26

Air Date: 1998-06-24

50m

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...

E27
Episode 27

Air Date: 1998-07-01

50m

Charlie finds himself faced with a conflict of interest when a childhood friend is charged with aggravated assault. P...

E28
Episode 28

Air Date: 1998-07-08

50m

Virginia becomes involved in helping her lover, Alan Sharkey, when his house is shot at in a driveby. She discovers S...

E29
Episode 29

Air Date: 1998-07-15

50m

Charlie's gambling addiction leads him into the clutches of loan sharks and into temptation. Charlie can't lose, he's...

E30
Episode 30

Air Date: 1998-07-22

50m

Bill and Charlie investigate the murder of the publisher of a fashion magazine but Charlie is distracted by an attrac...

E31
Episode 31

Air Date: 1998-07-29

50m

With Charlie still sin-binned to desk work, Deakin and Bill have teamed up. Bill and Deakin find themselves in the mi...

E32
Episode 32

Air Date: 1998-08-05

50m

The evil crime of paedophilia rears its ugly head in a powerful and moving episode of Wildside. Bill and Charlie beco...

E33
Episode 33

Air Date: 1998-08-12

50m

Bill and Charlie are called to a domestic. Bill witnesses a father, Sean O'Connor, hit his son and gets emotionally i...

E34
Episode 34

Air Date: 1998-08-19

50m

An aborigine is mistaken for a wanted man and shot during a police raid. McCoy is left to pick up the pieces. Vince's...

E35
Episode 35

Air Date: 1998-08-26

50m

Charlie goes undercover in attempt to crack a drugs and extortion racket operated by a collusion of three people: a G...

E36
Episode 36

Air Date: 1998-09-02

50m

Charlie finds himself under pressure on three fronts — his promotion, his relationship with Maxine and his deepening ...

E37
Episode 37

Air Date: 1998-09-09

50m

McCoy takes on a new partner as he investigates a series of mutilation murders. Bill is quick to set his sights on a ...

E38
Episode 38

Air Date: 1998-09-16

50m

After a murder at a male brothel, a colleague of McCoy's comes under suspicion.

E39
Episode 39

Air Date: 1998-09-23

50m

McCoy and Charlie pursue an ex-cop they suspect of being a major cocaine importer. While dealing with the news of his...

E40
Episode 40

Air Date: 1998-09-30

50m

Bill is furious with Maxine for not telling him his son is back. Bill meets with Nick and discovers the truth about h...

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Top Cast

Rachael Blake
Rachael Blake
Maxine Summers
Tony Martin
Tony Martin
Bill McCoy
Aaron Pedersen
Aaron Pedersen
Vince Cellini
Alex Dimitriades
Alex Dimitriades
Charlie Coustos
Abi Tucker
Abi Tucker
Kate Holbeck