Homicide (1964)
Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.
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Episode 1 - The Gamblers
Release Date: 1966-01-25Helen Burton and her daughter are happy to be reunited after a long separation, but the reunion turns out to be a prelude to tragedy when a murder is committed.
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Episode 2 - A Question of Honour
Release Date: 1966-02-01Kevin Jones is murdered on the Mornington Peninsula. Bronson and Mackay are sent there to investigate the crime. They have three suspects, and while they are there investigating, another murder takes place.
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Episode 3 - Vicious Circle
Release Date: 1966-02-08Detectives have five suspects in the brutal murder of a young married woman. All five of them saw her in the hours preceding her death.
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Episode 4 - Three-Headed Dog
Release Date: 1966-02-15An artist arrives at an outdoor party with a stunning blonde. Within minutes the girl is dead, and so is a folk-singer who was at the party. Homicide detectives are called in to investigate the puzzling case.
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Episode 5 - No Honour Among Thieves
Release Date: 1966-03-01A criminal earnestly trying to reform is being framed for a double murder and a $20,000 payroll robbery.
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Episode 6 - Detour
Release Date: 1966-03-08Truck driver Roy Smith reports his wife has been murdered. He claims he spent the night at the country town of Seymour, however police discover that he is having an affair and that he also stole a car in Seymour.
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Episode 7 - Chain Reaction
Release Date: 1966-03-15Policewoman Helen Hopgood is involved in the case of a runaway schoolgirl, but when Helen suddenly disappears it is feared she could have been murdered.
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Episode 8 - Holiday Affair
Release Date: 1966-03-22A teenage girl's skeleton is found in the Aireys Inlet sandhills, with no clue to her identity.
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Episode 9 - Wolf Pack
Release Date: 1966-03-29A woman close to death after being attacked and robbed refuses out of fear to identify her attackers. The pack then goes hunting again, terrorising a mother and her teenage daughter.
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Episode 10 - Country Boy
Release Date: 1966-04-05Young Kathy and Johnny Moore were happy together according to friends and neighbours, yet Kathy is found murdered in their wrecked living room and Johnny is missing.
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Episode 11 - The Old Game
Release Date: 1966-04-12Two women act as decoys and one victim after another is attacked and robbed - until one of the victims dies.
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Episode 12 - Flashpoint
Release Date: 1966-04-19Homicide detectives pursue 'Blue' Carmody in rugged country, after he murdered a Forests Commission officer who ordered him to put out a fire on a Total Fire Ban day. Two women at a roadhouse assist him.
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Episode 13 - Vendetta
Release Date: 1966-04-26Peter O'Brien breaks out of prison, killing a warden and taking his gun. He sets out to kill the two detectives who put him inside.
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Episode 14 - The Last Enemy
Release Date: 1966-05-03A scrawled note, a milk bill and a wrecked room confront the police when they investigate the death of a clergyman. Mackay is promoted back to Detective Sergeant.
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Episode 15 - Terror That Strikes
Release Date: 1966-05-10Police struggle to come up with a motive for why a killer shot three people, until they discover his murder victims are all connected with Chinese people.
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Episode 16 - Prove It!
Release Date: 1966-05-17A man knocks on the door of a house and tells the people there to call the police because his wife has been murdered, but police believe that he killed his wife and set about proving it.
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Episode 17 - Let's Get Together
Release Date: 1966-05-24Using the Moomba festival crowds as cover, a gang of jewel thieves, headed by an American, keeps the police guessing. A report that a schoolboy has disappeared alerts detectives to more sinister activities.
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Episode 18 - Wasp Nest
Release Date: 1966-05-31Ray Fox is shot at when he leaves his flat. He goes straight to the police, they investigate and discover a fraud racket that leads them to another murder three years ago.
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Episode 19 - The Witness
Release Date: 1966-06-21Concerned for the safety of a murder witness, police hide the man at Dromana. However, the ruse is discovered and the police must protect him from a group of criminals.
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Episode 20 - Nor All Thy Tears
Release Date: 1966-06-07Linda Neilsen walks out of a staff party to a violent death, but three suspects emerge to confuse the issue, and one of the three is the killer.
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Episode 21 - Knife & Beads
Release Date: 1966-06-28Joan Ordini is stabbed to death while walking home at night. Homicide detectives have three suspects, then police find out that rosary beads are missing from the victim and they find them in possession of the killer.
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Episode 22 - Flashback
Release Date: 1966-06-28Sally Trevor is shot dead on a busy city street. The killer's description tallies with her long-time admirer Arthur Parrish.
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Episode 23 - The Boy from Anywhere
Release Date: 1966-06-14People notice Ron Paige and think he is a charming youth, which is a big help to detectives investigating a puzzling case of callous murder.
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Episode 24 - Circumstantial Evidence
Release Date: 1966-07-12Maree Duncan tells police her husband has threatened to kill her, and soon afterwords she is found shot dead. Is the killer her husband or the man whose company she preferred?
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Episode 25 - Deadly Flagfall
Release Date: 1966-07-19Arthur Lowe's taxi is stolen. And police have a job tracking it down and when they did find it implicates someone else in a murder.
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Episode 26 - Death Us Do Part
Release Date: 1966-07-26Margaret Boyce makes a suicide pact with an older man that she loves after her parents refuse to give their permission to get married. When she dies and he doesn't, police have to figure out if it was suicide or murder.
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Episode 27 - Tiger Hunt
Release Date: 1966-08-0216-year-old Anne Vincent meets a violent death by human hands or something else. Homicide are called in to investigate and are confronted by strange evidence.
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Episode 28 - Where There's a Will
Release Date: 1966-08-09Is Maggie the abused wife she claims to be? Arrested for shooting her husband, she says it was self defence but suspicion comes up between Maggie and her stepson.
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Episode 29 - End of Class
Release Date: 1966-08-16Lorraine Purvis's classmates are shocked when she falls to her death from a roof. But some of them are suspects as police try to establish if it was suicide, an accident or murder.
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Episode 30 - The Black Book
Release Date: 1966-08-23A man is fatally stabbed. llona Tabori, his drunk friend, wakes up the next morning and finds the knife beside her and fears that she might be responsible for it.
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Episode 31 - The Snipers
Release Date: 1966-08-30Mackay and Hudson pursue a crazed gunman who has taken four lives. And Hudson is pursued by a gun activist about the right of police to fire on criminals with disastrous results.
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Episode 32 - Merry-Go-Round
Release Date: 1966-09-06A man is strangled to death, and in the search for his killer Homicide detectives uncover a macabre story of drug addiction and the relentless exploitation of its victims.
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Episode 33 - A One-Man Show
Release Date: 1966-09-13An art collector is stabbed to death and investigations have just begun when Det. Hudson's girlfriend 'Tinker' Bell is reported missing. Tensions mount as her disappearance is linked with the main murder suspect.
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Episode 34 - Man at Bay
Release Date: 1966-09-20A small boy sees blonde Trudy Gardner threatened with a gun, but when police arrive her flat is empty - though there is every sign she has been murdered.
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Episode 35 - Pattern of Guilt
Release Date: 1966-09-27A mother and her two young daughters are shot dead on a country road, and detectives learn that a car abandoned nearby belongs to their neighbour, Roger Fry, an ex-Royal Australian Air Force officer with a war neurosis, who has vanished.
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Episode 36 - Seven Winds
Release Date: 1966-10-04Immediately after buying a racehorse, horse dealer Jim Craig is shot dead. Craig's dubious background suggests several motives, but it soon becomes evident that the horse 'Seven Winds' is the focal point in a bitter conflict.
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Episode 37 - My Brother Must Rest
Release Date: 1966-10-11Scotland Yard enlists Homicide's aid in locating Joan Preston, suspected of having killed her husband in England. They find not only Joan but also her sister-in-law, who is convinced that Joan has killed once and is planning to kill again.
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Episode 38 - What Milk Train?
Release Date: 1966-10-18A body is found on a beach with a lone clue - a cigarette lighter inscribed 'In memory of Milk Train'. But what milk train?
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Episode 39 - The Girl Who Liked Beads
Release Date: 1966-10-25Blonde Karen Barrett's first brush with the law is on a shoplifting charge, but policewoman Helen Hopwood senses something more sinister in the girl's background. Homicide detectives prove she is right.
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Episode 40 - The Ex
Release Date: 1966-11-01Roger Lang is found shot dead, and suspicion falls on nightclub singer Julie Temple, whose fingerprints are on the gun. Investigations lead to Julie's ex-husband, Harold Barker, who has resorted to an evil scheme to gain custody of his child.
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Episode 41 - The Hostage
Release Date: 1966-11-08On the run after breaking jail, Tom Delaney robs a bank and shots a veterinary surgeon. Seeking a hiding place, he holds country school teacher Ann Pritchard as a hostage.
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Episode 42 - Time to Pay
Release Date: 1966-11-15Confidence man Warren Hardy becomes involved with the death of a man and blackmails a wealthy socialite in an attempt to pay a gambling debt.
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Episode 43 - No Room for the Innocent
Release Date: 1966-11-22A teenage girl on holiday finds a baby's body in the river. There is doubt as to whether it was accidental drowning or murder. The blanket wrapped around the body supplies a vital clue.
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Episode 44 - Moment of Truth
Release Date: 1966-11-29Young Counstable Foster, suspecting a factory robbery, fires at a man who is running from the scene. When Homicide detectives question him, he realises his police career could be in jeopardy.
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Episode 45 - Man in the Park
Release Date: 1966-12-06Laura Steiner has an insensate jealousy of her stepdaughter llse, so she makes a plan to stab her to death and plant false clues to implicate someone else.
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Episode 46 - Don't Sing to Uniforms
Release Date: 1966-12-13A payroll guard is killed and another wounded during a $25,000 robbery. Folk singer Susannah Lane offers Homicide detectives information on the gang's identity, but when her intentions become known her life is threatened.
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Episode 47 - Roughshod
Release Date: 1966-12-20Laurence Somers, an ex-cop now prominent in trotting circles, falls from a speeding train. Homicide detectives suspect foul play, and within a few days murder is committed at the trotting track.