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Wildside

TV Show 1997 5.2/10 60 episodes
Drama

Synopsis

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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Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1 EP 1
Episode 1

A ram-raid on a clothes store by a group of homeless teenagers results in a high-speed police chase. Two officers end up dead but the teena…

Episode 2 EP 2
Episode 2

With the aid of Maxine, Bill McCoy continues to search for his missing son, only to find a second mutilated body. Bill shows a video Joe ga…

Episode 3 EP 3
Episode 3

Bill tracks Candy to a strip bar where she works as an exotic dancer. From here Bill's search will take on a new light. After endless searc…

Episode 4 EP 4
Episode 4

Bill McCoy tries to help Joe turn his life around but his sudden disappearance pushes Bill to locate the man responsible for the young boys…

Episode 5 EP 5
Episode 5

While Bill wrestles with his doubts over Reilly who has been accused of corruption, Maxine deals with Ralph, an elderly man with Alzheimer'…

Episode 6 EP 6
Episode 6

Maxine searches for Debbie, a prostitute working Canterbury Road. She's HIV positive and is possibly passing the infection on. Meanwhile, B…

Episode 7 EP 7
Episode 7

While partnered with Kim Devlin, Bill investigates the gang rape of a prostitute and discovers that one of the culprits may be the son of a…

Episode 8 EP 8
Episode 8

When a single mother is brutally killed outside her home, McCoy has 48 hours to find her killer before having to turn the case over to Homi…

Episode 9 EP 9
Episode 9

With his father after him to find a more lucrative job, Vince takes on the case of an illegal Iraqi refugee caught up in Bill's investigati…

Episode 10 EP 10
Episode 10

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

Episode 11 EP 11
Episode 11

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

Episode 12 EP 12
Episode 12

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

Episode 13 EP 13
Episode 13

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

Episode 14 EP 14
Episode 14

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

Episode 15 EP 15
Episode 15

Bill and Charlie become involved in the investigation of a petrol station robbery where one of the victims turns out to be the son of a man…

Episode 16 EP 16
Episode 16

Bill and Charlie pick up a young heroin addicted prostitute, Laurel Williams, at a Kings Cross porn shop owned by Half [ep 6 previously], L…

Episode 17 EP 17
Episode 17

Bill and Charlie investigate the horrific murder of a taxi driver. Maxine discovers the involvement in the murder of three street kids, Gre…

Episode 18 EP 18
Episode 18

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

Episode 19 EP 19
Episode 19

Maxine has taken her sister, Nina, under her wing to help sort out her domestic crisis, and Bill and Charlie wrestle with racial violence o…

Episode 20 EP 20
Episode 20

Maxine is convinced that her sister was murdered by her husband but Bill and Charlie play it by the evidence. Bill reluctantly agrees to wi…

Episode 21 EP 21
Episode 21

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

Episode 22 EP 22
Episode 22

McCoy plays a waiting game using 80 million dollars worth of heroin as bait for "Mr. Big" while also continuing to look into the murders of…

Episode 23 EP 23
Episode 23

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

Episode 24 EP 24
Episode 24

Bill investigates a threat made against Carol Wilson, a State MP who has outrageous views on Aboriginals. He must offer her protection in t…

Episode 25 EP 25
Episode 25

Four Tongans are shot dead in the 180 Club which is a known Islander hangout. McCoy and Deakin investigate the crime scene where they run i…

Episode 26 EP 26
Episode 26

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 only person who can sav…

Episode 27 EP 27
Episode 27

Charlie finds himself faced with a conflict of interest when a childhood friend is charged with aggravated assault. Peter Simms, ex-con and…

Episode 28 EP 28
Episode 28

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

Episode 29 EP 29
Episode 29

Charlie's gambling addiction leads him into the clutches of loan sharks and into temptation. Charlie can't lose, he's on a roll. So he borr…

Episode 30 EP 30
Episode 30

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

Episode 31 EP 31
Episode 31

With Charlie still sin-binned to desk work, Deakin and Bill have teamed up. Bill and Deakin find themselves in the middle of a tow-truck wa…

Episode 32 EP 32
Episode 32

The evil crime of paedophilia rears its ugly head in a powerful and moving episode of Wildside. Bill and Charlie become involved in searchi…

Episode 33 EP 33
Episode 33

Bill and Charlie are called to a domestic. Bill witnesses a father, Sean O'Connor, hit his son and gets emotionally involved to the point w…

Episode 34 EP 34
Episode 34

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

Episode 35 EP 35
Episode 35

Charlie goes undercover in attempt to crack a drugs and extortion racket operated by a collusion of three people: a Greek Australian proper…

Episode 36 EP 36
Episode 36

Charlie finds himself under pressure on three fronts — his promotion, his relationship with Maxine and his deepening involvement with the c…

Episode 37 EP 37
Episode 37

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

Episode 38 EP 38
Episode 38

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

Episode 39 EP 39
Episode 39

McCoy and Charlie pursue an ex-cop they suspect of being a major cocaine importer. While dealing with the news of his ex-wife's death, McCo…

Episode 40 EP 40
Episode 40

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

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