Cop Shop (incomplete episode - 1977)

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Incomplete episode of Australian police drama "Cop Shop" (partially taped over - missing the first 10-15 minutes). Episode from 1977 according to the end credits. Recorded from a later repeat in 1996, including ad breaks

Most likely from a 4:00am broadcast in late July, according to this TV guide (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197140853/22005959), showing the Sunday broadcast of "Fatherhood" mentioned in the second ad break, and showing weekday broadcasts of "Cop Shop" beforehand

from wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_Shop):

Cop Shop was a long running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for eight seasons between 28 November 1977 and 23 July 1984. It comprised 582 one-hour episodes.

The show

The show revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plainclothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station. It also took a significant interest in the private lives of the characters.[1]

While many Crawford Productions police dramas combined videotaped interiors with location footage shot on 16mm film, Cop Shop was shot entirely on video, including external scenes.[2]

Two one-hour episodes were broadcast each week and featured a specific police investigation and a 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 was also used in the series Skyways, A Country Practice and Carson's Law.

After a run of seven years, the show completed taping its last episode on 22 December 1983 and the final episodes were screened in the first half of 1984.[2]

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1 Family Fued / Home Improvement / Wheel of Fortune / Seven Nightly News TV promo Scouts Christian Television Association

2 Fatherhood movie TV promo

Archive

Internet Archive, in Classic TV

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Language

English

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