# Cop Shop (incomplete episode - 1977)

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…

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 1977
- Genres: Drama, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/copshop-1977)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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