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Homicide was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network between 1964 and 1977. Image File history File links Homicide_title. ...
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Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford. ...
The Seven Network is an Australian television network. ...
1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victoria police force and episodes revolved around the various cases the detectives are called upon to investigate.
Broadcast history
The first episode aired on October 20, 1964. 504 episodes aired between then and June 1976. The remaining 6 produced episodes were aired in December 1976 and January 1977. October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ...
1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
Technical specifications Early episodes were in black and white with the bulk of material recorded on videotape in the studios of HSV channel 7 ,Dorcas Street South Melbourne using a Multicamera setup. Each episode also featured about ten minutes of location footage shot on 16 mm film. Pioneered by Desi Arnaz with three cameras, commonly now four, the multicamera setup is used to shoot most studio-produced television programs such as situation comedies, soap operas, news programs, game shows, and talk shows. ...
Total time per episode was 47 minutes.The remainder of the hour was used for paid commercials and station promotions.
The filmed segments did not have synchronised sound so featured little dialogue, concentrating more on dramatic shots of cars pulling in, gun battles, and fist fights.
Dialogue for the film scenes was done "post sync".This means that the dialogue was recorded on location but, due to there been too much background noise, the actor returned to Crawford Productions with the audio tape and re-recorded his voice ,in a sound proof studio ,exactly as he had done at the outdoor location. There were a few occasions where the location recordings were used, those being where the scene was shot in an enclosed space with no external sound to intrude on the dialogue - a bank interior, inside a car, etc.
This re-recorded voice was then synchronised with the 16mm film so the actor's lips moved exactly with the words he was saying.
In the earlier days,sound effects (aka "FX") were usually from sound effect discs or especially recorded , by Crawford Production's sound engineers,at a different time to the filming and synconised later with the action. Episode 56, "Flashpoint", which first aired on 19 April 1966, was shot entirely on location on film, although most of the dialogue was still post-synched. Over the years the ratio of film to videotape was increased, and synchronised sound became the norm. When the series switched from black and white to colour in 1973, it was shot entirely on film.
Stopover Late in the show's run - sometime between episodes 470 and 480 - a feature length episode was filmed. This film was entitled Stopover, with the title Homicide not used at all, and was shot entirely on film on new sets and on location at Melbourne Airport. The story involved an international rock band who was held at the airport following the fatal overdose of a band member. The overdose was later suspected to be murder. Guest stars included Jon English as the band's lead singer, and Tony Bonner as the band member who overdosed. The film never received a cinema release but was shown on television as a special in 1976. It is officially listed as episode 504, with episodes 502 and 503 also being feature-length. Melbourne Airport (IATA: MEL, ICAO: YMML) is located to the north of the city, adjacent to the suburb of Tullamarine, Victoria, Australia. ...
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Lawson, White, Deegan and Redford are the detectives in the film.
Records - Homicide ran for 12 years and 6 months, making it the longest-running Australian weekly primetime drama in history.
- With 510 episodes produced (the last episode is numbered 509, but the pilot episode was numbered with an 'A' suffix, making a total of 510), for many years it held the record for most episodes produced in an Australian weekly primetime drama. When it ended in 2006 Blue Heelers equalled this record.
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Significance Homicide was the first major television series to be produced in Australia, the domestic television market having been previously dominated by American and British imports. Homicide proved that that there was a market for home-grown programming and was highly successful. For this reason, as well as for inspiring a series of popular cop dramas that followed, it remains one of the most important programmes in the history of Australian television.
In 2004 the episodes "Flashpoint" and "Stopover" were screened by Melbourne Cinematheque, finally giving "Stopover" a cinema screening. The Melbourne Cinémathèque is a non-profit film society screening programmes year-round, dedicated to presenting the history of world cinema on the big screen in carefully curated retrospectives. ...
In November 2005 one of the first colour episodes of the series, Assassin, was repeated by HSV-7 Melbourne. Shot entirely on film this episode depicts Mackay receiving death threats as he completes his final assignment before being transferred out of the Homicide department. Returning to headquarters in a police car with Fox (Alwyn Kurts) they receive news over the radio that a sniper is on the roof. Fox orders intended victim Mackay to remain in the car and leaves to get help, but is himself fatally shot by the assassin. Mackay arrests the assassin and in the same episode leaves Homicide for his new post. HSV-7, commonly known as Seven Melbourne, is a television station in Melbourne, Australia. ...
Regular Cast Insp. Jack Connolly - John Fegan John Jack Fegan (born 1907 in Belfast, Ireland) is an Australian film and television actor. ...
Det. Sgt. Frank Bronson - Terry McDermott
Det. Rex Fraser - Lex Mitchell
Sen. Det. / Det. Sgt. David Mackay - Leonard Teale Leonard Teale (born September 26, 1922 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — died May 14, 1994 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), was a well-known Australian actor of radio, television and films. ...
Sen. Det. Bill Hudson - Leslie Dayman Leslie Dayman (born in 1938) is an Australian actor, best known for his performances on television. ...
Sen. Det. Peter Barnes - George Mallaby George Mallaby is a British-born actor, best known for his roles in Australian television. ...
Sen. Det. Bert Costello - Lionel Long
Insp. Colin Fox - Alwyn Kurts
Sen. Det. Jim Patterson - Norman Yemm Norman Yemm (born circa 1933) is an Australian actor. ...
Sen. Det. Bob Delaney - Mike Preston Michael Preston (b. ...
Sen. Det. Phil Redford - Gary Day Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...
Insp. Reg Lawson - Charles Tingwell Charles Bud Tingwell is an Australian film and theatre actor. ...
Sen. Det. Pat Kelly - John Stanton John Stanton (born October 28, 1944, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), is a well-known Australian actor. ...
Det. Sgt. Harry White - Don Barker Don Barker (born on 8 March 1940 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) is an Australian actor, best known for his roles as Det. ...
Sen. Det. Mike Deegan - Dennis Grosvenor
External links - TV Eye - Classic Australian Television
- Crawford Productions
- "Homicide" episode guide
- Law Suits - "Sydney Morning Herald" article about "Homicide"
- "Homicide" episode 'Flashpoint' - Senses of Cinema
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