The Phoenix television series is a thirteen-part Australian police drama recounting the investigation of the bombing of the state police headquarters, loosely based on a real case in the mid-1980s, the Russell Street Bombing. First screened in 1992, it was aided by extensive research into police techniques and was lauded as one of the most realistic depictions of police investigation techniques, including both surveillance and forensics, as well as having an involving storyline. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, also known as Mother Of All Bombs, produced in the United States. ... The Russell Street Bombing is the name given to a tragedy that occurred at 1pm on March 27, 1986 when a stolen 1979 Holden Commodore left parked outside the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, exploded. ... Media:rofl. ... Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior. ... Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to the legal system. ...

Notable for its dark visual tone and for its no-holds-barred attitude to violence and language (which was far, far earthier than supposedly dark police dramas from the United States at the time and since), the show spawned a second thirteen-part series, Phoenix II, in 1993 as well as a spinoff series, Janus, in 1994 devoted to the machinations of court cases. Violence is any act of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause injury, in some cases criminal, or harm to persons, and (by some definitions) animals or property. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

Cast:

• Simon Westaway as Peter Faithful (Series 1 & 2)
• Paul Sonkkila as Jock Brennan (Series 1)
• David Bradshaw as Andrew 'Fluff' Saunders (Series 2)
• Sean Scully as Ian 'Goose' Cochrane (Series 1 & 2)
• Vikki Blanche as Chris Faithful (Series 2)
• Andy Anderson as Lochie Renford (Series 1)
• David Roberts as Detective Robert Howie (Series 2)
• Susie Edmonds as Carol Cochrane (Series 1 & 2)
• Stuart McCreery as Adrian Moon (Series 2)
• Nell Feeney-Connor as Megan Edwards (Series 1)
• Jennifer Jarman-Walker as Cath Darby (Series 2)
• Peter Cummins as Supt. Wallace (Series 1 & 2)
• Peter McCauley as Inspector Lew Murdoch (Series 2)
• Tony Poli as Snr Det Lazarus 'Laz' Carides (Series 1)

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See Also

• List of Australian television series

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External Links:

• Phoenix at the Internet Movie Database
• Phoenix and Janus Archive
• ABC content sales