Police Rescue (1989)

Directed by

Michael Carson

Genre

drama television series, police procedural

Country

Australia

Length

5 seasons, 61 episodes

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The series follows the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad in Sydney as they respond to emergencies like road accidents and train crashes. The characters attend dangerous incidents and try to save lives.

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What happens

Police Rescue was an Australian television series that aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by the ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC. Apart from the 61 episodes, there was a 90-minute pilot episode (first screened in 1989) as well as a feature film in 1994, starring Zoe Carides. The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes. The show was very well received for the first four series, however a decline in ratings by the commencement of the 1996 series saw the cancellation of the show, following an almost epitaph in the final three episodes. Police Rescue was shown in the United Kingdom first on BBC1 and later on Sky One, in the Czech Republic as Záchranáři on TV Nova, in South Africa as "Noodroep" (dubbed in Afrikaans), in parts of Italy as Polizia Squadra Soccorso on T9, in France on TF1 as Sydney Police, in Germany on VOX as Police Rescue – Gefährlicher Einsatz, in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark on the United Kingdom-based TV3, and in the Republic of Ireland on RTÉ. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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