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The Strange Calls (2012)

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Genre
comedy television series
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rated
M
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A disgraced police constable is sent to a small town where he and his elderly partner take strange calls from the locals at night. The series follows their odd but good-natured adventures together.

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What happens

The Strange Calls is an Australian television comedy series based on a short film with the same title, which had been produced by Daley Pearson and released in 2011. The series, broadcast in 2012, follows the adventures of Toby Banks, a young and recently disgraced police constable transferred from the city to a small town, and his elderly companion, Gregor, who every night receive strange calls from townspeople. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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