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Matlock Police is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network between 1970 and 1975. The series was the 0-10 Network's attempt to come up with a police show to rival Homicide and Division 4. Matlock Police was different from its Melbourne-based predecessors by being set in a small country town, the fictional Matlock, Victoria. Series writers had a reference manual giving full details of the town’s geography, amenities, social structure, etc., as well as that of the surrounding area - neighbouring towns included Wilga, Chinaman's Creek, Possum's Creek and Burrabri, and there was an offshoot of the Great Dividing Range called the Candowies. The town's colourful history included the local Aboriginal tribe, the town founder, a gold rush, a bushranger and a town patriarchy. About the only landmark the Matlock district lacked for dramatic purposes was a beach.
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Episode 1 - Twenty Six Hours
Release Date: 1971-02-25Matlock's town matriarch, Grace Falconer, is brutally attacked and robbed. Suspects include a group of hippies who become involved in town affairs when a local girl's horse is shot, two yobbos on a hunting trip who are found trespassing, and a handyman recently sacked by Mrs. Falconer - who refuses to account for his movements on the night in question.
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Episode 2 - The Big Gun
Release Date: 1971-03-04Local tough guy Brownie Merkle becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a man and the disappearance of another when he suddenly begins paying his debts, and Det. Sgt. Maddern finds his attention diverted from his marital problems.
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Episode 3 - Goodbye Tuesday
Release Date: 1971-03-11The search for a trio of prison escapees, Carol Price, Judy Bennett and Bob Pollard, endangers many lives when searchers and escapees alike are caught in a bushfire.
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Episode 4 - End Of The Season
Release Date: 1971-03-18 -
Episode 5 - Something After Death
Release Date: 1971-03-25 -
Episode 6 - One Good Turn
Release Date: 1971-04-01 -
Episode 7 - A Bit Of Freedom
Release Date: 1971-04-08 -
Episode 8 - Cast A Black Shadow
Release Date: 1971-04-15 -
Episode 9 - Cradle Song
Release Date: 1971-04-22 -
Episode 10 - Rhythm And Blues
Release Date: 1971-04-29 -
Episode 11 - Pressure Point
Release Date: 1971-05-06 -
Episode 12 - The Outsiders
Release Date: 1971-05-13 -
Episode 13 - The Word Is Progress
Release Date: 1971-05-20 -
Episode 14 - The Crunch
Release Date: 1971-05-25 -
Episode 15 - Tightrope
Release Date: 1971-06-03 -
Episode 16 - Heroes Day
Release Date: 1971-06-10 -
Episode 17 - The Hunting Ground
Release Date: 1971-06-17 -
Episode 18 - A Second Opinion
Release Date: 1971-06-24 -
Episode 19 - Hideaway
Release Date: 1971-07-01 -
Episode 20 - The Price of Anger
Release Date: 1971-07-08 -
Episode 21 - The Gypsies
Release Date: 1971-07-15 -
Episode 22 - Cross Purposes
Release Date: 1971-07-22 -
Episode 23 - Early One Morning
Release Date: 1971-07-29 -
Episode 24 - Olsen's Ghost
Release Date: 1971-08-05 -
Episode 25 - Escape To Nowhere
Release Date: 1971-08-12 -
Episode 26 - A Case of Neglect
Release Date: 1971-08-19 -
Episode 27 - Millbank Nugget
Release Date: 1971-08-26 -
Episode 28 - The Loner
Release Date: 1971-09-02A mysterious hermit, has lived in a shack outside Matlock for seven months. Suddenly, his past and present catch up with him, when he is terrorised by three local youths. When one is accidentally blinded, Chip Richardson burns down Herman's shack and later blames him for the accident. Herman takes off in panic and the police mount an intensive search for him.
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Episode 29 - The Milk And Honey Man
Release Date: 1971-09-02 -
Episode 30 - No Way Out
Release Date: 1971-09-16A motel robbery and the death of a young police constable in a car accident lead to the revelation of several Matlock townspeople's personal conflicts.
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Episode 31 - Still Life
Release Date: 1971-09-23Matlock police investigate a complaint of carnal knowledge involving an itinerant artist and a young girl, but the accused has his own way of extricating himself from the situation.
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Episode 32 - Smoke Screen
Release Date: 1971-09-30The Matlock saw-millers are a tough breed, but the builders of a new dam claim to be even tougher, A series of ugly incidents lead the two groups towards a violent showdown.
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Episode 33 - The Champ
Release Date: 1971-10-07A broken down ex-heavyweight boxer, Dan Regan, is in Matlock on a sinister assignment. Unforseen events cause Regan's past, present and future to meet head-on in the biggest battle of his career.
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Episode 34 - Jimmy Woodser
Release Date: 1971-10-14An important businessman, Eric Schneider, wants to set up a deal with a Matlock company. However, when he is arrested for assaulting a young girl, public feelings rise up against Det. Curtis who may have made a serious mistake. Schneider, with his lawyer Harrison, puts his money and his pressure in the right places to beat the charge.
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Episode 35 - Compassionate Leave
Release Date: 1971-10-21When Johnny Marcelli returns from the Vietnam war on compassionate leave, he is told that his father has committed suicide. He refuses to believe it and sets out to solve the mystery.
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Episode 36 - The End of the Road
Release Date: 1971-10-28The investigation of a series of wool thefts in the Matlock District uncover the problems of one of the suspects, and provide some surprises for the police - especially Cont. Hogan.
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Episode 37 - A Piece of Cake
Release Date: 1971-11-04Ron Grey, an ex-Spitfire pilot embarks on a dubious mission as a courier to gain some quick money, because he only has a few years of active life lift - he is a chronic diabetic who keeps coma and semi-blindness at bay with insulin shots. While flying a light aircraft with his girlfriend Betty Holmes, the plane strikes trouble and they have to crash land in the Candowie Rangers. When the plane is found by a police search party, they discover that Gray and Holmes both fled into the bush.
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Episode 38 - The Foreigners
Release Date: 1971-11-11A feud among some Albanian immigrants in Matlock starts to get out of hand, and police are soon investigating an attempted murder.
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Episode 39 - Give A Man A Gun
Release Date: 1971-11-11 -
Episode 40 - Any More at Home Like You
Release Date: 1971-11-25When salesman Frank Ross finds himself in serious financial difficulties, he takes an illegal way out and starts an unexpected chain of events that bring surprise to the Matlock police.
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Episode 41 - The Break
Release Date: 1971-12-02