Homicide (Season 5)

Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

  • Poster for Mr. Smith

    Mr. Smith 0.0

    Air date: 1968-01-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: When a stripper called Lita is strangled, Homicide detectives search for the last person known to have seen her alive - a mysterious Mr. Smith. Another stripper, Trudy Wheeler, helps police with their investigation.

  • Poster for Edge of Happiness

    Edge of Happiness 0.0

    Air date: 1968-02-06

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: An elderly man is murdered in his wheelchair and his wife, fearful for her own safety , asks their former nurse, Maggie Keating, for advice. Maggie, in turn, contacts her boyfriend, Det. Sgt. Mackay, for assistance.

  • Poster for The Late Show

    The Late Show 0.0

    Air date: 1968-02-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The manager of a drive-in theatre disturbs a car thief at his home, and the thief retaliates by knocking him down with his own car, causing critical injuries. Investigations reveal there is more to the motive of the crime than was first apparent.

  • Poster for The Heat's On

    The Heat's On 0.0

    Air date: 1968-02-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Expert safe breaker Earl Tyrell is shot dead by a fellow gangster after organizing an ambitious robbery.

  • Poster for Ring of Truth

    Ring of Truth 0.0

    Air date: 1968-02-27

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A girl is strangled after announcing her engagement to roadhouse proprietor Chris Anderson. Homicide detectives question three suspects, all with a motive for murder.

  • Poster for Kangaroo Shoot

    Kangaroo Shoot 0.0

    Air date: 1968-03-05

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Lew Hoskin is shot at and wounded while hunting kangaroos. Although Homicide detectives suspect attempted murder, Hoskin insists it was accidental.

  • Poster for The Gauntlet Is Down

    The Gauntlet Is Down 0.0

    Air date: 1968-03-12

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A daring jewel robbery by three masked men leads to murder when witness Joe Martini attempts to stop them from escaping.

  • Poster for A Vintage Year

    A Vintage Year 0.0

    Air date: 1968-03-19

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The body of ex-sideshow man James Munro is discovered in a creek, and police question a group of carnival folk camped on Munro's property.

  • Poster for The Monday Girl

    The Monday Girl 0.0

    Air date: 1968-03-26

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: When the body of go-go dancer Darlene Sadler is found at Beaumaris Beach, detectives discover that she had answered an advertisement to perform at a Melbourne club.

  • Poster for Managing Director

    Managing Director 0.0

    Air date: 1968-04-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A seven year old boy is found strangled in a park, and detectives suspect teenager Phillip Wright, known to be the last person to see him alive.

  • Poster for Free to Kill

    Free to Kill 0.0

    Air date: 1968-04-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A hunt for two escapees from French Island Penal Settlement leads police to murder, blackmail and a savage attack on Det. Barnes.

  • Poster for Delayed Action

    Delayed Action 0.0

    Air date: 1968-04-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Two young people, lost in the bush, find a skeleton in a cave. Insp. Connolly interrupts his holiday to investigate the case, thinking that it could be connected with an unsolved bank robbery and murder.

  • Poster for The Cold Horse Sings

    The Cold Horse Sings 0.0

    Air date: 1968-04-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A garden party at Vincent Rowe's home ends suddenly when Rowe is shot at and wounded during an argument. Homicide detectives get a lead from singer Pamela Grey - a guest who witnessed the shooting.

  • Poster for The Money Motive

    The Money Motive 0.0

    Air date: 1968-04-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Vic Webster, formerly on the staff of business agent Ambrose Cook, is found shot dead in Cook's office. To avoid being implicated, Cook decides to hide the body in the bush.

  • Poster for The Long Arm

    The Long Arm 0.0

    Air date: 1968-05-07

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Jenny Radford is kidnapped on her way to school, and her parents are told by phone that they will not see her alive again unless they hand over $250,000 in cash. Detectives search for a green car, their only clue.

  • Poster for The Strange Woman

    The Strange Woman 0.0

    Air date: 1968-06-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The body of model Helen Parkes is found on a beach. A shattered champagne glass gives detectives an important clue, and leads to three suspects. Model Jan Barlow, who was making a car commercial on the beach, later becomes involved in the murder.

  • Poster for The Final Movement

    The Final Movement 0.0

    Air date: 1968-05-21

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Radio store manager Ralph Nixon is shot dead while listening to the final movement of a concerto. Police suspect young soldier Andy Beckett, who accused Nixon of having an affair with his girlfriend, and who has since gone AWOL.

  • Poster for Strictly in Confidence

    Strictly in Confidence 0.0

    Air date: 1968-05-28

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The body of a man dressed in a dinner jacket, black tie and a grotesque party mask is found in the pantry of an old home up for sale.

  • Poster for The Swinging Sparrow

    The Swinging Sparrow 0.0

    Air date: 1968-06-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A secretary finds she is pregnant to her former boss, Alan Booth. With her current boyfriend, she blackmails Booth, who is married, for $10,000. Then Booth is stabbed with a paper knife during an argument with his stepson, who says it was an accident. Later Booth is found stabbed to death in a car park, and four people are under suspicion: the secretary and her boyfriend, her father, and Booth's stepson.

  • Poster for When Greek Meets Greek

    When Greek Meets Greek 0.0

    Air date: 1968-06-11

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A well known Greek identity is critically injured when his car is blown up. Police inquiries lead them to cafe proprietor Con Lucas, who later receives a bomb threat. Police seek Johnny Patric, girlfriend of Con's daughter Helena Lucas, in connection with the attempted murder.

  • Poster for The Pay Off

    The Pay Off 0.0

    Air date: 1968-06-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Ken Morgan goes on a killing rampage after a youth has attacked his son, and comes face to face with Sen. Det. Hudson. After being forced to shoot Morgan, Sen. Det. Hudson decides he has had enough and leaves the Homicide squad.

  • Poster for The Death Game

    The Death Game 0.0

    Air date: 1968-06-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A small girl riding a bicycle is killed by a hit-and-run car driver. For this case the Homicide team has the assistance of Det. Costello from Forensic.

  • Poster for The Apprentice

    The Apprentice 0.0

    Air date: 1968-07-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: When Alf Stone, a cat burglar, falls to his death from a rooftop as he is being chased by Constable Midway, a witness tells Homicide detectives that Midway deliberately let him fall.

  • Poster for Someone Up There

    Someone Up There 0.0

    Air date: 1968-07-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A clairvoyant tells Lilian Galvin that her missing husband has been murdered. Two guests at the séance ask the police to investigate Galvin's disappearance.

  • Poster for Hit, Run and Stop Dead

    Hit, Run and Stop Dead 0.0

    Air date: 1968-07-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: After robbing diamond merchant Charles Pollen, two armed men are pursued by security guards, one of whom is shot and wounded. The Homicide team work on this case with Sgt. Bannister of the local CIB, who is an old adversary of Sgt. Mackay.

  • Poster for The Golden Thread

    The Golden Thread 0.0

    Air date: 1968-07-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Teenage cyclist Teresa Nelson is found strangled on a lonely bush track, and detectives question a youth, Tony Warren, who had been seen cycling with her just before her death.

  • Poster for One Hundred Witnesses

    One Hundred Witnesses 0.0

    Air date: 1968-07-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A former standover man is shot dead at the docks. Several witnesses refuse to come forward, and Homicide detectives get nowhere until an informer passes on the name of the chief witness, whose brother is a policeman.

  • Poster for The Nice Bloke

    The Nice Bloke 0.0

    Air date: 1968-08-06

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: It looks like murder, but there is no body - only blood stains on the front seat of an abandoned car near Ballarat. The Homicide team take it from there, and they uncover a web of deceit.

  • Poster for The Fourth Side

    The Fourth Side 0.0

    Air date: 1968-08-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Vivian Nugent is found strangled in the home she shared with a man known only as Turner. His violent temper makes him an obvious suspect.

  • Poster for A Question of Time

    A Question of Time 0.0

    Air date: 1968-08-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A racehorse is doped and the main suspect is a man with a scar, Dodger Mullins. When someone takes a shot at Mullins, the Homicide team have a case of attempted murder on their hands.

  • Poster for I Confess

    I Confess 0.0

    Air date: 1968-08-27

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A Catholic priest informs police that someone has confessed to the murder of a woman, and tells them where to find the body.

  • Poster for Trip to Nowhere

    Trip to Nowhere 0.0

    Air date: 1968-09-03

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: When a bank teller is shot dead during a daring robbery by two men and a woman, a photographer who saw the shooting finds himself involved with police and the bandits.

  • Poster for Goodbye Janet Granger

    Goodbye Janet Granger 0.0

    Air date: 1968-09-10

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: When Janet Granger is found strangled at her home, detectives have three suspects - her daughter's fiancé, her husband and an unknown visitor.

  • Poster for Valley of Silence

    Valley of Silence 0.0

    Air date: 1968-09-17

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Tragedy hits a peaceful farming valley when one of the locals, Miro Brandell, is shot dead in his car. Det. Barnes risks his own life by posing as a truck driver to trace the murderer.

  • Poster for The Slippers

    The Slippers 0.0

    Air date: 1968-09-24

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Police query why Warwick Ashton, shot dead as he arrived at his girlfriend's flat, was wearing slippers and clutching a length of cable. As investigations proceed familial intrigue is revealed.

  • Poster for Big Boys Don't Cry

    Big Boys Don't Cry 0.0

    Air date: 1968-10-01

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: When Frank Bates, who is involved in a call-girl racket, is beaten up by the gang boss, he sets out to get revenge and police fear an outbreak of underworld warfare.

  • Poster for Objection Sustained

    Objection Sustained 0.0

    Air date: 1968-10-08

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Author Alan Farrow receives an anonymous phone call threatening his life if he does not stop publication of his controversial book.

  • Poster for Murder in Microscope

    Murder in Microscope 0.0

    Air date: 1968-10-15

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Charles Butler returns unexpectedly to his car and is stabbed when he disturbs a thief. Homicide detectives come upon valuable evidence when the attacker's hat is found.

  • Poster for The Target

    The Target 0.0

    Air date: 1968-10-22

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A peaceful walk in the Dandenong Ranges erupts into violence for vicar Alan Bryant when he assists police who are attempting to make an arrest. Later, Bryant is fatally shot and detectives are faced with a number of suspects and motives, but the true reason for the shooting takes everyone by surprise.

  • Poster for Dead or Alive

    Dead or Alive 0.0

    Air date: 1968-10-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: An unbalanced farmer, Ed Chapman, threatens to shoot police if they don't leave his property. Attempting to overpower him, two policemen are shot dead and another is wounded.

  • Poster for The Mask

    The Mask 0.0

    Air date: 1968-10-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A farmer working a field in a tractor discovers a girl's body dangling from a tree. Suicide or murder? A box found nearby gives the Homicide detectives a clue and leads to the investigation of some strange ceremonies connected with the death.

  • Poster for Break-out

    Break-out 0.0

    Air date: 1968-11-06

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A man is murdered and a warder's girlfriend is kidnapped by hardened criminals as part of a scheme to free a prisoner serving a life sentence.

  • Poster for The Peace Man

    The Peace Man 0.0

    Air date: 1968-11-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Conscientious objector Mike Bolton finds himself a murder suspect when a girl is strangled and criminally assaulted, and police are informed that he was seen in the locality.

  • Poster for The Joy Ride

    The Joy Ride 0.0

    Air date: 1968-11-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A girl service station attendant accepts a date with a new customer and then disappears. The body of her jealous boyfriend is later found, and detectives suspect murder and a possible kidnapping.

  • Poster for Process of Elimination

    Process of Elimination 0.0

    Air date: 1968-11-27

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Kate Steele is shot dead on the deck of a cabin cruiser on the bay, and her body is removed by the killer. Her husband, reporting her disappearance to the police, becomes the main suspect when police learn he had taken out a life insurance policy on his wife.

  • Poster for The Hero

    The Hero 0.0

    Air date: 1968-12-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A warder is shot dead as two prisoners escape from jail. An intensive search in rugged country is hampered by locals who have built a hero image around one of them.

  • Poster for The Four Wise Men

    The Four Wise Men 0.0

    Air date: 1968-12-17

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A guard is shot and important documents are stolen from a factory. The wife of a suspect has been helping detectives organize a Christmas party for orphan children.

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