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Blue Murder

Year: 1995
Produced by Southern Star Sullivan
Executive Producers: Penny Chapman, Errol Sullivan
Producers: Rod Allan
Director: Michael Jenkins
Writer: Ian David

An award-winning exploration of the police/criminal culture that existed in Sydney in the 1980s.

Cast: Richard Roxburgh, Tony Martin, Steve Bastoni, Gary Sweet

Cody (4) - The Burnout

Year: 1995
Produced by Southern Star Xanadu
Executive Producer: Errol Sullivan
Producers: Sandra Levy, John Edwards
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: Christopher Lee

One of the second series of three stories about Cody, the larrikin Sydney cop.

Cast: Gary Sweet, Robert Mammone, Alexandra Fowler, DJ Foster, Christopher Stollery, Bill Young, Andrew S Gilbert, Shane Bourne, Paul Gleeson

Cody (5) - Wrong Stuff

Year: 1995
Produced by Southern Star Xanadu
Executive Producer: Errol Sullivan
Producers: Sandra Levy, John Edwards
Director: Scott Hartford-Davis
Writer: Anthony Ellis

One of the second series of three stories about Cody, the larrikin Sydney cop.

Cast: Gary Sweet, Robert Mammone

Cody (6) - Fall from Grace

Year: 1995
Produced by Southern Star Xanadu
Executive Producer: Errol Sullivan
Producers: Sandra Levy, John Edwards
Director: Peter Fisk
Writer: Rick Maier

One of the second series of three stories about Cody, the larrikin Sydney cop.

Cast: Gary Sweet, Robert Mammone

Halifax fp: Acts of Betrayal

Year: 1995
Produced by Simpson Le Mesurier Films
Producers: Roger Le Mesurier Roger Simpson
Director: Paul Moloney
Writer: Roger Simpson

Jane Halifax, forensic psychiatrist, tries to help a fellow psychiatrist prove his innocence when he is suspected of murdering one of his patients with whom he had been having an affair.

Cast: Rebecca Gibney, Marcus Graham, Andrew McFarlane

Halifax fp: Words Without Music

Year: 1995
Produced by Simpson Le Mesurier Films
Producers: Roger Le Mesurier Roger Simpson
Director: Mike Smith
Writer: Peter Kinloch

Jane Halifax, forensic psychiatrist, aids in the grief counselling of pupils at Blenheim House, a prestigious boys' school, after the death of a teacher. When a pupil is murdered, Jane suspects that the deaths are related.

Cast: Rebecca Gibney, John Walton, Nicholas Eadie, Aaron Blabey, Jeremy Angerson, Troy Beckwith, Bernard Curry

Halifax fp: The Feeding

Year: 1995
Produced by Simpson Le Mesurier Films
Producers: Roger Le Mesurier Roger Simpson
Director: Steve Jodrell
Writer: Mac Gudgeon

Jane Halifax, forensic psychiatrist, is teamed up with an out of town detective, Jonah Cole, to solve a progression of serial rapes and murders.

Cast: Rebecca Gibney, Steve Bisley, Frances O'Connor, Deborra-Lee Furness

Halifax fp: My Lovely Girl

Year: 1995
Produced by Simpson Le Mesurier Films
Producers: Roger Le Mesurier Roger Simpson
Director: Brendan Maher
Writer: David Boutland

When Robert Bartlett, a colleague of forensic psychiatrist, Jane Halifax, heads an assessment panel which releases a convicted murderer who murders within 24 hours of his release, the entire psychiatric assessment panel system comes under scrutiny.

Cast: Rebecca Gibney, Ben Mendelsohn, Amanda Douge, Robert Hughes, Paul Sonkkila

Halifax fp: Hard Corps

Year: 1995
Produced by Simpson Le Mesurier Films
Producers: Roger Le Mesurier Roger Simpson
Director: Michael Carson
Writer: Roger Simpson

Forensic psychiatrist, Jane Halifax, counsels a police officer who has shot a felon in the line of duty. The pressure increases when the officer's family begins to receive threats regarding evidence he is to give in court.

Cast: Rebecca Gibney, Colin Friels, Steven Vidler, Genevieve Picot

Halifax fp: Lies of the Mind

Year: 1995
Produced by Simpson Le Mesurier Films
Producers: Roger Le Mesurier Roger Simpson
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: Jan Sardi

When Sharon Sinclair brutally murders her parents her psychiatrist informs the police he has been treating Sharon for multiple personality disorder. Forensic psychiatrist, Jane Halifax, is called in by the court to give a psychiatric assessment of Sharon.

Cast: Rebecca Gibney, Jacqueline McKenzie, Richard Roxburgh, Marshall Napier, Angela Punch McGregor

Halifax fp: Without Consent

Year: 1995
Produced by Simpson Le Mesurier Films
Producers: Roger Le Mesurier Roger Simpson
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: David Boutland

When a series of rapes occur all fingers point to one of Jane Halifax's patients. This can't be as Jane is his alibi. But why are the rapes exact reenactments of this patient's past attacks?

Cast: Rebecca Gibney, Annie Jones, Steve Jacobs, Gary Day

Rainbow's End

Year: 1995
Produced by Philip Emanuel Productions
Executive Producer: David Hannay
Producer: Phillip Emanuel
Director: Denny Lawrence
Writer: Michael Cove

Rainbow's End tells the exciting, heartbreaking and sometimes perilous story of two runaway kids in search of their sea-faring father. Placed in a foster home after the death of their mother, Terri and Jack take off on the adventure of a lifetime. Great escapes, police chases, bumbling bureaucrats and a magical mystery friend keep the plot bubbling along as the runaways stay one step ahead of trouble and inch ever closer to their final goal. Somehow, you know it's all going to work out at Rainbow's End. (90 min)

Cast: Ernie Dingo, Annie Jones, Rhona Rees, Dean Coach

Singapore Sling: Road to Mandalay

Stamford is approached by an old underworld figure now going straight, Y.C. Kung, to find the murderers of his daughter and only grandson. But when his close friend, Internet operative Konrad Woolff, is killed during one of their investigations, Y.C.'s case must take second place. However, finding himself also on someone's hit list, it is not long before Stamford suspects a link between all three murders and finds himself caught up in the scramble for economic power in the New Chinese Hong Kong of post-1997. (94 min)

Cast: John Waters, Simon Bossell, Pat Morita, Josephine Byrnes, Michael Ironside

Singapore Sling: Midnight Orchid

Stamford and Carla attend the wedding of a longtime friend of Stamford's, Lee Cheng. When the wedding toast is drunk, chaos ensues when an entire table of guests is poisoned. Only four, including Stamford, survive. The six victims are a mixed bunch, from a major industrialist to a gossip columnist. How can you find the murderer when you don't even know who the target was? Stamford works his way through the false leads and learns much about the underside of the lives of the rich and famous before he uncovers the bizarre truth. (94 min)

Cast: John Waters, Simon Bossell, Josephine Byrnes

Singapore Sling: Old Flames

A famous film director and his crew arrive in town for two weeks of location filming. Stamford is overjoyed to find the leading lady, Francis "Frankie" Lane, is an old flame of his from his stringer days in Cambodia. When the leading man is killed in an apparent stunt-gone-wrong, Stamford's suspicion is aroused. Unfortunately, no-one else suspects murder but him. As he quietly delves into the lives of the film unit, his investigation begins to point firmly in the direction of Frankie and Stamford finds that the 'good old days' are best left in the past. (94 min)

Cast: John Waters, Simon Bossell, Josephine Byrnes

To The Point of Death

Year: 1995
Produced by Pocket Money Productions
Producer: Craig Godfrey
Director: Craig Godfrey
Writer: Craig Godfrey

Cassie thought that the deserted beach town would be the perfect escape from the past, from her unfaithful lover and painful memories. Peace is short-lived. In this serene town hides a sickening evil. Her only escape may be in the obscurity of a mental asylum. However, it is here the evil will find her also. (92min)

Cast: Lorraine Merritt, Jon Sidney, Bill Pearson, Kerry Laws, Tim Aris, David Noonan, Vick Hawkins, Ken Howard