Cop show. 300 x 60 mins.
Cast
* Gerard Kennedy as Frank Banner
* Terence Donovan as Mick Peters
* Chuck Faulkner as Keith Vickers
* Ted Hamilton as Kevin Dwyer
* Frank Taylor as Scotty MacLeod
* Patricia Smith as Margaret Stewart
* Rowena Wallace as Jane Bell
* Andrew McFarlane as Roger Wilson
* Clive Davies as Bob Parry
Production
Ian Jones told Susan Lever:
Phil Freedman and I created Division 4 which was originally going to be Saints and Sinners. It was going to be based around the St Kilda police station but the local member whose name escapes me at the moment, objected because he thought it would give St Kilda a bad name and people would think St Kilda was full of criminals and prostitutes. Shock! Horror! What a fantastic concept.
So we came up with a whole string of alternative titles and Dorothy Crawford, because of D24, the famous Crawford radio police show, Dorothy came up with the idea of Division 24, echoing the D24 thing. It was mistyped as Division 4 and that’s the one Channel 9 picked which is extraordinary.
Phil and I co-wrote the first couple of episodes and I directed the film and set a directorial style for the show. More prearranging sort of style than we were using on Homicide. A lot of handheld camera participation. That became a bit of a pattern for the ongoing Crawford programs. I would help put the first script together and then direct the film...
Division 4 was just broad spectrum urban and suburban crime. Yarra Central was fictitious. We didn’t quite say where Yarra Central was. It was actually on Montague Street, an old closed down police station but it gave us access to things that could turn into homicides but we generally shied off homicide per se.
The radio show D24 ran from 1951-60. Some episodes are here.
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| Age 6 March 1969 |
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