TV Show

Police Rescue

Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.

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5 seasons

61 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1991

Rating

TV Show

6.4/10

11 votes • HD

Season 1

13 episodes
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Mates
Episode 1

Mates

Episode 1 • Feb 14, 1991

A highly successful businessman who threatens suicide makes Mickey realise how lucky he really is.

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Angel After Hours
Episode 2

Angel After Hours

Episode 2 • Feb 14, 1991

A police psychiatrist rides with Mickey and Angel while Angel tries to cope with the return of his alcoholic and abusive father.

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L.P.G.
Episode 3

L.P.G.

Episode 3 • Feb 21, 1991

A liquidified petroleum gasoline tanker crashes with another truck, endangering a suburb and a nearby gas factory.

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The Cosmic Lightbeam
Episode 4

The Cosmic Lightbeam

Episode 4 • Feb 28, 1991

After Mickey and Angel have an argument, they are trapped in a collapsed mine that served as a munitions storage dump during WWII.

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Mad Dog
Episode 5

Mad Dog

Episode 5 • Mar 07, 1991

Rescue is called in to provide security at a prison while the staff is on strike. Angel tries to help an old friend he finds incarcerated in the prison while Rescue later participates in the search for an escaped prisoner.

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Saturday Night
Episode 6

Saturday Night

Episode 6 • Mar 14, 1991

Rescue holds a party for Inspector Adam's birthday. Ridgy encounters difficulities when he goes fishing.

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Season 2

13 episodes
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The Right Stuff
Episode 1

The Right Stuff

Episode 1 • Sep 03, 1992

A police officer-cum-football star transfers into Rescue. The retired Inspector who helped create the Rescue squad is helping write a history of the service, which creates political difficulties for Adams.

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Off the Track
Episode 2

Off the Track

Episode 2 • Sep 10, 1992

The squad responds to a train crash. Mickey works in the compartment where a critically injured man hides his injuries to encourage the other passengers.

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The Hard Way
Episode 3

The Hard Way

Episode 3 • Sep 17, 1992

Georgia becomes increasingly suspicious of the circumstances surrounding an apparently straightforward car crash. A homeowner finds a runaway camping on public land and tries to have Rescue run him off.

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The Big Canary
Episode 4

The Big Canary

Episode 4 • Sep 24, 1992

Mickey is assigned to protect a whistleblower prior to her testimony in a court case.

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Judgement Day
Episode 5

Judgement Day

Episode 5 • Oct 01, 1992

Frog must appear before a coronial inquest after he disregards proper procedure to lead the team into an unstable partially collapsed building in an attempt to rescue a trapped child. The effort nearly costs Georgia her life and the child ultimately dies in hospital, initiating a fierce debate amongst the squad. Frog and Kathy respond to a home where a man has murdered his wife and three children. Finding the husband with a gun in his hands, Frog passively stands by waiting for him to finish the job by taking his own life. Frog descends into a ravine to rescue an injured boy.

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Stakeout
Episode 6

Stakeout

Episode 6 • Oct 15, 1992

The squad welcomes a new member, Constable Brian Morley. With the of Sydney excited over the Grand Final football match, Mickey, Georgia, and Brian attend an MVA which is complicated by unknown hazardous chemicals, a Drug Squad surveillance operation, and a man trapped in a truck who cheerfully refuses to be rescued. Angel and Kathy respond to the scene of a party where a drunken reveller has fallen into an abandoned underground shelter.

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Season 3

13 episodes
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Lifeline
Episode 1

Lifeline

Episode 1 • Jun 10, 1993

When Inspectors Adams answers a telephone call from a little girl, it turns out to be much more than he bargained for.

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Wild Goose Chase
Episode 2

Wild Goose Chase

Episode 2 • Jun 17, 1993

A hysterical woman insists that her husband is lost and injured in the woods. When the police learn that he had been threatening to leave her, they call off the search.

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On a Roll
Episode 3

On a Roll

Episode 3 • Jun 24, 1993

Angel and Mickey protect a bookie. Angel discovers the temptation of easy money when he gets some tips on picking winning racehorses.

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Prodigal Daughter
Episode 4

Prodigal Daughter

Episode 4 • Jul 04, 1993

Newly promoted Georgia is seconded to a policy task force; among the items on their agenda: the end of the Rescue Squad.

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The Loaded Boy
Episode 5

The Loaded Boy

Episode 5 • Jul 08, 1993

During a rescue, Angel and Kathy are accidently contaminated with radiation poisoning. While they deal with the after-effects, the squad searches for a radioactive tin picked up by a small boy.

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Good Buddy
Episode 6

Good Buddy

Episode 6 • Jul 15, 1993

Brian is duped by an old friend of Nipper's.

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Season 4

13 episodes
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On the Outer
Episode 1

On the Outer

Episode 1 • Apr 27, 1995

Brian bonds with a traumatised woman after they are both trapped in a collapsed parking structure. There's conflict at the base when Brian decides he can no longer take the morbid on the job humour of Angel and Mickey and considers his future in Rescue.

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Conduct Endangering Life
Episode 2

Conduct Endangering Life

Episode 2 • May 04, 1995

Nipper find's his Police shirt somewhat pink because his daughter put her red top in the wash at the last minute. Nipper walks around work with his jumper on despite the warm weather. Later on that day Rescue gets a call about a siege at a bank in Chatswood, one cop dead and at least ten hostages. The gunman is desperate for drugs. A young unexperienced journalist crosses the press line and begins snooping around. Nipper's three daughters ring him at work, as mum hasn't picked them up from ballet. The kid's end up at the rescue head quarters. Mickey is given the task of taking the gunman in some methadone, the hostage there to collect in Nippers wife Michelle. When Nipper is told he heads straight to the scene but doesn't tell the children. It is revealed that the gunman has a TV inside the bank as the young reporter reveals in a special bulletin against a news blackout that a Police Rescue officer's wife is one of the hostages after he overheard a conversation by Rescue squad members.

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Wrong Side of the Road
Episode 3

Wrong Side of the Road

Episode 3 • May 11, 1995

Mickey and Nipper help the survivors of a bus crash. Mickey is determined to prove the bus driver is not at fault and Nipper decides to foster a boy orphaned in the crash.

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Something's Got to Give
Episode 4

Something's Got to Give

Episode 4 • May 18, 1995

In search of a change, Georgia applies for Nipper's job. To Georgia's surprise she doesn't get it. Instead someone from head office gets the job. Sergeant Webb arrives in Rescue and quickly lays down the law with a series of new rules and procedures. As he sstruggles to earn the respect of the squad, Webb must deal with personal demons and professional problems. Angel shows signs of stress, both on and off the job. A series of high platform rescues change the squad and offers Webb a change at redemption.

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Guardian Angel
Episode 5

Guardian Angel

Episode 5 • May 25, 1995

After a young boy helps Angel in the rescue of a mechanic at closed Luna Park, he befriends Angel and tries to fix Angel up with his mother. Brian is concerned about an elderly man who is apparently seeking attention with a series of apparant nuisance calls. Mickey tries to help Angel sort out his life after his breakup with Helena.

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Double Jeopardy
Episode 6

Double Jeopardy

Episode 6 • Jun 01, 1995

A natural gas explosion leaves three people trapped two stories under ground. The squad tries to provide rescue but with time running out, a second gas explosion traps them as well. With a rapidly diminishing air supply and cyanide gas leaking into the cellar, Mickey, unwilling to abandon the trapped workers, disobeys an order from Inspector Adams to leave the scene.

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Season 5

9 episodes
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The Ultimate
Episode 1

The Ultimate

Episode 1 • Sep 20, 1996

Three new recruits have joined Rescue, but only two can stay, a situation that creates some tension between the three as they compete for the two open spots. Mickey faces a new set of domestic challenges when his sons move in with him.

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Nobby's Place
Episode 2

Nobby's Place

Episode 2 • Sep 27, 1996

Mickey tries to get a stubborn old fisherman to stop fishing in a dangerous location; later, Mickey sees a physchiatrist after he suffers a panic attack during a rescue. At school, Tracey helps Luke stands up to the school bullies.

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The Getting of Wisdom
Episode 3

The Getting of Wisdom

Episode 3 • Oct 04, 1996

Several members of the squad, especially Angel, are having trouble with new Rescue member Joe whose risk taking and care-free attitude has placed his career in jeopardy. Inspector Adams says he will have to work on his attitude if he wants to stay part of the squad. Bill contemplates retirement after the death of a close friend. Joe's involvement with troubled rescue subject gives him his greatest challenge when she becomes suicidal.

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The River
Episode 4

The River

Episode 4 • Oct 11, 1996

A plane with a father and son crashes in the mountains. A search party is organised but the search is further complicated when Angel becomes lost as well.

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The Ship
Episode 5

The Ship

Episode 5 • Oct 18, 1996

There has been an explosion on a ship and several men are trapped. The job of rescuing the injured crewmen is made more difficult when the squad finds evidence of a bomb and find themselves hampered by the threat of additional explosions and a man who is not what he seems.

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Flash the Descent
Episode 6

Flash the Descent

Episode 6 • Oct 25, 1996

A brother and sister are climbing a dangerous rock face. When the brother falls, the sister takes on all his weight. Georgia and a local expert climber work to rescue them. Joe and Mickey are diverted to another rescue at the site of a leadership course for corporate workers. Sharyn's coworkers help her celebrate her 21st birthday.

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