Fred Barker

Mark Chopper n'a pas eu une enfance facile, entre une mère dévote et un père qui n'aime pas beaucoup qu'on lui résiste. Aussi pour s'affirmer, il rêve depuis ses plus tendres années de devenir un vrai dur, un criminel de la pire espèce, de ceux dont on parle dans les journaux. A seize ans, il passe à l'acte et monte un attentat contre un juge, qui en réchappe. Chopper est aussitôt incarcéré dans le quartier de haute sécurité d'une prison australienne. Dès lors, malgré son jeune âge, il n'a de cesse de s'imposer comme le caïd auprès de ses compagnons de cellule. Alternant des actions d'une rare violence et des démonstrations d'affection qui laissent pantois, notre homme ne passe pas inaperçu. Son comportement auto-destructeur le pousse à provoquer des combats, à toujours agir contre le règlement du pénitencier. Libéré au bout de huit ans, il tue un mineur et retourne aussitôt derrière les barreaux. C'est alors qu'il se lance dans la rédaction de ses mémoires.

Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption.

Deux crimes atroces ont laissé une ville de banlieue chancelante. La police manque désespérément de témoins, la population locale étant partagée entre peur et méfiance. Un jeune policier, Graham Mc Gahan qui souffre d'un problème auditif chronique est chargé de tenir la caravane de la police stationnée près du la scène du crime. Il se lie avec plusieurs des habitants traumatisés par ces meurtres et apprend à embrasser son rôle de policier et d'homme.

Sous l'œil vigilant de Tom Croydon, les hommes et les femmes du poste de police de la ville fictive de Mount Thomas combattent le crime, résolvent les différends et s'attaquent aux problèmes sociaux de l'heure. Nous regardons leurs succès et leurs échecs et apprenons à grandir avec eux et leurs proches au fur et à mesure que le cœur de la série se développe.

Sous l'œil vigilant de Tom Croydon, les hommes et les femmes du poste de police de la ville fictive de Mount Thomas combattent le crime, résolvent les différends et s'attaquent aux problèmes sociaux de l'heure. Nous regardons leurs succès et leurs échecs et apprenons à grandir avec eux et leurs proches au fur et à mesure que le cœur de la série se développe.

The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. 'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.

Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series. Phoenix screened as two thirteen-part series on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992 and 1993. The first series of Phoenix in 1992 recounted the investigation of the bombing of the Victorian state police headquarters, loosely based on a real case in the mid-1980s, the Russell Street Bombing. It was aided by extensive research into police techniques and was lauded as one of the most realistic depictions of police investigation techniques, including both surveillance and forensics, as well as having an involving storyline. The series was notable for its dark visual tone and for its no-holds-barred attitude to violence and language. It spawned a second thirteen-part series, Phoenix II, in 1993 as well as a spin-off series, Janus, in 1994 devoted to the machinations of court cases. The series was created and produced by Tony McDonald and Alison Nisselle and screened by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The ABC have released Series 1 and 2 on DVD as a 4 DVD box set.

Janus is an Australian drama television series screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 and 1995. Two series were produced, with a total of 26 episodes. Janus was a spin-off series from the earlier ABC-TV crime series Phoenix. Loosely based on the true story of Melbourne's Pettingill family and the Walsh Street police shootings, Janus follows the bitterly-fought prosecutions of a notorious criminal family, the Hennesseys, from the viewpoints of the family, the police and, in particular, the lawyers, prosecutors, barristers and judges involved in all aspects of the story. When the series begins, four members of the infamous Hennessey clan are acquitted of the shooting of two young policemen in a bungled bank heist. The city of Melbourne is shocked as brothers Mal and Steve, along with brother-in-law Darren Mack and friend Ken Hardy, walk free. The prosecutors, judges, magistrates and police—many modelled heavily on real-life legal figures—are determined to put the Hennessey members behind bars if they can. But corruption, legal loopholes, delays, and stretched resources combine to make the quest to jail the group far from straightforward.

Janus is an Australian drama television series screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 and 1995. Two series were produced, with a total of 26 episodes. Janus was a spin-off series from the earlier ABC-TV crime series Phoenix. Loosely based on the true story of Melbourne's Pettingill family and the Walsh Street police shootings, Janus follows the bitterly-fought prosecutions of a notorious criminal family, the Hennesseys, from the viewpoints of the family, the police and, in particular, the lawyers, prosecutors, barristers and judges involved in all aspects of the story. When the series begins, four members of the infamous Hennessey clan are acquitted of the shooting of two young policemen in a bungled bank heist. The city of Melbourne is shocked as brothers Mal and Steve, along with brother-in-law Darren Mack and friend Ken Hardy, walk free. The prosecutors, judges, magistrates and police—many modelled heavily on real-life legal figures—are determined to put the Hennessey members behind bars if they can. But corruption, legal loopholes, delays, and stretched resources combine to make the quest to jail the group far from straightforward.

Sous l'œil vigilant de Tom Croydon, les hommes et les femmes du poste de police de la ville fictive de Mount Thomas combattent le crime, résolvent les différends et s'attaquent aux problèmes sociaux de l'heure. Nous regardons leurs succès et leurs échecs et apprenons à grandir avec eux et leurs proches au fur et à mesure que le cœur de la série se développe.