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The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=] as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Creator/SteveBisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Creator/AaronPedersen as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. The cast also included Creator/JayLagaaia as Senior Constable Tommy Tavita,
Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy' Sykes, Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=], Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore and Raelee Hill as Constable Tayler Johnson.

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The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=] as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Creator/SteveBisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Creator/AaronPedersen as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. The cast also included Creator/JayLagaaia as Senior Constable Tommy Tavita,
Tavita, Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy' Sykes, Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=], Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore and Raelee Hill as Constable Tayler Johnson.
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Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy'Sykes, Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=], Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore and Raelee Hill as Constable Tayler Johnson.

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Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy'Sykes, 'Sykesy' Sykes, Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=], Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore and Raelee Hill as Constable Tayler Johnson.
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Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy'Sykes, Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=], Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker and Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore and Raelee Hill as Constable Tayler Johnson.

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Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy'Sykes, Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=], Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker and Hawker, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore and Raelee Hill as Constable Tayler Johnson.
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The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=]} as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Creator/SteveBisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Creator/AaronPedersen as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. The cast also included Creator/JayLagaaia as Senior Constable Tommy Tavita, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore, Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy' Sykes, Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker and Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=].

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The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=]} [=McClements=] as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Creator/SteveBisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Creator/AaronPedersen as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. The cast also included Creator/JayLagaaia as Senior Constable Tommy Tavita, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore, Tavita,
Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy' Sykes, 'Sykesy'Sykes, Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=], Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker and Scott Burgess Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=].
Helen Blakemore and Raelee Hill as Constable Tayler Johnson.
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The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=]} as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Creator/SteveBisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Creator/AaronPedersen as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. The cast also included Creator/Jay[=Laga'aia=] as Senior Constable Tommy Tavita, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore, Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy' Sykes, Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker and Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=].

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The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=]} as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Creator/SteveBisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Creator/AaronPedersen as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. The cast also included Creator/Jay[=Laga'aia=] Creator/JayLagaaia as Senior Constable Tommy Tavita, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore, Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy' Sykes, Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker and Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=].
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The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=]} as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Creator/SteveBisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Creator/AaronPedersen as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. The cast also included Creator/JayLaga'aia as Senior Constable Tommy Tavita, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore, Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy' Sykes, Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker and Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=].

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The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=]} as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Creator/SteveBisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Creator/AaronPedersen as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. The cast also included Creator/JayLaga'aia Creator/Jay[=Laga'aia=] as Senior Constable Tommy Tavita, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore, Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy' Sykes, Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker and Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=].

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The show centers on the New South Wales Police's Water Police (Now known as Marine Area Command) with its officers sent on missions to tackle criminal and terrorist cases committed in Sydney's territorial waters and other nearby locations, while rendering assistance to their fellow officers once in a blue moon. The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=] as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Steve Bisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Aaron Pederson as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. It was depicted as a police procedural show before it concentrated on the personal lives of the officers in the finals.

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The show centers on the New South Wales Police's Water Police (Now known as Marine Area Command) with its officers sent on missions to tackle criminal and terrorist cases committed in Sydney's territorial waters and other nearby locations, while rendering assistance to their fellow officers once in a blue moon. The series was initialy depicted as a police procedural, before it concentrated on the personal lives of the officers in the finals.

The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [=McClements=] [=McClements=]} as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Steve Bisley Creator/SteveBisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Aaron Pederson Creator/AaronPedersen as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. It was depicted The cast also included Creator/JayLaga'aia as a police procedural show before it concentrated on the personal lives of the officers in the finals.
Senior Constable Tommy Tavita, Toni Scanlen as Senior Sergeant Helen Blakemore, Brett Partridge as Senior Constable Gavin 'Sykesy' Sykes, Peter Bensley as Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker and Scott Burgess as Senior Sergeant Dave [=McCall=].
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Terry Watson, Dave [=McCall=] and Tommy Tavita all vanish from the show without explanation.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Terry Watson, Dave [=McCall=] and Tommy Tavita all vanish from the show without explanation. [[spoiler:Dave [=McCall=] is later revealed to have died]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Frank and Rachel. Frank tries to pursue her briefly in season 2, but it doesn't go very far.

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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Frank and Rachel. Frank tries to pursue her briefly in season 2, but it doesn't go very far. Later Rachel does get together with Jack.
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The show centers on the New South Wales Police's Water Police (Now known as Marine Area Command) with its officers sent on missions to tackle criminal and terrorist cases committed in Sydney's territorial waters and other nearby locations, while rendering assistance to their fellow officers once in a blue moon. The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [[=McClements=]] as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Steve Bisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Aaron Pederson as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. It was depicted as a police procedural show before it concentrated on the personal lives of the officers in the finals.

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The show centers on the New South Wales Police's Water Police (Now known as Marine Area Command) with its officers sent on missions to tackle criminal and terrorist cases committed in Sydney's territorial waters and other nearby locations, while rendering assistance to their fellow officers once in a blue moon. The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [[=McClements=]] [=McClements=] as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Steve Bisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Aaron Pederson as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. It was depicted as a police procedural show before it concentrated on the personal lives of the officers in the finals.
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* PutOnABus: Several characters are put on the bus. Tommy (Jay Laga'aia), Dave (Scott Burgess) and Terry (Aaron Jeffery) disappear. Tayler Johnson (Raelee Hill), transfers to another division. Fiona Cassidy and Clarke Webb resign. Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer.

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* PutOnABus: Several characters are put on the bus. Tommy (Jay Laga'aia), (Creator/JayLagaaia), Dave (Scott Burgess) and Terry (Aaron Jeffery) disappear. Tayler Johnson (Raelee Hill), transfers to another division. Fiona Cassidy and Clarke Webb resign. Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Terry Watson, Dave [=McCall=] and Tommy Tavita all vanish from the show without explanation. Dave's ultimate fate is mentioned in season 6, but not the reason for his initial departure.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Terry Watson, Dave [=McCall=] and Tommy Tavita all vanish from the show without explanation. Dave's ultimate fate is mentioned in season 6, but not the reason for his initial departure.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Terry Watson, Dave [=McCall=] and Tommy Tavita all vanish from the show without explanation. Dave's ultimate fate is mentioned in season 6, but not the reasons his initial departure.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Terry Watson, Dave [=McCall=] and Tommy Tavita all vanish from the show without explanation. Dave's ultimate fate is mentioned in season 6, but not the reasons reason for his initial departure.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Terry Watson, Dave [=McCall=] and Tommy Tavita all vanish from the show without explanation.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Terry Watson, Dave [=McCall=] and Tommy Tavita all vanish from the show without explanation. Dave's ultimate fate is mentioned in season 6, but not the reasons his initial departure.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Terry Watson, Dave [=McCall=] and Tommy Tavita all vanish from the show without explanation.



* PutOnABus: Several characters are put on the bus. Tommy (Jay Laga'aia) and Terry (Aaron Jeffery) disappear. Tayler Johnson (Raelee Hill), transfers to another division. Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer.

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* PutOnABus: Several characters are put on the bus. Tommy (Jay Laga'aia) Laga'aia), Dave (Scott Burgess) and Terry (Aaron Jeffery) disappear. Tayler Johnson (Raelee Hill), transfers to another division. Fiona Cassidy and Clarke Webb resign. Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Frank and Rachel. Frank tries to pursue her briefly in season 2, but it doesn't go very far.
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* CareerEndingInjury: Terry Watson and Dave [=McCall=] both receive injuries that prevent them from ever diving again.

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An Australian procedural police show that featured Sydney's Water Police. It aired from 1999 to 2001 in Australia in the Nine Network Channel, but it was broadcasted in Asia, Europe and parts of the Middle East.

The show centers on the New South Wales Police's Water Police (Now known as Marine Area Command) with its officers sent on missions to tackle criminal and terrorist cases committed in Sydney's territorial waters and other nearby locations, while rendering assistance to their fellow officers once in a blue moon. It was depicted as a police procedural show before it concentrated on the personal lives of the officers in the finals.

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An Australian procedural police show that featured Sydney's Water Police. It aired for 177 episodes from 1999 1996 to 2001 in Australia in on the Nine Network Channel, Creator/NineNetwork, but it was broadcasted in Asia, Europe and parts of the Middle East.

The show centers on the New South Wales Police's Water Police (Now known as Marine Area Command) with its officers sent on missions to tackle criminal and terrorist cases committed in Sydney's territorial waters and other nearby locations, while rendering assistance to their fellow officers once in a blue moon. The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [[=McClements=]] as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Steve Bisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Aaron Pederson as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare. It was depicted as a police procedural show before it concentrated on the personal lives of the officers in the finals.


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* DaChief: Chief Inspector Clarke Webb in the first season, before he was forced to resign when he withheld information about a murder victim he had been having an affair with. He was replaced on an acting basis as Patrol Commander by Senior Sergeant Jeff Hawker, who was promoted to Inspector the following season and remained in that position for the rest of the series.
* CowboyCop: Frank has his moments, especially during the investigation of his brother's murder.
* DirtyCop: Detective Sergeant John "Knocker" Harrison, a childhood friend of the Holloways who was in the pocket of a minor criminal, Jim Pappas. When Kevin Holloway found out, Knocker and Pappas murdered him. Knocker later killed Pappas in a drugs raid, before tracking down and killing a group of women who had witnessed Kevin's death, the last one only being narrowly saved by Frank and Rachel.


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* InternalAffairs: Showed up a few times, represented by Inspector Tony Brady, mostly due to investigating Kevin Holloway's death and John Harrison's corruption.
* KilledOffForReal: Rachel Goldstein towards the end of Season 4.


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* SiblingRivalry: Jimmy Holloway hated his brother Frank for joining the force and for inspiring Kevin to as well, blaming Frank when Kevin was murdered.
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* WesternTerrorists: The pilot episode has a deranged man who holds Sydney hostage 'cause of the death of his daughter by threatening to detonate hidden explosives. Pilot also mentions an extreme environmental group called "Supreme Court of the Planet Earth".

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* WesternTerrorists: The pilot episode has a deranged man who holds Sydney hostage 'cause of the death of his daughter by threatening to detonate hidden explosives. Pilot also mentions an extreme environmental group called "Supreme Court of the Planet Earth".Earth".
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[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp25qLhBrmIyF4qS18Y2oow You can legally watch it online here.]] A DVD version has been released as well. It's also available on Hulu.

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* SWATTeam: The State Protection Group helps out in operations that would involve armed criminals/terrorists.

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->''"A different breed of cop."''
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An Australian procedural police show that featured Sydney's Water Police. It aired from 1999 to 2001 in Australia in the Nine Network Channel, but it was broadcasted in Asia, Europe and parts of the Middle East.

The show centers on the New South Wales Police's Water Police (Now known as Marine Area Command) with its officers sent on missions to tackle criminal and terrorist cases committed in Sydney's territorial waters and other nearby locations, while rendering assistance to their fellow officers once in a blue moon. It was depicted as a police procedural show before it concentrated on the personal lives of the officers in the finals.

[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp25qLhBrmIyF4qS18Y2oow You can legally watch it online here.]] A DVD version has been released as well. It's also available on Hulu.



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* PutOnABus: Several characters are put on the bus. Tommy (Jay Laga'aia) and Terry (Aaron Jeffery) disappear. Tayler Johnson (Raelee Hill), transfers to another division. Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer.

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* {{Expy}}: "Supreme Court of the Planet Earth" is one possibly for Greenpeace.
* GondorCallsForAid: The WP sometimes calls on the assistance of the Royal Australian Navy combat divers to help them search things underwater.
* PutOnABus: Several characters are put on the bus. Tommy (Jay Laga'aia) and Terry (Aaron Jeffery) disappear. Tayler Johnson (Raelee Hill), transfers to another division. Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer.cancer.
* WesternTerrorists: The pilot episode has a deranged man who holds Sydney hostage 'cause of the death of his daughter by threatening to detonate hidden explosives.
** Pilot also mentions an extreme environmental group called "Supreme Court of the Planet Earth".

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* HeyItsThatGuy: One guest star is a very young Creator/SaskiaBurmeister.
* PutOnABus: Several characters are put on the bus. Tommy (Jay Laga'aia) and Terry (Aaron Jeffery) disappear. Tayler Johnson (Raelee Hill), transfers to another division. Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: One guest star is a very young Creator/SaskiaBurmeister.
* PutOnABus: Several characters are put on the bus. Tommy (Jay Laga'aia) and Terry (Aaron Jeffery) disappear. Tayler Johnson (Raelee Hill), transfers to another division. Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer.
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* PutOnABus: Several characters are put on the bus. Tommy (Jay Laga'aia) and Terry (Aaron Jeffery) disappear. Tayler Johnson (Raelee Hill), transfers to another division. Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: One guest star is a very young Creator/SaskiaBurmeister.

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*AbandonedWarehouse: The Water Police often go looking for runnaway kids in abandoned buildings along the waterfront.
* HeyItsThatGuy: One guest star is a very young Creator/SaskiaBurmeister.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: One guest star is a very young SaskiaBurmeister.

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An Australian procedural police show that featured Sydney's Water Police.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: One guest star is a very young SaskiaBurmeister.

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