Phoenix (1992)★ 8.6/10
- Crime
- Drama
- Mystery
Directed by: Michael Carson, Julian McSwiney, Kate Woods, Ian Gilmour, Mark Callen
Written by: Tony McDonald, Alison Nisselle, Annie Beach, Cliff Green, Denise Morgan
Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series.
- Original title
- Phoenix
- Storyline
- A hard-edged, gritty police drama set in the tense and claustrophobic world of a Major Crime task force which brings together a crew of idiosyncratic, competitive characters over a knife-edged, maximum stress year-long investigation. PHOENIX is no traditional crime story. Its characters are not clean, superhero cops, just real police officers whose attitudes can be shocking and whose humour is grim and black. The first series recounted the investigation of the bombing of the Victorian state police headquarters, loosely based on the real-life Russell Street Bombing of the mid-80s. The series was lauded as one of the most realistic depictions of police investigation techniques, including both surveillance and forensics, and is still widely considered as one of the country's greatest series.
- Rating
- 8.6 / 10 · 182
- Companies
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
- Release dates
- AU February 13, 1992