Division 4
| Division 4 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | police drama |
| Starring |
Gerard Kennedy Ted Hamilton Terence Donovan John Stanton Andrew McFarlane Frank Taylor Chuck Faulkner Patricia Smith |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 301 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Crawford Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nine Network |
| Picture format | 4.3 Black & White |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | 1969 – 1975 |
Division 4 was an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes.
The series was one of the first dramas to follow up on the enormous success of the earlier crime show Homicide and dealt with the wide variety of cases dealt with by police in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Yarra Central (modelled on St Kilda).
The series was both popular - winning 10 Logie Awards, including two Gold Logie awards (for Australia's most popular entertainer) for Gerard Kennedy - and critically acclaimed, winning a number of Penguin and Awgie awards for its scripts and actors. After Kennedy decided to leave Division 4, the Nine Network summarily cancelled the series; only one episode was made with his replacement John Stanton.
The opening theme Power Drive was sampled by TISM in their 1998 single Thunderbirds Are Coming Out.
As of February 2017, twelve volumes of this series have been released on DVD through Crawfords/WinTV, representing the entire series run (with the exception of episode 102A "Conspiracy", which exists as a partial episode only and was not included).
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