Underbelly (TV series)
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| Genre | Crime drama |
| Starring | See cast |
| Narrated by | Caroline Craig |
| Theme music composer | Burkhard Dallwitz |
| Opening theme | "It's a Jungle Out There" by Burkhard Dallwitz |
| Ending theme | "It's a Jungle Out There" |
| Composer(s) | Burkhard Dallwitz |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 68 (List of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Des Monaghan Zayed Rizwan Silk |
| Producer(s) |
Greg Haddrick Brenda Pam |
| Running time | 40 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Art Company Screentime |
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| Original network | Nine Network |
| Picture format |
576i (PAL) 1080i (HDTV) (2008-2010) |
| Audio format | Stereophonic |
| Original release | 13 February 2008 – 1 September 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series which first aired on the Nine Network on 13 February 2008 and last aired 1 September 2013. Each series was based on real-life events. There have been six series in total. A 2014 series titled Fat Tony & Co is a sequel to the first series but is not branded under the Underbelly title.
On 8 November 2016, it was announced the series would return in 2017 with a new season focusing on Chopper Read.
The first series is based on the book Leadbelly: Inside Australia's Underworld, by journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule. The series also borrows the title 'Underbelly' from a previously successful series of 12 True Crime compilations by the same authors. Three direct tie-in novels, based on the first three seasons, were also later published by the same authors as part of this series, and a separate 16th book (Underbelly: The Golden Casket) was published in 2010. The fourth series is based on the book Razor by crime author Larry Writer, which was subsequently republished as a tie-in. A fifth tie-in novel, by Andy Muir, was published for the final series. Despite being part of the Underbelly series, the first 12 books have never been republished with the famous 'Underbelly' logo, and the logo was only used from books 13 to 18(inc 'Golden Casket', and the republishing of 'Razor').
The fifth series titled Underbelly: Badness is based on Sydney underworld figure Anthony "Rooster" Perish, his brother Andrew and their associates, and is set between 2001–2012, broadcast from 13 August 2012. The series is the only season that did not receive a 'tie-in' novel.
A sixth series titled Underbelly: Squizzy, based on the events surrounding Joseph "Squizzy" Taylor set between 1915 and 1927, began airing on 28 July 2013.
Three telemovies called The Underbelly Files aired in 2011. The movies were titled Tell Them Lucifer was Here, which is about the 1998 murders of Victorian police officers Gary Silk and Rod Miller and the subsequent manhunt for their killers, Infiltration, is about the story of Australian police detective Colin McLaren's infiltration of the Calabrian Mafia in Griffith, New South Wales which saw dozens of underworld figures imprisoned, and The Man Who Got Away, which tells the story of David McMillian, a drug smuggler and the only Western man to ever escape from Bangkok's Klong Prem Central Prison. All three aired on the Nine Network in February 2011.
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