Wildside (TV drama)
| Wildside | |
|---|---|
| Created by |
Michael Jenkins Ben Gannon |
| Starring |
Tony Martin Rachael Blake Alex Dimitriades |
| Theme music composer | Peter Best |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 60 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Ben Gannon Michael Jenkins Andy Lloyd James |
| Producer(s) | Steve Knapman |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Gannon Jenkins Television Pty Ltd |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC TV |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Original release | 1997–99 |
Wildside is an Australian police procedural television series broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1997 to 1999.
The show consisted of a one-hour format that followed police interactions in inner Sydney. It starred Rachael Blake, Tony Martin, Richard Carter and Alex Dimitriades.
The series was filmed in Sydney. It was characterised by its use of ad lib dialogue and hand held camera work. It won several Logie Awards, including Silver Logies for outstanding work by Rachael Blake and Tony Martin for acting, as well as the Most Outstanding Miniseries Logie in 1998. It was also nominated for several Australian Film Institute Awards.
Wildside featured several regular characters from the police force and an inner-city crisis centre.
The regular cast included Tony Martin, Rachael Blake, Aaron Pedersen, Jessica Napier and Alex Dimitriades. Martin starred as Detective Bill McCoy with Dimitriadis joining him a third of the way through the first series as his partner, Detective Charlie Coustos. Pedersen, Napier and Blake portrayed the staff at the crisis centre. Detectives McCoy and Coustos were often called upon to investigate clients of the centre, creating tensions with its staff.Richard Carter appeared in several episodes as a fellow officer Detective Brian Deakin critical of Coustos.Abi Tucker joined the show at the beginning of the second season, playing Kate Holbeck, a colleague of Coustos (and his girlfriend) and McCoy. Mary Coustas joined the series in a regular role late in its run, appearing in the last ten episodes; her character replacing Aaron Pedersen's as the crisis centre's resident lawyer.
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