The prime minister announces a Royal Commission and disbands the Federal Narcotics Bureau; the move ultimately results in Jack Smith and nearly 150 equally corrupt Narcotics agents being demoted to customs agent-status. Trimbole dies in a Spanish hospital. Alexander is murdered by the cops on Freeman's payroll. The series is a broadly fictional account of the Australian criminal underworld, loosely based on events in New South Wales and Victoria between 1976 and 1987. Clark obtains a tape of Doug's interview with Queensland Police and asks Trimbole and Tizzoni to kill them, and Tizzoni again hires Bazley for the job. Freeman's police allies convince him that Flannery has become too dangerous to live. As the camera lingers upon Trevor's face, the narrator (Caroline Craig) talks about how the NSW police would ultimately fall due to one man (Haken), but suggests this would be "a whole other story". Brett ClimoDI Paul SheridanUF: Tell Them Lucifer... Salvatore CocoHarry HammoudThe Golden Mile, Vince ColosimoAlphonse GangitanoUF: Chopper, Vince ColosimoAlphonse GangitanoUnderbelly, Ryan CorrMichael "Doc" KanaanThe Golden Mile, Brendan CowellBenny O'ConnellUF: Man Who Got Away, Diane CraigBarbara MackayA Tale of Two Cities, Natasha CunninghamMelissa HollingsworthThe Golden Mile, Burkhard DalliwitzFritz the Piano PlayerSquizzy, Buddy DannounRosario TorcasoUF: Infiltration, Jared DaperisLeslie "Squizzy" TaylorSquizzy. The story revolves around the organised crime groups that stemmed from the Griffith-based marijuana trade, led by "Aussie Bob" Trimbole (Roy Billing) and "Kiwi Terry" Clark (Matthew Newton).[2][3].
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Kelly's corrupt detectives attempt to take control of the drug trade, while working to deceive the interstate police by closing down George Freeman's casinos. Clark, his middleman in Singapore Andy Maher (Damon Gameau), and fellow Kiwi couriers Doug and Isabelle Wilson (Gareth Reeves and Simone Kessell) travel to Queensland. Each season of this multi award winning Television series takes you through a 13 episode run in the rise and fall of real life Australian underworld figures as told from both sides of the law. Pommy Harry. Todd LasanceDS Dean ThomasUF: Tell Them Lucifer... Josh LawsonMichael SullivanUF: Man Who Got Away, Jenna LindMaria MuharyA Tale of Two Cities, Chris Masters MahRoulette PlayerUF: Chopper, Josh McConvilleMichael HurleyA Tale of Two Cities, Suzannah McDonaldAnn-Marie PreslandA Tale of Two Cities, Andrew McFarlaneDonald MackayA Tale of Two Cities, John McNeillLennie McPhersonA Tale of Two Cities, John McNeillLennie McPhersonThe Golden Mile, Ian MeadowsDet. In a column for the tabloid The Sydney Daily Telegraph on 24 February 2009, author Keith Moor is highly critical of the events depicted in the show. Trimbole convinces him to have the Wilsons killed. [1] The show has consistently rated highly, being the most watched show on Australian television for all episodes broadcast so far. (Two part series). So it's the end of this series and up to 1995, that is the plan. A Tale of Two Cities. [3] Kate Ritchie appears twice as Judi Kane, wife of slain standover man Les Kane and stepmother of Trisha Kane who was married to Jason Moran. In Sydney, Allison devises a new way to smuggle Clark's drugs. [5] Along with these sites, a house in Wahroonga was used to shoot episodes seven and eight. Robert Trimbole. Greg StoneBandali DebsUF: Tell Them Lucifer... Frank SweetTaxi Driver, Bill HaineSquizzy, Paul TassoneDennis KellyA Tale of Two Cities, Sean TaylorJustice James WoodThe Golden Mile. However, Haken refuses to turn against his fellow corrupt cops and, without any hard evidence, is swiftly ejected from the Joint Police Group. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Turnbull said that Ritchie did not overplay her scenes, and the emotion on her face indicated there was "a lot more going on". [16], "Underbelly turns Richmond into a Temporary Crime Capital", "All is revealed in Victoria's Great Bookie Robbery", "Roger Rogerson reviews the final episode of Underbelly 2", http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/research/statistics/tvratingdramafirstseries.aspx, http://www.livenews.com.au/Article/Index/193961?channel=home, Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Underbelly:_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&oldid=979200294, 2009 Australian television series endings, Articles with dead external links from November 2010, Articles with dead external links from January 2020, Articles with permanently dead external links, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, In the debut double episode set in 1976, drug dealers, Detective Warwick Mobbs suspects police corruption as his efforts to solve Mackay's murder are constantly frustrated. Daniel WhyteGary SilkUF: Tell Them Lucifer... Felix WilliamsonPhil "The Jew" JeffsRazor, Rory WilliamsonDet Sen Con Jason EversBadness, Ben WinspearDet Sen Con Tim BrowneBadness, John WoodMurray FarquharA Tale of Two Cities, Dan Wyllie"Mad" Richard MladenichUnderbelly, Dan WyllieSnr Det Frederick PiggottSquizzy, William ZappaJack JacobsUF: Man Who Got Away, Matt ZeremesBrian RobardsUF: Man Who Got Away, Elan ZevelskyAlphonse GangitanoA Tale of Two Cities, All images captures by T. Zuk exclusively for AustralianTelevision.net. Underbelly Files: Chopper recounts the "true" story of Australian criminal and author Mark "Chopper" Read, a notorious Tasmanian standover man. The inquest into the deaths of the Wilsons commences. The series debuted with double episodes attracting an average of 2,501,500 viewers nationally, in the mainland capitals. Clark murders drug mule Pommy Lewis. Wadih Dona as Dr. Nick Paltos, surgeon and drug trafficker, Tim McCunn as Brian Kane, Melbourne stand-over man, Daniel Roberts as Detective Sergeant Jim Egan, a corrupt NSW detective, Jenna Lind as Maria Muhary, the mother of Clark's son, Suzannah McDonald as Ann-Marie Presland, Bob's Mistress in Sydney, Wayne Bradley as Vinnie Mikkelsen, one of Bennett's crew, Marcello Fabrizi as TV Reporter (1 episode), Don Halbert as Barry Walker, a corrupt Melbourne detective, Tony Poli as Gianfranco "Frank" Tizzoni, Marijuana grower and a close associate of Trimbole, Brendan Donoghue as Mick Sayers (2 episodes), Sydney heroin dealer, Sam Anderson as Harry "Pommy" Lewis (3 episodes), one of Clark's drug mules and victims, Jake Lindesay as Wayne Robb, Allison's boyfriend and drug courier, Peter Lamb as Johannes Muller (2 episodes), Sydney underworld figure and who organised the hit on Freeman, Aaron Hammond as Tim a Federal Narcotics Agent (2 episodes), Michael Sarantos as a Spanish Detective (1 episode), Alexander Palacio as a Spanish Nurse (2 episode), This page was last edited on 19 September 2020, at 11:23. After throwing a wild party in a hotel room, Clark is arrested on a gun charge and extradited back to New Zealand. Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities features five regular cast members, with other actors who recur throughout the series. The previous years highest rating broadcast was Seven's Packed to the Rafters with 1.938 million. [7] TV reviewer and La Trobe University media lecturer Sue Turnbull thought Ritchie managed to cast off her soap opera persona through the role. Written by In the meantime, legal secretary and mob lawyer Brian Alexander (Damian de Montemas) comes under intense police scrutiny as the weakest link in the syndicate. Allison questions her role in the syndicate after she is threatened by a corrupt Federal Narcotics Bureau agent. A true story. The series premiered on the Nine Network on 9 February at 8.30pm, with the double episode premiere attracting an average of 2,501,500 viewers nationally, in the mainland capitals. Before the Australian police can bring evidence against him, however, he is released and flees to Spain. Bazley completes the Wilson hit but the bodies are found almost immediately, finally causing the Victorian and Federal police to form a join taskforce led by David Priest (Jonny Pasvolsky), and including Mobbs, Cruickshank, Messina and a Sydney CIB detective Trevor Hakens (Dieter Brummer) with links to Dennis Kelly's (Paul Tassone) bent NSW cops. This entrenched culture of corruption and entanglement with organised crime only ended in the mid 1990s with the Wood Royal Commission which "cleaned out the Black Empire within the NSW Police". The brutal murder ends up isolating Bennett, who is now wanted dead by a coalition including Brian Kane, Chris Flannery and Alphonse Gangitano (Elan Zavelsky). After Johnnstone offers various excuses about the poor quality of recent heroin shipments, Clark decides that he can no longer be trusted, and instructs Andy Maher to execute him. "It's being written at the moment and I think it takes it up to the first series. It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the marijuana trade centred on the New South Wales town of Griffith. View production, box office, & company info. Mobbs endeavours to investigate George Freeman and shut down his illegal bookmaking activities, but is tharwted by high-level police corruption and reassigned to Wagga Wagga. AndrewThe Golden Mile, Alexandra SchepisiMishy MerceicaUnderbelly, Toby SchmitzDavid McMillanUF: Man Who Got Away, Ella Scott LynchMargaret CassarUF: Chopper, Ella Scott LynchSnr Con Camille AlavoineBadness, Anthony SimcoeDanny ChubbA Tale of Two Cities, Jeremy SimsLord Tony MoynihanUF: Man Who Got Away, Freya StaffordAFP Insp. Was this review helpful to you? The deaths, secrets and lies that ripped through the Victorian Legal System. Each season of this multi award winning Television series takes you through a 13 episode run in the rise and fall of real life Australian underworld figures as told from both sides of the law. Brigid GallacherNicole DebsUF: Tell Them Lucifer... Damon GameauAndy MaherA Tale of Two Cities, Damien GarveyGraham "Chook" FowlerThe Golden Mile, Teo GerbertLaurie PrendergastA Tale of Two Cities, Tottie GoldsmithSara HerlihyUF: Infiltration, Mirko GrilliniRocci RussoUF: Infiltration, Georgina HaigGeorginaA Tale of Two Cities, Don HalbertBarry WalkerA Tale of Two Cities, Douglas HansellDet Sen Con Glen MorfootBadness. John Brumpton Vince Love Underbelly. *Second due to double episode premiere**5th due to other networks grand finales and premieres. The tragic story of the 1998 murders of Victoria Police officers Rod Miller and Gary Silk. Clark goes to England to expand his business.
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