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Fanmix: Wake and Be Fine | Songs for Tessa and Steve

Mar 06, 2012 01:18

Do you guys remember Murder Call? Australian cop procedural with a noir kick that ran on Channel 9 from 1997-2000? No? *proverbial crickets*

Welp, I do. Based on the Tessa Vance novels by Jennifer "Emily Rodda" Rowe, it was the sister program of sorts to Water Rats. Rats was, at the time, an exceptionally popular cop show that was pretty much ( Read more... )

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krazykitkat March 5 2012, 14:35:14 UTC

Yes!!!! I'm just culling very old TV Weeks and have come across a couple of articles. I so loved Lucy Bell.

piecesofalice March 5 2012, 14:42:23 UTC

YESSS I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED THE SHOW.

Ugh, she's amazing. I think I wanted to be her when I was 12, just in general.

If one of those TV Weeks has amazing photos like so:

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krazykitkat March 5 2012, 14:48:11 UTC

Unfortunately they've been recycled :( If I'd only know a few weeks ago.

I did have a little thing for them. And as always I love my lead women.

Does the show hold up? Part of me wants to see it again...

piecesofalice March 5 2012, 14:55:22 UTC

Strangely, it does. I mean, there's a lot of brown lipstick and bad 90's fashion, but (and I hate saying things like this) I think it was a little ahead of its time. I didn't realise it at the time, but it's kind of odd in that the cases are pretty off the wall - a lot of the time they're struggling to pull it off, but a lot of the time they do. I can see why it didn't do so well with the Water Rats/Blue Heelers crowd, though.

Lucy Bell is phenomenal. I adore Tessa. Tessa is nuanced and not-perfect and flawed, and her and Peter Mochrie have amazing chemistry. And the core cast stays the same for the entire show - they don't add or subtract people - and I kind of think that helps to keep the show kind of intimate.

...i have a lot of feelings. I can find you some download links?

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stephiepenguin March 5 2012, 14:59:31 UTC

I HAD NO IDEA THE BOOKS WERE WRITTEN BY EMILY RODDA OMG

piecesofalice March 5 2012, 15:02:41 UTC

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stephiepenguin March 5 2012, 15:08:07 UTC

I THINK SHE MUST BE

myniamh March 6 2012, 05:39:05 UTC

Oh Murder Call! I loved Water Rats too!
I remember it being kinda odd, they did work well together! :D

kimmyziva March 10 2012, 07:00:31 UTC

OMG!!!

I LOVED Murder Call (and still do!) The first ever website I created was Murder Call website. Sooo many memories!!!

Thanks so much for this :D

piecesofalice March 12 2012, 12:30:13 UTC

You're welcome! I'm just so glad that someone else remembers the show!

(My first website was a Murder Call one too...)

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piecesofalice March 12 2012, 12:30:37 UTC

How gorgeous is she? She's barely aged, too.

Enjoy!! :)