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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):

'SERGEANT JOAN PALMER: 35. A woman detective assigned to Yarra Central to investigate missing females.
'RALPH MORRIS: 45. A respected Yarra Central Councillor. Also the masked rapist.
'ROSS FARREL: 35. When his wife disappears he is suspected by Police of murdering her.
'JENNIFER FARREL: 30. 1st victim. She is abducted by the rapist and left to die in a storm water sewerage drain.
'KATHY BISHOP: 25. Ross Farrel's secretary. She and Ross had an affair in the past.
'CINDY MORRIS: 20. Ralph's daughter. A go go dancer.
'SUE CHAPMAN: 25. 2nd Victim. She is rescued by Police before the rapist can abduct her.
'CLAUDE: 60. A derelict. Works part time for the council sweeping streets. At one stage is suspected of being the masked rapist.
'MRS GRAY: 50. Jennifer Farrel's mother. She tells the Detectives of Ross's affair with his secretary.
'MRS TAYLOR: 60. Witnesses 2nd attack. Feels helpless.'

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This entry has been compiled from archival research in the Crawford Collection (AFI Research Collection), undertaken by Dr Catriona Mills under the auspices of the 2012 AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) Research Fellowship.

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Director: Rod Hardy ; Gary Conway

Note: Crawford Productions tribute website (crawfordproductions.tv) suggests that Conway was credited as director and Hardy as studio director.

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Publisher: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network

Melbourne, Victoria,: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network , 1974 .

Screen cap from opening credits

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Extent: 48 min. 48 secs. (according to the script)p.

Series: form y Division 4 Howard Griffiths , Charles E. Stamp , Douglas Tainsh , Luis Bayonas , Everett de Roche , Gwenda Marsh , Ted Roberts , Roger Simpson , Sonia Borg , Colin Eggleston , Michael Harvey , Phil Freedman , John Dingwall , Jonathan Dawson , Ray Chamula , David William Boutland , Tom Mclennan , Ian Jones , Keith Hetherington , Tom Hegarty , David Stevens , Terry Stapleton , Mark Randall , John Orcsik , Don Battye , Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1969 Z1814717 1969 series - publisher film/TV detective crime Abstract
Division 4, which Don Storey notes in Classic Australian Television was 'the only drama series on Australian television to rival the popularity of Homicide', was created as a vehicle for Gerard Kennedy, who had risen to popularity playing the complicated enemy agent Kragg in spy-show Hunter, after Tony Ward's departure left Hunter's future in doubt.
According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian Television Series:
The series differed from Homicide in being more oriented to the situation and milieu of a suburban police station staffed by a mixture of plainclothes detectives and uniformed policemen. This kind of situation allowed Division 4 to concentrate on a range of crimes, from major ones such as murder to minor ones such as larceny.
Though set in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Yarra Central, 'Sets were constructed that were replicas of the actual St Kilda police station charge counter and CIB room, with an attention to detail that extended to having the same picture hanging on the wall', according to Storey.
Division 4 ended in 1976. Storey adds:
Division 4's axing was a dark day for Australian television, as within months the other two Crawford cop shows on rival networks, Matlock Police and Homicide, were also axed. It was widely believed, and still is, that the cancellation of the three programs was an attempt by the three commercial networks--acting in collusion--to wipe out Crawford Productions, and consequently cripple the local production industry.
Number in series: 239

1974 .

Script cover page (Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)

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Extent: 67p.
(Manuscript) assertion

Note/s:

The script is labelled 'Episode SS8' on the cover page. There is no indication of to whom this copy of the script is designated.

This copy of the script is not annotated.

The Crawford Collection contains two copies of this script (filed separately), both identical.

The file also includes the following ancillary material, access to some of which is restricted:
1. Cast list.
2. One-page memo from from '"Division 4" script editing department' to 'All concerned with the production of "Division 4" episode SS8 "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness".' The memo outlines a series of changes from the deletion of entire scenes and speeches to the relatively minor alteration of dialogue.

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Local Id: SC DIV : 239

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