

Murder Call
Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked. Both books were integrated as episodes in the TV series. The series dealt with the cases confronted by an unconventional team of homicide detectives, Tessa Vance and Steve Hayden.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Ashes to Ashes
11-08-199760mA man out for an early morning surf gets more than he bargained for when surf blows a corpse out of the water and into his face. It appears to be a routine investigation, natural c...
- Ep 2
2.The Burial
18-08-199760mLate night. A voice recites limericks on a moonlit beach. Suddenly, all goes quiet. A grey dawn, and a dog and its owner, the stern Major Richter, make a gruesome discovery - a hum...
- Ep 3
3.Cat and Mouse
25-08-199760mWheelchair bound Spinner congratulates himself on finishing a piece of artwork by pouring a cold beer and logging on to his favourite internet games forum. His pleasure is short li...
- Ep 4
4.Dead Clean
01-09-199760mWhile investigating a series of bizarre murders, Steve and Tessa are drawn to the local community centre, a drop in for former mental patients. With a handful of suspects, but no r...
- Ep 5
5.Who Killed Cock Robin?
08-09-199760mTo the outside world former football star Robin Cochrane was a picture of charm, but when he is found poisoned by a chemical solvent, Tessa and Steve are forced to put together a p...
- Ep 6
6.Hot Shot
15-09-199760mWhen Maddie Herman, a paparazzi photographer who made her living out of the gossip and innuendo of the lives of others is found murdered, Steve and Tessa have no shortage of suspec...
- Ep 7
7.Black Friday
22-09-199760mSteve and Tessa are called in to solve the murder of Trevor Parkin, his body was found one Friday afternoon in a zoo - he was wearing a gorilla costum. The more they discover about...
- Ep 8
8.Last Stop
29-09-199760mAbel Jago sits dead in an armchair before his valuable toy railway, on which the train of cars make their rounds. The railway engineer left a short farewell letter to his wife Elli...
- Ep 9
9.Something Wicked
06-10-199760mTessa and Steve are confronted with a conspiracy of silence while investigating the death of a man with a history of abuse.
- Ep 10
10.Drop Dead Gorgeous
13-10-199760mSteve and Tessa are baffled when former football star Wayne Pascall is found stabbed to death in a lift, with a missing woman's handbag next to his body.
- Ep 11
11.Dead and Gone
20-10-199760mWhen Krystyan Balzan is found dead at the bottom of the stairs in his house, Steve and Tessa believe he came home unexpectedly and disturbed a robbery in progress.
- Ep 12
12.Wages of Sin
27-10-199760mSteve and Tessa investigate the death of a woman found in an area notorious for prostitutes. When they learn the woman was a pregnant nun and not a prostitute, their investigation...
- Ep 13
13.An Eye for an Eye
03-11-199760mWhen a mummified body is found in an empty house, it is identified as that of Karen Diskin, the daughter of police inspector Snowy Muldoon, who went missing two years earlier.
- Ep 14
14.Blood Heat
10-11-199760mThe brutal murder of a video store owner initially appears to be linked to a protest demonstration until other suspects emerge.
- Ep 15
15.Fall From Grace
17-11-199760mTessa suspects an apparent suicide is really an elaborate scam designed to cover a woman's disappearance.
- Ep 16
16.Heartstopper
24-11-199760mWhen the general manager of a department store is found dead during the store's opening, the owner and employees become the main suspects in the investigation. Steve is haunted by...
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