Murder Call
Murder Call
TV ShowEnded

Murder Call

6.0 / 10
1997
3 seasons
56 episodes
Drama

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

    11-08-199760m

    A 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

    18-08-199760m

    Late 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

    25-08-199760m

    Wheelchair 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

    01-09-199760m

    While 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?

    08-09-199760m

    To 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

    15-09-199760m

    When 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

    22-09-199760m

    Steve 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

    29-09-199760m

    Abel 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

    06-10-199760m

    Tessa 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

    13-10-199760m

    Steve 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

    20-10-199760m

    When 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

    27-10-199760m

    Steve 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

    03-11-199760m

    When 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

    10-11-199760m

    The 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

    17-11-199760m

    Tessa suspects an apparent suicide is really an elaborate scam designed to cover a woman's disappearance.

  • Ep 16

    16.Heartstopper

    24-11-199760m

    When 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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