Wildside (1997) is a drama web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Wildside online in HD.
Wildside — Storyline
Wildside is an Australian police procedural television series broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999.
The show consisted of a one hour format that followed police interactions in inner Sydney. It starred Rachael Blake, Tony Martin, Richard Carter and Alex Dimitriades. Mary Coustas joined the series in a regular role late in its run, appearing in the last ten episodes.
The series was filmed in Sydney. It was characterised by its use of ad lib dialogue and hand held camera work. It won several Logie Awards, including Silver Logies for outstanding work by Rachael Blake and Tony Martin for acting, as well as the Most Outstanding Miniseries Logie in 1998. It was also nominated for several Australian Film Institute Awards.
A rerun of the series began in Australia on ABC1 in the early hours of Friday mornings, starting in September 2008.
Cast & Crew
- Starring: Rachael Blake, Tony Martin, Aaron Pedersen, Alex Dimitriades, Abi Tucker
Wildside — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1997-11-23 |
| Seasons | 3 |
| Episodes | 60 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Network | ABC TV |
| Status | Ended |
| Rating | 5.2/10 (5 votes) |
Wildside — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: Episode 1 (1997-11-23) — A ram-raid on a clothes store by a group of homeless teenagers results in a high-speed police chase. Two officers end up dead but the teenagers escape. When two of them seek help f
- E2: Episode 2 (1997-11-23) — With the aid of Maxine, Bill McCoy continues to search for his missing son, only to find a second mutilated body. Bill shows a video Joe gave him to Maxine, Gerry and Vince. With a
- E3: Episode 3 (1997-11-24) — Bill tracks Candy to a strip bar where she works as an exotic dancer. From here Bill's search will take on a new light. After endless searching, Bill McCoy finds what appears to be
- E4: Episode 4 (1997-11-24) — Bill McCoy tries to help Joe turn his life around but his sudden disappearance pushes Bill to locate the man responsible for the young boys' murders before he claims another victim
- E5: Episode 5 (1998-02-04) — While Bill wrestles with his doubts over Reilly who has been accused of corruption, Maxine deals with Ralph, an elderly man with Alzheimer's who shows up at the crisis centre not b
- E6: Episode 6 (1998-02-11) — Maxine searches for Debbie, a prostitute working Canterbury Road. She's HIV positive and is possibly passing the infection on. Meanwhile, Bill faces his first day back on the polic
- E7: Episode 7 (1998-02-18) — While partnered with Kim Devlin, Bill investigates the gang rape of a prostitute and discovers that one of the culprits may be the son of an MP who has been trying to rid the distr
- E8: Episode 8 (1998-02-25) — When a single mother is brutally killed outside her home, McCoy has 48 hours to find her killer before having to turn the case over to Homicide. The woman's teenage son, a suspect
- E9: Episode 9 (1998-03-04) — With his father after him to find a more lucrative job, Vince takes on the case of an illegal Iraqi refugee caught up in Bill's investigation of a stolen car racket. Vince fights a
- E10: Episode 10 (1998-03-11) — Detectives McCoy and Devlin investigate the shooting of a robbery suspect by a young and inexperienced security guard. Maxine takes on the delicate case of an alleged sexual abuse
- E11: Episode 11 (1998-03-18) — Maxine is called out to a Rave party to attend the drug overdose of a teenage school girl. Despite Maxine's efforts, she is unable to save the girl, and has to break the news to th
- E12: Episode 12 (1998-03-18) — When a bikie gang war erupts in massacre, Bill McCoy is under pressure to make arrests and lay charges. On arrival at the scene it is discovered that one of the victims is Dean Tap
- E13: Episode 13 (1998-03-25) — Maxine, recovering from her gunshot wound, is full with the love of life. She feels invincible, having escaped death, and is in the mood to take risks. So daring she manages to del
- E14: Episode 14 (1998-04-01) — When a high-profile activist doctor is murdered in his home, Bill is not surprised when Virginia assigns him the investigation. However he is surprised when she tells him to take C
- E15: Episode 15 (1998-04-08) — Bill and Charlie become involved in the investigation of a petrol station robbery where one of the victims turns out to be the son of a man Bill put away years before. The family b
- E16: Episode 16 (1998-04-15) — Bill and Charlie pick up a young heroin addicted prostitute, Laurel Williams, at a Kings Cross porn shop owned by Half [ep 6 previously], Laurel's pimp. Laurel is an intelligent gi
- E17: Episode 17 (1998-04-22) — Bill and Charlie investigate the horrific murder of a taxi driver. Maxine discovers the involvement in the murder of three street kids, Greg, Mitch and Mandy while overhearing thei
- E18: Episode 18 (1998-04-29) — Bill and Charlie are called to the train station where they find seventeen-year-old Luke, naked and bound to a train carriage. Luke claims it was a buck's night prank, but Charlie
- E19: Episode 19 (1998-05-06) — Maxine has taken her sister, Nina, under her wing to help sort out her domestic crisis, and Bill and Charlie wrestle with racial violence on a housing estate.
- E20: Episode 20 (1998-05-13) — Maxine is convinced that her sister was murdered by her husband but Bill and Charlie play it by the evidence. Bill reluctantly agrees to wire Maxine up, to get the confession they
- E21: Episode 21 (1998-05-20) — McCoy's plans to nail a Vietnamese drug importer are complicated when a crusading Chinese mayor is gunned down.
- E22: Episode 22 (1998-05-27) — McCoy plays a waiting game using 80 million dollars worth of heroin as bait for "Mr. Big" while also continuing to look into the murders of Mayor Henry Li and Tran, a kid caught up
- E23: Episode 23 (1998-06-03) — Bill and Deakin are searching for three escaped female prisoners, one of whom, Debbie, is a past client of the Centre. Debbie seeks Gerry's help to get money for a car and treatmen
- E24: Episode 24 (1998-06-10) — Bill investigates a threat made against Carol Wilson, a State MP who has outrageous views on Aboriginals. He must offer her protection in the midst of an election rally in which sh
- E25: Episode 25 (1998-06-17) — Four Tongans are shot dead in the 180 Club which is a known Islander hangout. McCoy and Deakin investigate the crime scene where they run into Charlie Coustas, who's working on att
- E26: Episode 26 (1998-06-24) — In a story about need to belong, Joe, Bill's son, is out on the edge and alone — an addict, and Bill knows that the only person who can save him is his dad. That means getting Tony
- E27: Episode 27 (1998-07-01) — Charlie finds himself faced with a conflict of interest when a childhood friend is charged with aggravated assault. Peter Simms, ex-con and junkie, violently bashes Sam Farmer, who
- E28: Episode 28 (1998-07-08) — Virginia becomes involved in helping her lover, Alan Sharkey, when his house is shot at in a driveby. She discovers Sharkey was targeted by a crooked cop, Ron Anders because he kno
- E29: Episode 29 (1998-07-15) — Charlie's gambling addiction leads him into the clutches of loan sharks and into temptation. Charlie can't lose, he's on a roll. So he borrows ten grand from loan sharks. And loses
- E30: Episode 30 (1998-07-22) — Bill and Charlie investigate the murder of the publisher of a fashion magazine but Charlie is distracted by an attractive witness.
- E31: Episode 31 (1998-07-29) — With Charlie still sin-binned to desk work, Deakin and Bill have teamed up. Bill and Deakin find themselves in the middle of a tow-truck war after attend a stabbing at a road accid
- E32: Episode 32 (1998-08-05) — The evil crime of paedophilia rears its ugly head in a powerful and moving episode of Wildside. Bill and Charlie become involved in searching for a missing hearing impaired child —
- E33: Episode 33 (1998-08-12) — Bill and Charlie are called to a domestic. Bill witnesses a father, Sean O'Connor, hit his son and gets emotionally involved to the point where he has a complaint laid against him
- E34: Episode 34 (1998-08-19) — An aborigine is mistaken for a wanted man and shot during a police raid. McCoy is left to pick up the pieces. Vince's experience with Naomi, the victim's wife, allows him to discov
- E35: Episode 35 (1998-08-26) — Charlie goes undercover in attempt to crack a drugs and extortion racket operated by a collusion of three people: a Greek Australian property developer — George Kasoulis, ex stand
- E36: Episode 36 (1998-09-02) — Charlie finds himself under pressure on three fronts — his promotion, his relationship with Maxine and his deepening involvement with the criminals he is investigating.
- E37: Episode 37 (1998-09-09) — McCoy takes on a new partner as he investigates a series of mutilation murders. Bill is quick to set his sights on a suspect but he is determined to prove the man's girlfriend was
- E38: Episode 38 (1998-09-16) — After a murder at a male brothel, a colleague of McCoy's comes under suspicion.
- E39: Episode 39 (1998-09-23) — McCoy and Charlie pursue an ex-cop they suspect of being a major cocaine importer. While dealing with the news of his ex-wife's death, McCoy is unaware his son has resurfaced at th
- E40: Episode 40 (1998-09-30) — Bill is furious with Maxine for not telling him his son is back. Bill meets with Nick and discovers the truth about his reasons for returning. Bill is investigated by Internal Affa
Season 2
- E1: Episode 1 (1999-02-26) — Bill and Nick are slowly rebuilding their relationship when Nick becomes a suspect in a break-and-enter and is questioned about his friend, Jack Reeves, who he knows is probably re
- E2: Episode 2 (1999-03-05) — A mentally disturbed man is arrested after a vicious hammer attack at a train station leaves another man dead.
- E3: Episode 3 (1999-03-12) — Bill and Charlie attend the aftermath of a bank robbery, from which the robber escaped with a hundred thousand dollars leaving a trail of trauma in his wake.
- E4: Episode 4 (1999-03-19) — Bill and Charlie investigate when the remains of a body are found buried in the foundation of a derelict house. The hands and teeth have been removed by the killer to reduce the ch
- E5: Episode 5 (1999-03-26) — Cultural tension between gangs in an inner city high school reaches a boiling point when Bing Ling, a member of the Asian gang, is killed.
- E6: Episode 6 (1999-04-02) — Kate and Charlie find themselves in conflict in the lead up to the Coronial Inquest into her shooting of Gordy Gilmour. Bill tries to act as mediator between the two in an effort a
- E7: Episode 7 (1999-04-09) — Nadia brings her friend Holly to Maxine, claiming they were attacked by a man with a knife. Bill gets the whereabouts of the incident and follows it up with Charlie and Kate while
- E8: Episode 8 (1999-04-09) — After a young sex worker is found strangled and Vincent finds himself on the wrong side of the law. Vince thinks he's had a night to remember but things quickly turn sour when he f
- E9: Episode 9 (1999-04-16) — McCoy, Kate, and Charlie investigate the murder of the wife of a wealthy importer and identify the husband as a prime suspect.
- E10: Episode 10 (1999-04-23) — Confusion reigns as Vince receives his blood test results — these results force him to confront his father about his background, which also unravels secrets and deceptions. This re
- E11: Episode 11 (1999-04-30) — The Crisis Centre is invaded when Vincent's replacement arrives. She is Louise Arden, a tough, slick lawyer who appears to come from a privileged background, who in her former prac
- E12: Episode 12 (1999-05-07) — On the way to work, Kate puts herself in danger by to responding solo to a report of an armed robbery which has ended with one of the offenders being shot by the shop owner.
- E13: Episode 13 (1999-05-14) — When the body of a girl is found buried in a park, an obsessive former client of Maxine's becomes the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Bill gets a postcard from Nick inviting him to come
- E14: Episode 14 (1999-05-21) — Wilt Bolton's car yard has been broken into overnight and Wilt's $150,000 BMW is missing — along with the security guard who was supposed to be looking after it.
- E15: Episode 15 (1999-05-28) — Kate has raised with Charlie the question of marriage. In spite of his feelings for Kate, Charlie is freaked out by this. His anxiety is heightened considerably by The Mask investi
- E16: Episode 16 (1999-06-04) — Kate is annoyed when Charlie releases her counterfeiting suspect, his friend and informant, prostitute Roxanne Tate, from custody without consulting her. On her way out of the stat
- E17: Episode 17 (1999-06-11) — When a homeless man is found incinerated, Bill and Charlie investigate. The prime suspect is a patient of Maxine's, Alistair, who was seen by an intoxicated witness, earlier on the
- E18: Episode 18 (1999-06-18) — A million dollars worth of cocaine goes missing in a drugs bust and Bill is under pressure to get it back. Louise's friend, Natasha Lodans, reveals that she is pregnant and wanting
- E19: Episode 19 (1999-06-25) — Adi Asimovic knocks on Maxine's door in the middle of the night. His daughter Vildana has not returned home and he is frantic, hoping she is staying with Simone at Maxine's house.
- E20: Episode 20 (1999-07-02) — A leading heart surgeon with links to a pharmaceutical company has been executed in his car. Bill McCoy and Charlie Coustos investigate the murder. Maxine and Louise try and save a
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Wildside have? 3 season(s) with 60 episodes.
Where can I watch Wildside? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.