Bluey (1976 TV series)

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Bluey is an Australian television series broadcast by Seven Network in 1976 and made by Crawford Productions. it was co-created and written by Ian Jones. The series was a police drama from Crawford Productions, but was different from many of their previous series—Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police—in that it focused on a single detective rather than an ensemble, and that the characters were not stock standard archetypes usually seen in police dramas. Stand-up comedian and vaudevillian Lucky Grills was cast as the titular Detective Sergeant 'Bluey' Hills, described as a tough, gruff, pig-headed detective with a proverbial "heart of gold" who, in contrast to the relatively straight detectives seen in Crawford's previous shows, was obese, drank heavily (even on duty), smoked heavily, visited local prostitutes, and would often enact physical violence on criminals. Bluey premiered on Wednesday 21 July 1976 on ATN-7 in Sydney, as a 90-minute pilot episode, with the first 60-minute episode...

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