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Patrol Boat (TV series)

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Patrol Boat is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Patrol Boat was created by James Davern and two series were produced, in 1979 and 1983, with a total of 26 episodes.

Patrol Boat
GenreAction/Drama series
Created byJames Davern
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes26
Production
Running time55 minutes
Original release
NetworkABC TV
Release28 June 1979 (1979-06-28) –
11 August 1983 (1983-08-11)

Patrol Boat was about the activities of the crew of a Royal Australian Navy patrol boat which patrolled Australia's coastline. The series was produced with the co-operation of the Royal Australian Navy.

Two fictional RAN patrol boats were depicted in the series. Attack-class patrol boat HMAS Ambush (portrayed by HMA Ships Advance and Bombard) was used in the first season, with filming taking place during 1978 and 1979 around Sydney Harbour, Pittwater, Ku-ring-gai Chase, and the Hawkesbury River.[1] For the second season, the crew transferred to the newer Fremantle-class patrol boat HMAS Defiance (portrayed by HMA Ships Launceston, Townsville, Warrnambool, Whyalla, and Wollongong).[2]

The series is similar to the BBC series Warship, made with the co-operation of the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy and screened by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1976. This was before Patrol Boat which was influenced by Warship.[3] Although the 2007 drama Sea Patrol is based on the same subject, it is not intended to be a follow on to Patrol Boat.[4]

Although ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) originally screened both seasons of the TV series Patrol Boat, during 1992 Channel Ten in Sydney replayed a select few episodes of the 1979 first season of the series weekly on Saturday nights at 7.30pm to capitalise on the nostalgia period that the network was trialling at the time.

Cast

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Main / regular

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Guests

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Episode list

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Season 1: 1979

  1. "We Lie in Wait" 28 June 1979
  2. "Rogue Mine" 5 July 1979
  3. "Fish-Heads and Birdies" 19 July 1979
  4. "Another Bunch of Reffos" 26 July 1979
  5. "Follow the Leader" 2 August 1979
  6. "My Dad's a Sailor" 9 August 1979
  7. "Conduct Prejudicial" 16 August 1979
  8. "Don't Call Me Borgia" 23 August 1979
  9. "Incident at Mencken Bay" 30 August 1979
  10. "Which Way's Mecca?" 6 September 1979
  11. "The Enemy You Know" 13 September 1979
  12. "Man Overboard" 20 September 1979
  13. "Never Under the White Ensign" 27 September 1979

Season 2: 1983

  1. "Something Old, Something New" 19 May 1983
  2. "Tango Victor" 26 May 1983
  3. "Nice Day For a Cruise" 2 June 1983
  4. "Hands to Bathe" 9 June 1983
  5. "Cold Turkey" 16 June 1983
  6. "Spoils of War" 23 June 1983
  7. "All the Nice Girls" 30 June 1983
  8. "Make and Mend" 7 July 1983
  9. "Operation Christmas" 14 July 1983
  10. "The Albatross" 21 July 1983
  11. "Par for the Course" 28 July 1983
  12. "A Skunk on the Radar" 4 August 1983
  13. "Beggarman Thief" 11 August 1983

References

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  1. ^ Gillett, Ross (1988). Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946. Brookvale, NSW: Child & Associates. p. 86. ISBN 0-86777-219-0. OCLC 23470364.
  2. ^ "Farewell to the Fremantle class" (PDF). Semaphore. Sea Power Centre – Royal Australian Navy. October 2005. Retrieved 6 September 2015. Launceston, Townsville, Warrnambool, Whyalla and Wollongong were all seen masquerading as the fictitious HMAS Defiance.
  3. ^ "The Royal Australian Navy on the Silver Screen, Semaphore issue 8, 2017" (PDF). Sea Power Centre – Australia, Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  4. ^ Rollings, Barry (5 October 2006). "Navy's starring role". Vol. 49, no. 18. Navy News. Retrieved 8 January 2007.
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