homicide episode #8 of 510 - december 1964

The 'other night' I watched the last episode on disc 2 of my Homicide Vol 1 box set. I should buy the next batch of DVDs because this is such an enjoyable show, not for the plots so much (though they have their moments) but the settings. This episode took us to Port Melbourne and the docks, and to a place that we were told was Hawthorn though I suppose there's no actual evidence it was. These pictures are all mixed up but that's not important. This one though is probably the scariest of the whole show, and it's just some knob with a loudhailer attached to his face, not surgically, I assume. 

This is when a bunch of rowers find a body in the river. It must have been a lark for the kids from St Kevins or whatever, being brought in to do the intro sequence for Homicide. 

The intro is fun because you hear the car doors shut (above the music) when they shut the car doors. 

This ep has Tommy Dysart in it as a guest star, playing a Russian sailor. He is looking good. You may remember him from the Goggomobil ad, which isn't an ad for the Goggomobil but for the Yellow Pages. 

I think I might have mentioned how I was tricked by this tapestry into thinking this interior was genuine. Here it is again, in the Hawthorn home where the murdered man had lived. 

This is the murdered man's sister being all Mrs Danversy.

The Hawthorn home. There's nothing to suggest it is really in Hawthorn, it's a pretty great building though. 

The Age TV-Radio Guide 3 December 1964 p. 1