george

Episode 222 of Homicide, 'George' is a partially successful (bit messy plotwise) exploration of mental illness, and one of the episodes which is preceded by the information that it is based on an actual case. (It actually feels like a play someone has retrofitted to put the Homicide team into). 

It's also the first time that Alwyn Kurts starts the program by addressing the viewer in the way that John Fegan used to when someone deemed the subject matter a bit close to the bone. It's a program, he says, about mental illness and it's not suitable viewing for children (like any episode of Homicide ever was!). 

It was also first screened 23 September 1969, so, exactly 53 years ago.