Police Rescue
Police Rescue is an Australian television series which originally aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC.
Apart from the 61 episodes, there was a 90-minute pilot episode as well as a feature film in 1994, starring Zoe Carides.
The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes. The show was very well received for the first four series, however a decline in ratings by the commencement of the 1996 series saw the cancellation of the show, following an almost epitaph in the final three episodes.
Police Rescue was shown in the United Kingdom first on BBC1 and later on Sky One, in the Czech Republic as Záchranáři on TV Nova, in South Africa as "Noodroep", in parts of Italy as Polizia Squadra Soccorso on T9, in France on TF1 as Sydney Police, in Germany on VOX as Police Rescue – Gefährlicher Einsatz, in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark on the United Kingdom-based TV3, and in the Republic of Ireland on RTÉ.
Episodes
Pilot movie
In mid-1989, Southern Star Xanadu broadcast the pilot episode of Police Rescue via the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The 90-minute telemovie established the background of the protagonist of the series, Sergeant "Mickey" McClintock. Several issues were raised in the pilot, such as women's discrimination, sexism and street violence. The plot evolved around the entrance of the first woman member to the Police Rescue Squad, Constable Georgia Rattray and then the search for a missing boy in Sydney's sewer system.Season 1 (1991)
The telemovie was well received and spawned the series of Police Rescue, which carried on shortly after the pilot.Home media
Between 1993-1994 Village Roadshow released selected episodes on VHS.In 1994 CIC-TAFT Video released Police Rescue: The Movie on VHS.
The first Police Rescue DVD releases started in November 2006 with Season 1. The following year Warner Vision released Seasons 2 and 3 in April 2007 and in July 2007 Seasons 4 and 5 were released.
The second Police Rescue DVD release was in November 2017 with Via Vision Entertainment re-releasing Police Rescue as a complete boxset.
As of 7 Nov 2024 - Police Rescue: The Movie and Police Rescue: In Action are still not available on DVD.
In July 2019, the Seven Network released the complete first season and second season of Police Rescue via video on demand on 7plus.
As of 2 Aug 2025 - Police Rescue is available via video on demand on ABC iview.
Online Streaming
Police Rescue are currently streaming on multiple streaming sites around the world including 7plus, 10 (VoD service) & Amazon Prime.As of 2 Aug 2025 - Police Rescue and The Feature Length Pilot Episode is available via video on demand on ABC iview.
Currently the Police Rescue: The Movie and Police Rescue: In Action are yet to get a streaming release.