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20 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
44 mins
A young blind man is found dead in a swimming pool and one of his eyes has been removed and placed on a pile of clothes - exactly mimicking a case that was solved 6 years earlier, a case Tootsie recently described in one of her lectures to the Forensic Society. Horrified Tootsie realises this is the third time her lectures have been used as a blueprint for murder.
Episode 2
44 mins
A sports mistress is found impaled by a garden fork, through her neck. The number of suspects is quickly narrowed down to the only five people present at the school. Tessa and Steve are puzzled by the apparent lack of motive for the murder. When another person appears to narrowly escape a similar fate, they wonder - is someone killing by chance?
Episode 3
44 mins
Fifteen years ago, Malcolm Thorne joined the Homicide Squad and the first major case he was assigned to involved three murders. The victims were slashed almost beyond recognition and their tongues were cut out. The murderer was never caught. Now another body has been found. The wounds are similar, so the removal of the tongue. Thorne experiences a strong sense of déjà vu.
Episode 4
43 mins
Murder Call centers on homicide detective, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Hyperactive and emotionally volatile, Tessa is an almost exact opposite of Steve, a laconic, casual-seeming man's man. Together this powerful team must overcome intrigue, fear and shattered lives, which murder leaves in its wake. Murder Call combines mystery and suspense with humor, romance and a touch of the bizarre. Based on the works of author Jennifer Rowe.
Episode 5
44 mins
A vagrant is found dead at an inner city underpass surrounded by the corpses of poisoned sparrows. When Tootsie diagnoses death by Strychnine, Tessa, Steve and Thorne fear that someone is out there purging the streets of the homeless. The investigation takes a twist when Fisk finds ten thousand dollars hidden in the stuffing of the vagrant's mattress, but is it enough to kill for?
Episode 6
43 mins
Murder Call centers on homicide detective, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Hyperactive and emotionally volatile, Tessa is an almost exact opposite of Steve, a laconic, casual-seeming man's man. Together this powerful team must overcome intrigue, fear and shattered lives, which murder leaves in its wake. Murder Call combines mystery and suspense with humor, romance and a touch of the bizarre. Based on the works of author Jennifer Rowe.
Episode 7
43 mins
Murder Call centers on homicide detective, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Hyperactive and emotionally volatile, Tessa is an almost exact opposite of Steve, a laconic, casual-seeming man's man. Together this powerful team must overcome intrigue, fear and shattered lives, which murder leaves in its wake. Murder Call combines mystery and suspense with humor, romance and a touch of the bizarre. Based on the works of author Jennifer Rowe.
Episode 8
43 mins
A shop assistant opens up for the day in O'Leary's Dry Cleaners, but there is more hanging on the rack than coats and evening wear today - namely one very dead boss, Irene O'Leary. It looks at first as if it's a simple case of robbery ending in murder, but as the details of O'Leary's business practices unfold, it appears that there is much more to this case and Tessa and Steve soon uncover a dangerous web of blackmail and righteous fanaticism.
Episode 9
44 mins
When Cyril Crease, an elderly worker at the equally ancient Bilby Leather Factory is found dead, mangled beyond all recognition inside an industrial drum, it is initially thought to be an unfortunate accident. Tessa and Steve must race against time to avert another tragedy growing from the ruins of the first.
Episode 10
43 mins
Brian Hart is on a train met by a woman he obviously knows. An argument follows. She leaves as his wife calls him on the mobile phone. Moments later Brian Hart is killed when a letter bomb concealed in a card explodes. Was Brian Hart having an affair? Had his wife found out about? Nothing is what it seems as Steve and Tessa begin to uncover the web of intrigue surrounding this horrific death.
Episode 11
Murder Call centers on homicide detective, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Hyperactive and emotionally volatile, Tessa is an almost exact opposite of Steve, a laconic, casual-seeming man's man. Together this powerful team must overcome intrigue, fear and shattered lives, which murder leaves in its wake. Murder Call combines mystery and suspense with humor, romance and a touch of the bizarre. Based on the works of author Jennifer Rowe.
Episode 12
43 mins
Sebastian Tombs is celebrating the sale of the film rights of his latest horror novel. Sebastian "lives" his genre, from the decor in his apartment, to his belief in the beneficial effects of black humour. His guests are forced to listen, in darkness, to taped readings of the latest chapter of his work. After such a reading, the lights come up, and Sebastian is lying dead, a knife in his back.
Episode 13
43 mins
A small funeral cortege moves along the avenue of crypts in a cemetery. A woman is to be interred, but an unpleasant surprise awaits us when the crypt is opened. It is already occupied by a stinking corpse. Nobody seems to know how the body came to be here, and a week has elapsed since the murder, giving the killer plenty of time to cover his or her tracks.
Episode 14
43 mins
Murder Call centers on homicide detective, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Hyperactive and emotionally volatile, Tessa is an almost exact opposite of Steve, a laconic, casual-seeming man's man. Together this powerful team must overcome intrigue, fear and shattered lives, which murder leaves in its wake. Murder Call combines mystery and suspense with humor, romance and a touch of the bizarre. Based on the works of author Jennifer Rowe.
Episode 15
43 mins
Murder Call centers on homicide detective, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Hyperactive and emotionally volatile, Tessa is an almost exact opposite of Steve, a laconic, casual-seeming man's man. Together this powerful team must overcome intrigue, fear and shattered lives, which murder leaves in its wake. Murder Call combines mystery and suspense with humor, romance and a touch of the bizarre. Based on the works of author Jennifer Rowe.
Episode 16
43 mins
Murder Call centers on homicide detective, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Hyperactive and emotionally volatile, Tessa is an almost exact opposite of Steve, a laconic, casual-seeming man's man. Together this powerful team must overcome intrigue, fear and shattered lives, which murder leaves in its wake. Murder Call combines mystery and suspense with humor, romance and a touch of the bizarre. Based on the works of author Jennifer Rowe.
Episode 17
44 mins
Controversial artist Vincent Osborne exhibits his artwork "The Seven Deadly Sins" - body parts moulded in plaster - in the Nossiter Gallery. When a fellow artist, drunken painter France Garcia makes an emotional protest "art is dead", Osborne's central exhibit crashes to the floor and Osborne or at least, his severed head and hands, are discovered inside his own work of art.
Episode 18
43 mins
Tessa hasn't seen her high school friends in many years and attends a reunion. The last thing they did together was pose for a series of macabre photos, a representation of their deaths. Poppy plans to stage a recreation of her photograph, but her plan backfires and she is stabbed through the heart and left to die. Tessa helps the investigation, but Thorne takes her off the case.
Episode 19
44 mins
When medium and psychic, Quentin Warburton, is shot by a floating gun, Tessa and Steve are told by witnesses that the killer was Arthur Pitman. Unfortunately, Arthur has been dead for three years. In order to unravel the mystery surrounding Warburton's death, Tessa and Steve have to work out how Warburton convinced the Pitman family that Arthur returned in spirit to kill him.
Episode 20
43 mins
Murder Call centers on homicide detective, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Hyperactive and emotionally volatile, Tessa is an almost exact opposite of Steve, a laconic, casual-seeming man's man. Together this powerful team must overcome intrigue, fear and shattered lives, which murder leaves in its wake. Murder Call combines mystery and suspense with humor, romance and a touch of the bizarre. Based on the works of author Jennifer Rowe.