Wildside 1998

[Harcourt Ordonez]

Wildsideis an Australian crime drama television series broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1997 to 1999. It was created by director Michael Jenkins and producer Ben Gannon.

The show stars Tony Martin as Bill McCoy, a former detective who comes to Sydney looking for his missing son. Unlike other police procedurals, it also follows the staff of a crisis centre, run by Dr. Maxine Summers (Rachael Blake), in the gritty, red-light district of the city.

The series was filmed in Darlinghurst, Sydney and was characterised by its use of ad lib dialogue and hand held camera work. The show was critically acclaimed, winning several Logie Awards, including Most Outstanding Miniseries Logie in 1998, and Silver Logies for outstanding work by Tony Martin and Rachael Blake in 1999, as well as several Australian Film Institute Awards.[citation needed]

Wildside was created by Michael Jenkins and Ben Gannon and originally produced as a miniseries. It was first broadcast on November 23, 1997 and November 24, 1997. A further 36 episodes were broadcast between February and September 1998. After the first series, Jessica Napier was written off the show, with the writers admitting they found it difficult to find storylines for her character.[4]

The style of production was very similar to Jenkins' earlier series Scales of Justice and Blue Murder, particularly the "observational" use of multiple hand-held cameras and the density of semi-improvised dialogue.[6] Many of the cast had previously worked with Jenkins and Gannon in Blue Murder and Heartbreak High, including regulars Tony Martin, Alex Dimitriades and Abi Tucker, and guest stars Hugh Baldwin, Scott Major, Mario Gamma, Jon Pollard, Sebastian Goldspink, Doris Younane, Emma Roche, Salvatore Coco, Tara Jakszewicz, Inge Hornstra, Diane Craig, Vince Poletto, Tai Nguyen and Nina Liu. Nico Lathouris acts as the show's dramaturg and acting coach, continuing his long collaboration with Jenkins and Gannon.

Several episodes of the show were based on real life crimes and events, which led to some controversy. The thirteenth episode of the first series, which aired on April 22, 1998 and involved the stabbing of a cab driver, did not initially air in New South Wales, due to a court case that was proceeding at the time. Another episode, which aired on May 6, 1998, was based on a real life incident in which a Muslim boy was run down by a car. It aired with a disclaimer: "The story of the injured boy depicted in the following episode of Wildside is inspired by real events. However, the action of some characters has been significantly altered for dramatic purposes."

An episode which featured a far right female politician resembling Pauline Hanson was pulled by ABC in June 1998, claiming it was "inappropriate" to air on the eve of the Queensland election.[7] Aaron Pederson quit the show in protest, before being convinced to return by the show's producers.[8] The episode aired the following week.

Ex-cop Bill McCoy, arrives at a Sydney crisis centre from Kuala Lumpur, looking for his son Nick who has vanished. He begins uncovering a ring of pedophiles connected with the rape and murder of a young boy.

With the aid of Maxine, the doctor at the crisis centre, Bill McCoy continues to search for his missing son, only to find a second mutilated body. He eventually uncovers a tape with his son, and Candy, a prostitute.

When a bikie gang war erupts in massacre, Bill McCoy is under pressure to make arrests and lay charges. Kim feels betrayed at being shut out as she finds herself the subject of an Internal Affairs investigation.

Maxine finds herself in the middle of a violent dispute between the young mother's boyfriend and father. With the assistance of Charlie Coustos, Bill investigates the murder of a prominent asian gang member following a night in a backroom casino in Chinatown.

McCoy plays a waiting game using millions of dollars worth of heroin as bait, while also continuing to look into the murders of Mayor Henry Li and Tran, a kid caught up in the gangster world of Asian drug importations.

Cultural tension between gangs in an inner city high school reaches a boiling point when Bing Ling, a member of the Asian gang, is killed. While trying to uncover who was responsible, Simone's teacher Aiden becomes a suspect.

The BMSB first turned up on this continent in Allentown, Pa., in either 1996 or 1998 (sources differ). It probably arrived in a shipment of goods from China or Japan. Within a few years, it had expanded into much of the mid-Atlantic region, earning a reputation for damaging crops, and by 2005, it had reached southern New England. A separate series of introductions around 2000 established the species on parts of the West Coast.

Fortunately for us, the vigor of this species seems to decline with increasing latitude, and in Massachusetts, it has not yet achieved an abundance that makes it either economically harmful or much of a nuisance. But in the Mid-Atlantic states, the bug is a serious problem, and in the context of climate change, it is likely to be a blight on the Bay State in the not so distant future.

Given the flow of vehicles and goods between the mainland and the Vineyard, the arrival of the BMSB was inevitable, and the one I found was surely not the first to make it here. Biologists are working on various approaches to controlling this species, including possible future releases of parasitic wasps that lethally infect BMSBs.

October 7, 1998

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