Cop Shop

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Cop Shop
Genre	Drama
Running time	approx. 0:55
Starring	Peter Adams Terry Norris Paula Duncan Lynda Stoner John Orcsik Gil Tucker George Mallaby Rowena Wallace Joanna Lockwood
Country of origin	Australia
Original channel	Seven Network
Original run	1977–1984
No. of episodes	582
IMDb profile

Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station.

Two one-hour episodes were broadcast each week. The two episodes of each week featured a specific police investigation and guest cast whose stories formed a self-contained narrative block. Alongside this the ongoing narratives of the regular characters continued in longer, more open-ended soap opera-style story threads. This same soap opera-drama series hybrid format would also later be used in series Skyways, A Country Practice and Carson's Law.