Phoenix (TV series)

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The Phoenix television series is a thirteen-part Australian police drama recounting the investigation of the bombing of the state police headquarters, loosely based on a real case in the mid-1980s, the Russell Street Bombing. First screened in 1992, it was aided by extensive research into police techniques and was lauded as one of the most realistic depictions of police investigation techniques, including both surveillance and forensics, as well as having an involving storyline.

Notable for its dark visual tone and for its no-holds-barred attitude to violence and language (which was far, far earthier than supposedly dark police dramas from the United States at the time and since), the show spawned a second thirteen-part series, Phoenix II, in 1993 as well as a spinoff series, Janus, in 1994 devoted to the machinations of court cases.