Triple Nine
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Triple Nine (Chinese: 九九九行动) is an English language television drama telecast on what was then the Television Corporation of Singapore's Channel 5 (today's MediaCorp TV Channel 5) from 1995 to 1999. The station's earliest attempt in an action-based drama series, it revolved around the lives of a group of police officers, namely Inspector Mike Chin (James Lye), Inspector Elaine Tay (Wong Li Lin), and Sergeant Alan Leong (Lim Yu Beng) from the Special Investigation Section of the Criminal Investigation Department. The cast changed in subsequent seasons, notably with the inclusion of Inspector Sean Han (Robin Leong), Inspector Herbert de Souza (Mark Richmond), and Sergeant Yeo Lay Kim (Chong Chia Suan) from the third season, and Sergeant Sarah Chan (Annabelle Francis) from the 4th season. Season 2 was written by Amos Kwok.
The first season was also dubbed into Chinese and aired on Channel 8 in 1996.
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[edit] Episodes
[edit] Season 1
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- Silent Victims
- Missing Children
- Singthroat
- Movie Madness
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- Misfortune Teller
- A Long Wait, A Slow Kill
- Babies for Sale - Dead or Alive
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- Skin Deep
- Hell for Elaine
[edit] Season 2
- Rest in Peace ASP Ganesh
- Right Time to Die
- Tough Choices
- None so Blind
- Terminal Death
- A Time to Kill
- Acid Justice
- If Looks could Kill
- Backfire
- Till death do us part
- All I want for Christmas
- Resort to Murder
- Silent Witness
- Sins of the Father
- Crazy for You
- Recipe for Murder
- Surf for a Kill
- Death of a Lion
- Death before Dishonour
- It happened one hot day
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- Dead Man's Hand
[edit] Season 3 (Tuesday, 8.30 pm)
- (21 July 1998):
- Parental Guidance
- Stab in the Dark
- Face of Horror - Part 1
- Face of Horror - Part 2
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- Mind Games - Part 1
- Mind Games - Part 2
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- Unreasonable Sacrifices
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- Red Debts - Part 1
- Red Debts - Part 2
- With Friends Like These...
- ...Who Needs Enemies
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[edit] Season 4
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[edit] Trivia
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- The writers couldn't agree on a standard spelling of Elaine Tay's surname. Depending on which script it was, her surname was sometimes spelt "Tay" and sometimes "Teh".
- The highest rated episode was in Season 2. It was entitled "Resort to Murder". Written by Andy Logam-Tan, it featured the cast on the island of Batam with a story line that paid homage to the classic boardgame "Cluedo". In fact, the suspects were dressed in the colours of the game tokens and their names also reflected the token colours. The ratings for that episode achieved an unheard-of (for that time) 18% reach for Channel 5.
- Most of the scripts from Season 3 onwards were written with Scriptware, a scriptwriting software.
- Before Chong Chia Suan auditioned and won the role of Sgt Yeo Lay Kim, she was the weather girl on Channel 5 news. Other actresses who auditioned for the role of Sgt Yeo were Lisa Ang, Melody Chen and Tammy Wong.
- Mark Richmond's character, Herbert de Souza, originally had the nickname "Mouth" because he couldn't stop talking. His initial episodes were filled with diatribes and monologues which were eventually shortened.
- Lim Yu Beng and Loke Loo Pin were the only two cast members who stayed throughout all 4 seasons. James Nord Lim, who played forensic expert Charles Soo, also lasted throughout all 4 seasons, but he was killed off midway through season 4.
- When Wong Li-lin's character Elaine tay was killed off towards the end of season 3, a body double was used to portray her corpse, because Li-lin could not be reached to reprise her role.
- Season 4 was supposed to run for 26 episodes, but was shortened to 22 episodes instead due to conflicting schedules and a few other problems[citation needed].
