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The cases and crimes actioned by the Victoria (Australia) homicide squad, with many cases based of true events.

Hosted by Mary Hardy and Mike Williamson, Penthouse Club was a mix of comedy, light entertainment and live coverage of harness racing from the RAS Showgrounds and, later, Moonee Valley racecourse, as well as the Tattslotto draw. Screening on Channel Seven Melbourne (HSV7) from 1970 to 1978, the live-to-air variety show was considered a welcome alternative on Saturday nights which is often regarded as a wasteland of reruns and low-grade movies on other channels.

Processed film from a home movie camera provides the only clue when a young girl is murdered after touring Victoria.

Shy teenager Elly Goss disappears while on her way to her first party. Detectives fear foul play and question two layabout brothers, Arnie and Joe Watson, who were seen with the girl that evening. Involved in the investigation is Gordon Allen, whose marriage is on the rocks because he treats his wife Nola more like his mother, and Nola is embittered because of it.

Criminal Ern Fuller is killed by a shotgun as he walks down along with his defacto, Elsie. Investigating his death, detectives question Elsie about her former husband believed to be killed in a car crash in Britain. They have reason to suspect that he could be still alive.

Homicide detectives come up against some startling attitudes when a homosexual is bashed and killed. The victim's lover becomes a suspect when they find incriminating letters written to the dead man.

The young leader of a street gang pretends to buy a gun from a sports store proprietor, then uses it to shoot him in cold-blood. After a series of armed robberies occur, police suspect the same youth is responsible.

The attractive wife of a business executive is reported missing, and her body is discovered some time later. An abandoned car provides vital clues.

An old couple who run a milk bar in an inner suburb are found brutally murdered. A young man is charged, but some doubts about his guilt still complicate the issue, which brings Det. Sgt. Bronson and Inspector Connolly into conflict.

Lew Hoskin is shot at and wounded while hunting kangaroos. Although Homicide detectives suspect attempted murder, Hoskin insists it was accidental.

After receiving anonymous letters threatening to kill her, Muriel Lumsden, an efficient shopkeeper, is shot. Homicide detectives find their task a difficult one when they discover she has many enemies due to her greater love of money than people.

The cruel deaths of three young children in Heathmont lead police to a man who can't help but kill children when he drinks.

Two men fight on a river bridge. One loses his life, the second vanishes, and the Homicide team set out to trace a man of whom they know practically nothing, except that he is tall and casts a long shadow.

A small boy sees blonde Trudy Gardner threatened with a gun, but when police arrive her flat is empty - though there is every sign she has been murdered.

When small time criminal Johnny Doyle is stabbed to death, his 'big time' brother Bert takes the law into his own hands. Detectives race against time to save the lives of a mother and her teenage daughter.

When elderly Mrs. Perry is asked to sell her property to further housing development, she refuses the offer. Soon after she discoverers the body of her husband in the garden.

A number of drunks have been allegedly assaulted by policemen, and Const. Allan Larkin comes under investigation by Homicide detectives.

Kate Steele is shot dead on the deck of a cabin cruiser on the bay, and her body is removed by the killer. Her husband, reporting her disappearance to the police, becomes the main suspect when police learn he had taken out a life insurance policy on his wife.

Kevin Jones is murdered on the Mornington Peninsula. Bronson and Mackay are sent there to investigate the crime. They have three suspects, and while they are there investigating, another murder takes place.

A racehorse is doped and the main suspect is a man with a scar, Dodger Mullins. When someone takes a shot at Mullins, the Homicide team have a case of attempted murder on their hands.

Julie Edwards and her husband Grant are known as a happy, loving couple. But when Julie is shot while sketching in a cemetery, detectives uncover facts which make them doubt this description.

William 'Bull' Madigan, the hated boss of a sawmill in a small company town, is shot dead and the local people are reluctant to give any information. The case ends tragically when Det. Costello is killed in a mine cave-in while trying to rescue a suspect.