HOMICIDE –FLASHPOINT - 1966
This is episode 57 of the top-notch Australian Police series, HOMICIDE. This series ran 510 episodes between 1964 and 1977. It follows the Homicide squad of the Melbourne Police Force.
This episode starts with the murder of a Government Forest Warder out on fire patrol. The warder came up on a drunk, Norman Yemm, who was brewing up some tea. Yemm refuses to put out the fire and tells the Warder that a fire ban means nothing to him. This leads to a fight and Yemm brains the man with a hefty piece of wood. He then grabs up his gear and hotfoots down the track.
Yemm stops at a small service station and café where he knows the owner. The woman, Leila Blake, and her daughter, Christy Child, hire Yemm to help around the station.
By this time, the body of the Forest Warder has been found and the Police called. Detectives, Terry McDermott and Leonard Teale are assigned the case. They soon have Yemm as the main suspect and start a tour of the local farms etc. looking for the man.
Yemm, again grabs up his gear and a .22 rifle, then, beats it into the woods to hide. The Police are not far behind and it soon becomes a cat and mouse game, as Yemm attempts to escape into the backwoods hill country.
The chase ends with Yemm taking a fall down a large hill and breaking his back. The Police call in a copter and whisk him to the emergency ward.
This was one of the first episodes where all the action takes place outside of the city of Melbourne.
Norman Yemm would later join the series as a Detective, and appear in 130 episodes.
This is episode 57 of the top-notch Australian Police series, HOMICIDE. This series ran 510 episodes between 1964 and 1977. It follows the Homicide squad of the Melbourne Police Force.
This episode starts with the murder of a Government Forest Warder out on fire patrol. The warder came up on a drunk, Norman Yemm, who was brewing up some tea. Yemm refuses to put out the fire and tells the Warder that a fire ban means nothing to him. This leads to a fight and Yemm brains the man with a hefty piece of wood. He then grabs up his gear and hotfoots down the track.
Yemm stops at a small service station and café where he knows the owner. The woman, Leila Blake, and her daughter, Christy Child, hire Yemm to help around the station.
By this time, the body of the Forest Warder has been found and the Police called. Detectives, Terry McDermott and Leonard Teale are assigned the case. They soon have Yemm as the main suspect and start a tour of the local farms etc. looking for the man.
Yemm, again grabs up his gear and a .22 rifle, then, beats it into the woods to hide. The Police are not far behind and it soon becomes a cat and mouse game, as Yemm attempts to escape into the backwoods hill country.
The chase ends with Yemm taking a fall down a large hill and breaking his back. The Police call in a copter and whisk him to the emergency ward.
This was one of the first episodes where all the action takes place outside of the city of Melbourne.
Norman Yemm would later join the series as a Detective, and appear in 130 episodes.
