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Cop Shop '' was an
Australia n 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 ''.
