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Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney Harbour. Water Rats premiered on 12 February 1996, and ran for six seasons and 177 episodes. Colin Friels and Catherine McClements were the original stars of the series and were instrumental in the show's early success. They both departed the show in 1999. In later seasons, Steve Bisley, Aaron Pedersen and Dee Smart became the show's main stars. For the sixth and final season in 2001, the show concentrated more on the cops' personal lives rather than just focusing on the crimes committed. The Nine Network cancelled the show after six seasons. Executive Producer Kris Noble blamed escalating costs for the cancellation. However, Bisley and Smart had also just quit the show, and the series had already been suffering a ratings battle following the departure of Friels and McClements in 1999. The final episode was broadcast in Australia on 7 August 2001.
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Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney Harbour. Water Rats premiered on 12 February 1996, and ran for six seasons and 177 episodes. Colin Friels and Catherine McClements were the original stars of the series and were instrumental in the show's early success. They both departed the show in 1999. In later seasons, Steve Bisley, Aaron Pedersen and Dee Smart became the show's main stars. For the sixth and final season in 2001, the show concentrated more on the cops' personal lives rather than just focusing on the crimes committed. The Nine Network cancelled the show after six seasons. Executive Producer Kris Noble blamed escalating costs for the cancellation. However, Bisley and Smart had also just quit the show, and the series had already been suffering a ratings battle following the departure of Friels and McClements in 1999. The final episode was broadcast in Australia on 7 August 2001.
Television Series | 2001 | John
Most Outstanding Actress | 1998 | Catherine
Most Outstanding Actor | 1997 | Colin
Most Outstanding Actor in a Series | 2000 | Colin
Most Outstanding Actress in a Series | 2000 | Catherine
Most Popular Actor | 1998 | Colin
Most Outstanding Actor | 1998 | Colin
Most Popular Program | 1998
Most Popular Actress | 1998 | Catherine
Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama | 1999 | Catherine
Best Actress in a Leading Role in a TV Drama | 1996 | Catherine
While underwater filming usually takes place in special tanks, all the exteriors for the series were filmed in the port of Sydney and also off-shore.
Peter Phelps and Brett Partridge once entered an onion eating contest at the mallollabah tavhn. Phelps won the competition while Partridge came third.
The Water Police station shown in the series was a pre-existing office building on Goat Island in Sydney Harbour, which in reality is only accessible by boat. For convenience the production treats it as being on the mainland, with the fictional address (seen on Hawker's business cards in Water Rats: One Good Turn (2000)) of 48/50 Harbour Drive, Sydney Harbour, NSW 2000. Since there are no cars on the island, scenes purporting to be in the station's carpark were shot elsewhere; often at the Thames Street ferry wharf in Balmain.
On the first few episodes, real-life morgues were used as filming locations but later a new set was erected on Goat Island.
Water Rats' third season was originally planned to have 32 episodes but due to Colin Friels' struggle against pancreatic cancer only 31 were produced.
"Det. Sr. Constable Rachel 'Goldie' Goldstein: [after a night of heavy drinking] Hey would you drive today? Det. Sr. Constable Frank Holloway: Me? Drive?"
"Det. Sr. Constable Rachel 'Goldie' Goldstein: Did you know Helen was gay? Det. Sr. Constable Frank Holloway: Yeah, I thought everyone knew. Det. Sr. Constable Rachel 'Goldie' Goldstein: Oh."
