Life in a suburban Australian police station.

Cop Shop takes us inside a suburban police station. It follows real people and real characters whose lives are entangled through their work. It is a story that uncovers the warmth and humour of its characters and the hopes and fears of their everyday lives. Cop Shop is also full of high action, adventure and gripping police drama.

Cop Shop was a long running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for eight seasons between November 1977 and July 1984. It comprised 582 one-hour episodes. The show revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station. It also took a significant interest in the private lives of the characters. Two one-hour episodes were broadcast each week and featured a specific police investigation and a 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.