''Stock Squad'' is a 1985 Australian television film directed by Howard Rubie and starring

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. It focuses on the rural crime division.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p145

Premise

In the country town of Mirabee, huge quantities of grain go missing from a Government operated silo. The stock squad is called in to investigate.

Cast

as Ric Santana *

as Ken Ritchie *

as Caroline Marshall *

as McCabe *Michael O'Neill as Andy Marshall *

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as McIntyre *

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*Tony Blackett *Phillip Ross *Brendon Lunney *Su Cruickshank *Jim Holt

Reception

''The Age'' called it "a thriller that doesn't thrill... as flat as the wheat country landscape."

References

External links

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Stock Squad
at Screen Australia Australian television films 1988 television films 1988 films 1980s English-language films Films directed by Howard Rubie {{Australia-tv-film-stub