Rush (1974)
Rush was an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1974 and 1976. The first 13 episodes were produced in 1974 and filmed in black and white. In 1976, 13 more episodes were produced, in colour, in conjunction with French production company Antenne 2. Each series featured a different cast with the exception of John Waters.
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McKellar becomes personally involved when Tim Thomas leads the miners in direct action against the Great Eastern in support of a pay rise.
Three inexperienced bushrangers attempt to hijack a large gold nugget en route to Bathurst.
Sgt. McKellar is seriously injured when a bank robbery is attempted while Turon Springs is deserted due to surrounding bushfires.
McKellar is on the trail of an Aboriginal fugitive, who is feared to be a kadaitcha man by his tracker.
Sgt. McKellar and Supt. Kendall both become involved when a kleptomaniac comes to Turon Springs to visit his estranged wife.
In pursuit of the notorious bushranger Jack Jessop, Sgt. McKellar captures his girlfriend and shoots dead one of his brothers. Jessop seeks revenge, and McKellar faces a shootout in the main street of Turon Springs.
Sgt. McKellar and Supt. Kendall clash over Farrar's treatment of the Curran family who have settled on crown land he uses for sheep.
McKellar competes against Farrar in a horse race to win back money intended for a young orphan girl.
Farrar has a rival when the Chevalier de Vaucluse arrives in Turon Springs and sets up a major new mining venture, with many miners leaving the Great Eastern to work for the new concern.
Sgt. McKellar confronts Farrar over the mystery of a skeleton and a gold earring found by two miners in a bush grave on Great Eastern land.
A gypsy family is a convenient scapegoat when rioting miners seek vengeance on an unknown police informer.
Widow Melanie Parker owns five acres of land which Farrar desperately needs to appease his shareholders, so he hires security man Henry de Witt to apply pressure - but he goes too far, and kills her friend Billy Adams.
The O'Halloran brothers dig a well in a lore belonging to the Great Eastern Mining Company. Some company men intervene and a fight breaks out. Patsy O'Hollaran is killed...
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Rush was an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1974 and 1976. The first 13 episodes were produced in 1974 and filmed in black and white. In 1976, 13 more episodes were produced, in colour, in conjunction with French production company Antenne 2. Each series featured a different cast with the exception of John Waters.
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