The Link Men

1970 Australian television series

The Link Men
Created by	Glyn Davies
Starring	Bruce Montague Tristan Rogers Kevin Miles Max Meldrum
Country of origin	Australia
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer	George Spenton-Foster
Production company	Nine Network
Original release
Release	14 January (1970-01-14) – 7 April 1970 (1970-04-07)

The Link Men was an Australian television series shown in 1970.

Synopsis

The series was the first drama series made in-house by the Nine Network as part of an attempt to rival the cop shows produced by Crawford Productions such as Homicide and Division 4. The Link Men starred Kevin Miles, Bruce Montague and Tristan Rogers as three detectives working in the city of Sydney. The series was devised and produced by Glyn Davies who had created The Rat Catchers for ITV (Associated-Rediffusion Television). The director (for the pilot episode and for many of the rest of the series) was Australian film director Jonathan Dawson.

Cast

Main/recurring

Bruce Montague as Detective Sergeant Harry Sutton
Tristan Rogers as Detective Constable Ray Gamble
Kevin Miles as Detective Sergeant John Randall
Max Meldrum as Detective Russell
John Meillon as Bert Whitman
Frankie Davidson as Frank
Peter Whitford as Seaman
Diana Perryman
Lionel Long

Guests

Jeanie Drynan aa Margherita Costello (1 episode)
Max Cullen as Mario Costello (1 episode)
Carmen Duncan as Carol Crane (1 episode)
Peter Sumner (1 episode)
Sandy Gore as Dale (1 episode)
Pat Bishop (1 episode)
John Fegan (1 episode)
James Condon (1 episode)
Lois Ramsey as Mother (2 episodes)
Maggie Dence as Edi Whitman (1 episode)
Lorraine Bayly (1 episode)
Alastair Duncan
Elke Neidhardt
Enid Lorimer

Production

The show lasted for thirteen episodes. The aforementioned Tristan Rogers would go on to greater fame on the American daytime serial General Hospital, where he has appeared as Robert Scorpio off and on since 1980.