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Season 1 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 39
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

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Ryan (AU) Season 1 (1973-1974)

Ryan (AU) Liz 1x01 Liz
- Liz Mason believes she has murdered her lover. Ryan is hired - and sacked, but in between, he has followed a mystifying and violent trail that results in an attempt on his life ...
May. 25, 1973
Ryan (AU) This Little Piggy Went To Pieces 1x02 This Little Piggy Went To Pieces
- Ryan suspects that one of his best friends, a policeman, has murdered an informer. Ryan's investigations lead him through a macabre maze of sleazy strip joints and drug addicts ...
Jun. 03, 1973
Ryan (AU) Firing Squad 1x03 Firing Squad
- The Staphopoulos family, which owns and operates a foundry, is involved in a web of jealousy and hatred. Bitter conflict between father and son, rooted in the Greek civil war ...
Jun. 10, 1973
Ryan (AU) Nut File 1x04 Nut File
- When an attempt is made on Ryan's life, a woman and her child are accidentally shot down and killed. Ryan feels responsible and sets out on a personal vendetta to track down ...
Jun. 15, 1973
Ryan (AU) King's Bishop To Queen Three 1x05 King's Bishop To Queen Three
- A politician's wife is being blackmailed and an oil millionaire has the negatives of her in compromising situations with a group of bikies. Ryan does a little blackmailing of ...
Jul. 02, 1973
Ryan (AU) Catalyst 1x06 Catalyst
- The kidnapping of their young daughter causes Harry and Jean Thompson to seek help from Ryan. His investigations disclose a tense emotional situation in which the Thompson’s ...
Jul. 09, 1973
Ryan (AU) Death Watch 1x07 Death Watch
- Ryan is engaged to protect a wealthy industrialist named Bradley. Bradley, whose entire existence is dedicated to the acquisition of wealth is now living in constant fear of attacks ...
Jul. 16, 1973
Ryan (AU) Come The Liberation 1x08 Come The Liberation
- Ms. Terry Davis, a powerful figure in the American women's liberation movement, visits Australia. She hires Ryan to find her boyfriend's killer and to recover a sum of money ...
Jul. 23, 1973
Ryan (AU) The Messenger Birds 1x09 The Messenger Birds
- Ryan is hired to search for the missing daughter-in-law and grandson of an Italian businessman. He uncovers a massive vice racket and finds himself enmeshed in a web of murder, ...
Jul. 30, 1973
Ryan (AU) Tribe 1x10 Tribe
- Ryan is hired to trace a woman's husband, and to question him. When he triggers off a tragedy, he finds himself questioning his own lifestyle.
Aug. 06, 1973
Ryan (AU) The Girl With The Golden Slippers 1x11 The Girl With The Golden Slippers
- Ryan is hired, and captivated, by 10-year-old Maria Bitov who is worried because some men have been frightening her father. He is drawn into the nightmare world of Anton Bitov ...
Aug. 13, 1973
Ryan (AU) Miss Ogilvie Repents 1x12 Miss Ogilvie Repents
- A call girl is missing. Ryan is hired to find her and is plunged into the bewildering, violent and scandalous world of industrial espionage.
Aug. 20, 1973
Ryan (AU) Man With A Mission 1x13 Man With A Mission
- Ryan moves in two different worlds while investigating the death of an old friend. From the depths of derelict humanity, to the glitter of high society when a charity mission ...
Aug. 27, 1973
Ryan (AU) But When She Was Bad 1x14 But When She Was Bad
- John Mitchell, a cold-blooded ex-Army special operations officer, is hired by Major Wilson to search out and destroy the killer of the Major's young daughter, who died from an overdose ...
Sep. 03, 1973
Ryan (AU) Moon Monkey 1x15 Moon Monkey
- An ambitious politician hires Ryan to help him with an election campaign by exposing a racket to defraud migrants. Ryan thus becomes involved with a ruthless politician, his campaign ...
Sep. 10, 1973
Ryan (AU) Nobody's Perfect 1x16 Nobody's Perfect
- Drinking too much, gambling, faking bribes and thumping policemen won't solve anyone's problems. Or maybe it will, who knows? Ryan seems to know.
Sep. 17, 1973
Ryan (AU) Person Or Persons Unknown 1x17 Person Or Persons Unknown
- The murder of a young girl involves Ryan and Julie in a bewildering web of sexual intrigue. To cap it all Julie's life is also threatened.
Sep. 24, 1973
Ryan (AU) Fibber, The Dancing Galah 1x18 Fibber, The Dancing Galah
- Ryan investigates a daredevil hijacking from a semi-trailer, where thieves jump a truck and unload its cargo of cigarettes while the vehicle is on the move. The driver, an aging ...
Oct. 01, 1973
Ryan (AU) Hamlet's Horse 1x19 Hamlet's Horse
- Ryan is puzzled when an evening's quiet drinking is interrupted by Jana, a slightly crazy, beautiful girl who wants to know all about Adam Parker and won't believe that Ryan has ...
Oct. 08, 1973
Ryan (AU) Where Thunder Sleeps 1x20 Where Thunder Sleeps
- After Ryan is hospitalised following a car accident, Julie has to handle a case alone and becomes the victim of a terror campaign when weird events plague a remote country homestead. Notes: ...
Oct. 15, 1973
Ryan (AU) The Far Away Girl 1x21 The Far Away Girl
- There is a mystery surrounding the disappearance of Jacob Jones three years earlier involving drugs and double crosses. His daughter, a wistful young girl, Anastasia is kept heavily ...
Oct. 22, 1973
Ryan (AU) Hickory Dickory Dock 1x22 Hickory Dickory Dock
- Ryan investigates when Brennan says he is surrounded by conspirators bent on his destruction. Death could come from his jealous boardroom colleagues, his faithless wife or his ...
Oct. 29, 1973
Ryan (AU) Pipeline 1x23 Pipeline
- A man, who left his family for no apparent reason, disappears from a city hospital. Ryan finally tracks him down to the airport, where he has collapsed and died, apparently of ...
Nov. 05, 1973
Ryan (AU) Three-Legged Duck 1x24 Three-Legged Duck
- Danny Scott, the hot-tempered skipper of a fishing trawler, has disappeared overboard. Has he drowned, was he murdered as the grieving widow claims, or is Danny still alive? ...
Dec. 01, 1973
Ryan (AU) A Bag Full Of Miracles 1x25 A Bag Full Of Miracles
- A passover of drugs goes wrong and a migrant couple runs into a hundred thousand dollars worth of trouble. A team of high-powered international drug smugglers contend with the ...
Dec. 08, 1973
Ryan (AU) Giant, Giant Had A Great Fall 1x26 Giant, Giant Had A Great Fall
- A top gangster's daughter is kidnapped, apparently by his rival. Ryan races to find her before the situation explodes into a full scale gang war.
Dec. 21, 1973
Ryan (AU) Way Back 1x27 Way Back
- Marshall is a man with secrets that he's tried to keep for 13 years. Ryan's efforts to get at the truth are complicated by a nervous doctor, an alcoholic wife, a crooked lawyer, ...
Dec. 28, 1973
Ryan (AU) Negative Proof 1x28 Negative Proof
- A what appears to be a run of the mill blackmail case takes an unexpected turn. Ryan's career could be ruined because of this.
Dec. 05, 1974
Ryan (AU) A Little Something Special 1x29 A Little Something Special
- Ryan finds himself in a jumble of intrigue and doublecross in a case where nothing seems clear. Except that everyone seems to want 'the prize' and someone wants him dead.
Dec. 12, 1974
Ryan (AU) Red Alert 1x30 Red Alert
- Ryan is assigned as bodyguard to Conrad, a visiting foreign Trade Minister and Premier Elect, when it is learned that his life is threatened. This does not deter him from his ...
Feb. 02, 1974
Ryan (AU) A Deep, Dark Place 1x31 A Deep, Dark Place
- A rich young heiress is Ryan's latest client and she is in danger. He must protect her, from a girl called Misty, by solving a terrifying puzzle from the past.
Jan. 25, 1974
Ryan (AU) A Song For Julie 1x32 A Song For Julie
- Touring English pop singer Johnny Wyatt appears to be drunk on stage and cancels his appearance. Ryan, called in to investigate the possibility that Wyatt was drugged, discovers ...
Feb. 01, 1974
Ryan (AU) The Man In Room 16 1x33 The Man In Room 16
- David Sherman is critically injured in a racing car smash and doomed to exist as a vegetable in hospital. His wife suspects all is not as it seems to be and hires Ryan to hunt ...
Aug. 31, 1974
Ryan (AU) Give Them The World 1x34 Give Them The World
- A worldly young woman falls for Ryan. But she comes to doubt her own courage when she discovers his world of violence, corruption and treachery.
Mar. 19, 1974
Ryan (AU) Wild About Harry 1x35 Wild About Harry
- Ryan and a former police colleague become the victims of a conspiracy. Their attempts at proving their innocence seem only to make their guilt more apparent.
Mar. 09, 1974
Ryan (AU) King Hit 1x36 King Hit
- Ryan and Julie both assume fake identities in their efforts to uncover the dark implications behind the promotion of a new 'wonder drug'. Tony Angelini's mate Ned Robbins is ...
Apr. 02, 1973
Ryan (AU) Goodbye Holly Beckett 1x37 Goodbye Holly Beckett
- Holly Beckett is a gorgeous but endearing call girl. When one of her clients is bashed and robbed, she unwittingly becomes a key figure in the activities of a group of political ...
Sep. 28, 1974
Ryan (AU) There's Going To Be A War 1x38 There's Going To Be A War
- A reformed criminal who is an old friend of Ryan is apparently caught breaking into a factory and is shot dead by the security guard. Ryan stubbornly refuses to believe that ...
Apr. 16, 1974
Ryan (AU) A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Altar 1x39 A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Altar
- Ryan is drawn into the weird and savage rituals of a band of satanists. This has been caused by the bizarre death of an old friend, and an evil threat against a haunted, beautiful ...
Apr. 23, 1974
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Season 1 Characters

Michael Ryan played by Rod Mullinar
Julie King played by Pamela Stephenson
Tony Angelini played by Luigi Villani
Detective Cullen played by Colin McEwan
Detective Floyd played by Geoff O'Donnell
Sergeant Ken Wade played by Carl Bleazby
Jim played by Terry Gill
Joe played by Robert Essex
Betty played by Anne Phelan
The Detective played by Bill Bennett (II)
Gardener played by Harry Lister
Billy played by Hu Pryce
Doctor played by John Proper
Terri Davis played by Arna-Maria Winchester
Robert Price played by John Krummel
The Caretaker played by Peter Aanensen
Joe Martin played by John Gray (II)
Butler played by Michael Howley
Mr. Hedley played by Tom Lake
Johnny Quinn played by John Baker (IX)
The Doctor played by Peter Norton (II)
The Real Tom Jessup played by John Black
The Fake Tom Jessup played by Hu Pryce

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Season 1 Videos

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Season 1 Trivia

  • Episode 32 - The part of Johnny Wyatt had been specially written for John Farnham but, when he proved unavailable the role was recast

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