Wildside: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Nov 23, 1997 · 50 min
A ram-raid on a clothes store by a group of homeless teenagers results in a high-speed police chase. Two officers end up dead but the teenagers escape. When two of them seek help f
Episode 2
Nov 23, 1997 · 50 min
With the aid of Maxine, Bill McCoy continues to search for his missing son, only to find a second mutilated body. Bill shows a video Joe gave him to Maxine, Gerry and Vince. With a
Episode 3
Nov 24, 1997 · 50 min
Bill tracks Candy to a strip bar where she works as an exotic dancer. From here Bill's search will take on a new light. After endless searching, Bill McCoy finds what appears to be
Episode 4
Nov 24, 1997 · 50 min
Bill McCoy tries to help Joe turn his life around but his sudden disappearance pushes Bill to locate the man responsible for the young boys' murders before he claims another victim
Episode 5
Feb 4, 1998 · 50 min
While Bill wrestles with his doubts over Reilly who has been accused of corruption, Maxine deals with Ralph, an elderly man with Alzheimer's who shows up at the crisis centre not b
Episode 6
Feb 11, 1998 · 50 min
Maxine searches for Debbie, a prostitute working Canterbury Road. She's HIV positive and is possibly passing the infection on. Meanwhile, Bill faces his first day back on the polic
Episode 7
Feb 18, 1998 · 50 min
While partnered with Kim Devlin, Bill investigates the gang rape of a prostitute and discovers that one of the culprits may be the son of an MP who has been trying to rid the distr
Episode 8
Feb 25, 1998 · 50 min
When a single mother is brutally killed outside her home, McCoy has 48 hours to find her killer before having to turn the case over to Homicide. The woman's teenage son, a suspect
Episode 9
Mar 4, 1998 · 50 min
With his father after him to find a more lucrative job, Vince takes on the case of an illegal Iraqi refugee caught up in Bill's investigation of a stolen car racket. Vince fights a
Episode 10
Mar 11, 1998 · 50 min
Detectives McCoy and Devlin investigate the shooting of a robbery suspect by a young and inexperienced security guard. Maxine takes on the delicate case of an alleged sexual abuse
Episode 11
Mar 18, 1998 · 50 min
Maxine is called out to a Rave party to attend the drug overdose of a teenage school girl. Despite Maxine's efforts, she is unable to save the girl, and has to break the news to th
Episode 12
Mar 18, 1998 · 50 min
When a bikie gang war erupts in massacre, Bill McCoy is under pressure to make arrests and lay charges. On arrival at the scene it is discovered that one of the victims is Dean Tap
Episode 13
Mar 25, 1998 · 50 min
Maxine, recovering from her gunshot wound, is full with the love of life. She feels invincible, having escaped death, and is in the mood to take risks. So daring she manages to del
Episode 14
Apr 1, 1998 · 50 min
When a high-profile activist doctor is murdered in his home, Bill is not surprised when Virginia assigns him the investigation. However he is surprised when she tells him to take C
Episode 15
Apr 8, 1998 · 50 min
Bill and Charlie become involved in the investigation of a petrol station robbery where one of the victims turns out to be the son of a man Bill put away years before. The family b
Episode 16
Apr 15, 1998 · 50 min
Bill and Charlie pick up a young heroin addicted prostitute, Laurel Williams, at a Kings Cross porn shop owned by Half [ep 6 previously], Laurel's pimp. Laurel is an intelligent gi
Episode 17
Apr 22, 1998 · 50 min
Bill and Charlie investigate the horrific murder of a taxi driver. Maxine discovers the involvement in the murder of three street kids, Greg, Mitch and Mandy while overhearing thei
Episode 18
Apr 29, 1998 · 50 min
Bill and Charlie are called to the train station where they find seventeen-year-old Luke, naked and bound to a train carriage. Luke claims it was a buck's night prank, but Charlie
Episode 19
May 6, 1998 · 50 min
Maxine has taken her sister, Nina, under her wing to help sort out her domestic crisis, and Bill and Charlie wrestle with racial violence on a housing estate.
Episode 20
May 13, 1998 · 50 min
Maxine is convinced that her sister was murdered by her husband but Bill and Charlie play it by the evidence. Bill reluctantly agrees to wire Maxine up, to get the confession they
Episode 21
May 20, 1998 · 50 min
McCoy's plans to nail a Vietnamese drug importer are complicated when a crusading Chinese mayor is gunned down.
Episode 22
May 27, 1998 · 50 min
McCoy plays a waiting game using 80 million dollars worth of heroin as bait for "Mr. Big" while also continuing to look into the murders of Mayor Henry Li and Tran, a kid caught up
Episode 23
Jun 3, 1998 · 50 min
Bill and Deakin are searching for three escaped female prisoners, one of whom, Debbie, is a past client of the Centre. Debbie seeks Gerry's help to get money for a car and treatmen
Episode 24
Jun 10, 1998 · 50 min
Bill investigates a threat made against Carol Wilson, a State MP who has outrageous views on Aboriginals. He must offer her protection in the midst of an election rally in which sh
Episode 25
Jun 17, 1998 · 50 min
Four Tongans are shot dead in the 180 Club which is a known Islander hangout. McCoy and Deakin investigate the crime scene where they run into Charlie Coustas, who's working on att
Episode 26
Jun 24, 1998 · 50 min
In a story about need to belong, Joe, Bill's son, is out on the edge and alone — an addict, and Bill knows that the only person who can save him is his dad. That means getting Tony
Episode 27
Jul 1, 1998 · 50 min
Charlie finds himself faced with a conflict of interest when a childhood friend is charged with aggravated assault. Peter Simms, ex-con and junkie, violently bashes Sam Farmer, who
Episode 28
Jul 8, 1998 · 50 min
Virginia becomes involved in helping her lover, Alan Sharkey, when his house is shot at in a driveby. She discovers Sharkey was targeted by a crooked cop, Ron Anders because he kno
Episode 29
Jul 15, 1998 · 50 min
Charlie's gambling addiction leads him into the clutches of loan sharks and into temptation. Charlie can't lose, he's on a roll. So he borrows ten grand from loan sharks. And loses
Episode 30
Jul 22, 1998 · 50 min
Bill and Charlie investigate the murder of the publisher of a fashion magazine but Charlie is distracted by an attractive witness.
Episode 31
Jul 29, 1998 · 50 min
With Charlie still sin-binned to desk work, Deakin and Bill have teamed up. Bill and Deakin find themselves in the middle of a tow-truck war after attend a stabbing at a road accid
Episode 32
Aug 5, 1998 · 50 min
The evil crime of paedophilia rears its ugly head in a powerful and moving episode of Wildside. Bill and Charlie become involved in searching for a missing hearing impaired child —
Episode 33
Aug 12, 1998 · 50 min
Bill and Charlie are called to a domestic. Bill witnesses a father, Sean O'Connor, hit his son and gets emotionally involved to the point where he has a complaint laid against him
Episode 34
Aug 19, 1998 · 50 min
An aborigine is mistaken for a wanted man and shot during a police raid. McCoy is left to pick up the pieces. Vince's experience with Naomi, the victim's wife, allows him to discov
Episode 35
Aug 26, 1998 · 50 min
Charlie goes undercover in attempt to crack a drugs and extortion racket operated by a collusion of three people: a Greek Australian property developer — George Kasoulis, ex stand
Episode 36
Sep 2, 1998 · 50 min
Charlie finds himself under pressure on three fronts — his promotion, his relationship with Maxine and his deepening involvement with the criminals he is investigating.
Episode 37
Sep 9, 1998 · 50 min
McCoy takes on a new partner as he investigates a series of mutilation murders. Bill is quick to set his sights on a suspect but he is determined to prove the man's girlfriend was
Episode 38
Sep 16, 1998 · 50 min
After a murder at a male brothel, a colleague of McCoy's comes under suspicion.
Episode 39
Sep 23, 1998 · 50 min
McCoy and Charlie pursue an ex-cop they suspect of being a major cocaine importer. While dealing with the news of his ex-wife's death, McCoy is unaware his son has resurfaced at th
Episode 40
Sep 30, 1998 · 50 min
Bill is furious with Maxine for not telling him his son is back. Bill meets with Nick and discovers the truth about his reasons for returning. Bill is investigated by Internal Affa