Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program is produced by Southern Star Group with the assistance of Screen Australia and the New South Wales Government.
The series focuses on a team of experienced professional paramedics who specialise in rescue operations. It premiered on Sunday 2 August 2009, and the season finale of the first season aired on Sunday 25 October. A second season screened from 28 June 2010. The third and final season consisting of 22 episodes screened from 30 May 2011. The Nine Network has confirmed it will not be renewing Rescue: Special Ops for a fourth season.
Synopsis Rescue: Special Ops follows the work of a team of experienced paramedics involved in complex search and rescue operations.
The job brings them face to face with life and death situations every day but just like anyone else, they juggle life, love and career. Brothers Dean Gallagher and Chase Gallagher are competitive alpha males who are part of the Special Ops team.Rescue Special Ops :: Cast
Cast
Regular Libby Tanner as Michelle LeTourneau (Station Manager) Peter Phelps as Vince Marchello (Station Coordinator) Les Hill as Dean Gallagher (Unit Leader) Gigi Edgley as Lara Knight (Unit Officer) Daniel Amalm as Jordan Zwitkowski (Unit Officer) Katherine Hicks as Heidi Wilson (Unit Officer) Andrew Lees as Chase Gallagher (Unit Officer) Luke McKenzie as Lachie Gallagher (Unit Officer) (Season 3)
Recurring Annabelle Stephenson as Freya Morley (Season 3, 3 episodes) Craig McLachlan as Hayden Bradley (Season 3, 6 episodes) Gary Sweet as Shane Gallagher (Season 1, 5 episodes) Georgina Haig as Emma Griffiths (Season 2, 3 episodes) Jessica Napier as Nicole (Season 1, 4 episodes) Luke Pegler as Gary 'Bingo' Bing (Season 2, 4 episodes) Madeleine West as Annika Ehrenberg (Season 2, 4 episodes) Martin Dingle-Wall as Jake Hudson (Season 1, 4 episodes) Myles Pollard as Steve 'Mack' McIntyre (Season 2, 4 episodes) Petra Yared as Zoe Hulme (Season 3, 5 episodes) Peter Overton as News Reporter (Seasons 1–3, 6 episodes) Simmone Jade Mackinnon as Fiona Charlton (Season 1, 5 episodes) Tim McCunn as Det. Ian Johnson (Seasons 1–3, 19 episodes) Todd Lasance as Cam (Season 3, 8 episodes) Vanessa Gray as Renae Daltry (Season 2, 4 episodes) Wil Traval as Hamish McIntyre (Seasons 1–3, 9 episodes)
Guests Actor Role Eps Abe Forsythe Brandon 1 Adam Demos Gilligan 2 Alex Dimitriades Guy Hewitt 1 Alin Sumarwata Brooke Henley 1 Alison Langdon Reporter 1 Alyssa McClelland Beth Robson 1 Amy Mathews Claire Newell 2 Anita Hegh Melissa Gardner 1 Anna McGahan Tegan Reid 1 Anthony Hayes Zac Weston 1 Ashleigh Cummings Britney 1 Brian Rooney Jim Jones 1 Bridie Carter Stephanie Rouse 1 Caroline Craig Sheree O'Brien 1 Christian Clark Best Man (Jason) 1 Clayton D. Moss Motorcyclist 1 Damian de Montemas Jim Tucker 1 Damian Walshe-Howling Nick 1 Dan Ewing Jack Gardener 1 Daniel Henshall Trevor Slezack 1 Danny Adcock Graham Starkey 1 Danny Roberts Graham Cooper 1 David Field Sidney 'Siddy' Carter 1 David Harris Journalist #2 1 David Roberts Ed Frazer 2 Dieter Brummer Nathan Pearl 1 Dorian Nkono Bennet 'Bones' Bonham 1 Eamon Farren Arrow 1 Emma Lung Chelsea Clarke 1 Felicity Price Wendy Schmidt 1 Gabrielle Scollay Kate Marchello 1 Geraldine Hakewill Shona Lankford 1 Grant Dodwell Lance Foster 1 Gyton Grantley Willo 1 Hanna Mangan-Lawrence Tamsyn Taylor 1 Helen Dallimore Yvette Turner 1 Isabelle Cornish Lily Regan 1 James Mackay Saxon Blake 1 Jeremy Lindsay Taylor Flynn 1 Jessica Tovey Caitlin Kelly 1 John McNeill Bill 1 Jonny Pasvolsky Attacker / Karl Stevenson 1 Josef Ber Blake Owens 1 Kieran Darcy-Smith Detective Brendan Lockyer 1 Krew Boylan Greta 1 Kyly Clarke Pearl Francis 1 Laura Brent Katrina Whitney 1 Lincoln Lewis Sam Marchello 1 Lisa Chappell Vivian Walker 1 Luke Arnold Rick Jones 2 Luke McKenzie Gary 1 Mandy Bishop Anna Jacoby 1 Marta Dusseldorp Lisa Hartigan 1 Martin Sacks Charles Howard 1 Matt Levett Luke Mortley 1 Michael Dorman Will Pike 1 Mouche Phillips Leonie Carr 1 Paul Tassone Glen Collins 1 Raelee Hill Helen Hillerstrom 1 Rhonda Doyle Madam 1 Ria Vandervis Jasmin 1 Richard Huggett Steve 1 Roxane Wilson Chantelle Gregory 2 Sacha Horler Amanda Jackson 1 Salvatore Coco Matty Conti 1 Sarah Aubrey Marnie 'Silva' Silva 1 Saskia Burmeister Annie Griffin 1 Scott Johnson Brad Golen 1 Shareena Clanton Prisoner #1 1 Simon Burke Warren Thompson 1 Stephen Hunter Kendrick 'Kenny' Whaley 1 Zac Drayson Leroy 1
Reception Season Episodes Series Timeslot Series Premiere Series Final Peak Audience Average Audience Average Nightly Rank Average Weekly Rank 2009 13 Sunday 8:30pm 2 August 25 October 1,227,000 1,005,000 #10 #40 2010 13 Monday 8:30pm 28 June 20 September 1,148,000 966,846 #13 #42 2011 22 Monday 8:30pm 30 May 5 September 919,000 772,545 #15 #50
Season one # Title Original airdate Timeslot Viewers(millions) Nightlyrank Weeklyrank 1 "Blue Mountains" Sunday – 1.142 8 25 2 "Thrillseekers" Sunday – 1.155 7 32 3 "Fire in the Cross" Sunday – 1.227 7 24 4 "Deathbed Confessional" Sunday – 0.877 12 56 5 "Ferry Disaster" Sunday – 0.916 12 51 6 "Building Site Conspiracy" Sunday – 0.915 10 50 7 "Luna Park" Sunday – 0.998 11 43 8 "ATM Bandits" Sunday – 0.903 12 57 9 "Rave" Sunday – 0.942 12 45 10 "Eco-warriors" Sunday – 0.879 10 11 "Bride in the Balloon" Sunday – 1.027 11 43 12 "Episode Twelve" Sunday – 1.021 11 40 13 "Episode Thirteen" Sunday – 1.058 7 36 Series average 1.005 10 40
Season two # Title Original airdate Timeslot Viewers(millions) Nightlyrank Weeklyrank 1 "Enemy Mine" Monday – 0.968 13 41 2 "A Day in the Death of Dean Gallagher" Monday – 1.085 8 27 3 "Locked In" Monday – 1.148 7 21 4 "Jordan's Choice" Monday – 0.910 18 40 5 "Shock Jock" Monday – 1.017 14 43 6 "Thicker than Water" Monday – 0.988 13 41 7 "Find My Baby" Monday – 1.057 8 32 8 "Street Legal" Monday – 0.977 11 41 9 "Out of the Ashes" Monday – 0.942 18 52 10 "Rock Stars" Monday – 0.833 19 63 11 "Off The Rails" Monday – 0.848 17 52 12 "One for the Money" Monday – 0.850 16 56 13 "Crazy Love" Monday – 0.946 Series average 0.967 13 42
Season three # Title Original airdate Timeslot Viewers(millions) Nightlyrank Weeklyrank 1 "Ambushed" Monday – 0.805 17 47 2 "Fearless" Monday – 0.667 17 65 3 "True Romance" Monday – 0.744 15 52 4 "Secrets and Lies" Monday – 0.726 17 54 5 "Him or Me" Monday – 0.673 21 61 6 "Demon Days" Monday – 0.598 26 82 7 "Man in the Machine" Monday – 0.680 19 60 8 "The Game" Monday – 0.666 20 64 9 "It's Not The Fall That Kills You" Monday – 0.835 13 40 10 "Stolen" Monday – 0.891 12 38 11 "In Deep" Monday – 0.830 14 45 12 "Break Out" Monday – 0.876 13 36 13 "The Dunes" Monday – 0.919 10 35 14 "Chemical Brothers" Monday – 0.817 15 51 15 "The Carter Redemption" Monday – 0.789 16 53 16 "Storm Chaser" Monday – 0.800 13 45 17 "Art Attack" Monday – 0.755 12 54 18 "Missing Pieces" Monday – 0.864 11 39 19 "Class of Their Own" Monday – 0.820 10 39 20 "The Intervention" Monday – 0.729 15 47 21 "Bad Company" Monday – 0.681 15 54 22 "Two Fires" Monday – 0.831 11 37 Series average 0.773 15 50
Note: Nightly rank for episodes 1 and 2, and 20 and 21 are combined.
Home media The Universal Studios DVD Releases of Rescue Special Ops are now out of print and no longer available. Via Vision Entertainment/Madman Entertainment will release "Rescue Special Ops: The Complete Collection" on 26 August 2020.
DVD name Format Ep # Discs/Tapes Region 4 (Australia) Special features Distributors Rescue Special Ops (Season One) DVD 13 4 29 September 2010 Behind The Scenes Universal Studios Rescue Special Ops (Season Two) DVD 13 4 2 March 2011 None Universal Studios Rescue Special Ops (Season Three) DVD 22 6 8 December 2011 None Universal Studios Rescue Special Ops (The Complete Collection) DVD 48 14 11 April 2012 None Universal Studios Rescue Special Ops (The Complete Collection) DVD 48 14 26 August 2020 Behind The Scenes (Series 01) Via Vision Entertainment
See also List of Australian television series
Notes
References
External links Rescue: Special Ops at the Australian Television Information Archive
Nine Network – Cast of Rescue: Special Ops