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    The Australian Broadcasting Commission produced this mediocre and superficial police drama series about the Missing Persons Special Investigations Branch (M.P.S.I.B.).

    Husband and wife Barry Quin and Peta Toppano starred as Senior Constable Gary Manore and Constable Lisa Hesse alongside Michael Preston as Sergeant Noel Braden, the head of the department.

    Plots were unnecessarily convoluted, and potentially dramatic scenes dissolved into dreary melodrama with the squad’s investigations frequently taking on the tone of the Famous Five working out the clues to finding some missing treasure.

    Sgt. Noel Brandon
    Michael Preston
    Constable Lisa Hesse
    Peta Toppano
    Senior Constable Gary Manore
    Barry Quin

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