| Genre: | Drama Medical drama Police drama |
| Starring: | Les Hill Libby Tanner Peter Phelps Daniel Amalm Gigi Edgley Andrew Lees Katherine Hicks |
| Opentheme: | "Get a Little Dirty" by The Ironweed Project |
| Endtheme: | "Get a Little Dirty" by The Ironweed Project |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 3 |
| Num Episodes: | 48 |
| Director: | Peter Andrikidis Geoff Bennett Ian Barry Garth Maxwell |
| Producer: | Julie McGauran Sarah Smith |
| Location: | New South Wales |
| Company: | Southern Star Entertainment |
| Runtime: | 42 minutes (without commercials) |
| Network: | Nine Network |
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.[1]
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.[2]
| Actor | Role | Eps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | 1 | ||
| Gilligan | 2 | ||
| Guy Hewitt | 1 | ||
| Brooke Henley | 1 | ||
| Reporter | 1 | ||
| Beth Robson | 1 | ||
| Claire Newell | 2 | ||
| Melissa Gardner | 1 | ||
| Tegan Reid | 1 | ||
| Zac Weston | 1 | ||
| Britney | 1 | ||
| Jim Jones | 1 | ||
| Stephanie Rouse | 1 | ||
| Sheree O'Brien | 1 | ||
| Motorcyclist | 1 | ||
| Jim Tucker | 1 | ||
| Nick | 1 | ||
| Jack Gardener | 1 | ||
| Trevor Slezack | 1 | ||
| Graham Starkey | 1 | ||
| Graham Cooper | 1 | ||
| Sidney 'Siddy' Carter | 1 | ||
| Journalist #2 | 1 | ||
| Ed Frazer | 2 | ||
| Nathan Pearl | 1 | ||
| Dorian Nkono | Bennet 'Bones' Bonham | 1 | |
| Arrow | 1 | ||
| Chelsea Clarke | 1 | ||
| Wendy Schmidt | 1 | ||
| Kate Marchello | 1 | ||
| Shona Lankford | 1 | ||
| Willo | 1 | ||
| Tamsyn Taylor | 1 | ||
| Yvette Turner | 1 | ||
| Lily Regan | 1 | ||
| Saxon Blake | 1 | ||
| Flynn | 1 | ||
| Caitlin Kelly | 1 | ||
| Bill | 1 | ||
| Attacker / Karl Stevenson | 1 | ||
| Blake Owens | 1 | ||
| Detective Brendan Lockyer | 1 | ||
| Greta | 1 | ||
| Pearl Francis | 1 | ||
| Katrina Whitney | 1 | ||
| Sam Marchello | 1 | ||
| Vivian Walker | 1 | ||
| Rick Jones | 2 | ||
| Gary | 1 | ||
| Anna Jacoby | 1 | ||
| Lisa Hartigan | 1 | ||
| Charles Howard | 1 | ||
| Will Pike | 1 | ||
| Leonie Carr | 1 | ||
| Glen Collins | 1 | ||
| Helen Hillerstrom | 1 | ||
| Jasmin | 1 | ||
| Steve | 1 | ||
| Chantelle Gregory | 2 | ||
| Amanda Jackson | 1 | ||
| Matty Conti | 1 | ||
| Marnie 'Silva' Silva | 1 | ||
| Annie Griffin | 1 | ||
| Prisoner #1 | 1 | ||
| Warren Thompson | 1 | ||
| Kendrick 'Kenny' Whaley | 1 | ||
| Leroy | 1 |
| 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 |
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| 2010 | 13 | Monday 8:30pm | 28 June | 20 September | 1,148,000 | 966,846 |
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| 2011 | 22 | Monday 8:30pm | 30 May[3] | 5 September | 919,000 | 772,545 |
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| Title | Original airdate | Timeslot | Viewers (millions) | Nightly rank | Weekly rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
| Title | Original airdate | Timeslot | Viewers (millions) | Nightly rank | Weekly rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Enemy Mine" | Monday - | 0.968[4] | 13[5] | 41 | ||
| 2 | "A Day in the Death of Dean Gallagher" | Monday - | 1.085[6] | 8[7] | 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 | ||||
| Title | Original airdate | Timeslot | Viewers (millions) | Nightly rank | Weekly rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Ambushed" | Monday - | 0.805[8] | 17[9] | 47 | ||
| 2 | "Fearless" | Monday - | 0.667 | 17 | 65 | ||
| 3 | "True Romance" | Monday - | 0.744[10] | 15[11] | 52 | ||
| 4 | "Secrets and Lies" | Monday - | 0.726 | 17 | 54 | ||
| 5 | "Him or Me" | Monday - | 0.673[12] | 21[13] | 61 | ||
| 6 | "Demon Days" | Monday - | 0.598 | 26 | 82 | ||
| 7 | "Man in the Machine" | Monday - | 0.680[14] | 19[15] | 60 | ||
| 8 | "The Game" | Monday - | 0.666 | 20 | 64 | ||
| 9 | "It's Not The Fall That Kills You" | Monday - | 0.835[16] | 13[17] | 40 | ||
| 10 | "Stolen" | Monday - | 0.891[18] | 12[19] | 38 | ||
| 11 | "In Deep" | Monday - | 0.830 | 14 | 45 | ||
| 12 | "Break Out" | Monday - | 0.876[20] | 13[21] | 36 | ||
| 13 | "The Dunes" | Monday - | 0.919[22] | 10[23] | 35 | ||
| 14 | "Chemical Brothers" | Monday - | 0.817[24] | 15[25] | 51 | ||
| 15 | "The Carter Redemption" | Monday - | 0.789 | 16 | 53 | ||
| 16 | "Storm Chaser" | Monday - | 0.800[26] | 13[27] | 45 | ||
| 17 | "Art Attack" | Monday - | 0.755[28] | 12[29] | 54 | ||
| 18 | "Missing Pieces" | Monday - | 0.864[30] | 11[31] | 39 | ||
| 19 | "Class of Their Own" | Monday - | 0.820[32] | 10[33] | 39 | ||
| 20 | "The Intervention" | Monday - | 0.729[34] | 15[35] | 47 | ||
| 21 | "Bad Company" | Monday - | 0.681 | 15 | 54 | ||
| 22 | "Two Fires" | Monday - | 0.831[36] | 11[37] | 37 | ||
| Series average | 0.773 | 15 | 50 | ||||
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[38] | Behind The Scenes (Series 01) | Via Vision Entertainment |