Line #2 YMMV/BlueHeelers


1	* ArchivePanic: Feel like watching the whole series? The thirteen season, 510 episode strong show is currently on it's twelth volume of the DVD release (all seasons except the last had more than 40 episodes, and the DVD releases aren't based on their broadcast seasons). Eat your heart out [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy.]]
2	* ConsolationAward: John Wood was nominated for the Gold Logie every year from 1997 to 2007. He won in 2006, the year ''Blue Heelers'' was cancelled. He noted in an interview with ''Series/TheGlassHouse'' that he preferred his job to the award...so after ten years he finally brings home the bacon.
3	* GeniusBonus: When Joss becomes addicted to horse racing and subsequently loses all the money he had won, the horses in the race he listens to are all episode titles.
4	* GrowingTheBeard: The show picked up in quality and popularity in the second and third seasons. Arguably again in season 11, after the station bombing.
5	* HarsherInHindsight: In one episode Dash opens a suspicious box to find a bloody pigs head, and Nick rips her to shreds because it could have been a bomb. This episode was replayed on the day of the station bombing story arc, where Nick returned as a detective.
6	* MoralEventHorizon: Grandma Darcy trying to fight off Dash who had tried to find refuge for her and Kayla from Luke, while trying to let him in the house. Luke made no bones at the time of killing Kayla after stealing the benefit money raised for her (after Luke tried to kill her father) as well as raping and killing Dash.
7	** Luke himself when in his final appearance he rapes his own grandmother.
8	** Inspector Falcon Price gets one late in the series when after learning Tom had cancer surgery has him go out on patrol with Alex, knowing he hadn't recovered, then when Alex is stabbed tries fit Tom up for blame. When Amy works out what's going on Falcon Price threatens her with prison, until she counters having the matter investigated unless he drops his crusade against Tom.
9	* NightmareFuel: The previews for Child's Play warned that this was the most shocking episode the writers have ever done. They did not disappoint, with the real nightmare not being the rape and butchering of a teenage girl, but the suspects laughing and getting off on it.
10	* ReplacementScrappy: Tess Gallagher had a very huge pair of shoes to fill after Maggie, considered by many to be the most beloved character, was killed off. Rather than adapting to the country way of life she remained a city slicker rigid on rules and regulations. Despite getting better some fans stopped watching because she wasn't Maggie, and she was written out after four seasons.
11	* RetroactiveRecognition: Most of the main cast (John Wood, Damian Walshe-Howling, Ditch Davey, Jane Allsop, Martin Sacks) as well as some of the guest stars (Roy Billing, Frankie J Holden, Vince Colosimo, Gerard Kennedy, etc) would later appear in ''Series/{{Underbelly}}.'' Actress Caroline Craig, who was both the narrator and Detective Jacqui James, would maintain the role through much of the series.

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