Water Rats

1996

drama television series

Creator

Tim Burstall

Network

Nine Network

Seasons

6

Episodes

177

Premiered

1996-02-12

Water Rats is an Australian drama series which follows the lives of a group of policemen and women patrolling Sydney harbour. Beneath its surface exists a playground for the murky underworld, a place of illicit rubbish dumps. pollution hazards, the remnants of huge drug hauls, and a graveyard of bodies from years of suicides, accidents and murders. That's the world of the Water Rats, and elite bunch of 70 brave men and women guarding the harbour against all the elements that threaten to foul the blue waters. With the breathtaking actions stunts, thrilling races against time, chases across both waves and wharves, intrigue mystery, triumphs, heartbreak, love, lust and laughter.