The Strip
Genre	Drama
Directed by	Shawn Seet Zayed Rizwan Ian Barry Garth Maxwell
Starring	Aaron Jeffery Simone McAullay Vanessa Gray Bob Morley Frankie J. Holden
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Jo Horsburgh
Producers	Steve Knapman Kris Wyld
Editors	Nicole LaMacchia Deborah Peart
Running time	43–44 minutes
Production company	Knapman-Wyld Productions
Original release
Network	Nine Network
Release	4 September (2008-09-04) – 27 November 2008 (2008-11-27)

The Strip is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series premiered on the Nine Network at 8:30pm on 4 September 2008 but was moved to a later 10:30pm timeslot from 13 November 2008.^[1] The show did not return for a second season, due to disappointing ratings.^[2]

Overview

The Strip is a police detective drama series that follows investigations into crimes on the Gold Coast, Queensland, colloquially referred to as "The Strip". Visually, the program took much inspiration from CSI: Miami and was filmed with images of sparkling surf, aerial shots of buildings and golden sands, as well as similar post production filters and colouring.^[3] It had a budget of A$7.8 million.^[2]

Cast

Main

• Aaron Jeffery (McLeod's Daughters) as Detective Jack Cross
• Vanessa Gray as Detective Frances "Frankie" Tully
• Simone McAullay (Blue Heelers) as Plain Clothes Constable Jessica McCay
• Bob Morley (Home and Away) as Plain Clothes Constable Tony Moretti
• Frankie J. Holden as Inspector Max Nelson

Guests

• Jay Laga'aia as Joe Tahoe / Frogman
• Martin Sacks as Keith Boswell
• Indiana Evans as China Williams
• Matthew Newton as Gregor Foxx
• Gillian Alexy as Cherry Cunningham
• Tahyna Tozzi as Cristal Cade
• Matt Boesenberg as Bernie Bedford
• Toby Truslove as Dayne Gibson^[4]
• Alyssa-Jane Cook as Sam Gleeson

Episodes

DVD releases

The Strip was released on DVD on 4 July 2009.