Episode list

Liz Mason believes she has murdered her lover. Ryan is hired - and sacked, but in between, he has followed a mystifying and violent trail that results in an attempt on his life and ends in his discovery of Liz's chilling secret.

Ryan suspects that one of his best friends, a policeman, has murdered an informer. Ryan's investigations lead him through a macabre maze of sleazy strip joints and drug addicts to the uncovering of a depraved racketeer.

The Staphopoulos family, which owns and operates a foundry, is involved in a web of jealousy and hatred.

When an attempt is made on Ryan's life, a woman and her child are accidentally shot down and killed. Ryan feels responsible and sets out on a personal vendetta to track down the killer.

A politician's wife is being blackmailed and an oil millionaire has the negatives of her in compromising situations with a group of bikers. Ryan does a little blackmailing of his own to get them back, but his troubles are only beginning.

The kidnapping of their young daughter causes Harry and Jean Thompson to seek help from Ryan, and his investigations disclose a tense emotional situation in which the Thompson's marriage is seen to fall apart under stress.

Ryan is engaged to protect a wealthy industrialist, Bradley, whose entire existence is dedicated to the acquisition of wealth, and who is living in constant fear of attacks on his life.

Ms. Terry Davis, a powerful figure in the American women's liberation movement, visits Australia. She hires Ryan to find her boyfriend's killer and to recover a sum of money she gave him to set up an Australian branch of her organization.

Signor Jaconelli arrives from Italy to be reunited with his daughter-in-law and grandson, but inexplicably they are not there to meet the ship. They are the subject of a police search, and Melina Jaconelli is suspected of murder.

Ryan is hired to trace a woman's missing husband, and he finds him at Warialda, an artists' colony, where creative people and reluctant husbands can get away from it all.

Ryan is hired, and captivated, by 10-year-old Maria Bitov who is worried because some men have been frightening her father.

Ryan is hired to find a missing call girl and is plunged into the bewildering, violent and scandalous world of industrial espionage.

Ryan moves in two different worlds while investigating the death of an old friend - from the depths of derelict humanity, to the glitter of high society when a charity mission is infiltrated by a con man.

John Mitchell, a cold-blooded ex-Army special operations officer, is hired by Major Wilson to search out and destroy the killer of the Major's young daughter, who died from an overdose of drugs.

Ryan becomes involved with a ruthless, ambitious politician, his campaign manager, and a Yugoslav migrant and his wife when the politician hires Ryan to help him with an election campaign by exposing a racket to defraud migrants.

Drinking too much, gambling, faking bribes and thumping policemen won't solve anyone's problems. Or maybe it will, who knows? Ryan seems to know.

The murder of a young girl involves Ryan and Julie in a bewildering web of sexual intrigue, and Julie's life is threatened.

Ryan investigates a daredevil hijacking from a semi-trailer, where thieves jump a truck and unload its cargo of cigarettes while the vehicle is on the move.

Ryan is puzzled when an evening's quiet drinking is interrupted by Jana, a slightly crazy, beautiful girl who wants to know all about Adam Parker and won't believe that Ryan has never heard of him.

After Ryan is hospitalized following a car accident, Julie has to handle a case alone and becomes the victim of a terror campaign when weird events plague a remote country homestead.

A wistful young girl, Anastasia Jones, kept heavily drugged by villains, almost has her mind destroyed when Ryan probes the events, the drugs and double crosses surrounding the mysterious disappearance of her father, Jacob, three years before.

Brennan is the president of a large shipping company. He believes that his young wife is unfaithful, that his son despises him, that his fellow directors are plotting against him, and that someone is following him and planning to kill him.

A man, who left his family for no apparent reason, disappears from a city hospital. Ryan finally tracks him down to the airport, where he has collapsed and died, apparently of a heart attack. Or did he?

Danny Scott, the hot-tempered skipper of a fishing trawler, has disappeared overboard. Has he drowned, or was he murdered as the grieving widow claims?

A pass over of drugs goes wrong and a migrant couple runs into a hundred thousand dollars worth of trouble, as a team of high-powered international drug smugglers contend with the Italian players, the law and Ryan.

A top gangster's daughter is kidnapped, apparently by his rival. Ryan races to find her before the situation explodes into a gang war.

Marshall is a man with secrets that he's tried to keep for 13 years. Ryan's efforts to get at the truth are complicated by a nervous doctor, an alcoholic wife, a crooked lawyer, a strange gunman and a sweet 18-year-old girl named Susan Morrison - who is the key to the biggest secret of all.

Ryan's career is almost ruined when a blackmail case takes an unexpected turn.

Ryan finds himself in a jumble of intrigue and double-cross in a case where nothing seems clear - except that everyone wants 'the prize', and someone wants him dead.

Ryan is assigned as bodyguard to Conrad, a visiting foreign Trade Minister and Premier Elect, when it is learned that his life is threatened.

For Ryan, solving a terrifying puzzle from the past is the only way he is able to protect his client, a rich young heiress, from a girl called Misty.

Touring English pop singer Johnny "Cyclone" Wyatt appears to be drunk on stage and cancels his appearance.

David Sherman is critically injured in a racing car smash and doomed to exist as a vegetable in hospital. His wife can't accept this, and hires Ryan to investigate the incident and find out the truth.

A worldly young woman falls for Ryan and doubts her own courage when she discovers his world of violence, corruption and treachery.

Ryan and a former police colleague become the victims of a conspiracy. Their attempts at proving their innocence seem only to make their guilt more apparent.

Ryan and Julie both assume fake identities in their efforts to uncover the dark implications behind the promotion of a new 'wonder drug'. Tony Angelini's mate Ned Robbins is beaten up by thugs, but is too frightened to give any details.

Holly Beckett is a gorgeous and endearing call girl. When one of her clients is bashed and robbed, she unwittingly becomes a key figure in the activities of a group of political fanatics - and the prime target for a brutal assassination.

A reformed crim - an old friend of Ryan - is caught breaking into a factory and is shot dead by the security guard.

The bizarre death of an old friend, and an evil threat against a haunted, beautiful girl, draws Ryan into the weird and savage rituals of a band of satanists.