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The honourable Mr Barry Crockerรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs new show debuts on the ABC network.
11 Oct 2012

Barry has a lead role in โ€œThe Strange Callsโ€. The new comedy series is on ABC2, The Strange Calls, which began as a short film by Daley Pearson and Luke Tierney. It features none other than Barry Crocker (Housos, Swift and Shift Couriers, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie) as a night security man for a beachside town where weird things happen after dark. He is joined by Toby Truslove as a local cop. Viewers can also interact live on twitter with Crockerโ€™s character โ€˜Gregorโ€™ during the broadcast as he responds to the strange calls @thestrangecalls.

 

The show is about an ordinary Australian town โ€ฆ until the sun goes down. Meet Gregor (Barry Crocker), the townโ€™s wild-eyed gatekeeper who has an encyclopedic knowledge of Coolum and its residents, and a love of vintage board games and 90s TV. His unwitting partner is Constable Toby Banks (Toby Truslove), a recently disgraced city cop, who arrives in town to begin his new role on the night duty desk situated in a derelict old caravan, on the outskirts of Coolum. Banks is a rational sceptic while Gregor is a โ€˜Believerโ€™. Weird things happen in this slice of paradise and the locals keep calling late into the night. This odd couple set out to investigate โ€˜the strange callsโ€™, moments of midnight madness that reveal the bizarre truth of the town โ€“ a place where mermaids date policemen and a mysterious radio jingle will possess your soul.

 

In episode one, thereโ€™s a break-in at Frequent Fryers Chicken Shop. No money has been taken, only chicken. Banks meets Gregor who has his own theory: it was the work of a Chicken Man. A trail of clues lead them to Nick, who has been eating so much fried chicken that he believes he may be transforming into a chicken. Gregor suggests heโ€™s seen this before. Banks thinks theyโ€™re crazy and takes Nick to Sergeant Lloyd (Patrick Brammall) to be arrested for the break-in. While Banks is distracted, Nick mysteriously escapes from his handcuffs, and the only thing left is the feather of a chicken.

 

For more information, check out The Strange Calls Websiteย and Barry Crocker’s Official Website.

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