Tough Nuts: Australia's Hardest Criminals
Season 1
TV-MA
Documentary/drama about famous criminals of Australia. Featuring interviews of people still alive that were involved during that era including former New South Wales detective Roger Rogerson and Mark Brandon (Chopper) Read and presented by Tara Moss.
Where to Watch Season 1
8 Episodes
- Chris Flannery - The Man Called Rent-a-kill
E1Chris Flannery - The Man Called Rent-a-killChristopher Dale Flannery earned the nickname of 'Rent-a-kill'. He was a hit man and gun for hire who would kill anyone if the price was right. Find out about the man who killed in cold blood before returning to his home to smother his children with affection and dote after his wife, Kathleen. - Alphonse Gangitano - The Black Prince of Lygon Street
E3Alphonse Gangitano - The Black Prince of Lygon StreetAlphonse Gangitano was known as the Black Prince of Lygon Street and was the most lethal member of Melbourne's notorious Carlton Crew in the 1980s and 1990s. Through a series of re-enactments of the most significant events in Gangitano's life, relive the rise and fall of the Melbourne crime tsar. - Russell Cox - Australia's Most Wanted Man
E5Russell Cox - Australia's Most Wanted ManMeet Australia's most wanted man for a record 11 years. Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox was a man no prison could hold. He escaped from New South Wales' notorious 'electronic zoo', the maximum security Katingal jail - the jail the politicians had said was escape proof. - Mick Sayers - The Gambler
E6Mick Sayers - The GamblerMichael 'Melbourne Mick' Sayers was a run of the mill crook who got in too deep with some of the tough nuts in Sydney's organized crime scene. An associate and friend of Chris Flannery, Sayers ventured to Sydney and discovered that to survive on the mean streets, he had to turn his hand to drug dealing, extortion, race rigging and murder. - Ray Bennett - The Criminal Mastermind
E7Ray Bennett - The Criminal MastermindRaymond 'Ray Chuck' Bennett was Australia's criminal mastermind. A brazen armed robber and thief, he did the jobs that other criminals considered were beyond them. His most audacious robbery was The Great Bookie Robbery - a heist at the Australian Jockey Club while the bookies met to settle up from the weekend's trade. - Lenny McPherson - Mr. Big
E8Lenny McPherson - Mr. BigLennie McPherson ruled the Sydney crime scene for four decades. He was a violent and vicious criminal and arguably the worst of the worst. Trace the rise and fall of Lennie McPherson from a street crook in the 1940s to the Mr. Big of the organized crime scene in Australia and to his death behind bars.
