The Fast Lane

Seasons

1985

Australia

8.1

Two private investigators, Bryce and Ken operate a business known as The Excelsior Research Foundation.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Confusion by Numbers

Bryce and Ken are hired to perform as security at a wedding - guarding the presents. There, an old friend hires Bryce and Ken for a lucrative accounting investigation.

S1 • E2

Upping the Integrity

The Excelsior Research Foundation is hired by an advertising agency to investigate the theft of a marketing campaign. Pat enrolls in modelling course to expose the company's business practices.

S1 • E3

Portrait of Whistler's Underwriter

A friend of Bryce's father hires the Excelsior Research Foundation to investigate thefts from his private art collection.

S1 • E4

Tertiary Sisyphus

A case of mistaken identity leads to Ken going undercover as an academic after he and Bryce are hired to examine the reason for the suspiciously high pass-rate in a difficult university English course.

S1 • E5

Irreconcilable Similarities

An analytical man hires the Excelsior Research Foundation to investigate his wife's extramarital liaisons. Pat steps in to deliver a package on behalf of Bryce and Ken getting all three involved in a dangerous drug ring.

S1 • E6

A Mug's Game

A small town drainage authority hires Bryce and Pat to investigate clerical corruption. A lucky gambler runs afoul of townsfolk in the local pub. Meanwhile, Ken tries to sort out a few personal problems.

S1 • E7

The Sound of One Hand Counting

Pat is sent to work undercover in a factory to investigate thefts from the shop floor. Bryce and Ken are assigned to investigate the callous factory manager's wife only to find themselves participating in a New Age self-improvement course.

S1 • E8

The Below Average Samaritan

Bryce and Ken are hired by an elderly man to locate his missing granddaughter. The fiancé of Ken's ex-wife asks him to be the Best Man at their wedding.

S1 • E9

My Dinner with Agnes

Ken and Bryce try to serve a summons but they discover it's for an Olympic Runner in Australia since the 1956 Games. A school hires them to investigate a pupil accused of stealing building materials and at risk of going into state care.

All's Well That Himfella Buggerup Finish

S1 • E10

All's Well That Himfella Buggerup Finish

Interpol, Mr Big, murder, heroin and intrigue form just another day's work for the bumbling duo at Excelsior who prove once again that when the going gets tough they are completely out of their league.