Serangoon Road

"Television drama series from Australia. Set in Singapore in 1964-65, with political and racial tensions high as the British pull out, follows the various cases investigated by the Cheng Detective Agency."
"A detective noir series set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1960s Singapore. Political and racial tensions are high as the British pull out, and a new nation is about to be born."
"Serangoon Road is a fast-paced detective drama series set against the exotic, tumultuous backdrop of 1960s Singapore. The series tells the story of Australian-born Sam Callaghan (Don Hany), whose childhood was spent in WWIIs Japanese internment camps and who returned to fight in the Malayan Emergency. He is a man deeply scarred by both these experiences. When his neighbour Patricia (Joan Chen) asks him to help keep her recently-murdered husband's private detective agency afloat, Sam is enticed into an unpredictable, dangerous world full of Chinese Secret Society gangs and political power play."
"Set in tumultuous 1960s Singapore, Sam Callaghan an Australian expat, agrees to help his neighbor Patricia Cheng at her detective agency after her husband is mysteriously killed while working a case."@en