Part 1 Victorian dreams and nightmares: a golden street in marvellous Melbourne; the lush 1880s; the perilous course of events; the hungry 1890s; Victorian politics, 1875-1895; the railway and tramway boom; wild days on the Stock Exchange. Part 2 The muckrakers: Maurice Brodzky, editor of "Table Talk"; the meudell mystery. Part 3 Builders and bankers: the building society scandal; the first banking scandals. Part 4 The Munro-Baillieu-Fink group: James Munro and his clan; Munro and Baillieu, partners in audacity; W.L. Baillieu, the triumphant survivor; keeping the federal bank in the family; Theodore Fink, a solicitor of the rialto; Benjamin Fink, the greatest of them all. Part 5 The Matthew Davies group: the rise and fall of Sir Matthew Davies; the Mercantile bank cases; how Thomas Bent escaped the net. Part 6 Finale: feeding the hungry; reforms and remedies.
