[1] Sweet played the title character Cody, an unconventional police detective,[2] described by Screen Australia as a "larrikin cop, on the trail of crimes".
[3] Cody (Gary Sweet) is a Sydney-based police detective, with Fiorelli (Robert Mammone) as his partner and Inspector Genevieve Simmonds (Heather Mitchell) as their superior.
[6][7] In the third episode, Cody: Bad Love (1994), the squad's investigation of art thefts leads to a gallery run by an attractive French artist, Claudia (Rebecca Rigg).
In the sixth episode, Cody: Fall from Grace (1995), an apparent suicide leads to Sam Wolfe (Bill Hunter).
Gary Sweet was nominated for a Silver Logie as Most Popular Actor for the episode, Cody: The Burnout.