The series was notable for its use of advanced equipment - including pioneering night film and hidden microphones - and for interviews with criminal leaders.

[2] Among organized crime groups they exposed the activities & personalities of the Mafia, bikers, Asian gangs and corruption by mobsters of certain public figures.

Initially the research team did not even know that organized crime really existed in Canada but they steadily uncovered its tentacles often reaching across the US/Canadian border.

In this way they gradually were able to identify the tentacles of organized crime: and the police with their Provincial jurisdictions were often unaware of these connections.

Richard Nielsen, a long time former Executive Producer of CBC's Weekend but by then a partner with Pat Ferns[c] in Nielsen-Ferns, an independent pioneering production company like Norfolk Communications, was shown some of the footage and felt "What I saw was the most exciting television film I had ever seen" and..."after years ... producing current affairs programming ...you're sure you've seen it all ...".

[6] He suggested the easiest way to handle the mountain of footage was to divide it into individual crime connections.

The arrangement meant that Macadam and Burke could take on the editing and scripting the narration of separate sections without concern for overlap.

The score heightened the effect of the footage and was felt to be an exceptional addition and ahead of its time in documentary production.

[9] Millions of Canadians got a startling peek into their country's criminal underworld this week through a dramatic television documentary that featured heavy use of hidden cameras and microphones.