Actors, celebrities and rich kids used to get in touch with Richard Buttrose for their supply of cocaine.

Buttrose, nephew of media identity Ita Buttrose and a convicted drug lord, will be the star of the pilot episode of a new Channel 9 series which will show surveillance footages of Australian drug dealers.

Footages for the said series where provided by the NSW drug squad.

Nine will launch the Australian Druglords next Tuesday night, with the video of Richard Buttrose being busted in the middle of a transaction, and a mortifying raid on his home while his pregnant wife looks on, as its first episode.

Viewers of the series will be able to witness how Buttrose was brought down, from the first phone call he received from an undercover police officer, to the discovery of more than $1.3 million in cash and 5.9kg of cocaine in his safe house in Darling Point.

It is said that the video, direct from the files of the NSW police Operation Connell, will arouse the viewers' interest.

They will see the first deal that was caught on camera, with Buttrose pulling his blue Mercedes to an unmarked car and tossing 10g of bagged cocaine through the window.

His arrest on the streets of inner eastern suburban Wollahra and the image of a black book containing the list of his customers and the money they paid him will also be shown.

Aside from the black book, a mobile phone with 250-odd clients and their contact numbers was also obtained.

The success of Underbelly, which exposed the "glamorous" life of criminals, inspired the police to release the footage. However, NSW Det-Supt Nick Bingham said that he is not interested in watching the acclaimed gangland series.

"We're here to say that lifestyle is for a finite period," he said.

"These people are constantly looking over their shoulders. It might look quasi-glamorous but it's no way to live."

Det-Supt Bingham also said that investigations on Buttrose's activities, recovering his many assets and follwing up names in the little black book are still in the process.

Other footages to be featured in the series include the arrests of Swedish socialite Charlotte Lindstrom and Olympic gold medal kayaker Nathan Baggaley.