BlackJack Collection

Number of Movies: 7

Overview

BlackJack is a series of Australian television movies created by Shaun Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, and starring Colin Friels.

Featured Cast

Colin Friels

Jack Kempson

Gigi Edgley

Liz Kempson

David Field

Inspector Terry Kavanagh

Paul Goddard

Charles Hulce

Marcus Graham

Harry Searle

Todd Lasance

Stephen Hulce

Sophie Lee

Denise Kennedy

Rhys Muldoon

Dave Halfpenny

Featured Crew

7 Movies

BlackJack: Sweet Science

November 7, 2004

Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.

BlackJack: In the Money

September 11, 2005

Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery?

After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted away' to the basement, where old files get transferred to the national computer database. Thus he comes across fingerprints, now identifiable, in the 30 year old case of Ashley, the kidnapped son of lottery winners. Although he's too late to help him now, he tracks the perpetrators down behind his boss's back.

BlackJack

March 16, 2003

Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral barometer. He turns a blind eye to the dubious methods employed by some of his contemporaries — prepared to let dodgy means be justified by the noble end.

BlackJack: Dead Memory

August 27, 2006

A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.

BlackJack: At the Gates

September 24, 2006

Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an evangelical community church but now the mother has comes to Jack for help. Jack agrees to look into the still unsolved crime but in looking for the truth Jack will have to fight the system and his own conscience to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. In the end, Jack must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.

BlackJack: Ghosts

December 2, 2007

Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for the murder is about to be paroled. Jack has two missions - to bring the father and his daughter back together and to find out if any justice has been done by the conviction.

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