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'Twenty years ago a young mother was killed during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. It comes to Detective Jack Kempson's attention that dodgy police work at the time may have resulted in the wrong man doing time. Kempson runs the gauntlet of officialdom to convince the department there's value in 'unsolving' a murder, only to become a pawn in a sting operation involving drugs, stolen money and crooked cops.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 19/4/2013)

'A young woman's body is discovered in a national park. 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.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 19/4/2013)

'Two sisters, raped years ago, have kidnapped the man they believe to be responsible. Taking the law into their own hands, they present Jack with a dilemma: will he choose truth - or justice?'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 19/4/2013)

'Detective Jack Kempson is drawn into the disturbing world of religious fanatics when the mother of a baby killed 10 years ago in a house fire comes to him for help. In looking for the truth Kempson will have to fight the system and his own conscience, only to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. Kempson must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Source: 19/4/2013)

'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?'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 19/4/2013)

'The sons of a murdered gangland criminal have themselves turned bad. Jack's close to the family, but he may be too late to stop them attempting revenge.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 19/4/2013)

'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.

'The police brotherhood has allowed him to survive all the crap that happens to him in his private life.

'But something is shifting in Jack and, when a quantity of drugs signed out in his name goes missing, Jack smells a rat and becomes a whistle blower — he just can’t accept the corruption anymore.

'This is his first big mistake, because the department turns its back on him, banishing him to the purgatory of supervising data entry into a new computerised crime tracking system. He is sent to rot in the basement.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 19/4/2013)

A series of seven telemovies starring Colin Friels as detective Jack Kempson.

As Screen Australia describes the series, 'Jack, an idealistic cop, is sent down to the archives to rot after turning whistle blower. Instead, he sets out to crack a series of old unsolved cases.' (Sighted: 19/4/2013)

The series is sometimes divided by production order into the pilot (Murder Archive), the Trilogy (Sweet Science, In The Money, and Ace Point Game), and the Second Trilogy (Dead Memory, At The Gates, and Ghosts).

'Accident prone and full of himself Welcher QC, played by Shaun Micallef, is a partner in a small law firm. Sadly QC are his initials - the closest he will ever get to being a Queen's Counsel. A comedy about the relationships we all have at home and in the office, with some great physical comedy from the country's top comic.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 13/6/2013)