BlackJack: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Justice means more than punishing those who commit crimes - it means never giving up the search for the truth. In his pursuit of long unsolved cases and answers for those left behind, justice is Detective Jack Kempson's creed.

BlackJack is a series of Australian Telemovies starring Colin Friels as Jack Kempson, a police sergeant who turns in a corrupt colleague, and becomes very unpopular with the rest of the force. In retribution, he is assigned a new job in the basement supervising the transfer of cold case files to the police computer system. Knowing nothing of computers, he takes the opportunity, instead, to reinvestigate some of those old cases, which eventually leads to the formation a formal cold case department.

Series details

• Title: BlackJack
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Crime
• Premiere date: 2003-03-16
• Final broadcast date listed: 2007-12-02
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Network 10
• Network country: Australia
• Typical episode runtime: 90 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 7111
• IMDb ID: tt0322691
• TVDB ID: 82015

Cast and credited roles

• Colin Friels — Jack Kempson
• David Field — Inspector Terry Kavanagh
• Marta Dusseldorp — Sam Lawson
• Gigi Edgley — Liz Kempson
• Sophie Lee — Denise Kennedy
• Doris Younane — Christine Vallas
• Kate Beahan — Julie Egan
• Todd Lasance — Stephen Hulce

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2003-03-16; final listed air date 2007-12-02.

Source and licence

Adapted from BlackJack on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.