BlackJack (film series)

This article is about the television movie series. For other uses, see Black Jack (disambiguation).

BlackJack
Genre	Police drama
Created by	Gary McCaffrie Shaun Micallef
Written by	Gary McCaffrie Shaun Micallef Kristen Dunphy Katherine Thompson Tim Pye
Directed by	Peter Andrikidis Ian Watson Kate Woods
Starring	Colin Friels Marta Dusseldorp David Field Doris Younane Gigi Edgley
Composer(s)	David Hirschfelder
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	7
Production
Executive producer(s)	Nick Murray Sue Masters
Cinematography	Henry Pierce Martin McGrath
Running time	90 minutes
Production company(s)	Jigsaw Entertainment
Release
Original network	Network Ten Australia
Original release	16 March 2003 (2003-03-16) – 2 December 2007 (2007-12-02)

BlackJack is a series of Australian television movies created by Shaun Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, and starring Colin Friels. The movies began airing on Network Ten in 2003 and concluded in 2007. They were shown in the United Kingdom on the BBC and UKTV Drama.

After testifying against his former colleagues in a corruption trial Sydney detective Jack Kempson (Colin Friels) is reassigned to a unit charged with entering the details of old cases into a police database. He unofficially begins to investigate unsolved crimes dating back many years.

Episodes

Pilot

• BlackJack: Murder Archive (2003)

First trilogy

• BlackJack: Sweet Science (2004) — Jack discovers that the sons (Alex O'Loughlin and Anthony Hayes) of a criminal gunned down during a football game in 1992 are now following in their dead father's footsteps.
• BlackJack: In The Money (2005)
• BlackJack: Ace Point Game (2005)

Second trilogy

• BlackJack: Dead Memory (2006)
• BlackJack: At The Gates (2006)
• BlackJack: Ghosts (2007)

Main cast

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