BlackJack

A calm, methodical cold-case procedural with a quietly dogged hero and a steadily building sense of old wrongs surfacing.

Created by

Ian Watson, Kate Woods

Genres

Drama, Mystery

Starring

David Field, Colin Friels, Julie Maddalena

Overview

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 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.

How it feels

Cynical, earnest, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Corruption, justice, guilt, memory

Content

Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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