State Coroner

Seasons

1997

Australia

6.7

The series looks at the people who investigate the circumstances surrounding accidental, unnecessary or unexplained deaths.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Starting with a Bang

Kate takes the new job as State Coroner and Clive the deputy coroner is not happy as he thought it was his. An inquest involves a tanker vs car with three fatalities. A bomb goes off in a government agency.

S1 • E2

A Bit of Asthma

Why does a boy die in Emergency during an asthma attack and something about a corpse from the country isn't quite right.

S1 • E3

The Price of Success

The body of a teenage boy if found in a deserted warehouse and a journalist is found drowned after losing at an awards ceremony.

S1 • E4

Coming to Grief

A police pursuit of a stolen car end in a fatal collision and what caused a fire and death of an elderly women.

S1 • E5

Final Approach

A plane crash lands during a storm and Clive receives a tip about the whereabouts of a criminal he declared dead five years ago.

S1 • E6

Shortcut to Death

A woman with Cerebral Palsy is found dead in her shower and a forklift driver dies from being run over at a workplace with a questionable safety record.

S1 • E7

Partings

A former boyfriend of Sharon's is killed in a motorcycle accident and why did a mother die prematurely after being hospitalized with Motor Neurone Disease?

S1 • E8

A Question of Experience

A young student dies on a school bush-walking excursion. A bouncer is caught on security camera in an altercation with a drunk bar patron who dies shortly after.

S1 • E9

Truth and Circumstances

A women is found drowned, but was it suicide or murder? A baby has died and the parents are devasted but won't permit an autopsy on religious grounds.

S1 • E10

Conflict of Interest

A fatal police shooting during a drug raid and a boy dies from a fall after being pursued be a young constable.

S1 • E11

Dance 'Till You Drop

Clive is aggravated over yet another tractor death. Kate deals with a death at a rave.

S1 • E12

'Till Death Do Us Part

A husband shoots his wife and then himself in front of their teenage daughter. The decades old neighbourly feud of a couple of old codgers, takes a turn when one of them is found dead.