# State Coroner (TV series)

State Coroner is an Australian television series screened on Network Ten in 1997 and 1998. There were two series produced with a total of 28 episodes.
The series was set in the State Coroner's office complex and featured investigations into deaths, murders, suicides, accidents and natural causes. The drama begins from the initial inquiry through to the courtroom appearances, the Coroner's final verdict and recommendations for trial or reform.

## Cast
### Main / regular

* Wendy Hughes as Kate Ferrari
* Bob Baines as Clive Trimble
* Andrew Clarke as Colin Decker
* Christopher Stollery as Dermot McLeod
* Elaine Smith as Julie Travers
* Nick Carrafa as George Cardillo
* Elise McCredie as Sharon Riley
* Kristian Pithie as Paul Weiss
* Christopher Gabardi as Daniel Ferris
* James Reyne as Liam Pearce
* Robert Grubb as Hugh Ferrari
* Asher Keddie as Claire Ferrari
* Paul Cronin as Ted Ames
* Jennifer Botica as Liz Mason
* Martin Jacobs as Frank Kelso
* Alan Dale as Dudley Mills
* Richard Moss as Gascoyne
* Jerome Pride as Roly Fox
* Peter Hosking as Phil Daly
* Alan Hopgood as Keith Summers
* Roger Oakley as Barry Randall

### Guests

* Alex Menglet as Jim Vandenburg (1 episode)
* Amanda Douge as Lee Turkel (1 episode)
* Andrew Blackman as David Hubbard (2 episodes)
* Bernard Curry as Nigel Arrowsmith (1 episode)
* Brett Swain as Ray Scullin (2 episodes)
* Brett Tucker as Miles Penfield (1 episode)
* Diana Glenn as Gillian Gardener (1 episode)
* Debra Byrne as Tracy Dabovich (1 episode)
* Gerald Lepkowski as Dave Warren (1 episode)
* Greg Stone as Sgt Frank Johnson (1 episode)
* Janet Andrewartha as Eileen Hardy (1 episode)
* John O'May as Marcus Brophy (2 episodes)
* Kick Gurry as Josh (1 episode)
* Laurence Breuls as David Randell (1 episode)
* Louise Siversen as Cheryl Norton (1 episode)
* Nell Feeney as Sally Allbright (1 episode)
* Nicholas Bell as Provis (1 episode)
* Reg Gorman as Charles Shaw (1 episode)
* Renai Caruso as Jo Zammit (1 episode)
* Sheryl Munks as Heather O'Connor (1 episode)
* Tony Nikolakopoulos as Theo (1 episode)

## Series overview

| Series | Episodes | Episodes | Originally released | Originally released |
| Series | Episodes | Episodes | First released | Last released |
| 1 | 14 | 14 | 14 August 1997 (1997-08-14) | 13 November 1997 (1997-11-13) |
| 2 | 14 | 14 | 24 August 1998 (1998-08-24) | 23 November 1998 (1998-11-23) |

## Episodes

Episode information retrieved from the Australian Television archive.

### Season 1 (1997)

| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 1 | 1 | "Starting with a Bang - Telemovie Pilot" | Paul Maloney | Michael Harvey | 14 August 1997 (1997-08-14) |
| 2 | 2 | "A Bit of Asthma" | Robert Klenner | Michael Harvey & Bill Garner | 21 August 1997 (1997-08-21) |
| 3 | 3 | "The Price of Success" | Ian Gilmour | Deborah Parsons | 28 August 1997 (1997-08-28) |
| 4 | 4 | "Coming to Grief" | Chris Thomson | Graham Hartley | 4 September 1997 (1997-09-04) |
| 5 | 5 | "The Final Approach" | Chris Thomson | John Reeves | 11 September 1997 (1997-09-11) |
| 6 | 6 | "Shortcut to Death" | Ian Gilmour | Bill Garner | 18 September 1997 (1997-09-18) |
| 7 | 7 | "Partings" | Ian Watson | Patrick Edgeworth | 25 September 1997 (1997-09-25) |
| 8 | 8 | "A Question of Experience" | Ian Watson | Mandy Brown | 2 October 1997 (1997-10-02) |
| 9 | 9 | "Truth and Circumstances" | Robert Klenner | Barbara Bishop | 9 October 1997 (1997-10-09) |
| 10 | 10 | "Conflict of Interest" | Robert Klenner | Shane Brennan | 16 October 1997 (1997-10-16) |
| 11 | 11 | "Dance ‘Till You Drop" | Robert Klenner | Bill Garner | 23 October 1997 (1997-10-23) |
| 12 | 12 | "‘Till Death Do Us Part" | Colin Budds | John Coulter | 30 October 1997 (1997-10-30) |
| 13 | 13 | "Blood Sport" | Colin Budds | Shane Brennan | 6 November 1997 (1997-11-06) |
| 14 | 14 | "Bitter Harvest" | Colin Budds | Craig Wilkins | 13 November 1997 (1997-11-13) |

### Season 2 (1998)

| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 15 | 1 | "Days of Reckoning" | Robert Klenner | Shane Brennan | 24 August 1998 (1998-08-24) |
| 16 | 2 | "Days of Reckoning II" | Robert Klenner | Barbara Bishop | 24 August 1998 (1998-08-24) |
| 17 | 3 | "Shaking the Tree" | Ian Watson | Graham Hartley | 31 August 1998 (1998-08-31) |
| 18 | 4 | "The Gift of Life" | Ian Watson | Annie Fox | 7 September 1998 (1998-09-07) |
| 19 | 5 | "Sunday in the Country" | David Cameron | John Coulter | 21 September 1998 (1998-09-21) |
| 20 | 6 | "Body of Evidence" | David Cameron | Peter Hepworth | 28 September 1998 (1998-09-28) |
| 21 | 7 | "On Thin Ice" | Ian Watson | Tony McDonald | 28 September 1998 (1998-09-28) |
| 22 | 8 | "One Carless Moment" | Ian Watson | Michael Cove | 5 October 1998 (1998-10-05) |
| 23 | 9 | "Three’s a Crowd" | Mandy Smith | Annie Beach | 26 October 1998 (1998-10-26) |
| 24 | 10 | "Assumptions" | Mandy Smith | Deborah Sheldon | 2 November 1998 (1998-11-02) |
| 25 | 11 | "Into the Fire" | Ali Ali | Michaeley O'Brien | 9 November 1998 (1998-11-09) |
| 26 | 12 | "Flying Solo" | Ali Ali | Michael Joshua | 16 November 1998 (1998-11-16) |
| 27 | 13 | "Officers & Gentlemen" | Denny Lawrence | Shane Brennan | 23 November 1998 (1998-11-23) |
| 28 | 14 | "Watershed" | Denny Lawrence | Barbara Bishop | 23 November 1998 (1998-11-23) |

## Home media

| Title | Format | Ep # | Discs | Region 4 (Australia) | Special Features | Distributors |
| State Coroner (Series 01) | DVD | 14 | 4 | 28 June 2008 2020 (Re-Release) | None | Umbrella Entertainment Crawford Productions |
| State Coroner (Series 02) | DVD | 14 | | N/A | | |