Quentin McDermott
Director
Four Corners (1961)
Series 2015
Four Corners is Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. Broadcast on ABC1 in Australia, it premiered on 19 August 1961 and celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2021. Founding producer Robert Raymond and his successor Allan Ashbolt did much to set the ongoing tone of the program. Based on the Panorama concept, the program addresses a single issue in depth each week, showing either a locally produced program or a relevant documentary from overseas. The program has won many awards for investigative journalism, and broken many high-profile stories. A notable early example of this was the show's epoch-making 1962 exposé on the appalling living conditions endured by many Aboriginal Australians living in rural New South Wales.
Released Aug. 19, 1961
Episode 45 min
10+
Genres: Documentary, News
Keywords: tmdb.investigative-journalism, imdb.non-fiction, imdb.television, imdb.vigilantes, imdb.number-4-in-title, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.number-in-title
Network: ABC (AU)
S55E1 - True Detectives
Shocking revelations on Melbourne's gangland killings. Nick McKenzie reports.
Feb. 2, 2015, midnight
S55E2 - Eat, Pray, Shoot
Inside the campaign to save the two Australians on death row in Bali. Mark Davis reports.
Feb. 9, 2015, midnight
S55E3 - Making a Killing
Inside Australia's multi-billion dollar greyhound racing industry.
Feb. 16, 2015, midnight
S55E4 - The Jobs Game
Scandal in the federal government's employment programs. Linton Besser reports.
Feb. 23, 2015, midnight
S55E5 - Apple's Broken Promises
Apple is the most valuable brand on the planet, making products that everyone wants - but how are its workers treated when the world isn't looking?
March 2, 2015, midnight
S55E6 - Bringing The War Home
The scourge of PTSD; as soldiers they fought the enemy abroad, now as civilians they battle a silent enemy within. Quentin McDermott reports.
March 9, 2015, midnight
S55E7 - House of Cards
Why the Liberal Party came so close to toppling its leader after just 18 months in Government.
March 16, 2013, midnight
S55E8 - Ditched
An investigation into the shocking human cost felt by the survivors of an aviation crash.
March 23, 2015, midnight
S55E9 - Game of Loans
The merchants of debt: how fast cash loans become a ruinous financial trap.
March 30, 2015, midnight
S55E10 - India's Daughter
The crime that shamed India and divided the country.
April 6, 2015, midnight
S55E11 - ANZAC to Afghanistan
Reporter Chris Masters revisits the Fatal Shore, the story of Gallipoli.
April 13, 2015, midnight
S55E12 - Degrees of Deception
Australia has been gripped by a national debate over how to fund our university education. But perhaps there's a more important question: what is it worth?
April 20, 2015, midnight
S55E13 - No Free Steps to Heaven
On the frontline with the women taking up arms against Islamic State.
April 27, 2015, midnight
S55E14 - Slaving Away
The dirty secrets behind Australia's fresh food.
May 4, 2015, midnight
S55E15 - Remote Hope
An unflinching portrait of Australia's remote Indigenous communities and their struggle to survive.
May 11, 2015, midnight
S55E16 - Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
This investigation from the BBC looks into the American authorities' relationship with the biggest and most powerful criminal organisation in the world, the Sinaloa Cartel.
May 18, 2015, midnight
S55E17 - At Their Mercy
The bullying and bastardisation of young doctors in our hospitals.
May 25, 2015, midnight
S55E18 - Ship of Death
A whodunit on the high seas.
June 1, 2015, midnight
S55E19 - Nepal Quake: Terror on Everest
Terror on Everest: extraordinary accounts and footage from the day the Nepal earthquake struck.
June 8, 2015, midnight
S55E20 - The End of Coal?
With the price of coal plummeting and our biggest customers turning to renewable energy, is Australia backing a loser?
June 15, 2015, midnight
S55E21 - Journey into Hell
On the trail of the traffickers exploiting the most unwanted people on the planet.
June 22, 2015, midnight
S55E22 - The Mafia in Australia: Drugs, Murder and Politics
In this joint Four Corners/Fairfax Media investigation, we reveal how the mafia continues to flourish in Australia despite major police operations.
June 29, 2015, midnight
S55E23 - The Mafia in Australia: Blood Ties
Part two of this special investigation goes inside one of the most ambitious organised crime investigations in Australian history.
July 6, 2015, midnight
S55E24 - 7/7: Ten Years On
Stories of courage and humanity in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings.
July 13, 2015, midnight
S55E25 - A Nation Divided? The Charlie Hebdo Aftermath
From BBC Three. A personal and provocative look at life in France following the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks.
July 20, 2015, midnight
S55E26 - Iron Man
Inside the power plays of the mercurial mining billionaire Andrew Twiggy Forrest, as he fights for survival. Stephen Long reports.
July 27, 2015, midnight
S55E27 - Escorts
Inside the hidden world of transgender escorts.
Aug. 3, 2015, midnight
S55E28 - The Great Cricket Coup
How India hijacked the game of cricket, and how Australia helped.
Aug. 10, 2015, midnight
S55E29 - Secrets, Politics and Torture
From PBS Frontline. Secrets, Politics and Torture: The ghosts of the CIA's controversial interrogation program.
Aug. 17, 2015, midnight
S55E30 - Machine Man
Four Corners puts Labor leader Bill Shorten under the microscope.
Aug. 24, 2015, midnight
S55E31 - 7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience
Adele Ferguson returns to Four Corners with an investigation into the 7-Eleven business empire with revelations of dodgy bookkeeping, blackmail and the mass underpayment of its workforce.
Aug. 31, 2015, midnight
S55E32 - The Truth About Halal
The war of words over the Halal certification of food. Anti-Islam groups label it a religious tax. Claims of corruption and links to terrorism light up the blogosphere. Four Corners searches out the truth.
Sept. 7, 2015, midnight
S55E33 - Dethroning Tony Abbott
On Monday night, Four Corners will chart the events that led to the former Prime Minister's downfall.
Sept. 21, 2015, midnight
S55E34 - Wasted
A special investigation by Dr Norman Swan on the unnecessary testing and treatments choking the health system and making patients ill.
Sept. 28, 2015, midnight
S55E35 - Escape From ISIS
From Channel 4 (UK). As asylum seekers flee from the ISIS conflict zone, Four Corners brings you this timely and powerful story of the secret network rescuing women and children held captive by ISIS.
Oct. 5, 2015, midnight
S55E36 - The Great Wall of Money
Next week on Four Corners: the Chinese billions flooding into Australian real estate.
Oct. 12, 2015, midnight
S55E37 - Jackson and Lawler: Inside the Eye of the Storm
Next on Four Corners, we take you inside the world of Australia's most formidable power couple - former union boss Kathy Jackson and Fair Work Commission Vice President, Michael Lawler.
Oct. 19, 2015, midnight
S55E38 - Digital Dissidents
From WDR (DE). Next on Four Corners, a documentary on the digital dissidents blowing the whistle on government surveillance around the globe.
Oct. 26, 2015, midnight
S55E39 - Hidden Harm
Next on Four Corners, we examine the sobering reality of the damage done by alcohol to unborn babies.
Nov. 2, 2015, midnight
S55E40 - Return to the Valley of Death
In this report, BBC producer Merwais Miakhail takes us on a personal journey into Afghanistan's tribal heartland, known as the 'Valley of Death'.
Nov. 9, 2015, midnight
S55E41 - Our Kids: Why are they so stressed?
In frank, funny and sometimes heartbreaking conversations, Australian kids take us inside their world and tell us why they're so anxious about the present and the future.
Nov. 16, 2015, midnight
S55E42 - Plan of Attack: The Making of a Teenage Terrorist
It was the random act of violence that authorities had been warning of and it left the nation crying out for answers. How could a 15-year-old school boy become a killer?
Nov. 23, 2015, midnight
S55E43 - Rosie's Story
The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Geoff Thompson reports.
Nov. 30, 2015, midnight
ABC (AU)
45 min/ep
60 min
Aug. 19, 1961
Nov. 3, 2025, midnight
Returning Series
TV-PG / 10+
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