Best Australian TV shows

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Australian TV shows" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective and exciting. Plot: family relations, murder, danger, investigation, criminal, death, murder investigation, female protagonist, strong female presence and friendship. Genre: Drama, Crime and Mystery. Country: Australia, USA and New Zealand.
Best Australian TV shows
Best Australian TV shows
TOP TV Shows: Harrow (2018), Wonderland (2013), Wentworth (2013), Mr Inbetween (2018), McLeod's Daughters (2001), Doctor Doctor (2016), Rake (2010), A Place to Call Home (2013), Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012), My Life Is Murder (2019), Offspring (2010), Mystery Road (2018), Terra Nova (2011), Wolf Creek (2016), Janet King (2014), Sea Patrol (2007), Bangkok Hilton (1989), Catching Milat (2015), Farscape (1999), The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013).

List of Best TV Shows

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 7.6
 10K
Harrow (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a dark secret from this past threatens to be exposed, unorthodox and brilliant medical examiner, Doctor Daniel Harrow, must use all his forensic skills to keep it buried forever.
Style: clever, witty, atmospheric, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: medical examiner, doctor, expert, forensics, complex characters, murder, bodies, forensic, loner, secret life, corpse, family relations ...
Time: future
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 7.8
 1K
Wonderland (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Wonderland is a warm and engaging relationship drama revolving around four couples at very different stages of life – the star-crossed singles, blissful newlyweds, hot new lovers and long-term marrieds. We join them as they navigate the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, sincere
Plot: flatmate, dating, roommate, best friend, husband wife relationship, family relations, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, male female relationship, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, society ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
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 8.6
 24K
Wentworth (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prison, lesbian, women in prison, prison life, women's prison, protest, power struggle, lesbian relationship, life is a bitch, danger, government facility, survival ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: australia
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 8.6
 29K
Mr Inbetween (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, dark comedy, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, organized crime, mercenary, violence, fight scenes, escapades, chases and races, murder, secret past, family drama, danger, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
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McLeod's Daughters (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: McLeod's Daughters is an Australian television series that began airing on the Nine Network on 8 August 2001. This Logie award winning drama series follows the lives of half sisters Claire and Tess McLeod as they embark on a mission: to run ...
Style: realistic, witty, captivating, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: farm, feminism, family relations, couple relations, workplace, family business, sister sister relationship, family problems, estrangement, wilderness, strong female character, female protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: australia, south australia
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Doctor Doctor (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy is about to come back ...
Style: light, emotional, captivating, semi serious, ironic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: doctor, medicine, small town, surgeon, medical, physician, family relations, love and romance, workplace, workplace situations, society, fired from the job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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 8.5
 9K
Rake (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Rake is an Australian television series, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC1 in 2010. It stars Richard Roxburgh as rake Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: lawyer, trial, rivalry, career, against the rules, deal, courtroom, judge, dedicated lawyer, middle aged, law, criminal lawyer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia
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A Place to Call Home (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, ...
Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, society, love and romance, family life, starting over, social differences, forbidden love, family secret, country estate, family relations, nurse, male female relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: australia
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, detective, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, private investigator, female detective, murder, private detective, heroine, murderer, riddles and clues, aristocracy, intelligence agency, female protagonist, feminism ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: australia, melbourne
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My Life Is Murder (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human ...
Style: captivating, confusing, non-linear, light, detective ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: female detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, investigator, investigation, private investigation, unsolved crime, uncover truth, escapades, murder mystery, secret, friends ...
Time: future
Place: australia, oceania
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 8.3
 5K
Offspring (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
Style: captivating, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience: chick flick
Plot: medical, hospital, workplace situations, workplace, doctors and patients, coworker relationship, doctor, women, workplace romance, love affair, career, workplace humor ...
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 7.5
 5K
Mystery Road (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station. Soon, Jay's investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
Style: exciting, colorful, scenic, detective, breathtaking
Plot: australian outback, police detective, ranch, secrets, nature, missing child, murder mystery, australian aboriginal, rural setting, failed relationship, father daughter relationship, police officer ...
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 6.7
 86K
Terra Nova (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, post apocalypse, survival, human existence, extinction, danger, changing the past or future, experiment, dangerous animal, imaginary, research ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic, near future, prehistory, 22nd century
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 7.1
 6K
Wolf Creek (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology series which centers on different characters being targeted by crazed serial killer Mick Taylor in the Australian outback.
Style: slasher, psychological, tense, suspense, anthology ...
Plot: serial killer, maniac, outback, survival, torture, australian outback, murder, fear, pursuit, death, danger, violence ...
Place: oceania
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 7.8
 3K
Janet King (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Senior Prosecutor Janet King returns from maternity leave to confront a high-profile murder, and a conspiracy which will have shocking ramifications throughout the judicial system.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, clever, detective ...
Plot: legal, courtroom drama, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer, ambition, boss and employee, workplace, workplace situations, legal action, murder, courtroom, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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 7.5
 3K
Sea Patrol (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Sea Patrol is an Australian television drama that ran from 2007 to 2011, set on board HMAS Hammersley, a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy. The series focuses on the ship and the lives of its crew members. Despite similarities in ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, colorful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: navy, ship, ocean, friends, military, criminal, danger, chases and races, superior officer, squad, sailor, fighting crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Bangkok Hilton (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Kat Stanton (Kidman), an Australian woman searching for her father who, whilst travelling back from London to Australia via Thailand, makes friends with Arkie Ragan (Ehlers), a photographer. Kat is tricked into carrying some luggage ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, detective, disturbing
Plot: prison, escape, betrayal, injustice, interracial relations, heroin, fighting the system, smuggling, false accusation, prison life, women in prison, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: thailand, asia, australia, london, bangkok thailand ...
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 7.2
 671
Catching Milat (2015)
Genre: Crime
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: A two-part mini-series following the police effort in the 1990s to catch serial killer Ivan Milat, who kidnapped, tortured and killed backpackers along the Hume Highway before disposing of their bodies in the Belanglo State Forest.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic
Plot: serial killer, murder, true crime, mystery killer, killings, brutality, uncover truth, peril, twists and turns, murder mystery, maniac, mind game ...
Place: australia
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 8.3
 40K
Farscape (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
Style: futuristic, serious, exciting, bleak, mysterious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, outer space, space adventure, space wars, alien, space, astronaut, female warrior, escapades, space opera, heroes ...
Time: future, 20th century, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: memphis
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is ...
Style: clever, serious, detective, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, forensics, doctors and patients, social relations, homecoming, murder, doctor, crime investigation, danger, murder mystery, murderer, homicide detective ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: australia
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 8.0
 3K
800 Words (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A recently widowed father, quits his job as a popular 800 word columnist for a top selling Sydney newspaper. Over the internet he buys a house on an impulse in a remote New Zealand seaside town. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids ...
Style: sentimental, light, sincere, touching
Plot: single father, starting over, lifestyle change, father son relationship, family relations, kids and family, parenthood, hopes, responsibility, coping, beautiful scenery, brother sister relationship ...
Place: new zealand
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 8.4
 6K
Upright (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When family outcast Lucky Flynn learns that his mother is dying, he decides to drive to the other side of Australia to see her, packing nothing but an upright piano for the journey. But his plans are soon turned upside down when he meets the runaway ...
Style: road movie, feel good, light, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: road trip, smuggling, cross country, desert, misfit, nothing goes right, journey, partners in crime, dishonesty, robbery, on the road, disorder ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
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Dance Academy (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: At Sydney's National Dance Academy, a few talented youngsters are recruited for the excruciatingly tough course. It follows Tara Webster, a sheepfarmgirl who's ambition is to be the next best ballerina. Jewish long line of doctors' ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: ballet, dancer's life, friendship, dancing, dance, teacher, ambitious, dance school, teenage life, hopes, dancer, ballerina ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia
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A Moody Christmas (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Focused on the lovable, yet seasonally dysfunctional Moody family, A Moody Christmas is set against the backdrop of the one occasion that can bring out the best (and the worst) in people … Christmas Day.
Style: humorous, sitcom, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot: christmas, family tradition, family relations, eccentric family, family gatherings, parents and children, family problems, family life, nothing goes right, disorder, family reunited, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Secrets & Lies (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 327 min.
TV show
Story: A man who finds the body of a young boy quickly becomes the prime murder suspect, putting his life and his family at risk.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, murder suspect, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, law enforcement, family problems, loss of child, family in crisis, disorder, child killer, murder mystery ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia
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The Secrets She Keeps (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In an affluent Sydney suburb, two women have a chance encounter in a supermarket. They are the same age, both heavily pregnant and due at the same time. Meghan is a glamorous influencer on the rise, with an ambitious television sports reporter ...
Style: psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: unhappy marriage, women, life turned upside down, poor family, dark secret, family problems, marital problem, family secret, pregnant wife, chance meeting, dysfunctional marriage, relationship problems ...
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City Homicide (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: City Homicide was an Australian television drama series that aired on the Seven Network between 27 August 2007 and 30 March 2011. The series was set on the Homicide floor of a metropolitan police headquarters in Melbourne. The main characters were ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder investigation, murder, danger, police investigation, who done it, fighting crime, dishonesty, uncover truth, police corruption, partners against crime, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne
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Packed to the Rafters (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Packed to the Rafters is an Australian family-oriented television series which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The show has continued on Tuesdays in this timeslot for its entire run. The drama series features a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, getting home, couple relations, living with parents, nothing goes right, anniversary, siblings relations, parents and children, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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 8.3
 128K
The Pacific (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 530 min.
TV show
Story: A 10-part mini-series from the creators of "Band of Brothers" telling the intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.
Style: serious, disturbing, emotional, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, battlefield, war, battles, marines, soldier, combat, squad, american soldier, pacific war, imperial japan ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 2010s, 20th century
Place: pacific ocean, japan, alabama, okinawa, asia ...
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 8.9
 133K
Gravity Falls (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
Style: captivating, exciting, offbeat, anime, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family friendly, adult ...
Plot: supernatural, friendship, small town, youth, twins, magical, child protagonist, mysterious place, summer vacation, monster, imaginary, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, california
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