About this season
Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past. Along the way there will be scandal, adultery, pioneers, bushrangers, artists and royalty. Join the trail of discovery to uncover where these celebrities came from as they find out just who they think they are.
Episodes (8)
1. Andrew Denton
Aired 8 July 2014 • 50 min
A generation ago Andrew Denton’s family anglicised their name from Ditkofsky to Denton, in an effort to keep members safe at a time of entrenched racial intolerance. Andrew now attempts to find out more about his family's past.
2. Rebecca Gibney
Aired 15 July 2014 • 50 min
Rebecca Gibney attempts to find out more about her past and travels to New Zealand. The journey takes her from Parihaka to Wellington to Auckland, where she learns some shocking truths about her family history.
3. Jacki Weaver
Aired 22 July 2014 • 50 min
After Jacki Weaver became a grandmother, she has had the burning ambition to discover about her father‟s biological mother.
4. Richard Roxburgh
Aired 29 July 2014 • 50 min
Richard Roxburgh has become well known for playing different complicated characters, but knows little of the people in his own past. H e founds out about his family‟s footprints in an unexpected corner of the world.
5. Amanda Keller
Aired 5 August 2014 • 50 min
Amanda Keller finds out that her bloodline has survived against all odds as she discovers that an ancestor faced hell on earth in Australia‟s most brutal prison and a mother who saved her family in the face of tragedy.
6. Adam Goodes
Aired 12 August 2014 • 50 min
Adam Goodes learns more about his aboriginal heritage, journeying into the remote Flinders Ranges finding evidence of his ancestors from thousands of years ago.
7. Lisa McCune
Aired 19 August 2014 • 50 min
Lisa discovers the man she thought was her biological Grandfather, wasn't in fact related to her Dad at all.
8. Paul McDermott
Aired 26 August 2014 • 50 min
Paul McDermott's mother Betty, was adopted and raised by relatives but mystery surrounds the circumstances and her adoptive parents died without giving her any information.Paul attempts to follow the trail back to the early 20th century and finds out about a family torn apart by poverty and a decimating epidemic.