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Find My Family

Season 1 2008

  • 2008-08-26T09:30:00Z on Seven Network
  • 25m
  • 5h 50m (14 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
  • Documentary
Who is my mother? Why did she give me up for adoption? Where does my father live? Why did he leave the country? Australians who are looking for their relatives and friends turn to Find My Family Australia to find answers. Embarking on an emotional journey, the people featured on this moving program are on a desperate search to track down their loved ones. Hosted by Australian actor Jack Thompson, each episode features different people on unique searches, using the specialised expertise of Find My Family’s accomplished detectives to locate missing friends and relatives, often resulting in heart-warming reunions. This emotional and life-changing series follows families as they are reunited for the first time in years, offering real-life, tear-jerking drama that truly tugs at the heart-strings.

14 episodes

Series Premiere

2008-08-26T09:30:00Z

1x01 Episode 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode 1

  • 2008-08-26T09:30:00Z25m

Daryl, a mum to five kids, was adopted at birth. She wants to find the mother who gave her up. 23 year-old Trent has never had a father but now he has a daughter and he’s searching for his own dad.

2008-09-02T09:30:00Z

1x02 Episode 2

1x02 Episode 2

  • 2008-09-02T09:30:00Z25m

Richard’s getting married and he has a new baby. He wants to find his mother, who couldn’t keep him. Rebekah’s always known her father died when she was just a baby, but she’s never met anyone from his side of the family.

2008-09-09T09:30:00Z

1x03 Episode 3

1x03 Episode 3

  • 2008-09-09T09:30:00Z25m

Lynda's mother told her she had a one-night stand and all she knows about her father is his name and that he was in the navy and Amelia has uncovered a family secret; she has a sister, but with only her name she has no idea how to find her.

2008-09-16T09:30:00Z

1x04 Episode 4

1x04 Episode 4

  • 2008-09-16T09:30:00Z25m

Maise never told anyone how many babies she had and how many she adopted out. Maise's grown-up children remember her, and one by one they're finding her to ask Maisie the same question. Why?

2008-09-23T09:30:00Z

1x05 Episode 5

1x05 Episode 5

  • 2008-09-23T09:30:00Z25m

Amy is angry and hurt that she's never had a father in her life. Her own dad just disappeared when she was a baby and Amy has no memory of him. Amy's so upset, she's not sure she even wants to meet her father. But he has his own story to tell.

2008-09-30T09:30:00Z

1x06 Episode 6

1x06 Episode 6

  • 2008-09-30T09:30:00Z25m

When Peter was a just a boy, his mother told him "Before somebody else tells you, you're adopted". Nicole's grandparents, who raised her, always told Nicole that her mother was no good. Now Nicole wants to know the truth about her missing mum.

2008-10-07T09:00:00Z

1x07 Episode 7

1x07 Episode 7

  • 2008-10-07T09:00:00Z25m

When Andrew was a teenager he received a letter from his mother, the mother he'd never met. Debbie remembers the day her mum went to hospital to give birth but when Mum came home, where was the baby?

2008-10-14T09:00:00Z

1x08 Episode 8

1x08 Episode 8

  • 2008-10-14T09:00:00Z25m

Three generations of women in Jo's family have been taken by breast cancer. But a sister she's never met, doesn't know about the family's history. Karen's father left when she was three and Karen wants to find her dad to give her away on her special day.

2008-10-21T09:00:00Z

1x09 Episode 9

1x09 Episode 9

  • 2008-10-21T09:00:00Z25m

Jodie's father was in a famous Aussie movie but he disappeared from her life when she was a baby. Joe left Ireland ending up in Australia. Now, in his 70's Joe's thinking about his two brothers, who he hasn't seen in almost half a century.

2008-10-28T09:00:00Z

1x10 Episode 10

1x10 Episode 10

  • 2008-10-28T09:00:00Z25m

Maryanne was a wild child and by eighteen had a baby boy, Jamie. After a year, Maryanne gave up Jamie for adoption. Monica also gave up her first child after a teenage pregnancy but now Monica's baby is all grown up and wants to know her mother.

2008-11-04T09:00:00Z

1x11 Episode 11

1x11 Episode 11

  • 2008-11-04T09:00:00Z25m

John's son Peter was adopted and raised in the UK. Now twenty-seven years later, John searches for the son he's never known. Siblings Robert and Carol were adopted into a loving family, but they've always been curious about their birth family.

2008-11-11T09:00:00Z

1x12 Episode 12

1x12 Episode 12

  • 2008-11-11T09:00:00Z25m

Zoie is 30, with a family of her own. And she's looking for answers about her own childhood.

2008-11-18T09:00:00Z

1x13 Episode 13

1x13 Episode 13

  • 2008-11-18T09:00:00Z25m

Sharon's mother died tragically when she was a baby. Will Sharon be able to find the family she's never known? Maurie's dad had three separate families himself. Maurie is determined to find his half sister Shelley and bring together their two families.

2008-11-25T09:00:00Z

1x14 Episode 14

1x14 Episode 14

  • 2008-11-25T09:00:00Z25m

A revisit to the families who were reunited throughout the series and a catch up on what happened after the family reunions.

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