David Lomas Investigates

Season 52020

Following on from the success of Lost & Found, David Lomas is back in this brand new series for Three, investigating New Zealand's family secrets. David travels across the world to find the answers and to reunite families. Have a box of tissues at the ready!

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10 Episodes

E01 The Baby Found in a Phone Box

Lomas uncovers startling new information in the search for the parents of a newborn baby abandoned in a Palmerston North phone box, a case unsolved by police for 57 years.

April 14, 2020

E02 The Girl Who Came Back From the Dead

In Bulgaria, Lomas investigates why a disabled child who went on to become a Paralympic skier, was abandoned in an orphanage after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

April 21, 2020

E03 The Boy From Out of Africa

Wellington chef Richard Halgreen heads to Africa to find the parents Zimbabwean social workers removed him from when he was a toddler.

April 28, 2020

E04 The Baby Who Was Lost

Martha Magna is trying to find out why her sister's baby son disappeared after his mother died in a suspicious accident in Outback Australia.

May 5, 2020

E05 The Girl Whose Dad Was Taken Away

Christchurch beautician Jasmine Dupre has not heard from her Spanish father since he was deported for domestic violence when she was a baby.

May 12, 2020

E06 The Lost Father From Sierra Leone

Daniel never met his father, but wrote to him until a brutal civil war devastated Sierra Leone and he lost all contact. Now Daniel wants to know; did his father survive?

May 19, 2020

E07 The Runaway Priest

May 26, 2020

E08 The Mothers Who Lied

Vanessa was told that her father had died, while Gus also only heard one account of who his father was. Two stories of secrecy and betrayal.

June 2, 2020

E09 The Secret Life Of The Man From Canton

His Grandfather lived a life of mystery, now Perry Hakaraia wants the truth. Lomas finds secrets in China and NZ. Who was the opium dealer from Canton.

June 9, 2020

E10 The Baby Left For Dead

A newborn baby abandoned in a derelict Christchurch house, Lorraine wants answers, but Lomas finds much more.

June 16, 2020

David Lomas Investigates

E01 The Baby Found in a Phone Box

E02 The Girl Who Came Back From the Dead

E03 The Boy From Out of Africa

E04 The Baby Who Was Lost

E05 The Girl Whose Dad Was Taken Away

E06 The Lost Father From Sierra Leone

E07 The Runaway Priest

E08 The Mothers Who Lied

E09 The Secret Life Of The Man From Canton

E10 The Baby Left For Dead

Melo Movie

Zindagi Gulzar Hai

Once Upon a Small Town

Healer

Run On

My Secret, Terrius

Voice

Goosebumps: The Vanishing

The Worst Witch

Still 17

See You in My 19th Life

Uncontrollably Fond

Let's Talk About CHU

The Tyrant

Crash Landing on You

Thank You, Next

The Originals

Touch Your Heart

Pinocchio

A Shop for Killers

E01 The Baby Found in a Phone Box

E02 The Girl Who Came Back From the Dead

E03 The Boy From Out of Africa

E04 The Baby Who Was Lost

E05 The Girl Whose Dad Was Taken Away

E06 The Lost Father From Sierra Leone

E07 The Runaway Priest

E08 The Mothers Who Lied

E09 The Secret Life Of The Man From Canton

E10 The Baby Left For Dead