The Doctor Blake Mysteries
| The Doctor Blake Mysteries | |
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| Genre |
Mystery Crime Period drama |
| Created by | George Adams Tony Wright |
| Starring |
Craig McLachlan Nadine Garner Rick Donald Cate Wolfe Joel Tobeck Charlie Cousins |
| Composer(s) | Dale Cornelius |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 36 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Tony Wright Carole Sklan Christopher Gist |
| Producer(s) | George Adams |
| Location(s) | Australia |
| Running time | 1 hour (56–59 mins) |
| Production company(s) | December Media |
| Distributor | ABC Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Original release | 1 February 2013 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Doctor Blake Mysteries is an Australian television series that premiered on ABC TV on 1 February 2013 at 8:30 pm. The series stars Craig McLachlan in the lead role of Doctor Lucien Blake, who returns home to Ballarat in the late 1950s to take over his late father's general medical practice after an absence of 30 years. Doctor Blake is a keeper of secrets and a solver of mysteries. The series is produced by Tony Wright and George Adams. A fifth series was commissioned as the final season of the programme, followed by a telemovie to end the series in 2017.
Doctor Lucien Blake left Australia in his 20s to study medicine in Scotland. Following a posting at a London hospital, he joined the British Army as a medical officer. During World War II, Blake's service included the Far East, where he fell in love with and married a Chinese woman, with whom he had a child. However, at the fall of Singapore, he lost them both. Dr Blake also spent time in Thailand's Ban Pong POW camp. After a 33-year absence, Blake returned home in 1959 to take over his late father's practice as a medical general practitioner and also becomes the Ballarat area police surgeon.
Jean Beazley is Blake's receptionist and housekeeper. Having previously served in the same capacity for his father, Jean has difficulty adjusting to Lucien's eccentric and sometimes oblivious behaviour; although considered old-fashioned in her ideas about womanhood, she occasionally challenges Blake's expectation that she wait on him hand and foot. Her husband died in the war and she is aware that her living with the unattached Blake is a source of gossip. Shrewd and observant, she guards her territory zealously, missing nothing and expertly sifting gossip for kernels of fact, which she dispenses when necessary. Her maternal tendencies are often a source of annoyance to her nephew Danny Parks, whom she treats like a son, and lodger Mattie O'Brien, whose outgoing attitude she does not understand at all.
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