MysteryDrama
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 sacred, and no one is safe.
When a wayward girl from the local reform school is found dead in Lake Wendouree, Dr Lucien Blake is immediately suspicious and shocks the police with his unconventional investigative methods.
On the eve of Anzac Day, Dr Lucien Blake is called to the morgue where the attendant has been murdered. With the autopsy tools and a body missing, Dr Blake smells a rat.
When a travelling salesman dies in a car accident, police blame alcohol. Dr Blake concludes that the victim was not drunk and died before the crash of very unusual causes.
A delirious prisoner on death row tells Dr Lucien Blake he is innocent of the police shooting for which he is soon to hang. Dr Blake pulls out all stops to uncover the truth.
Things get very ugly in Ballarat when the Begonia Festival's head judge is found incinerated in his own glasshouse, all eyes turn to two feuding contestants.
The death of a migrant factory foreman initially looks like an industrial accident. Dr Blake digs deeper revealing a hideous string of crimes and the ugly side of post war Australia. Meanwhile, Jean receives a marriage proposal.
In a psychiatric hospital, Nurse Violet is brutally stabbed. An inmate is found over her body holding a bloody knife, but Dr Lucien Blake is unsure he is really the culprit and begins an investigation.
Doctor Lucien Blake is drawn into the new world of TV when contestants of a successful TV Quiz Show start dying.
A prospector strikes gold and later that night is found dead at the bottom of his mine shaft after showing off the nugget in the pub. The location of the murder triggers distressing war memories for Doctor Blake.
The suicide of the local hospital’s first female doctor shocks the community. Dr Blake suspects foul play and sets out to find the murderer amongst the staff and board of the hospital. Meanwhile, another letter from Singapore arrives for Lucien. It takes him days to work up the courage to open it. His reaction to the news about his missing wife and daughter shocks Jean, Mattie and Danny.
Cast: Craig McLachlan, Nadine Garner, Charlie Cousins, Joel Tobeck, Belinda McClory, Cate Wolfe, John Wood, David Whiteley, Anna McGahan, Timothy Quabba, Ian Rooney, Rick Donald, Craig Hall, John Stanton, Rodger Corser, Lee Beckhurst, Ling Cooper Tang, Nick Farnell, Tim Potter, Neil Pigot, Sara Gleeson, Helen Morse, Gary Sweet, Ben Anderson, Sharelle Starr, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Marg Downey, Jenny Seedsman, Laurence Breuls, Aaron Jakubenko
Genres: Mystery, Drama
Craig McLachlan
Doctor Lucien Blake
Nadine Garner
Jean Beazley
Charlie Cousins
Joel Tobeck
Matthew Lawson
Belinda McClory
Alice Harvey
Cate Wolfe
Mattie O'Brien
John Wood
Patrick Tyneman
David Whiteley
Bill Hobart
Anna McGahan
Rose Anderson
Timothy Quabba
Ned Simmons
Ian Rooney
Cec Drury
Rick Donald
Daniel Parks
Craig Hall
William Munro
John Stanton
Douglas Ashby
Rodger Corser
Frank Carlyle
Lee Beckhurst
Edward Tyneman
Ling Cooper Tang
Mei Lin Blake
Nick Farnell
Father Emery
Tim Potter
Gus Hawting
Neil Pigot
Major Derek Alderton
Sara Gleeson
Joy McDonald
Helen Morse
Agnes Clasby
Gary Sweet
Norman Baker
Ben Anderson
Robert Hannam
Sharelle Starr
Nurse
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Nell Clasby
Marg Downey
Evelyn Toohey
Jenny Seedsman
Susan Tyneman
Laurence Breuls
Terry Reynolds
Aaron Jakubenko
Jack Beazley
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