List of The Doctor Blake Mysteries episodes
The following is a list of episodes for the Australian television drama mystery programme, The Doctor Blake Mysteries. As of 25 March 2016, 36 episodes of The Doctor Blake Mysteries have aired.[1]
Series overview
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 10 | 1 February 2013 | 5 April 2013 | ||
| 2 | 10 | 7 February 2014 | 11 April 2014 | ||
| 3 | 8 | 13 February 2015 | 3 April 2015 | ||
| 4 | 8 | 5 February 2016 | 25 March 2016 | ||
Episodes
Series 1 (2013)
| No. overall |
No. in series |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Australian viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Still Waters" | Andrew Prowse | Stuart Page | 1 February 2013 | 1.176 (Overnight)[2] |
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It's 1959 and Doctor Lucien Blake has returned to rural Ballarat to take over his deceased father's medical practice. He has also taken on the role of police surgeon. A woman is found floating dead in Lake Wendouree, and it's discovered that things may not be exactly as they seem when the good Doctor Lucien Blake decides to dig a little deeper. Guest cast: John Wood, Penne Hackforth-Jones and Ryan O'Kane | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Greater Good" | Declan Eames | Stuart Page | 8 February 2013 | 0.935 (Overnight)[3] |
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The day before ANZAC day Doctor Lucien Blake runs into a number of old army colleagues who are in town to find two army deserters, but there is no time to catch up and share old memories as Doctor Blake is called away to investigate the horrific death of a morgue attendant. Guest cast: Neil Pigot, Ben Anderson and Chloé Boreham | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Death of a Travelling Salesman" | Ian Barry | Stuart Page & Chelsea Cassio | 15 February 2013 | 1.131[4] |
| 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. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Brotherly Love" | Andrew Prowse | Stuart Page | 22 February 2013 | 1.095[5] |
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A delirious prisoner on death row tells Dr Lucien Blake that he is innocent of the police shooting for which he is soon to hang. Dr Blake pulls out all stops to uncover the truth. Guest cast: Daniel Daperis and Sara Gleeson First appearance of Joy McDonald | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Hearts and Flowers" | Ian Barry | Stuart Page | 1 March 2013 | 1.088[6] |
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When the Begonia Festival's head judge is found burnt to death in his own glasshouse, all eyes turn to two feuding contestants. Guest cast: John Wood, David Whiteley, Tony Nikolakopoulos, Alinta Chidzey, and Michael Bishop | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "If the Shoe Fits" | Andrew Prowse | Stuart Page | 8 March 2013 | 1.021[7] |
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The death of a migrant factory foreman looks like an industrial accident. Dr Blake digs deeper revealing a string of crimes and the ugly side of post war Australia. Meanwhile Jean receives a proposal. Guest cast: John Wood, Sara Gleeson and Jacek Koman | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Bedlam" | Declan Eames | Chris Corbett | 15 March 2013 | 0.836 (Overnight)[8] |
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A psychiatric inmate is found, murder weapon in hand, at the scene of a brutal murder. The inmate also confesses but is this case as neat as it appears? Guest cast: John Stanton, Matthew Dyktynski and Lara Jean Marshall First appearance of Chief Supt. Douglas Ashby | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Game of Champions" | Ian Barry | Stuart Page | 22 March 2013 | 0.948[9] |
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Doctor Lucien Blake is drawn into the new world of television when contestants of a successful TV quiz show start dying. Guest cast: John Wood and Nicholas Bell | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "All That Glitters" | Andrew Prowse | Tim Pye | 29 March 2013 | 0.969[10] |
| A prospector announces to a crowded pub that he has struck gold and is later found dead at the bottom of his mine shaft. The location of the murder triggers distressing war memories for Dr Blake. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Someone's Son, Someone's Daughter" | Ian Barry | Jane Allen | 5 April 2013 | 1.045[11] |
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The suicide of Ballarat Hospital's first female doctor shocks the community. Dr Lucien Blake suspects foul play and sets out to find the murderer amongst the staff and board of the hospital. Guest cast: John Wood and Sara Gleeson Last regular appearance of Constable Daniel Parks | ||||||
Series 2 (2014)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | AUS viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1 | "The Heart of the Matter" | Declan Eames | Stuart Page | 7 February 2014 | 1.117 |
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Blake returns from Shanghai just as the mayor of Ballarat is murdered. Blake and Superintendent Lawson have to tread carefully among the mayor's many enemies. When Blake's friend, Joy, is also found dead in the same place it becomes personal. A new senior constable Charlie Davis, believed by the Lawson to have been sent by Melbourne to report back on himself and Blake's activities. Guest cast: John Wood and Sara Gleeson First regular appearance of Constable Charlie Davis and last appearance of Joy McDonald | ||||||
| 12 | 2 | "The Food of Love" | Declan Eames | Pete McTighe | 14 February 2014 | 1.011 |
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Bobby Lee, lead singer of a rock and roll group, dies in an alley, of a single stab wound, outside Ballarat's concert hall amongst his fans. Blake investigates his fans including a pub owner's 16 year old daughter with a vivid imagination, another fanatical female fan, other band members and a preacher with a violent past who hates the devil's music. Mattie spends the day in a cell after assaulting senior constable Davis. Guest cast: Cameron Daddo | ||||||
| 13 | 3 | "A Foreign Field" | Lee Rogers | Marcia Gardner | 21 February 2014 | 1.034 |
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The body of a man is found dead by a tree having been there overnight. The autopsy reveals he had been poisoned by cyanide and his clothes have no labels. The last person to be seen with the man was a blonde woman. When his wife appears they believe they have his name but she becomes a suspect, as a blonde, when further investigation reveals the man had multiple identities and lovers. Together with a coded message, which Blake tries to decode, a soviet agent is suspected and a retarded peeping tom may hold a clue. A new pathologist Alice Harvey joins the Ballarat medical team. Guest cast: Edwina Wren, Sibylla Budd and Mark Casamento First regular appearance of Dr. Alice Harvey | ||||||
| 14 | 4 | "Smoke and Mirrors" | Lee Rogers | Chelsea Cassio | 28 February 2014 | 1.111 |
| Two seemingly unrelated incidents; the president of the local flying club falling to his death from the balcony of the Colonists Club but with massive internal injuries and a police constable injured in a hit and run. Tobacco smuggling seems to be the connection but the two local pilots have alibis and the only airworthy plane was on the ground. Senior constable Davis falls foul of Superintendent Lawson. | ||||||
| 15 | 5 | "Crossing The Line" | Pino Amenta | Chelsea Cassio | 7 March 2014 | 1.020 |
| When the projectionist dies in a fire in his projection room at the cinema it soon becomes apparent he was murdered. Blake finds in the projectionist room highly flammable 16mm film partially destroyed. A bill found on the dead man for a four poster bed delivered to a derelict mansion owned by Patrick Tyneman's son. Restoring some of the film reveals a pornographic film and Mattie knows one of the participants. Jean has a possible suitor in a fireman who was in the cinema and tried to save the projectionist's life. | ||||||
| 16 | 6 | "Mortal Coil" | Pino Amenta | Stuart Page | 14 March 2014 | 1.002 |
| At a funeral under the weight, the pallbearers drop the coffin, and it bursts open to reveal two bodies. The second body is of an itinerant scrap metal dealer shot in the head. Blake knew the man and using his horse and cart retraces his route to an abandoned shed and evidence of another murder. Lawson and Davis are perturbed by Blake's erratic behaviour that has come to Melbourne's attention. Blake and Lawson dig up another body which leads to a search for a third. | ||||||
| 17 | 7 | "The Silence" | Declan Eames | Pete McTighe | 21 March 2014 | 1.101 |
| The headmaster of the local school is found dead in his office from a blow to the head but the excessive bleeding and enlarged spleen reveal rat poison as a contributing factor. Lawson suspects the deputy headmaster who bullied him at the same school which they attended as youngsters. Blake looks to how the poison was administered and the women involved with the headmaster when a more sinister reason emerges with two siblings at the school. | ||||||
| 18 | 8 | "The Ties of the Past" | Declan Eames | Marcia Gardner | 28 March 2014 | 1.069 |
| We see her hauntingly beautiful smile at the beginning of the show. Is the young woman an object of art or an artist in her own right? Several claim to be her lover, but how was she treated? Blake sees specters of his past at home and at the crime scene. He is called upon to open a door that had been long locked. As the show ends he sits, seemingly contented, in front of a fire that has not been lit for many years. Doors that have been opened cannot be closed again, however, and Dr. Blake must face that his mother’s relationship to the world was more complicated than his younger self could have supposed. This show is critical in understanding his personal quest in the third season. | ||||||
| 19 | 9 | "The Sky is Empty" | Ian Barry | Chelsea Cassio | 4 April 2014 | 1.083 |
| A is for adultery, B is for Bees, C is for Covetousness, D is for Dead. How has Father Mortenson died? Who had motive? Lawson is preoccupied, but why? How many lapsed Catholics find their way to Church? Does Blake feel guilt for his abandonment? | ||||||
| 20 | 10 | "An Invincible Summer" | Ian Barry | Stuart Page | 11 April 2014 | 1.060 |
| Most of the wealthy and philathropic Dennison family is found gunned down, apparently at their breakfast, at the same time the race that opens the show is taking place. Things may not be what they seem. | ||||||
Series 3 (2015)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | AUS viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1 | "King of the Lake" | Pino Amenta | Michael Harvey | 13 February 2015 | 1.174 |
| A 17 year old champion rower drowns after being thrown into the lake in celebration of a win. Blake is unhappy with the way the extremely fit boy drowned so quickly and with alcohol in his lungs. The boy's obstructive, domineering father with heart trouble hampers the investigation and the boy's recent phobia about the colour yellow may be the key to solving the mystery. Blake offers lodgings to Charlie Davis and in clearing the room finds a medical file on his own mother. | ||||||
| 22 | 2 | "My Brother's Keeper" | Pino Amenta | Pino Amenta | 20 February 2015 | 1.063 |
| The death of a farmer trampled to death in his own cattle pens and a misidentification leads to problems for Blake when Superintendent Ashby is dismissed and replaced by Superintendent Munroe, who is determined to rein in Blake or dismiss him as police surgeon. | ||||||
| 23 | 3 | "This Time and This Place" | Fiona Banks | Michael Miller | 27 February 2015 | 1.156 |
| A young woman is shot dead at a Bonfire Night celebration and the police arrest an Aboriginal boy holding a gun in his hand. Blake realises the murder is not that simple and is forced to challenge the racist bias of both the police and the whole town but the evidence clears then condemns the boy. Jean receives a letter that her son's wife is expecting a baby. Blake writes to his daughter in China. | ||||||
| 24 | 4 | "By the Southern Cross" | Fiona Banks | Roger Monk | 6 March 2015 | 1.103 |
| Communist agitators, friends of Mattie from university, descend on Ballarat to cause trouble when a government minister, Mattie's father, is speaking. One of the agitators is found dead and Blake seeks evidence to corroborate forensic evidence on the body. Mattie suspects Charlie is spying on Blake for Superintendent Munroe. Blake is shocked to discover from one of his mother's friends that she died of a diabetic coma. | ||||||
| 25 | 5 | "A Night to Remember" | Karl Zwicky | Jeff Truman | 13 March 2015 | 1.117 |
| When a famous actress is murdered at a charity event at the Colonist's Club, it really does become a Night to Remember. | ||||||
| 26 | 6 | "Women and Children" | Karl Zwicky | Stuart Page | 20 March 2015 | 1.012 |
| A murder in the hospital leads Blake into a maze of sexual politics and revenge. | ||||||
| 27 | 7 | "Room without a View" | Declan Eames | Chelsea Cassio | 27 March 2015 | 1.077 |
| Why does Dr Blake decide to spend the night in the same hotel room where he found a drunken business owner dying just a few hours earlier? How could it be murder if the room was barricaded from within? Who profits from the sale gone bad? Does everyone have a sordid, alcohol-soaked past? Is anyone who he or she seems to be? Will alcohol continue betraying the mighty and fortifying the weak? Can any escape its influence? Who will keep his or her job? Who will resign? Not all who wander are lost. Not all the proper are upright. | ||||||
| 28 | 8 | "Darkness Visible" | Declan Eames | Stuart Page | 3 April 2015 | 1.205 |
| While investigating the murder of a local magistrate, Dr Blake realises the answers to this crime are inextricably linked with the death of his mother 40 years earlier. A new housekeeper comes as Jean leaves to be with her son. Will the doctor realize all that he has lost and might lose? | ||||||
Series 4 (2016)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | AUS viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 1 | "The Open Road" | Declan Eames | Stuart Page | 5 February 2016 | 1.142 |
| It's 1960 and Dr Lucien Blake returns home to find Ballarat hosting a very public stopover in a cross-country, endurance motor race - and a very suspicious death. | ||||||
| 30 | 2 | "Golden Years" | Declan Eames | Pete McTighe | 12 February 2016 | 1.091 |
| Two businessmen/brothers announce plans for a theme park to glorify Ballarat's goldrush past. The following morning one brother is found dead in the local baths. Doctor Blake soon realises the death is suspicious. | ||||||
| 31 | 3 | "Lucky Numbers" | Fiona Banks | Paul Oliver[12] | 19 February 2016 | 1.098 |
| A kidnapping involving the winners of the first ever state lottery leads Blake into a shady world of greed and envy. Meanwhile Blake is waiting for the perfect moment to finally propose to Jean. | ||||||
| 32 | 4 | "Against The Odds" | Fiona Banks | Stuart Page[13] | 26 February 2016 | 1.125 |
| A jockey dies the morning after a big win. But Blake has other worries to deal with - his home life has unexpectedly been thrown into chaos. How will he solve this one? | ||||||
| 33 | 5 | "The Price of Love" | John Hartley | Chelsea Cassio[14] | 4 March 2016 | 1.088 |
| When a soldier is killed during a routine training exercise, Doctor Blake finds himself at the Ballarat Military Base facing his old nemesis, Major Derek Alderton. | ||||||
| 34 | 6 | "A Difficult Lie" | John Hartley | Paul Jenner[15] | 11 March 2016 | 1.081 |
| When a reporter's body is discovered on the 18th hole at the local golf course, Blake is called in to investigate. | ||||||
| 35 | 7 | "For Whom The Bell Tolls" | Ian Barry | Sarah Lambert | 18 March 2016 | 1.018 |
| A man falls from the Ballarat Fire Station bell tower. What appears to be a suicide turns into a murder investigation taking Blake deep into the heart of the Regional Fire Association. | ||||||
| 36 | 8 | "The Visible World" | Ian Barry | Stuart Page | 25 March 2016 | 1.059 |
| When Blake's nemesis is killed, he and his family are in danger. He must work hard from a prison cell to find out who the killer is before the killer reaches him. | ||||||
References
- ↑ "The Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries - ABC TV". ABC1. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ↑ "Friday 1 February 2013". TV Tonight. 2 February 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ "Friday 8 February 2013". TV Tonight. 9 February 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ "Timeshifted: Friday 15 February 2013". TV Tonight. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ "Timeshifted: Friday 22 February 2013". TV Tonight. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ "Timeshifted: Friday 1 March 2013". TV Tonight. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ "Timeshifted: Friday 8 March 2013". TV Tonight. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ "Friday 15 March 2013". TV Tonight. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ "Timeshifted: Friday 22 March 2013". TV Tonight. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ "Timeshifted: Friday 29 March 2013". TV Tonight. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ "Timeshifted: Friday 5 April 2013". TV Tonight. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4973666/?ref_=ttep_ep3
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4973668/?ref_=ttep_ep4
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4973670/?ref_=ttep_ep5
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4973672/?ref_=ttep_ep5