The Doctor Blake Mysteries

When a wayward girl from the local reform school is found dead in Lake Wendouree, Dr. Blake is immediately suspicious. He shocks the police with his unconventional investigative methods.

On the eve of Anzac Day, Dr. 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 traveling 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. 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.

A psychiatric inmate is found with a murder weapon in hand at the scene of a brutal killing. When the inmate confesses, Dr. Blake doubts the case is quite as neat as it appears.

Dr. Blake is drawn into the new world of television when contestants of a successful quiz show start dying.

A prospector announces to a crowded pub that he has struck gold. Later that night, he is found dead at the bottom of his mine shaft.