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

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.

Doctor Lucien Blake is drawn into the new world of TV when contestants of a successful TV Quiz Show start dying.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 police investigate the death of Dr. Hazel Mahoney who seems to have committed suicide in her office at Ballarat Hospital.

Doctor Lucien Blake returns from a trip to China seeking news of his daughter but he arrives back in Ballarat to find himself once again deep in a murder mystery involving the local Town Council.

Rock N'Roll, a preacher who visits town with a dark past, bodgies, and wedgies - it all adds up to another mystery for Doctor Blake.

Murder at the Cinema and Dr Blake is there to solve it. Was it the manager? An usher? The candy girl? One of the audience? All is revealed as Doctor Blake unravels one mystery to find an even darker one involving young girls of Ballarat.

John Doe - a mysterious body found in the local park. Apples, illegal workers, reds under the bed - sounds like 1950s Ballarat and a job for Doctor Blake.

It was a dark and stormy night in old Ballarat and Cec Drury was about to be shocked at what fell from the sky in front of the Colonists'Club. Looks like another case for Dr Blake.

The local Headmaster is found dead. So who had it in for him - A student? Deputy Headmaster? Lover? And what is Chief Supt Lawson's secret?

Two bodies in the one grave. Will Doctor Blake prescribe something to stop the coffin? Lucien horses around and eventually solves the problem with the plot.

A mystery from Lucien's past comes back to haunt him as a mysterious room in his house reveals its secrets.

When a beloved old parish priest is found murdered in the church confessional, Doctor Blake needs to unravel the secrets and lies of parishioners in order to get to the truth.

When Jean's son Jack returns to Ballarat, he becomes a suspect in the murder of the wealthy Dennison family. Dr. Blake must solve a mystery that is close to home.

After finishing a rowing race, a winning team member dies after being thrown into Lake Wendouree during team celebrations.

When a Ballarat farmer is found dead in a cow pen, locals are quick to blame livestock for trampling the man but Doctor Blake isn't convinced.

When a social worker is murdered on Bonfire Night, suspicion immediately turns to an Aboriginal teen. But as Doctor Blake investigates he finds there was more than one person in attendance that night with murder in their heart.

When a famous actress is murdered at a charity event at the Colonist's Club, it really does become a Night to Remember.

When Dr Blake investigates the death of one of Mattie's friends from university at the Eureka Memorial site, he uncovers quite a few political and family tensions.