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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.

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.02 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 35226136
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Various
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 9 hours and 30 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 26, 2016
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Various
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Studio Distribution Services
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00UA00BMC
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
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Good Historical Mysteries With a Fascinating Background  - Why is Doctor Blake so Tormented?
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Good Historical Mysteries With a Fascinating Background - Why is Doctor Blake so Tormented?
1959, Ballaret, Australia. It was founded in a gold rush and has grown into a respectable small city. It has its own hospital, a police force led by Chief Superintendent Matthew Lawson, and a Police Surgeon by the name of Dr. Lucien Blake.Ballaret may be respectable, but it has a lot of murders. The police force isn't incompetent, but without Dr. Blake sticking his nose in they would not have the success rate they do. Blake's inquisitiveness is often not appreciated, a hallmark of the series. This is partly Blake's own fault. He has his own demons, he sometimes tries to drown them in drink, and he frequently gets in people's faces with bald truths not welcome. There is comedy in "The Doctor Blake Mysteries", but overall it is a period amateur detective working within a police procedural. Once in a while it seems a little unrealistic, like when the good doctor breaks & enters. On the other hand, Blake is a deeply unhappy man, and, to a certain extent, he doesn't care enough about his own life to worry about the consequences of breaking the rules. Little by little, we learn more about him as we watch the series.Season One has 10 episodes, and corresponds to the Australian Series 1, which aired February/March 2013. Series 2, with another 10 episodes, aired in 2014 and Series 3 started airing in February 2015.With the Region 1 DVD set, you get 3 discs. The 10 episodes total 574 minutes of great viewing, presented in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen and stereo sound. English subtitles are available. There are no bonus extras on this set, which is always a shame with a show set in a prior period. Incidentally, the Doctor Blake TV series is an original TV series and not based on any book series or characters.Episode 1... "Still Waters" Lucien Blake carries an oil painting into The Colonists' Club and sets it up over the bar. It is a beautiful modern painting, a reclining nude woman, her back to the viewer, on a vivid red background. You can tell by Blake's half-smile that he is expecting trouble and looking forward to it. Sure enough, Patrick Tyneman, who owns half the town, strides in and orders, "Get. It. Down."Blake: "The painting stays."Tyneman: "Too far this time. THAT is offensive.""You don't like it?""Of course I don't like it. THIS is a gentleman's club.""And that's the problem." Blake tells the assembled crowd that the object of controversy was painted by a woman.Tyneman: "This was painted by a woman?"Blake: "Yes! Just think - you'll have to let them join one day."So in the very first scene we see that Blake is a rebel and his liberal tendencies do not always endear him.Meanwhile, on an empty dark street, a woman pedestrian is arguing with the driver of a car. She emphasizes her point by pounding on the car door and then walking away. Which is when the car runs her down.In this first episode we learn a little about Lucien. "The war made a mess of him." He came back from WWII to take over his father's practice, and is continually compared to him: "I'm not my father." He even reads banned books!Episode 2... "The Greater Good" A doctor and nurse, looking for a quiet place to smooch, find the body of Bill Prentice, mortuary assistant, on the morgue floor. The Superintendent is more than willing to put it down as an accident because he has more than this body to worry about: "Brass coming in from all over the place for ANZAC Day. The army's on my back, two soldiers have buggered off from the base in South Australia. Official bloody Secrecy Act."So Blake does some sleuthing on his own. As he demonstrates to District Nurse Mattie O'Brien: "It's called luminol. It picks up traces of iron. Invented last century, used to locate iron ore. The Nazis worked out they could also use it to detect the presence of blood."Episode 3... "Death of a Travelling Salesman" Constable Daniel Parks (nephew to Jean Beazley, Blake's housekeeper) is directing traffic around some road construction. A car comes down the hill towards the construction weaving from one side of the road to the other. It plows right through, barely missing Danny before coming to a stop. More strange, when Danny gets the car door open, the driver is dead, his face turned blue, with a bunch of vacuum cleaners in the back seat.Episode 4... "Brotherly Love" It's a police stand-off at a modest house in Ballaret. Young Sean McBride exits the front door waving a pistol: "I can see you there, coppers. I've already shot one of your mates. Now come and get me." He fires a shot into the air and return fire injures him. It doesn't make sense. Suicide by cop?Move to 13 months later, and Sean is due to be executed the next morning, found guilty of murdering a policeman. Leave it to Dr. Blake to think he didn't do it.Episode 5... "Hearts and Flowers" Welcome to the Grand Opening of Ballaret's 7th Annual Begonia Festival. Unfortunately, it's marred by an altercation between two warring families. Late that night, a man in a trenchcoat - we can never see his face clearly - sets fire to a greenhouse. Blake is called out to the site the next morning, because a half-burned body is found inside the greenhouse ruin. It's Professor Ormond, one of the Festival judges. Aside from trying to solve the murder, Blake is pressed to take Ormond's place as judge. When he knows nothing about begonias.Episode 6... "If the Shoe Fits" At Patrick Tyneman's shoe factory (I told you he owned half the town), the foreman and the manager are having an argument. Later that night, after closing time, the foreman is found dead, bled to death after catching his arm in a machine. Nobody seems sorry he's dead, especially the immigrants working the floor. For one thing, as Mirostar Gorski tells Blake, the foreman "has been taking 10% of all our wages for months." And worse. This is one of those mysteries where the victim is so vile, you hope the killer is never caught. How we take workers' rights for granted now.Episode 7... "Bedlam" At the Black Hill Psychiatric Hospital, David Hoyle won't take his medicine from nurse Violet Ashby: "No! I don't want it from you." What does he mean by that? Because later that night, he is found in the bathroom holding a bloody kitchen knife, with the very dead Ashby lying near him on the tiled floor. Fortunately for David, Blake is there to look beyond the obvious.Episode 8... "Game of Champions" Everyone in the Blake household gathers in front of the TV. On-the-air "Live from Ballaret Studios BTV Channel 8 and Tyneman Electrics, we're proud to present 'Game of Champions': The quiz show where only the smartest survive. And now, please welcome the stars of the show, Alan and Verity Coleman." It's the championship round. The longest-running champion, Simon Lo, against the new challenger, James Holbrook.The champion loses! All hail the new champion. It looks like Lo is not a good loser. He accosts the Colemans back stage: "This isn't fair. You made me lose!" Before they can respond, everyone is startled by screaming from upstairs, from where Lo just came. The new champion is dead and racism raises its ugly head.Episode 9... "All That Glitters" Darts at the pub, and Blake is interrupted by Jack, who asks him, "I just wondered if you'd had any more thoughts about tomorrow night."Blake's reply is simple, "No."Jack: "You and the Consul both saw action on the Malay Peninsula during the war. The Board naturally thought you'd like to introduce him."Blake: "Please don't take this the wrong way, Jack. I'd rather have typhoid." Blake gives the impression that he's refusing because he doesn't like public speaking. But it's deeper than that, as everyone finds out when the very drunk Blake crashes the presentation, insults the Consul and socks the Superintendent.Very close to being fired, Blake has another matter on his mind, the murder of a young gold miner. A miner who had such baby-smooth hands that it's a given he never actually dug up the nugget he showed off at the pub.Episode 10... "Someone's Son, Someone's Daughter" Everything stops in Australia when the Melbourne Cup runs every year on the 1st Tuesday in November. At the hospital, there's a little party going on, as the staff, including Mattie, gather round the radio to listen. Listeners include Hazel Mahoney, the first woman surgeon in Ballaret, and Geoffrey Nicholson, hospital administrator who hates her ambition - given that she's just a woman. When Mahoney is found hung in the dormitory later that night, Blake realizes the suicide was staged. What is going on at the Ballaret Military Hospital?Trivia: Dr Blake drives his father's car, a 1930's Coventry Standard. The Standard Motor Company Limited was a motor vehicle manufacturer, founded in Coventry, England in 1903.Recommended mystery series.If you'd like an Australian mystery series that is more light-hearted, I can highly recommend this very cute series. Unfortunately, it sounds like there will be no series 2, so this is all we'll get:Mr. & Mrs. Murder: Series 1Happy Reader
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