The Best Episodes of The Doctor Blake Mysteries

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. (Season Final)

Director: Declan Eames

Writer: Stuart Page

When Blake's old friend turned enemy Derek Alderton is found dead, the hunt for the killer turns back onto Blake himself.

Director: Ian Barry

Writer: Stuart Page

The death of a policeman coincides with the reappearance of an old enemy, as the past and the present begin to finally catch up with Blake.

Director: Fiona Banks

Writer: Stuart Page

When the local hardware store owner is mysteriously found dead in a hotel room, Dr Blake decides to spend the night in that same room to try and solve the crime.

Director: Declan Eames

Writer: Chelsea Cassio

When a Ballarat school Principal is found dead, Blake and Lawson find themselves back that the school where they first met as boys.

Director: Declan Eames

Writer: Pete McTighe

When a famous actress is murdered at a charity event at the Colonist's Club, it really does become a 'Night to Remember' as Blake tries to find the killer with very little to help him.

Director: Karl Zwicky

Writer: Jeff Truman

A murder in the hospital leads Blake into a maze of sexual politics and revenge.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

A kidnapping involving the winners of the first ever state lottery leads Blake into a shady world of greed and envy. While a mysterious person arrives from Blake's past.

Director: Fiona Banks

Writer: Paul Oliver

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.

Director: Ian Barry

Writer: Jane Allen

When members of a wealthy, much respected Ballarat family are discovered brutally murdered in their own home, the town demands justice.

Director: Ian Barry

Writer: Stuart Page

Doctor Lucien Blake returns from a trip to Chine 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.

Director: Declan Eames

Writer: Stuart Page

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.

Director: Declan Eames

Writer: Pete McTighe

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

Director: Declan Eames

Writer: Marcia Gardner

When Dr Blake investigates the death of a student leader at the Eureka Memorial site, he uncovers quite a few political and family tensions.

Director: Fiona Banks

Writer: Michael Miller

Blake helps the new Chief Superintendent investigate the mysterious death of a prominent businessman.

Director: Declan Eames

Writer: Pete McTighe

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.

Director: Ian Barry

Writer: Sarah Lambert

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.

Director: Pino Amenta

Writer: Chelsea Cassio

When the old parish priest is found dead, Doctor Blake needs to unravel the secrets and lies of parishioners in order to get to the truth.

Director: Ian Barry

Writer: Chelsea Cassio

When an elite schoolboy rower wins a regatta on Lake Wendouree then inexplicably drowns, his mother asks Doctor Blake to find the truth behind her son's death.

Director: Pino Amenta

Writer: Michael Harvey

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.

Director: Pino Amenta

Writer: Chelsea Cassio

Dr Lucien Blake returns home to find Ballarat hosting a very public stopover in a round - Australia motor race - and a very suspicious death.

Director: Declan Eames

Writer: Stuart Page

When a reporter's body is discovered on the 18th hole at the local golf course, Blake is called in to investigate.

Director: John Hartley

Writer: Paul Jenner

When a French Chef is found murdered in the freezer of a restaurant, suspicion soon turns to Bill Hobart. Can Blake clear Hobart's name, or is the Senior Sergeant guilty of brutally murdering a man.

Director: Alister Grierson

Writer: Victoria Madden

When a controversial writer is found dead & her sister is found unconscious from a suspected suicide, Blake has to search out some truths about Ballarat in order to understand how & why the woman died.

Director: Alister Grierson

Writer: Stuart Page

When Blake is called to investigate the murder of a retired carpenter, his only real suspect is discovered praying over the body and covered in blood.

Director: Daina Reid

Writer: Paul Jenner