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Doctor Blake Mysteries SEASON 1 Premiere Date Set On Ovation TV
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OVATION TV TO AIR SEASONS THREE AND FOUR OF "THE DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES" STARTING ON AUGUST 11
Los Angeles, CA - August 3, 2022 - Ovation TV, America's premier arts network, will begin airing the third and fourth seasons of The Doctor Blake Mysteries later this month. The original, period murder mystery series stars Craig McLachlan as the maverick town doctor Lucien Blake, an impulsive risk-taker who's not afraid to upset the status quo. Created by George Adams and Tony Wright, the third season of The Doctor Blake Mysteries will begin airing on Ovation TV on Thursday, August 11 at 8am ET. With four episodes airing back-to-back every Thursday, season four will then begin airing on Thursday, August 25 at 8am ET.
Dr. Blake has returned to this place he once called home to take over his dead father's medical practice. The dry, yet very human Dr. Blake undertakes his other role as Police Surgeon with precision and gusto - yet many find his unpredictable and unconventional manner unnerving. Ahead of his time, Blake looks to the science of forensics and his own understanding of the human heart and mind to help solve the mysteries that inevitably come his way. Beside Blake, helping and at times hindering, are his housekeeper Jean (Nadine Garner); her nephew Danny (Rick Donald), a young Constable; District Nurse Mattie O'Brien (Cate Wolfe); and Chief Superintendent Matthew Lawson (Joel Tobeck).
Episode descriptions below.
Episode 301 "King of the Lake" airs on Thursday, August 11 at 8am ET
A champion rower is thrown into the lake in celebration and never comes up again. Called in to investigate the cause of drowning, Dr. Lucien Blake soon suspects foul play.
Episode 302 "My Brother's Keeper" airs on Thursday, August 11 at 9:30am ET
Blake is drawn into another murky world as he investigates the death of a local farmer. He discovers a feud between two brothers in the gambling backstreets.
Episode 303 "This Time and This Place" airs on Thursday, August 11 at 11am ET
A young woman is shot dead at a bonfire night celebration, and the police immediately arrest an Aboriginal boy she knew for her murder. However, Blake realises there's more to the murder than meets the eye.
Episode 304 "By the Southern Cross" airs on Thursday, August 11 at 12:30pm ET
When tensions flare up between local workers and some communist students, the students' leader is found dead the next morning on the Eureka stockade memorial. It falls to Blake to sift through the politics and intrigue and find the killer.
Episode 305 "A Night to Remember" airs on Thursday, August 18 at 8am ET
A famous actress comes to the Colonists Club and stuns everyone by dropping dead onstage. Convinced the killer is still in the room, Chief Superintendent Munro locks all the doors and gives Blake just one night to solve the murder.
Episode 306 "Women and Children" airs on Thursday, August 18 at 9:30am ET
One of Ballarat Hospital's most prominent surgeons is found dead on his own operating table. Investigating, Blake is drawn into a web of jealousy and sexual intrigue. Meanwhile, an old ally of Blake's returns from Melbourne.
Episode 307 "Room Without a View" airs on Thursday, August 18 at 11am ET
Blake is called to a hotel where the owner has found a body in one of the rooms. His investigation takes in a shady business deal and a young woman in Mattie's care who has lost her memory after a car crash.
Episode 308 "Darkness Visible" airs on Thursday, August 18 at 12:30pm ET
Patrick Tyneman's son Edward, freshly out of jail, is arrested again for the murder of a freemason. Everyone suspects Edward, but Blake puts aside his former rivalry and tries to get inside the masonic lodge to investigate more closely.
Episode 401 "The Open Road" airs on Thursday, August 25 at 8am ET
Ballarat is hosting a stage of a prestigious cross-country motor race. When a mechanic is found dead underneath one of the cars it's clear foul play is involved. Under pressure for the race to go ahead in a couple of days, Blake and Lawson must investigate quickly.
Episode 402 "Golden Years" airs on Thursday, August 25 at 9:30am ET
A local businessman is found drowned in the swimming baths right after the grand unveiling of his plans for a local theme park about the Ballarat gold rush. Realizing the death is suspicious, Blake begins untangling the victim's complicated personal life.
Episode 403 "Lucky Numbers" airs on Thursday, August 25 at 11am ET
When a lottery winner is kidnapped and held to ransom, Blake uses his keen instincts and personal touch to sift through the suspects. However, there's something else on his mind as well.
Episode 404 "Against the Odds" airs on Thursday, August 25 at 12:30pm ET
An experienced jockey dies on the track when his horse throws him during practice. It doesn't take long to discover evidence of foul play, so Blake and Frank begin asking around Ballarat's shady bookmakers.
Episode 405 "The Price of Love" airs on Thursday, September 1 at 8am ET
At Ballarat military base, a soldier is killed on a routine training exercise. Investigating the tragedy, Blake comes face to face with the new base commander, his old nemesis Major Derek Alderton.
Episode 406 "A Difficult Lie" airs on Thursday, September 1 at 9:30am ET
Frank is playing 18 holes on Ballarat golf course when another club member, a local newspaper reporter, turns up dead in one of the bunkers. Frank and Blake soon discover there is a lot more to local politics than meets the eye.
Episode 407 "For Whom the Bell Tolls" airs on Thursday, September 1 at 11am ET
A firefighter falls from the bell tower of the Ballarat fire station. While it initially looks like a suicide, Blake suspects foul play, but he can't find the evidence to prove it. At home, even now Mei Lin has moved out, things remain complicated.
Episode 408 "The Visible World" airs on Thursday, September 1 at 12:30pm ET
Everyone gathers at Ballarat Observatory to view the eclipse. In the darkness there is a commotion and standing over a body as the lights are turned on is none other than Dr. Lucien Blake. The finger of suspicion falls on him - even Frank has no option but to put him in the cells.
Episodes will also be available on demand and on the Ovation NOW app.
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After taking over his late father's medical practice, Dr. Lucien Blake helps local law enforcement solve some of his hometown's thorniest murders.
THE DOCTOR IS IN! OVATION TV TO AIR "THE DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES" STARTING ON JULY 7
Los Angeles, CA - June 23, 2022 - Ovation TV, America's premier arts network, will begin airing the first season of The Doctor Blake Mysteries next month. The original, period murder mystery series, stars one of Australia's favorite, most versatile actors - Craig McLachlan - as the maverick town doctor Lucien Blake, an impulsive risk-taker who's not afraid to upset the status quo. Created by George Adams and Tony Wright, the first season of The Doctor Blake Mysteries will begin airing on Ovation TV on Thursday, July 7 at 8am ET. With four episodes airing back-to-back every Thursday, season two will then begin airing on Thursday, July 21 at 11am ET.
It's 1959. Dr. Blake has returned to this place he once called home, to take over his dead father's medical practice. Everything seems peaceful on the surface, but seething underneath are the age-old passions of a regional town clashing head-on with the tension and fears of the decade to come. Haunted by the horrors of war, his own personal loss and changed by his experiences as a POW, the wry, dry, yet very human Dr. Blake undertakes his other role as Police Surgeon with precision and gusto - yet many find his unpredictable and unconventional manner unnerving. Ahead of his time, Blake looks to the science of forensics and his own understanding of the human heart and mind to help solve the mysteries that inevitably come his way.
Set in the gothic gold rush town of Ballarat, the wealth that built its grand architecture is long gone - but not the mysteries, murder, and deceit that linger beneath the surface of its faded glory. Beside Blake, helping and at times hindering, are his housekeeper Jean (Nadine Garner); her nephew Danny (Rick Donald), a young Constable; District Nurse Mattie O'Brien (Cate Wolfe); and Chief Superintendent Matthew Lawson (Joel Tobeck).
Episode descriptions below.
Episode 101 "Still Waters" airs on Thursday, July 7 at 8am ET
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.
Episode 102 "The Greater Good" airs on Thursday, July 7 at 9:30am ET
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.
Episode 103 "Death of a traveling salesman." airs on Thursday, July 7 at 11am ET
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.
Episode 104 "Brotherly Love" airs on Thursday, July 7 at 12:30pm ET
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.
Episode 105 "Hearts and Flowers" airs on Thursday, July 14 at 8am ET
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.
Episode 106 "If the Shoe Fits" airs on Thursday, July 14 at 9:30am ET
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.
Episode 107 "Bedlam" airs on Thursday, July 14 at 11am ET
A psychiatric inmate is found murder weapon in hand at the scene of a brutal murder. The inmate also confesses but Dr. Blake doubts the case is quite as neat as it appears.
Episode 108 "Game of Champions" airs on Thursday, July 14 at 12:30pm ET
Doctor Lucien Blake is drawn into the new world of TV when contestants of a successful TV Quiz Show start dying.
Episode 109 "All That Glitters" airs on Thursday, July 21 at 8am ET
A prospector announces to a crowded pub that he has struck 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 Dr. Blake.
Episode 110 "Someone's Son, Someone's Daughter" airs on Thursday, July 21 at 9:30am ET
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.
Episode 201 "The Heart of the Matter" airs on Thursday, July 21 at 11am ET
Blake returns to Ballarat to find the newly elected Mayor lying dead at the bottom of the steps of the Town Hall.
Episode 202 "The Food of Love" airs on Thursday, July 21 at 12:30pm ET
Blake investigates the death of an up-and-coming rock and roll star, after he collapses in an alleyway behind the Hall after a show.
Episode 203 "A Foreign Field" airs on Thursday, July 28 at 8am ET
Doctor Blake struggles to discover the identity of an unknown man and uncover the mystery of who may have killed him.
Episode 204 "Smoke and Mirrors" airs on Thursday, July 28 at 9:30am ET
When a body plunges from the Colonists' Club onto the street below, Blake is thrown into a case that takes him far beyond an accident or even a possible suicide.
Episode 205 "Crossing the Line" airs on Thursday, July 28 at 11am ET
Cinema patrons are shocked when a fire breaks out in the projection booth during a packed screening of Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Episode 206 "Mortal Coil" airs on Thursday, July 28 at 12:30pm ET
When a second body is found in a coffin, Doctor Blake must work out how it got there and who killed this unwanted guest and that's just the start of it.
Episode 207 "The Silence" airs on Thursday, August 4 at 8am ET
When a Ballarat school Principal is found dead, Blake and Lawson find themselves back at the school where they first met as boys.
Episode 208 "The Ties of the Past" airs on Thursday, August 4 at 9:30am ET
The murder of an artists' model draws Doctor Blake into the art world, taking him on a journey of self-discovery as he uncovers a secret about his beloved mother.
Episode 209 "The Sky is Empty" airs on Thursday, August 4 at 11am ET
When the old parish priest is found dead, Doctor Blake needs to unravel the secrets and lies of parishioners to get to the truth.
Episode 210 "An Invincible Summer" airs on Thursday, August 4 at 12:30pm ET
When members of a wealthy, much respected Ballarat family are discovered brutally murdered in their own home, the town demands justice.
Episodes will also be available on demand and on the Ovation NOW app.
First episode date: February 1, 2013
Network: ABC TV Australia, Seven Network
Show type: Crime, Mystery, Period Drama
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