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Any more mysteries for Doctor Blake?

Jean prepares to say farewell, but fans of the good Dr. Blake will be hoping for more...

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ABC’s Doctor Blake Mysteries has its finale this Friday night, having enjoyed another season of excellent figures.

Regularly sitting between 800,000 – 950,000 viewers it is easily ABC’s strongest local drama series -if not TV’s most popular across all networks.

Fans will soon be awaiting news about a possible fourth season.

An ABC spokesperson today said the show had not yet been recommissioned, although TV Tonight is hearing encouraging whispers around the traps….

Craig McLachlan is also up for a Silver Logie as Most Popular Actor in May.

The finale airs 8:30pm Friday on ABC.

When a magistrate is found poisoned the clues point towards various pillars of the town, all of them associated with the Masonic Lodge.

But as Blake digs deeper, he finds disturbing echoes in the death of his own mother, forty years earlier. And while Blake inches towards an answer, Jean prepares to say goodbye, in preparation for moving to Adelaide and her own family, and out of Blake’s life.

Guest stars Marg Downey as Evelyn, John Wood as Tyneman, John Stanton as Doug Ashby, David Whiteley as Hobart, Rod Mullinar as Clement.

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  1. I thought this might be the April 1st gag. More soporific Dr. Blake with the premise stretched beyond breaking point. This show asks the big questions: Why can’t the police solve any crimes? Does Dr. Blake have anything else to wear? Does Mrs. Beasley know how to cook?

  2. Craig McLachlan’s character is so low-key, he almost disappears into himself. I’d like to see a little of Craig’s own ebullient manner injected into the series, which might allow him to speak with a little more verve than the constant one note sotto voce that he’s adopted. It’s very sleep inducing !

  3. One of the best around, I was a little bit sceptical at first having Craig in the lead role, but I take my hat off to him, he is excellent in the role as all of the others are.

    It is good to see John Wood in another role as opposed to Blue Heelers and the unforgettable Rafferty’s Rules.

  5. I watched all of the episodes thus far last week. I saved them up. I do so enjoy Dr Blake and I have pretty much stopped marvelling that it is Craig McLachlan!! He is very good, but I enjoy all the characters. Let there me more.

  6. We started to ‘binge’ series 4 earlier this week – and (I) was devastated that John Stanton’s character was given the boot in ep 2.

    But your editorial gives me hope that (his character) returns to ‘fight another day’.

    Hope so – Stanton is up there in the top 10 of Oz actors. A National Treasure.

    2. He’s credited for episode 8.

      It’s fairly standard period TV murder mystery stuff, in the style of The Murdoch Mysteries, held together by McLachlan’s performance. The writers have rarely managed to create much drama from the situation with things popping for an episode, then disappearing as they return to the standard formula. So you get 28 episodes of meaningful glances between Lucien and Jean, but no UST because it never feels like its going to go anywhere. There’s always a baddy trying to get rid of Blake, but they never succeed, and when hes forced to resign, he just unresigns and we go back to the usual.

      It is easy to watch and there’s nothing else on Friday nights outside of footy season.

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