emerald-86857 I very much enjoy this show. I look forward to every episode. Acting is very good and the plots are entertaining. It is nice to watch a television show without profanity and vulgarity. This just goes to show that it is not necessary to have those negative attributes and still be entertained. Thank you for making!

bbigdiddle Okay - we bit on it and paid to watch season 4. Only to get part way through and just as The good doc & Mrs. Beasley are going to (Oh MY !!!) FINALLY hug & ... Kiss! there is wait ... a knock at the door. Oh my, who could it be. No, you don't say - it is the lost wife from China ???? Mere millimeters from Mrs Beasley's lips and that darn knock. Sigh ... Did you really have to go there ? Really ? It just pisses a person off. Never. Never get any satisfaction. Any pay off. It's another "Hawkeye never gets even a TASTE of those damn Adam's Ribs. Inches from his lips after massive scheming to get said ribs & the "incoming wounded" alarm sounds. Not even 3 seconds to taste ? Nothing. They don't even ask the cook to put away and save. They just HAVE to leave em' on the table & run. Forever withheld. This old and way over used convention is SO tired. Stop it -please. We couldn't take it & turned off Dr Blake. And haven't returned.

qtaq-63285 I just ran across this show on Netflix and just really fell in love with it. I was sadden to learn it was canceled by ABC really don't understand why. Greatly written awesome acting. Someone should surely pick it up and continue the Mysteries of Doctor Blake. I would recommend this show to any one.

pensman One of the advantages of having a multi-region DVD player is being able to watch programs from all over the world; hence, I get to watch Dr. Blake (Craig McLachian). The series is set in 1950's Australia in the town of Ballarat. Having served his turn in the army as a doctor assigned to the British hospital in Singapore, Blake was witness to atrocities, served time in a POW camp, and lost both his Asian wife (died) and daughter (orphanage). There are hints he also worked for British Intelligence; but now he has returned home, taken up his father's practice, and serves as the police surgeon (medical examiner). With his curious nature, he quickly finds himself working as amateur detective. While he has a somewhat combative relationship with boyhood friend. now Chief Supt,. Matthew Lawson (Joel Tobeck), they generally find themselves working together to sort out the crimes and catch the criminal. During the first season, Blake had an ally in Constable Daniel Parks (Rick Donald); in the second season that position is taken by Senior Constable Charlie Davis (Charlie Cousins). Then there is additional support from his insightful housekeeper Jean Beazley (Nadine Garner) ; lodger and district nurse Mattie O'Brien (Cate Wolfe) ; and assist. ME Alice Harvey (Belinda McClory). Ballarat seems to be the Australian equivalent of Cabot Cove, Maine in that it has a pretty murderous population. One of the things I enjoy about the series is the development and growth of the principal cast members. We learn a little more about each with every new episode. The mysteries are pretty good but the setting is somewhat limited to the obviously historical buildings available. This is not any real distraction but rather gives the series a feeling of reality. Dr. Blake is somewhat a character of flaws which we are given to understand are a result of his war years. He drinks too much, jumps to the occasional wrong conclusion too quickly, and can rub the town's important people the wrong way which can have consequences for both himself and his friends. Indeed at the end of season two Chief Supt. Matthew Lawson is sent off for "political" reasons and is replaced by Acting Supt. Doug Ashby, who clearly has no admiration or respect for his Medical Examiner. There is a lot to like with this series and I look forward to watching series three which I have ordered from Australia, and I understand a fourth series has been commissioned.