She was not happy to see him, settled with the family that took her in years ago, though he was pleased to see her thriving. Blake meets with Munro where he gives his resignation in trade for Munro erasing the charge against Dr Harvey, promising a written resignation in the morning, which satisfies Munro. Jackson is a boxer, and Prentice was killed by a blow to the throat by someone's left hand. Sarah tells Lawson that Ashford's fall from the plane was an accident, but Lawson says it is murder because she failed to help him when the plane's door popped open as the plane banked without its pilot in her seat. In Adam's wallet is a bill for a four poster bed delivered to a derelict mansion owned by Patrick Tyneman's son, Edward. At the hospital, she and her baby are found to be in good condition. Blake drains his own lung before he passes out, seeing a man in the shadows. Another employee at the company had been friends with the husband since high school. At the autopsy they learn from specialist Mr Michaels that Father Morton had a brain tumor, and see that he was stung many times by bees, to which Father Morton was allergic. Returning from their four month honeymoon, they set their bags down in the house, and Lawson is there, calling Blake back to work. Gus and Blake perform the autopsy; showing blows to the head, and soft hands, unexpected for a gold miner. Edward, still on parole, has been expelled from the Masons, by Franklin's instigation. Eaton tells police that he did apply the herbicide once, but another realtor arranged the sale of that farm, which Ruth did not know, and is why Nathan punched Ben. Her father is arrested. A woman in pain is rushed to the hospital by ambulance, early in the morning. It is the week before Christmas, and Blake investigates the murder of Daryl Fitzpatrick, a local farmer shot to death at point blank range. The winning contestant, James Holbrook, on a television quiz show, the Game of Champions, is killed just after the show ends and he finds his prize in a dressing room, touching the new television set. The police find Flanagan's van. Agnes Clasby, a friend of Blake's mother and now patient of Blake, tells him his mother died of diabetic coma, after a party, not appendicitis as he was told. He thinks Judith is dead, but Blake thinks she had a crisis from her lifelong disease. Michaels was the specialist operating on Dorothy's husband after a car crash, and let the husband die, as he had brutally beaten his wife, disabling her, and Micheals had confessed that sin to the priest whose brain was being taken over by a tumor. Superintendent William Munro does not like Blake from the start, and tries to limit him in solving the crimes. Blake finds them in the cemetery and tries to protect Jean. Munro is harsh in interrogations, particularly when he decides to interrogate Dr Harvey with Blake present. She is found dead the next morning with her sister Eve unconscious beside her, seeming to be a murder-suicide that was not completed. He sees how Munro is getting at people who are friends of his, considered too loyal by Munro. Mei Lin checks to learn the man is dead, when a. Blake takes a pistol to the Ballarat observatory on the day of an eclipse to meet Major Alderton. Alex Martin, a jockey dies the morning after a big win, riding around the track on a practice run. Davis does first aid to Lawson. Jean invites Lawson to stay with them, which he accepts. Sarah Alexander's father was killed in a plane accident while Noel Ashford survived and she is bitter about her father's death. Film Victoria and Screen Australia have backed December Media and Channel Seven as they announce a new direction for The Blake Mysteries. Dawn and James were engaged; the prize money was going to start them off in life. Blake still worries about lividity of the corpses, the changing appearance of the body after death. Dr Orton had other enemies, including the local veterinarian Ron Caxton, whose wife died on Orton's table, and the hospital administrator, a would-be doctor who could not face surgery. Munro took a diary from Franklin's room at his death, as Franklin had started writing down past stories after he fell out with Clement. The science teacher Phillip Morrisey, son of the local chemist (pharmacist), is one suspect as the father. She is put in the cell and Blake is released. Without the digoxin, things that had looked yellow to Dennis, now looked the wrong color – the yellow thing. The librarian tells the police the man was Dutch, because he said so while talking about poetry by A D Hope. Christopher is allowed to call his wife and the guests are released. Steven tells the police how his father killed Andy Morgan, and then Sid Bartel, who interrupted him in killing both brothers. When does The Doctor Blake Mysteries season 6 come out? Patrick Tyneman demands Ashby explain who has been arrested, as people are calling the newspaper for information. At home, Jean mentions that she had plans for when her husband returned, to make clear he was man enough. In the UK, the first telemovie (episode number 45) was broadcast in two parts as episodes 9 and 10 of series 5 on 24 and 25 May 2018. Instead, she was the local backroom abortionist, and Charlotte planned to announce that at the ball in revenge. Artist Elaine Greenslade shared her flat and knew her since before Miss McKay studied in Melbourne under Brendan Ross. He, in turn, is murdered by Hannam. Simmons was to testify in a few days with evidence against Gregan, who bribed police at another station, so he is the first suspect in this murder. They find another plane in a hangar, with fresh mud on the tires, but Beatrice has no record of it flying. There is a dinner and a contest for Miss Begonia; Maria announces at the contest that she and Oliver are engaged. Hobart and Charlie have bad feelings between them. Blake and Jean hunt for Catherine in care homes until they can bring her to Ballarat, near her grandmother. Lionel confesses to having been intimate with Eileen Fitzpatrick years earlier. Jean saves Blake by hitting Hildebrand with a wrench as he lowers his car onto Blake. The story opens in church with the priest, Cyril Morton giving a wandering Sunday sermon against adultery. When Munro challenges Murray Nelson, Nelson grabs and chokes Dr Harvey, now at the club. The police, Sergeant Hobart and Charlies Davis, stop him. More than two years have passed since Jean and Lucien’s nuptials. Angela Waterston, also a judge and a woman with the fatal disease aplastic anemia, plans to marry and asks Blake to stand in place of her father at her wedding. Clare enters the room, going after Jock with a knife, but Blake stops her. Danny and another officer arrive at Sean McBride's house, and Sergeant Bill Hobart is taking cover outdoors as Sean is screaming and waving a loaded gun; Danny wounds him in the shoulder. After hearing that the case was solved, Superintendent Lawson tells them he is going to Melbourne, called there to face a disciplinary board. Back at home, Blake comes home to find Jean listening to some of that rock and roll music. Another employee, Gorski, tells Blake that Mosca had been taking a percent of the wages of all the workers. At the same time, Blake is at the airfield inspecting the plane, when Beatrice enters the co-pilot seat and then Sarah Alexander gets in the pilot seat. The telemovie FAMILY PORTRAIT airs Sunday 12th of November on ABC TV. Jean and Lucien set a date for their wedding. Doctor Blake is called to the prison to treat Sean for a high fever. When Dr Harvey complained to the hospital, she was put on notice, not Dr Orton. Ada McCrae had that cable stretched and then removed before the police arrived. He clicks, and sets up a way to expose the killer. A car careens down the road where repairs narrow it and Constable Danny Parks is directing traffic. A dark cloud has been cast over the future of popular TV show The Doctor Blake Mysteries following fresh allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour against the show’s star Craig McLachlan. Investigations in Melbourne reveal that Milton was not Harriet's father; they were partners in scams of older people living in nursing homes. Jean notices the scent of a particular perfume on Charlotte's ball dress. Ross also hit Baldwin with his car. Lawson and Ashby enter the room; Ashby and Clement struggle over the gun and Ashby is shot, dying in Blake's arms. Vern had parted ways from Percy and was using Ethan to fill out the patent forms. Mattie attends a hen party for Amelia, fiancée of Vincent Foster, while Edward Tyneman and other friends host Vincent at the buck (stag) party in the next room. Doctor Blake tells both of them of the antidote. There are two boats in a rowing competition, with a crowd cheering them on, including Patrick Tyneman. The cast gathered on set at Port Melbourne to reflect on the next instalment of the series, which was axed by the ABC early last year citing budget restraints, and which once starred Craig McLachlan as Dr Lucien Blake. Lawson questions him at the police station, where Ledwith explains his habit of destroying any pottery not perfect. Munro tells Sergeant Charlie Davis that Blake's daughter is in Communist China and he visited her there, putting his name on confidential lists. When Blake is found, there is a dead hobo called Bluey next to him, killed by the kidnapper. That makes Edward angry, saying he wants to kill people. The Seven Network today released the synopsis of December Media’s telemovie spin-off of The Doctor Blake Mysteries and the first pic from the set. The other body was Andrew Morgan; the autopsy reveals his death was likely an execution. Blake mentions that his daughter would be 23 now, and he is still seeking her and her mother. Lawson lets Romana go, as Gorski's confession is all Lawson has. Lionel Taylor is a neighbour to the Fitzpatricks, and Blake suspects that the Fitzpatrick son, Kevin, may well be Lionel's son. As of 5 November 2017,[update] 44 episodes of The Doctor Blake Mysteries have aired.[1]. Later that evening, Mattie finds Hazel Mahoney, Ballarat Hospital's first female surgeon, hanging in apparent suicide. Blake does a bit of re-enactment of the scene of the dead man, with Mattie and Jean. Bobby Lee, lead singer of a rock and roll group, dies in an alley, of a single stab wound, outside Ballarat's concert hall amongst his fans, including Mattie. An attempt is made to kill Doctor Blake, but suspended superintendent William Munro takes the fatal bullet instead. He tells them Bobby Lee is the stage name for Gunther Hansen. His hand was cut off by one of the machines, which had no safety switch. Jones drove the car that hit Lawson and broke three of Davis's ribs. TV show guide for The Blake Mysteries (2019). Blake realizes what the piece of shell is, and confronts the sous-chef Mrs Cornish at the closed restaurant, finding her stealing liquor. Jean Blake will become the solver of secrets and crime in a world awash with murder and mayhem when she is drawn into the investigation of Ballarat's most infamous unsolved mysteries. Blake and Laidley save him from the fall that Blake realises killed Mrs McDonald. A sharp instrument is found in Mei Lin's room at the hotel, and Blake is arrested on the evidence of that being the murder weapon. Errol turned her down as he wanted to drive in the next year's race. Philippe was at the restaurant to meet a delivery. The next morning, hotel owner Catherine Lewis tries to wake him up. At the same time, Colin Doyle is punched in the nose by Blake and caught by Munro, while another youth tosses red paint on Martin O'Brien, in protest of his speech that morning, after being introduced by business owner Ken Farmer. Jean auditions with the director, Robert, for the local production of The Importance of Being Earnest, where she gets a minor role, while wanting a major one, which goes to Tyneman's wife. She is arrested. Blake tells the surgeon in the hospital that the leg can be saved, and Blake begins the procedure to save it with Mattie as the nurse. Blake is called to treat Celia, wounded in the abdomen by her husband. Jean is much more glamorous, and independent than she was as Lucien’s housekeeper before marriage. Others bribed the judge, including Jean with a cake; it turns out Osmond cannot eat the cake, and that triggers Blake to figure out why Angela, his patient, is deteriorating too rapidly. Seven only wants to show Murder Mysteries on Friday nights, when there aren’t AFL games or cricket (otherwise they air on 72). She hid under the bed all night, slipping out when the door was open in the morning. They find one hive tampered, and see cigar ash, the way an amateur would produce the smoke that normally calms bees. Blake and Lawson dig up another body, at night in the cemetery at the site of the last burial before Bartel was found. Mattie is in the audience, too. Lawson appears and takes his place after the investigation has begun. Newspaper publisher Patrick Tyneman argues with Blake's decision of murder, as bad local publicity; Blake demonstrates on Tyneman how the hyoid bone is broken in strangulation, as in Ormond's case. The administrator, Malcolm Beaufort, holds a very low opinion of nurses, there only for the sexual whims of doctors, and thinks nurse Lambert is a suspect. Munro calls Major Alderton, in the Army, to get a report on a guest from his military days. One of his band mates, Tony the piano player who started the band with Bobby Lee, argued with Lee after the performance, and was overheard outside the venue. The following is a list of episodes for the Australian television drama mystery programme, The Doctor Blake Mysteries. His wife Libby murdered Nadya, jealous that her husband visited her, sure he was having an affair. Among Alex's effects is a note indicating he was asked to throw the race, and let the second place winner come in first. Did God think of all those people in the parish? Her husband is now Deputy Warden in the Masonic lodge. She goes to the cemetery where her first husband is buried to think over her decisions, where she is confronted by Norman Baker, using that police gun, a man who blames Blake for the suicide death of his daughter in prison (she murdered the man who the family blamed for her younger sister's death, in Series 3, Episode 7). A group of, This page was last edited on 15 November 2020, at 20:12. Lawson closes down the funeral home run by the Callows. She is badly treated by two girls, Sally Murphy and her friend Christine, who had assaulted her with foods forced down her throat while she was bound to a chair, as well as other schemes that left their marks. Ormond recognized him at the opening day, so Farmer killed Ormond and was speeding the death of Angela. Ashby puts new flowers at the grave of Blake's mother, where Blake meets him. They report their news the next morning. Blake describes his world view, with hope in people, in sharp contrast to that of Munro, who sees guilt and deceit all around him. He is a cocky man, with an almost lunatic grin. Using Bartel's horse and cart, Blake retraces his route to an abandoned shed and discovers evidence of another murder. The evening before, officers Bill Hobart and Ned Simmons had raided his home, based on a tip of possible homosexual activity from the local butcher, Mr Robinson. He is charged. Jean, Mattie, Blake and Danny return to the boarding house to purchase two appliances. He shows the photo of her at 23. Munro commends Davis for his work, and suggests he go for detective training. Blake tells her, now is the start of her "being ready" for the next step in her life. Mattie is present when the police break up the small gathering and a photographer takes her picture. Mattie spends the day in a cell, next to Tony, after accidentally assaulting senior constable Davis while assisting a 16-year-old girl, Shirley Freedman, who is heartbroken at the death of Bobby Lee. Blake admits to Jean that he spent time after the war working as a government agent, when she tells him that her husband is buried in a foreign country, where he died in WWII. While wearing a blonde wig owned by her ill aunt, she killed her lover because he was unfaithful to her. Coming out for her curtain call after the performance, famous actress Jacqueline Maddern falls dead on the stage. Patricia was poisoned and did not die of the cancer or the treatment for it.