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The Doctor Blake Mysteries

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Crime drama. Australian Second World War veteran Doctor Lucien Blake solves crimes.

Crime drama. Australian Second World War veteran Doctor Lucien Blake returns home to Ballarat after 30 years to take over the local medical practice and solve crimes.

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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Series 1

Craig McLachlan

Nadine Garner

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Cate Wolfe

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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Series 1: Episode 4: Brotherly Love

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Episode 4: Brotherly Love

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Brotherly Love

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Blake is called to attend a delirious prisoner on death row.

Australian crime drama. Blake attends to a delirious prisoner on death row. The prisoner confessed to a murder, but in his delirium he says he didn't do it.

Blake is called to a prisoner on death row who is delirious. The prisoner, Sean McBride, confessed to a murder long ago and pleaded guilty. But in McBride's delirium, Blake hears him say he didn't do it. With a signed confession, and with McBride maintaining his guilt when he recovers, Blake faces a struggle to find proof and convince Lawson that McBride should not hang.

Meanwhile, outside the prison in Ballarat, tensions run high about the rights and wrongs of capital punishment and Blake finds himself out of his depth.

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Crime drama. Australian WWII veteran Doctor Lucien Blake solves crimes in Ballarat.

Crime drama. Australian Second World War veteran Doctor Lucien Blake returns home to Ballarat after 30 years to take over the local medical practice and solve crimes

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