The Doctor Blake Mysteries

A body found in the lake turns out to be a girl from the local reform school. Lawson immediately suspects a gang of local hoodlums who have connections to the girl and gets Constable Parks to make an arrest.

When a member of staff is found dead at the hospital, Lawson immediately suspects the former morgue attendant Ron Jackson, who has vanished without trace. While the manhunt for Jackson begins, preparations for Anzac Day celebrations are underway.

Danny is directing traffic on the road out of town when a driver narrowly avoids him and crashes. The driver, a travelling salesman, is pronounced dead at the scene, but it turns out it wasn't the crash that killed him: there was a snake in his car.

Blake is called to a prisoner on Death Row who is delirious. The prisoner confessed to the murder long ago and pleaded guilty, but in his delirium Blake hears him say he didn't do it.

Doctor Lucien Blake finds himself on the judging panel for the Begonia Festival. When one of his fellow judges is found dead, the prime suspects are the head of the judging panel, Charles Griffith and his rough-hewn local rival Nick Manos.

Doctor Blake is called to a Patrick Tyneman's shoe factory where a migrant worker has died using one of the machines. Initially it looks like an industrial accident, but when Blake investigates more closely he begins to suspect foul play.

A psychiatric nurse is found murdered in a bathroom at the asylum, with a patient standing over her holding the murder weapon. When the inmate even confesses to the murder that's enough for Superintendent Lawson, but Blake isn't satisfied.

When a contestant in a TV gameshow is electrocuted in his dressing room, Blake suspects foul play. Superintendent Lawson and the show's sponsor both suspect the victim's opponent on the show, but Blake sets out to make more detailed enquiries.

A prospector walks into the pub while Blake and Danny are playing darts and declares he's struck gold. Shortly afterwards he's found dead down his mineshaft and Blake - suffering from claustrophobia since the war - is obliged to go down there.

Ballarat hospital's only female doctor is found hanged at the hospital in an apparent suicide, but if Blake can prove it isn't suicide there are several potential suspects. Meanwhile, a telegram arrives for Blake with some news about his family.