The Doctor Blake Mysteries, anyone?

[denorios]

Has anyone watched The Doctor Blake Mysteries? It's an Australian detective drama, very much in the vein of Lewis, Morse, Foyle's War etc, except Australian and the main character is a doctor, not a detective. It's set in the 50s in Ballarat, Victoria, and it stars Craig McLachlan (yeah, remember him?) as the eponymous character

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[suzie_shooter]

ooh, anyone remember him in Bugs?
I've just bought the box set! (although I was always a Jesse Birdsall girl...)

[denorios]

I remember the show vaguely - I remember liking it - but I can't remember a bloody thing about it. Other than it had gadgets and tech and Craig McLachlan.

[sallymn]

I missed it - clashed with two other shows - but the ads were interesting enough that I'm watching out for repeats. It got good reviews, especially McLachlan.

[denorios]

I've watched the first two eps so far, and I'm really quite enjoying it! Craig McLachlan is good in it, more than I'd expected, and his character is quite appealing - although obviously he comes with the requisite manpain.

[bymagajones]

I've never seen it over here in the US, but in my area we now have this awesome channel totally devoted to what I think is BBC programming (in addition to BBCAmerica - WETA2 comes through our PBS stations, which is the only place we got any British TV except for "Benny Hill" when I was growing up). They have older shows ("Fresh Fields", "To the Manor Born", even "All Creatures Great and Small") and newer stuff (like "Primeval", "Doctor Who", and "MI-5") as well. I'll keep an eye out for this. It sounds really interesting. Thanks for the heads-up.