Doctor blake, a keeper of secrets, a solver of mysteries. The doctor blake mysteries is an original, period murder mystery series, starring craig mclachlan as the maverick town doctor lucien blake a risk taker, he's impulsive and not afraid to upset the status quo. Doctor lucien blake left ballarat as a young man. But now, he finds himself returning, to take over his dead father's medical practice. And one of the unwanted duties his father left him is the on call role of police surgeon. Set in the old gothic gold rush town of ballarat in 1959. The wealth that built its grand architecture long gone but not the mysteries, murder and deceit that linger beneath the surface of its faded glory. Running time 550 minutes region region 2 subtitles english release date 9 dec. 2013