NO ONE'S WATCHING DR BLAKE MYSTERIES!

 Dr Blake and Cast

Doctor Lucien Blake is not exactly Retro No1wty. Its just a season old, but I am sure everyone's missed this armchair sleuthing at its very best Australian show. Its about an army medical doctor in a quiet Australian township, who takes over his late father's pratice and doubles as a forensic pratitioner for the small police force there. Perfect art direction, excellent performances by the lead cast and some catchy snatchy whodunnits set the mood for this somewhat old fashioned delectable piece of crime detection.  

 Dr Blake and Jean Beazly - Will sparks fly in Season 2? 

I am positively crazy about this show.If someone gives me Sherlock and Doctor Blake, I would settle for the latter anytime.  My rationale - He's humane, makes mistakes,he is all blood and flesh and he is a best new chardonay in town,while Holmes is too perfect for words and he has been around for quite some time. Sometimes I just get lost in the pace of Sherlock, while Dr Blake is a cool hot slow sip of the finest coffee- tea in a late mellow evening. Its a caffeinish delight sprinkled with a little Darjeeling!!! Heavenly Brew!!!

 One of the best Dr Blake Mysteries - Bedlam 

Sherlock may be the best detective serial on tube, but it still can't be the character Jeremy Brett or Ellie Norwood or Basil Rathbone sculpted to perfection. Dr Blake on the other hand is exactly what the doctor ordered, if you want your detective served with hansoms and deerstalkers. You won't get the London cobbled streets or the cute murder over cosy tea parties here, but this show is closer to David Suchet's Hercule Poirot or Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes or even Lord Peter Wimsey.Therefore I am recommending this show, because of it's old world feel and Dr Blake's incomparable charisma and the wonderful characters surrounding him. Its a swell beautiful ride worth a gallop through a tiny township full of fascinating characters and interesting stories.

Jean Beazley, Constable Parker and Nurse Mattie

I can talk a lot more but I would advise everyone to watch it. This is the show, which you can watch with your Dad and Mom and enjoy, without needing to explain what happened five minutes back.It also has some quaintly drawn characters within the Blake household with a humourous sexual tension potrayed between  Blake and Jean Beazley, his receptionist and housekeeper along with two more characters Constable Daniel Parks and Nurse Mattie forming a kind of a family. Its laid back, simple, a tad imperfect but wonderful.Its like reading a book not watching TV.

 Dr Blake examining a body

I am sure many haven't watched Doctor Blake yet!!!! You have no idea what you are missing!!!!!Keep the apple away and get addicted to the doctor immediately today.  

Best Episode:  Bedlam S01E07