[2] Producers later announced production would be suspended pending outcome of the police investigation of the sexual assault allegations directed at McLachlan.

During World War II, Blake's service included the Far East, where he fell in love with and married a Chinese woman, and had a child.

After a 33-year absence, Blake returned home in 1959 to take over his late father's practice as a medical general practitioner and also becomes the Ballarat area police surgeon.

Shrewd and observant, her maternal tendencies are often a source of annoyance to her nephew, Constable Danny Parks, whom she treats like a son, and lodger Mattie O'Brien, whose outgoing attitude she does not understand at all.

[17] The series airs on selected Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations in the United States.

[2] However, after the allegations against McLachlan, a sequel series, later titled The Blake Mysteries, was proposed by the Seven Network and supported by Screen Australia.

The series would open with a telemovie, similar in length to the finale that closed the five seasons of The Doctor Blake Mysteries.

Most of the rest of the cast would return for the new series,[19] with Blake disappearing in mysterious circumstances, and his new bride Beazley to take on a more central role.

[5] It featured Garner, Tobeck, McClory, Whiteley and Rooney returning to their roles alongside new cast Tom Wren as Martin Carver, Emma Annand as Amy Parks and Joshua Orpin as Constable Peter Crowe.