Mount Thomas is the fictional town featured in the long-running Australian police procedural drama Blue Heelers, which ran from 1994 up until its cancelation in 2006.
In Blue Heelers, Mount Thomas is located in the state of Victoria in a very rough northern triangle with the real towns of Echuca, Swan Hill and Benalla nearby.
Nevertheless, the town is large enough for a police force of five officers plus a detective, a court house, a railway station and yards, hospital, primary and secondary schools, football and cricket clubs and a swimming pool - but still small enough that most members of the community are known to everyone else.
Other pubs in Mount Thomas (regularly mentioned but rarely featured) are: There is also at least one motel, a motor inn and a caravan park.
Characters on the show sometimes jokingly refer to Mount Thomas to as the "Crime Capital of Australia" due to the constant stream of murders, thefts, kidnappings, explosions, shootings and assaults which happened on Blue Heelers on a weekly basis.
The position is given to an over-zealous young senior constable who quickly makes an enemy of the townspeople; he is soon "encouraged" to transfer and the post is assumed by Tom Croydon's old friend Senior Constable Ian Goss for a number of years until he too falls into a lax mindset and gradually loses the cooperation of locals, resulting in a criminal family wreaking havoc.
Goss is replaced by Senior Constable Rochelle de la Rue who is eventually written out and the station remained closed, until season 11 when it was reopened for one episode.
In season 1, the distance between Mount Thomas and Widgeree is given as a 90-minute drive, which necessitates the town having its own station to provide a prompt police response.
After a few years, writers reduced the distance significantly, finally having Constable Jo Parrish remark in season 9 that it is now a 20-minute drive to Widgeree.
Rarely mentioned in the show, Evanleigh is home to the regional superintendent, Clive Adamson, who has ultimate responsibility for St Davids, Mount Thomas and Widgeree.
Castlemaine, in the Victorian Goldfields region 90 minutes north of Melbourne, played Mount Thomas in the major aerial shots of the town.