The Australian reports…This excellent Australian crime series is back for its second season. The first series aired last year and was shown on the BBC. The background: Lucien Blake (Craig McLachlan, Packed to the Rafters) leaves Victoria to study medicine in Scotland. He joins the British Army as a medical officer in World War II […]
THIS original, local and much-loved crime show starring the rather inscrutable but equally underrated Craig McLachlan as maverick country town doctor Lucien Blake returns tonight. Created by veteran producer George Adams (he was largely responsible for Wolf Creek after decades at the BBC) and developed with executive producer Tony Wright, it is intelligent, stylish and […]
TV Tonight reports…”Back this week in The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Craig McLachlan has been overwhelmed by the reaction to his role as Doctor Lucien Blake.”
There is an unusual cheeriness about Lucien Blake (played by Craig McLachlan) on his return to Ballarat at the beginning of the second season of The Doctor Blake Mysteries on ABC1.
The New Zealand Herald reports….Almost three decades after being typecast as a perpetual adolescent, thanks to his irrepressible turn as bronzed, bib-overall-wearing Henry Ramsay in Neighbours, Craig McLachlan is finally getting to play a grown-up in period whodunnit The Dr Blake Mysteries.
Many people would recognise Craig McLachlan from the ABC’s recent program The Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries. But right now he’s performing in a very different role!
Craig McLachlan first discovered the soundtrack to The Rocky Horror Show as a nine-year-old boy, rifling through his older brother’s vinyl collection. “It was the original Reg Livermore Australian cast recording… you opened the cover and there were snaps from the performance, and I couldn’t tell if they were guys or girls,” he said.
The Ballarat Courier reports… ACTOR Craig McLachlan went calling on a Webster Street house as filming of the Doctor Blake Mysteries resumed in Ballarat yesterday. A camera crew and a fleet of classic cars took up residence in Webster Street, where internal and external scenes were being filmed for season two of the popular ABC […]
The Courier reports… BALLARAT has been put on the map with The Doctor Blake Mysteries set to air in the UK this month. The 10-part drama series, filmed in Ballarat and starring Craig McLachlan, will be go to air on BBC1 from next Monday.
