Crossovers That Will Never Happen

I've recently been enjoying local crime drama series The Doctor Blake Mysteries, partly because it's set in Ballarat. My father was born there, as were my grandparents who lived there all their lives. (My family is so local that one of my great-great-grandfathers was a miner at the Eureka Stockade.) I'm pretty used to seeing Melbourne on TV, but Ballarat is a whole different level of familiar. And it's not just the filming locations, it's the feel of the place. There is a whole episode about the Begonia Festival! In which a passion-fruit sponge is significant to the plot! It is like watching my family history on TV, but with more stabbings and Craig McLachlan.

Only now that the first season is over, not only do I want more, I want a crossover with the ABC's other crime drama, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Because I feel sure that Phryne is still fighting crime well into her seventies, and even though they hadn't built the highway yet it was only a couple of hours by train in 1959. She would be sure to utterly scandalise Ballarat by doing something fabulous, which Lucien Blake would enjoy very much. Although I imagine he would pout if someone else got to solve the murder du jour.