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. The program was filmed in Victorian suburbs of Werribee, Williamstown and Castlemaine, which were all used for the show's exterior scenes to depict Mount Thomas, whilst interior scenes were filmed in-house at the Seven Network studios. Town synopsis 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. In episode 321, Mount Thomas is shown to be located in the fictional Victorian Parliament electoral district of Hetherington along with St Davids and the surrounding district. In episode 56, the population is given on a "Welcome to Mt. Thomas" sign as 7805; in episode 266 a different sign states the population is now 6399, which is likely a continuity error, as the circumstances on the show do not indicate such a significant drop in residents. Nevertheless, the town is large enough for a police force of five officers plus a detective (this grows later), a court house, a railway station and yards, hospital, primary and secondary schools, the obligatory football and cricket clubs and a swimming pool - but still small enough that most members of the community are known to everyone else. It is also large enough to have its own town council, a newspaper (The Gazette) and at least eleven pubs, including "The Imperial", which serves as both the "copper's pub" and home to several of the officers, new to town with nowhere else to live but one of Chris Riley's rooms. Significant action takes place here throughout the series given its importance to the "Heelers" and Chris' involvement in the community. Other pubs in Mount Thomas (regularly mentioned but rarely featured) are "The Commercial" (The Imperial's main rival), "The Railway", "The Federal", "The Steam Packet" (frequently described as being the worst), "Customs House", "The Cumberland", "The Mainland", and three unnamed near the court house, Coles, and the football oval. There is also at least one motel, a motor inn and a caravan park. A local country radio station, 4TM, is mentioned in episode 4, but soon after the only reference is to 3SD, which is the station in near-by St Davids. Dozens of real-life, national business chains have branches or stores in Mount Thomas, and can