Murdoch Mysteries

Season 1 Episode 4

Elementary, My Dear Murdoch

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Murdoch teams up with a visiting Arthur Conan Doyle to solve the murder of a skeptic who was a member of a paranormal watchdog group.
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    Yannick Bisson

    Yannick Bisson

    Detective William Murdoch

    Helene Joy

    Helene Joy

    Dr. Julia Ogden

    Jonny Harris

    Jonny Harris

    Constable George Crabtree

    Thomas Craig

    Thomas Craig

    Inspector Brackenreid

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      • Murdoch addresses the visiting author as "Mr. Doyle." The proper address is "Mr. Conan Doyle." "Conan" is not his middle name, but part of his last name. (This is why you never see references to "Sir Arthur Doyle".)

      • The portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle in this episode is an amalgam of the writer from two different periods. The series is set circa 1895 (the previous episode set on 24 May 1895, and "The Final Problem" published in 1893 is considered "recent"), when Conan Doyle was 35 (which makes him slightly younger that Yannick Bisson). Yet he is portrayed as a surly man in his late forties/early fifties, deeply interested in spiritualism. This is Conan Doyle fifteen years later (his interest in the occult being triggered by the death of his first wife in 1906).

      • The book the bullet was lodged in is "An Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen.

      • Goof:
        Murdoch calls him 'Sir' Arthur Conan Doyle, and gives him the idea for 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', but he did not receive his knighthood until 1902, whereas the hound story was released in 1901. So the author got the timeline wrong.

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