Network: FOX
Episodes: 10 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: May 2, 2016 — July 4, 2016
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Michael Weston, Stephen Mangan, Rebecca Liddiard, Tim McInnerny, Adam Nagaitis, and Diana Quick.
TV show description:
This mystery adventure drama series revolves around the uneasy partnership of two legendary figures of the early 20th Century.
Harry Houdini (Michael Weston) is a master magician, escape artist and paranormal debunker. Meanwhile, Arthur Conan Doyle (Stephen Mangan) is a prolific writer and the creator of the master detective “Sherlock Holmes” character. He’s also a paranormal aficionado.
They grudgingly join forces with New Scotland Yard to investigate unsolved and unexplained crimes with a supernatural slant. They partner with Constable Adelaide Stratton (Rebecca Liddiard), the first female constable ever to work for the London Metropolitan Police Force.
Tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve, their sense of what is real and what is not is challenged. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge — and Stratton is often put in the middle. She’s embarrassed when the two wager on a case’s outcome.
Do their cases truly involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists or, are they a ruse to conceal something more ordinary — like murder?
Other characters include Chief Inspector Horace Merring (Tim McInnerny), Sergeant George Gudgett (Adam Nagaitis), and Cecelia Weis (Diana Quick).
Episode #10 — The Pall of LaPier
When all but two residents (a priest and a child) of a small village die simultaneously, and with no signs of violence, the trio must uncover whether or not this tragedy is divine revenge for the murderous founding of the town. Meanwhile, Adelaide’s discoveries about her dead husband’s past finally prompt her to ask the others for help, Doyle begins writing “The Hounds of the Baskervilles” and Houdini’s anguish is evident.
First aired: July 4, 2016.
What do you think? Do you like the Houdini & Doyle TV show? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for another season?
Please renew! Such fun viewing.
Please renew! Love it!
Love this show! Love the plots and the acting is superb!! Keeping fingers crossed it will be back.
Renew. Please. This show has grown on me so much that even if we have other recordings on the PVR, we watch Houdini and Doyle first.
Enjoy the show! Tired of investing myself in a unique, quality shows only to have them canceled; while other shows remain for who knows why.
Please renew, I love this show.
Ok this it going to be another Firefly. when I find a really good show it gets Canceled. I hope this is not one of them.
Love the show,! Here’s to a season 2 and many more.
Slow but series has picked up the pace. Really enjoying it.
I hope it gets renewed. I find it very interesting, and can’t wait to see what happens with the Adelade mystery….
Great show… hope it will be back… love the cast…
I think it should be given another chance. It can be tedious sometimes but I rather enjoyed it though..
i agree, im so sick of enjoying a show and finding out they wont be coming back. i think its mostly due to the fact some shows need to be cancelled and they dont … so new shows arent even given a real chance… i think when summer comes all new shows they think of cancelling sould re show then and see if people like it or at least let a season 2 happen and see… lost to many shows i liked
This is a terrific show please don’t cancel.
I watched the second episode of “Houdini and Doyle” and did become interested enough that I’ll watch the next episode. This series needs to have a chance to find an audience as it is more character based than relying solely on action.
So happy that while this series is most certainly fictional, instead of just keying on Houdini’s escape artist skills, it really showcases his dedication to skepticism and debunking bulls***.
It is a good series, and I intend to follow it.
I don’t know that it captivates you like Breaking Bad did or something like that, but it’s certainly unique and original, unlike so many of the cookie cutter shows that keep getting churned out with no originality whatsoever.
I’m liable to follow it for that reason alone.
I watched the first episode and I’ll watch a few more before I make up my mind about this series. While the first episode was interesting it certainly didn’t “grab me” like the first episode of “Lucifer. I was hooked on “Lucifer” before the opening episode finished