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, not again, Fox. Yet another innovative. clever, fun, clean show with delightful characters, and you yank it off without giving it a chance.
I know these comments aren’t going to mean anything to the folks at Fox, because the show is still going to be cancelled and they will try to lure us in with another one next season….well, I’m done with Fox finally after this fiasco…Sleepy Hollow and now this……
You do this every year bring out a new show get us hooked than cancel getting to the point of really dislike ‘your channel as well of my friend you leave all the really really dumb shows n delete all interested one.
The series was entertaining and I had hoped that it would be renewed. I thought the plots were interesting and had looked forward to more episodes! Truly a loss for our television viewing!!
The whole family really enjoyed the show. We hope there is another season.
Being an Houdini historian and a fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories, I was ready to bash this show. Instead it’s kept my attention and I look forward to every episode. It deserves to come back for a second season. The acting, writing, locations, it’s very well crafted and i love it!
Excellent show new and interesting renewal gi me
Great show. Keep it going. I look forward to seeing next season.
I think that it is a good show, my husband and I didn’t know about it but we sow the first season I we think it is very good. I hope it gets renewed.
good show, good plot line, different and refreshing!!!!
keep it, It is a very good show. When will it start again?
Do not cancel. It is a good show, very different and a very intelligent mystery, which are far and few between on the networks. One of the few shows I watch.
no to cancel!
Please don’t cancel. It is a very good show. and different than the usual.
Do not cancel. Very good show
Don’t cancel! Very good show!