Murdoch Mysteries Season 10

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I was sorry to see the review from someone who was “Horrified” by the episode featuring Mr. Lovecraft. I hope she will give the series another chance and not judge it by one episode. I have watched the series since the beginning and have loved every season. A few episodes may not be as good as others, but they are very few. I love the characters and it has been great seeing it from the first and watching the characters develop. Maybe poor Higgins can stop making so may stupid blunders next season. At any rate, a series that’s in its 10th season should not be judged by one episode.-B Harris

This season has a couple story threads which evolve over several episodes. Dead people turn out to be not so dead. There is Detective Watts, visiting from Station 1, who is working on a string of missing women stretching back many years. And Murdoch and Julia are going to build a house. Murdoch is designing it himself, which means he has to explain to potential builders that he wants a science laboratory, an automated dishwashing cupboard, rainwater collection for irrigation, and an internal cooking system. A little unusual for 1904!

….espisodes 1 & 2, two-parter “Great Balls of Fire”. Rodney Strong is “peculiarly uninterested in entertaining the company of young ladies”. But that doesn’t stop his wealthy parents from holding a ball to introduce him to all the eligible young ladies in Toronto. Like the prince in “Cinderella”, he has to -choose a wife. Too bad the night is interrupted by a dead body.
Real person: Elmina Ella Susannah Elliot (1867-1931) news paper columnist who married her publisher.
Real: The Great Fire of Toronto, 4/19/1904.
….episode 3 “A Study in Pink” Murdoch has a new invention. Wearing equipment that makes them look like ghostbusters, two constables can track a person via radio receivers and a ‘bug’. But will it help them find a murderer?
Real: Montreal did indeed have an Irish criminal family in the early 1900s, called the West End Gang.
….episode 4 “Concocting a Killer” Gus Shanley has spent 12 years in prison, when a judge overturns his conviction for killing Rex Landon. Why? Because the coroner, now Mrs. Murdoch, made a mistake. As Murdoch cannot work on the re-opened case, Detective Watts is transferred to Station House 4 to handle it.
….episode 5 “Jagged Little Pill” Edward McInnes, magnate of McInnes Biscuits fame, is found dead in his automobile.
….episode 6 “Bend It Like Brackenreid” It’s an important football match, Toronto vs Galt, a qualifier for the Olympics. Brackenreid is friends with the Galt trainer and half the station house turns out to watch. They get more excitement than they bargain for when a player dies on the field.
Brackenreid objects to the term ‘soccer’: “I will not have you copying some toffee-nosed prat repeating another toffee-nosed prat. The sport is called football, Crabtree!”
Real: Galt won a gold medal in soccer at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, MO.
….episode 7 “Painted Ladies” Murdoch is called to a lake, where a dandy lies dead in a paddle boat, his lips smeared with red lipstick. Is it because of a “flirtation card”?
This is a fun episode. Real: There were early 1900s ads promoting tapeworm pills for losing weight. Supposedly the pills contained a tapeworm egg. No proof today that the pills actually had such an egg, nor that anyone was dumb enough to buy them.
….episode 8 “The Weekend at Murdochs” Gilford and Alistair are birders out on a beautiful June morning. They are hoping to see the mustachioed Inca Tern, because a rival has seen one, “the first… in all of North America.” Who knew being a birder could be so deadly?
….episode 9 “Excitable Chap” Estephanie and Peregrine are ‘parking’. I imagine that as soon as there were cars there were couples parking. This night, though, a masked man pulls Peregrine out of the car and procedes to purr as he kisses Estephanie’s hand. The Lurker strikes again. But is he a murderer?
This is Murdoch’s Jekyll & Hyde episode.
….episode 10 “The Devil Inside” Murdoch is called to a double murder scene. The villain is still there, hunched over and bedraggled, and he tells Murdoch, “I’m sorry. He made me do it.” But isn’t James Gillies supposed to be dead after his fall from the railroad bridge?
….episode 11 “A Murdog Mystery” Someone has killed Mrs. Frizzel’s beloved Horace. Murdoch is acting police chief while Brackenreid is on leave, and he explains to Crabtree, “Canicide is not murder.”
….episode 12 “The Missing” Twenty years ago, little Adam Gordon disappeared from the mansion yard. His grandmother is sure he’s still alive, and every year offers a $1,000 reward if he comes forward. But not everyone wants him to be found.
….episode 13 “Mr Murdoch’s Neighborhood” Dr. Ogden creates an unusual training exercise for the constables, as well as seeking forensic data. (I like Murdoch Mysteries’ introduction of real scientific discoveries, but this one seemed too anachronistic to me.)
….episode 14 “From Murdoch to Eternity” Oh, no! Murdoch has turned into a snake-oil salesman. He’s selling a potion of eternal youth!
….episode 15 “Hades Hath No Fury” A young woman is killed by a bomb blast. Detective Watts is dismayed to find out that she is on his disappeared list, lost for two years. If she has been alive all this time, what about the other women on his list?
….episode 16 “Master of Lovecraft” Budding horror fantasy author, H.P. Lovecraft, is in Toronto. And he forms a crush on an unlikely person.
Real: HP Lovecraft never made a living off his writing, and died penniless.
….episode 17 “Hot Wheels of Thunder” It’s murder at the roller skating rink. Dr. Ogden goes undercover on a roller derby team.
….episode 18 “Hell to Pay” We’ve seen poor Crabtree framed and convicted after a prior season cliffhanger. In this last episode of Season 10, Murdoch is suspected of murder – and not everyone is sure he’s innocent. Not only that – we have to wait until Season 11 to find out who did it!
“TO BE CONTINUED”

-Happy Reader

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Yannick Bisson, Hélène Joy, Jonny Harris, Thomas Craig, Mouna Traoré
Directors: Gary Harvey
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 5
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: ACORN MEDIA
DVD Release Date: August 15, 2017
Run Time: 864 minutes
ASIN: B01MRCFXUQ

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