The Great Detective - Murder in Sepia
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- This episode: Murder in Sepia - A photographer with a passion for Victorian erotica is found dead in his locked dark room. The local coroner registers the death as heart failure but Inspector Cameron suspects foul play. In order to prove his theory, Cameron must learn the rudiments of photography. From Season 2.
This Canadian Broadcasting Company series ran from 1979-1982 and starred Douglas Campbell as Inspector Alistair Cameron, the Provincial Detective. It is a period series, set around 1890. Though the Inspector resides in Toronto his jurisdiction is outside the city, covering the remainder of the province. While neither as cerebral nor as innovative as Sherlock Holmes, the Great Detective is reminiscent of him because of the similar societal setting and the limited technology. That means Cameron relies on deduction rather than force or advanced techniques and therefore, this is a family-friendly show. It has little violence and the Victorian setting ensures little or no foul language and no explicit scenes or innuendo. Based on the memoirs of the first real-life detective in Ontario, Cameron does not investigate run-of-the-mill murders, etc. Rather, he only is called upon in special cases, with his authority coming directly from the Prime Minister. He is assisted in most episodes by his friend and colleague, Dr. Chisholm, a forensic pathologist who is called upon to autopsy many of the victims. His work often provides the evidence that enables Cameron to solve the mystery and make an arrest. While their relationship is much like that of Holmes and Dr. Watson, unlike that pair, the friendship between the two here provides some comic relief. There are other regular characters which appear in certain episodes, such as the Inspector's housekeeper Mrs. Lutz. In the early episodes he occasionally is assisted by Constable Dodge, who makes his final appearance when he takes a position in a country village. The Inspector's young adolescent niece, Prudence, figures in a few episodes also, until sent to boarding school. His assistant for many of the cases is Sergeant Striker, who plays a much larger role than any of these other minor characters, appearing in a number of episodes. While his acting is not the best, there is something very likeable about the Sergeant.
The series was moderately popular and ran for several years; people who like the more recent "Murdoch Mysteries," another offering from the CBC, generally will enjoy this series as well. The audio/visual quality isn't the best since these were taken from vhs tapes recorded in the mid 1980s. While I'm sorry for any annoyance this may cause, I don't believe the series is available elsewhere in a better form. I'll be posting around 15 of the 35 episodes; for more information and different episodes, see my playlist or the playlist on steffsstuff's channel.
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Thank you for posting this series
Captivated by this series. Happy as can be for stumbling upon it. ooooh and glimpses of the old steamers. THANK YOU IP
Really good series of shows, thank you 👌🤗😊
Came across this series while searching for "Victorian mystery." I'm thrilled.
Thanks for uploading these episodes. What an awesome series.
Thank you. It's a treasure ❤
Thanks for the upload! 🤗
Chris Wiggins (special guest) who plays Mister Hollis, aside from his impressive catalog of voicework, I remember from Friday the 13th: the Series as Jack Marshak.
Great seeing an earlier appearance of his. :)
Thanks for posting
The old days where an Inspector wpd give negatives to be developed by tge susoect. Lol. I enjoy this series, like Sgt. Cirk series, the background is so real
What fun show 2 watch 😁
Wish I could purchase this series. No longer available, even in VHS format.
Many thanks once again, these are great fun. A bit disconcerting however to see the British flag instead of the modern Canadian maple leaf flag, not to mention a Canadian police sergeant in a British bobby's uniform!!
why "disconcerting"?
This Canada in it's yourpth during the 1890s. The British Union Jack would not have been an uncommon sight at the time. The Red Serge was Canada's flag then, the maple leaf flag not becoming our national flag until 1965, and that after much debate. As for the costumes worn by the constables, their design is another part of Canada's early history. I don't know if the OPP existed yet, but the RCMP, then called the NWMP, were not based in Ontario.
We were still colonial when I was growing up, British television, films, books, like much French magazines & pop culture in Montreal, Expo '67 was turning point. Every engineering student I was @ University with in the '70's know Monty Python verbatim.
Charming!
Sorry, poor audio quality, due to Hissing sound like good old film reels ( spools) running in the movie house, anyhow, 💎.
all deaths end in heart failure that is what happens when the heart stops it is what caused it that matters.
haha yes Lori you're quite right, saying someone died of heart failure is like saying "he died of dying".
No modern forensic department assistance to those days police department. Now heart failure is called as cardiac arrest.
Not always, many kinds of heart disease, or its treatment, my Dad died of ♥ failure after being transfused hepatitis after kidney transplant. Semantics, as ludicrous as blaming death on old age.
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