A Scottish policeman in the Victorian era moves to Toronto to care for his orphaned niece and ends up becoming Canada's first real detective. Based on the book Memoirs of a Great Detective by Canada's actual first detective, John Wilson Murray, who was appointed to Ontario's Department of Justice in l875.
Show Details:
Start date: Jan 1979
End date: Mar 1982
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): CBC (CA)
Run time: 60 min
Episodes: 35 eps
Genre(s): Crime/Mystery, Drama, Historical
End date: Mar 1982
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): CBC (CA)
Run time: 60 min
Episodes: 35 eps
Genre(s): Crime/Mystery, Drama, Historical
Credits:
- Douglas Campbell as Insp. Alistair Cameron
- Sandy Webster as Dr. Archie Chisholm
- Kay Hawtrey as Mrs. Lutz
- James Dugan as Sgt. Striker
- Tracy Brett as Prudence Wetherall
- Roy Wordsworth as Willie
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 17 Jan 79 | Case of the Magic Mandarin |
| 2. | 1-2 | 24 Jan 79 | The Black Curse |
| 3. | 1-3 | 31 Jan 79 | Death Takes a Curtain Call |
| 4. | 1-4 | 07 Feb 79 | Murder at Blenheim Swamp |
| 5. | 1-5 | 14 Feb 79 | Bloodhounds Can't Fly |
| 6. | 1-6 | 21 Feb 79 | Nightwalker of the Wards |
| 7. | 1-7 | 28 Feb 79 | Pretty Mary Mitchell |
| 8. | 1-8 | 07 Mar 79 | The Curious Death of a Maiden Lady |
| 9. | 1-9 | 14 Mar 79 | The Song of the Hemp |
| 10. | 1-10 | 21 Mar 79 | Fire at Fenroy |
| Season 2 | |||
| 11. | 2-1 | 02 Jan 80 | Train of Events |
| 12. | 2-2 | 09 Jan 80 | The Eye of Clarkie Blackburn |
| 13. | 2-3 | 16 Jan 80 | A Family Business |
| 14. | 2-4 | 23 Jan 80 | Murder in Sepia |
| 15. | 2-5 | 30 Jan 80 | A Watery Grave |
| 16. | 2-6 | 06 Feb 80 | Spirit Guide |
| 17. | 2-7 | 13 Feb 80 | The Man Who Died Twice |
| 18. | 2-8 | 20 Feb 80 | Too Many Cooks |
| Season 3 | |||
| 19. | 3-1 | 13 Jan 81 | A Question of Loyalties |
| 20. | 3-2 | 20 Jan 81 | Death Visit |
| 21. | 3-3 | 27 Jan 81 | Sins of the Father |
| 22. | 3-4 | 03 Feb 81 | Scull-Duggery |
| 23. | 3-5 | 10 Feb 81 | Murder by Proxy (1) |
| 24. | 3-6 | 17 Feb 81 | Murder by Proxy (2) |
| 25. | 3-7 | 24 Feb 81 | Horror in the Wax Museum |
| 26. | 3-8 | 03 Mar 81 | Murder in Motion |
| 27. | 3-9 | 10 Mar 81 | If Looks Could Kill |
| Season 4 | |||
| 28. | 4-1 | 14 Jan 82 | Death Circuit |
| 29. | 4-2 | 21 Jan 82 | Damned Indenture |
| 30. | 4-8 | 04 Mar 82 | Death on Delivery |