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Houdini & Doyle is a British television drama series loosely based on the real-world friendship of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A 10-episode first season was ordered by Fox in the United States, ITV in the United Kingdom, and Global in Canada.
Apr 29, 2016 · This Monday, May 2, FOX premieres Houdini & Doyle, a new TV series in which the two famous men investigate paranormal mysteries in England in 1901. Advanced publicity says the series is "based on true events." So before we enjoy the show, let's look back at the real story of Houdini and Doyle.
- Doyle & Houdini Did Know Each Other
- They Did Have Opposing Views on The Supernatural
- Doyle Had Killed Off Sherlock Holmes
- Houdini Did Perform The Chinese Water Torture Cell Act
- Doyle Did Solve Some Crimes
- Houdini Was Rumored to Work For Scotland Yard
The pair knew each other and became friends, but not until Doyle and Houdini met in 1920, according to The Guardian. The series takes place in London in 1901, so the show took some artistic license with the start of their acquaintance. Houdini & Doyle starts with the men at odds with one another and though they did have some issues in their relatio...
The show's main premise of Doyle seeking out mediums and believing in the supernatural while Houdini is a skeptic is basically true. According to PBS, Doyle was a "Spiritualist" for the later decades of his life and he believed in the paranormal, while Houdini was focused on disproving any mystical claims that he believed to be irrational. In 1922,...
When Doyle is first introduced in the series, his famous literary character Sherlock Holmes is not only already well-known, he's also dead — much to the chagrin of the public and his publisher. This is true to real life since Doyle had killed off Holmes in the short story "The Adventure of the Final Problem," which was published in 1893. He pursued...
Houdini's Chinese Water Torture Cell magic trick has been well-documented and so it made sense that the series introduces Houdini performing his escape from a vault full of water in front of a packed audience. Yet, the famous magic trick wasn't performed by Houdini until 1912, so the series has him performing it 11 years too early. He really could ...
Doyle had created the fictional Sherlock Holmes, but he was skilled himself when it came to solving mysteries and crimes. According to Sherlock scholar B. J. Rahn, Doyle successfully applied his own cleverness to do some real detective work, including finding a woman's missing fiancé in 1909, as reported by the Mirror. A PBS program, How Sherlock C...
The book The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero makes the claim that Houdini was actually a spy for Scotland Yard. There is no real evidence that this is true, but Houdini did reportedly interact with the British spy William Melville, who is credited with helping launch Houdini's career in Europe since he was the office...
- Caitlin Gallagher
Jan 2, 2020 · Viewed through a contemporary lens, the friendship between Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle falls somewhere between The Odd Couple and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. At one point, they were BFFs, but over the years, their relationship soured. Here's why.
- Tom Meisfjord
Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Doyle and Houdini actually were friends, although they had a falling-out over spiritualism. They never solved crimes together, but Doyle investigated a few cases and exonerated wrongly convicted prisoners.
Apr 29, 2016 · That’s because it’s similarly pitting a true believer against a skeptic as the two tackle cases with a supernatural bent (including, yes, possible ETs). Like many people of the time, Doyle...
Apr 28, 2016 · Fox’s Houdini & Doyle explores the friendship between legendary magician Harry Houdini and the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. In the dramatic series premiering on May 2, 2016, Houdini and Doyle reluctantly team up to assist New Scotland Yard with investigations into crimes that might have something to do with the supernatural.
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