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** [[spoiler:The same character]] dives into another river at the end of "Midnight Train to Kingston". Murdoch is particularly (and understandably) anxious about the lack of a corpse. [[spoiler:They find the body seven episodes later.]]

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** [[spoiler:The same character]] dives into another river at the end of "Midnight Train to Kingston". Murdoch is particularly (and understandably) anxious about the lack of a corpse. [[spoiler:They find the a body seven episodes later.later, which an autopsy, facial reconstruction, and a ballistics match affirm to be him... which still isn't accepted as 100% conclusive, because they've still been receiving threatening letters from him even after his "death". He would end up returning 3 seasons later in "The Devil Inside", which would end with him finally hanging with Murdoch and Ogden as witnesses, decisively confirming that he's gone.]]
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Missed the bulletholes. Not ZCE :)

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* TheBeard: This appears a few times in the series due to laws against homosexuality in the period:


* TheBeard: This appears a few times in the series due to laws against homosexuality in the period:
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* FalseUtopia: The all-women commune in "Hades Hath No Fury". It is meant to be a place where women can be self-sufficient and free from men's cruelty, but being cut off from the world only served to let residents stew in their hatred of men and become {{Straw Feminist}}s. One plotted to start a gender war, another researched in vitro fertilization as a means to ensure only women are born.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Detective Watts' boyfriend Jack Walker marries Clara Walker, who serves as TheBeard so he doesn't get harassed for being gay. Jack also becomes an adopted father to Clara's son Samuel, who was fathered by another man. When Watts investigates Clara's murder, Jack is a suspect and flees Toronto with Samuel. The killer is actually Samuel's father, who later captures Watts and uses {{Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique}}s to try and force Watts to reveal where Jack and Samuel are. Samuel's father is about to kill Watts when Brackenreid finds them. The Inspector delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Samuel's father before untying Watts.
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* MusicalEpisode: The show's first musical episode "Why Is Everyone Singing?" aired on March 25th, 2024 with the musical numbers all happening while Murdoch is comatose.

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* MusicalEpisode: The show's first musical episode "Why Is Everyone Everybody Singing?" aired on March 25th, 2024 with the musical numbers all happening while Murdoch is comatose.
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* MusicalEpisode: The show's first musical episode ''Why Is Everyone Singing'' aired on March 25th, 2024 with the musical numbers all happening while Murdoch is comatose.

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* MusicalEpisode: The show's first musical episode ''Why "Why Is Everyone Singing'' Singing?" aired on March 25th, 2024 with the musical numbers all happening while Murdoch is comatose.
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* StudioEpisode: In "The Filmed Adventures of Detective William Murdoch", Murdoch investigates a murder taking place in an early movie house, where during a screening of the first motion picture with sound (in ''1901'', well before talkies and Hollywood), a major investor was killed by gunshot, which everyone first assumed was AllPartOfTheShow. The investigation leads Murdoch into the drama surrounding the house's investor, James Pendrick, and his bitter rival, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, with blame naturally shifting between them and their associates, with the belief that someone was trying to sabotage Pendrick's show for infringing on Edison's patents. While this is happening, the same studio is also seeking to make [[ShowWithinAShow a film about Murdoch and his illustrious detective career]], initially titled ''[[TitleDrop The Filmed Adventures of Detective William Murdoch]]'', before Crabtree suggests the much shorter, snappier title: ''[[TitleDrop The Murdoch Mysteries]]''. Murdoch, for his part, [[ItWillNeverCatchOn has little faith in the industry's future]].
-->'''Murdoch:''' [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs I'm not entirely sure I can envy a future where everyone wastes their lives staring at a screen watching made-up stories.]]
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* MusicalEpisode: The show's first musical episode ''Why Is Everyone Singing'' aired on March 25th, 2024 with the musical numbers all happening while Murdoch is comatose.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Felicity Dawes is a ScatterbrainedSenior who appears in "Lovers in a Murderous Time". She suffers from memory lapses and occasionally has delusions of being in a Russian fairy tale. Julia suspects she has Alzheimer's disease, but some of her symptoms aren't consistent with the disorder. [[spoiler:Some of it is implied to be Dawes remembering her past life from several decades ago.]]
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For five seasons, the series was broadcast by Creator/{{Citytv}}. The fifth season was supposed to be the last, however, rival broadcaster Creator/{{CBC}} [[{{Uncancelled}} picked up the series]] in 2011 and has been broadcasting new seasons since; beginning with the sixth in 2012. Between seasons seven and ten, the character of Dr. Emily Grace was included in the main cast. (The two subsequent coroners are {{Recurring Character}}s, even though they recur in most episodes.) A seventeenth season is in the works. Outside of Canada, the series has aired on Ovation TV in the United States, under the title ''[[MarketBasedTitle The Artful Detective]]''.

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For five seasons, the series was broadcast by Creator/{{Citytv}}. The fifth season was supposed to be the last, however, rival broadcaster Creator/{{CBC}} [[{{Uncancelled}} picked up the series]] in 2011 and has been broadcasting new seasons since; beginning with the sixth in 2012. Between seasons seven and ten, the character of Dr. Emily Grace was included in the main cast. (The two subsequent coroners are {{Recurring Character}}s, even though they recur in most episodes.) A seventeenth season is in the works.being aired. Outside of Canada, the series has aired on Ovation TV in the United States, under the title ''[[MarketBasedTitle The Artful Detective]]''.
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* {{Homage}}: The episode "Anything You Can Do" pays tribute to the ''Series/DueSouth'' episode "Hunting Season". In addition to being Mounties, Sargeant Jasper Linney's personality and physical build are quite similar to Constable Benton Fraser's. [[spoiler:Linney discovers that Murdoch -- with whom he shares many traits in common -- is his half-brother. This is very much like Fraser's situation when he learns that Constable Maggie Mackenzie -- who is essentially a female version of himself -- is actually his half-sister. Both pairs of half-siblings share a scene with their respective biological father.]]

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* {{Homage}}: The episode "Anything You Can Do" pays tribute to the ''Series/DueSouth'' episode "Hunting Season". In addition to being Mounties, Sargeant Sergeant Jasper Linney's personality and physical build are quite similar to Constable Benton Fraser's. [[spoiler:Linney discovers that Murdoch -- with whom he shares many traits in common -- is his half-brother. This is very much like Fraser's situation when he learns that Constable Maggie Mackenzie -- who is essentially a female version of himself -- is actually his half-sister. Both pairs of half-siblings share a scene with their respective biological father.]]
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* SnakeOilSalesman: Several of these appear, as the show is set during the golden age of this character type.

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