Political Correctness
Another series ruined by ITV for political correctness, women - check, ethnic minorities out of period, check.
shareDoyle was 35 years older than Houdini. And your issue is that they have a minority someplace.
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Correction: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859- 1930) was 15 years older than Harry Houdini (1874- 1926). They didn't meet until 1920, but they were friends until a falling out over spiritualism and mediums. Conan Doyle was a true believer and Houdini was a skeptic.
shareAye bernie and Sir Arthur was a Scot and did not speak with the posh English accent he has here.
What about the WPC with her lovely "uniform"? Was there any woman Policewoman then? No matter ,it wont be long till she is solving all the cases and beating up men twice her size and weight, nae bother
Is it her that is the actual wife of the actor playing Conan doyle?
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According to the recordings of his voice, Sir Arthur spoke with a somewhat upper class British accent, so Manghan cannot really be faulted there.
The first actual WPC was Edith Smith, who was granted full powers of arrest in 1915, some 15 years or so after this show is set.
Manghan's wife is Louise Delamare. She plays Doyle's wife, Touie, in the show.
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According to the recordings of his voice, Sir Arthur spoke with a somewhat upper class British accent, so Manghan cannot really be faulted there.
According to your interpretation of how he sounded dont you mean wee man?
His Scots accent could have sounded somewhat like an "upper class British accent"
I have seen and heard film of him talking and it was not in an upper class British accent.My school chum`s gran was his landlady .
Strange that Martin Clunes when doing Conan Doyle recently,in Arthur & George, adopted a Scottish accent
I believe he would have found an uppper class 'British'accent far easier.
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Doyle wasn't just a believer in Spiritualism -- he also believed in fairies, and could not accept that the Cottingley fairy photos were a hoax. I won't go so far as to call Doyle a loony, because a lot of people believe strange things -- some of the most brilliant people in the world have had silly beliefs. But he was entirely too credulous.
Houdini had the advantage there, in that he was a magician, and magicians make a living off of fooling people. It's their primary skill -- getting people believe things that aren't true. So they are often also very good at detecting BS. And the truth of the matter was that the very first spiritualists were out-of-work stage magicians, many of whom had been put out of work by Houdini's fame. They couldn't get jobs because Houdini and a couple of others had raised the standard to a point that most magicians couldn't match. They turned their skill at fooling people into a brand new profession -- bilking people out of money by preying on their grief and loss. And some of them were so good at it, that the profession survived into the 21st century. But really, it was an invention of the 19th century.