Drama series based on the lives and friendship of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. A nun is brutally murdered at one of the notorious Magdalene laundries, and the only witness claims that she saw the killer - a young 'Maggie', who died six months ago. Conan Doyle and Houdini approach Chief Inspector Merring of Scotland Yard to investigate the case. Doyle hopes to find that there is truth to the nun's claim, while Houdini hopes to prove there is not. Merring assigns them the Yard's first female cop, Constable Adelaide Stratton.
Drama series based on the lives and friendship of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. As prominent suffragette Lydia Belworth greets her supporters, a 12-year-old boy approaches with a bouquet of flowers, then draws a pistol and shoots her. When police arrest him, the boy claims that this was revenge for murder - his own. Houdini dismisses the boy as a nameless street urchin, but as he opens up about his past life, Doyle feels the boy may indeed have been reincarnated. If the team want to discover the truth, they must solve the mysterious decades-old killing.
Drama series based on the lives and friendship of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. When a heckler is mysteriously struck down at a faith healer's show, the team investigates whether the healer is truly channelling the power of God. Doyle, whose wife has been in a coma for six months, is hopeful that the healer's abilities are real, but Houdini believes that faith healers are con artists who prey on the sick and the desperate. But when Houdini is struck with a mystery illness that threatens his life, Doyle wonders if Houdini is being punished for his lack of faith.
Drama series based on the lives and friendship of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. A businessman is thrown from a window on the seventh floor by a shadowy phantom with demonic red eyes, capable of leaps and bounds that defy gravity. From the description of the eyewitness, the phantom is eerily similar to Spring-Heel'd Jack, a mysterious entity that has plagued the streets of London over the past hundred years. As more attacks occur, Houdini and Doyle cannot agree on whether it is the work of a supernatural being or someone exploiting an urban legend in order to fuel mass hysteria in a fearful public. Complicating the investigation is a tabloid reporter who sensationalises the story in order to sell more papers, creating more panic.
Drama series based on the lives and friendship of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. The police are baffled when Madam Korzha, a mysterious psychic who claims to be guided by the spirits of the dead, is able to locate a missing eight-year-old girl. While Doyle wonders if Korzha could use her skills to contact his comatose wife, Houdini sees a more sinister angle, believing that the psychic staged the kidnapping in order to find the girl and collect a reward. The disagreement between the two rivals takes on a chilling turn, however, when a second girl is taken.
Drama series based on the lives and friendship of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. The team travel to Nethermoor to investigate the case of a missing woman, believed to be the victim of an alien abduction. The case causes painful memories to resurface for Houdini as the duo undergo a surprising reversal - Houdini appears to believe the account of the missing woman's husband, citing science as his belief for extraterrestrial life, while Doyle is the sceptic, attributing the fantastical story to a drunken confabulation.
Rebecca Liddiard
Adelaide Stratton
Michael Weston
Harry Houdini
Stephen Mangan
Arthur Conan Doyle
Edward Bazalgette
Director
David Shore
Producer