Murdoch Mysteries. Season 5, Disc 2

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Title from disc surface.
Characters adapted from the novels by Maureen Jennings.
Originally broadcast on television in 2012.
Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Hélène Joy, Jonny Harris, Georgina Reilly.
Cutting-edge victorian science meets cunningly plotted mystery in this award-winning Canadian TV drama. William Murdoch is a detective in Toronto in 1895, using new forensic techniques like fingerprinting and psychological profiling. He crosses paths with famous figures including Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells.
"Still reeling from a personal and professional crisis, Murdoch has taken up gold prospecting at the start of Season 5. Soon he's back in detective mode, helpin a woman accused of murder; investigating an Egyptian curse; experimenting with time travel; and crossing paths with Jack London, Hanry Ford, and his idol, Alexander Graham Bell."--Container.
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (16:9) presentation, stereo.
Contents: Detective Murdoch mystery.

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Canadian Murder Mystery submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on June 30, 2014, 10:03pm This is the fifth season of a Canadian murder mystery television series set in late 19th century Toronto. Detective Murdoch continues to employ modern-day science and forensic techniques to uncover clues and Holmes-like logic to solve cases.

This season includes an episode dealing with the opera "La Boheme," which a brief period of singing.

In general the show offers an interesting slice of the era. The characters meet Nicolas Tesla, Harry Houdini, and other scientists and celebrities of the era. Although the show has one, then another, medical examiner who is a woman (which was unusual for the era), it does portray many of the prejudices of the era--against women, gays, people of color, the Irish and Catholics.