The BEST episodes of Houdini & Doyle season 1

Every episode of Houdini & Doyle season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Houdini & Doyle season 1!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Constable Adelaide Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?

Last Updated: 9/18/2024Network: ITV1Status: Ended
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8.08
240 votes

#1 - The Pall of LaPier

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/12/2016

Small-town Ontario. A minister wakes to find everyone in his village dead, without the slightest sign of violence. Was this retribution for past acts of evil, as the local natives believe? And if not, how else to explain why the man of God was the only one spared?

Directors: Jeff Renfroe
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7.81
256 votes

#2 - Strigoi

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/28/2016

Bram Stoker, author of Dracula and good friend of Doyle’s, shows up at Doyle’s house in a panic. Vampire hunters are trying to kill him, believing Stoker to be a vampire. As they investigate a disturbing murder, they begin to wonder if Stoker really is a vampire, and if not, what is the dark secret he’s desperately trying to hide from the world?

Directors: Robert Lieberman
Writer: Carl Binder
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7.79
249 votes

#3 - Bedlam

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/21/2016

When several people are found literally scared to death, the clues lead the team to Bedlam, the notorious insane asylum, with which Doyle has a disturbing history. And when he starts to lose his grip on reality, he doesn’t know if he’s losing his mind or is becoming the next victim.

Directors: Robert Lieberman
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7.76
251 votes

#4 - Necromanteion

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/5/2016

The trio travels to Canada to investigate a homicidal poltergeist, where they are joined by other paranormal experts, including Thomas Edison, who unveils his latest invention - the Necrophone - a device that can purportedly communicate with the dead.

Directors: Jeff Renfroe
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7.61
285 votes

#5 - The Curse of Korzha

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/7/2016

An attractive traveling medium uses her psychic gifts to solve crimes, frustrating Houdini when he can’t figure out her tricks. Doyle feels she may be the real thing, so he is mortified by her next prediction: the end of Adelaide Stratton.

Writer: Josh Brandon
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7.60
284 votes

#6 - The Monsters of Nethermoor

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/14/2016

After a nightmarish encounter with otherworldly beings, a man wakes up in a field claiming his wife has been abducted by aliens. The team investigates but it’s only when Doyle has his own encounter that they learn the horrifying truth of what’s really out there.

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7.57
335 votes

#7 - In Manus Dei

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/24/2016

At a public display by a faith healer, a heckler in the crowd is mysteriously struck down. Houdini and Doyle investigate if the healer is channelling the power of God as he claims, and if so can he help Doyle's dying wife?

Directors: Daniel O'Hara
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7.53
326 votes

#8 - Spring-Heel'd Jack

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/31/2016

Panic grips the city as a demon who feeds off fear returns from the past, killing via seemingly impossible means, piquing the interest of Houdini and Doyle.

Directors: Daniel O'Hara
Writer: Carl Binder
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7.45
492 votes

#9 - The Maggie's Redress

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/13/2016

Houdini, Doyle and Adelaide investigate the murder of a nun in one of the notorious Magdalene Laundries. A witness claims the killer is a young woman who was tormented by the nun. The only problem is, that young woman has been dead for six months.

Directors: Stephen Hopkins
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7.45
324 votes

#10 - A Dish of Adharma

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/17/2016

A 12 year old boy shoots a prominent suffragette, claiming he’s avenging a murder - his own murder in a past life. And if the trio wants to find the truth, they must solve the decades-old killing.

Directors: Stephen Hopkins
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