Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities

[james_davis_nicoll]

These sleuths bring a little something extra to the table...

Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities

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[james_davis_nicoll]

Tor dot com article 550, 2025 article 19

450 articles to go to article 1000.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for wandering away from the Gil Hamilton attractor.

[jwgh]

I should watch more Murdoch Mysteries. I originally heard about it via MacArther grant-winning sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom's newletter in which she talked about William and Julia's marriage. This is the blog post but it might be subscriber-only: https://open.substack.com/pub/tressie/p/my-marriage-ideal-yes-i-have-one?r=iz7qn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

I watched the first couple of seasons and then didn't have a cheap way to access the third so that was about that. I remember the first season's finale, 'The Annoying Red Planet', was a sort of take on what a 19th century episode of the X-Files might be like, and I thought it was pretty hilarious!

[dewline]

And now, having raised the question of the Hobo's lifespan in the same essay as you discussed Murdoch Mysteries, the possibility of a crossover is surely at hand? Arguably, his most recent appearance might well have been in Corner Gas!

[(Anonymous)]

In my head canon, The Littlest Hobo is indeed immortal.
He’s a wandering spirit who goes from community to community doing good deeds in order to redeem us all.

[petrea_mitchell]

The narrator of The Alchemist's Apprenctice and sequels is a sort of Archie Goodwin to one Maestro Nostradamus, nephew (IIRC) of the more famous Nostradamus, who uses divination in his crime-solving.

[(Anonymous)]

There's the manga series you've been reviewing; Usotoki Rhetoric. Young woman partnered with detective has a radical ability to detect lies.

She does have the misfortune of not being Canadian.

[dragoness_e]

Oh hey, I used to catch a few episodes of "Randall & Hopkirk, Deceased" when I was a kid in Michigan. We picked up CBC stations from Windsor as well as the usual Detroit stations, so we got to watch Canadian shows as well as American ones.

[ariaflame]

The original 1969 one or the 2000-2001 remake?

[dragoness_e]

The original 1969 one. It was in reruns, I think.

[dormouse1953]

There's a channel in the UK has been doing nightly episodes forever. They only made 26.

Kenneth Cope, who played Marty, died only last year.

[metahacker]

My mind went to Gil The Arm, but he's probably best forgotten...

[(Anonymous)]

The Murdoch Mysteries have been running on Bulgarian cable TV for at least 4 years now (which is when I first spotted it randomly).

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[(Anonymous)]

That was me, btw. Four or five years is when I _started_ watching Bulgarian cable TV again after an at least decade-long hiatus, so presumably Murdoch Mysteries has been going for much longer, considering the seasons they're at.

V

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure where The Miraculous Mellops fits in.

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the tapes of the Miraculous Mellops are lost, we asked the Network Ten and so on years ago.