History Series / HoudiniAndDoyle

** [[spoiler:Though a lot of what occurs with the Necro-phone is chalked up to either a deliberate hoax by the killer or the power of suggestion combined with coincidence, some of it, like Harry hearing his mother and the massive psychokinetic episode that occurs right before the device is destroyed is more ambiguous]].
* NeverSuicide: Adelaide refuses to believe that her late husband killed himself, believing he was murdered instead.

** Houdini's mother, Cecilia Steiner Weiss, [[spoiler: actually died]] in 1913, not 1901. [[{{ArtisticLicenseGeography}} It also happened in New York, not London.]]

** Houdini's mother, Cecilia Steiner Weiss, actually [[spoiler: died]] in 1913, not 1901.

* BombThrowingAnarchists: Adelaide's husband apparently was connected with a violent Polish anarchist group which committed bombings, although she insists it must have been to investigate and take them down.

** In "The Monsters of Nevermoor", Houdini accepts being punched in the gut and making preparations for it, but the guy instead punches Houdini in the face, though Houdini did beat the guy up afterwards. In real life Houdini did get punched in the stomach and had chances to brace himself, and him being punched in the stomach unprepared was the cause of his death.

** UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison in "Necromanteion".

** [[spoiler:We never see how the self professed vampire lady got into and out of Doyle's home, nor how she broke Stoker out of jail. We also don't receive a solid explanation for how Stoker got out of the hotel]].

* AmbiguousDisorder: Bram Stoker HatesBeingTouched, is almost pathologically afraid of social situations, and has touches of OCD. [[spoilers: he's also got tertiary syphilis and may or not not be an actual vampire.]]

** In "The Monsters of Nevermoor", Houdini accepting to be punched in the gut and making preparations for it but the guy instead punches Houdini in the face though Houdini did beat the guy up afterwards. In real life Houdini did get punched in the stomach and had chances to brace himself and him being punched in the stomach unprepared was the cause of hid death.

* AlienAbduction: "The Monsters of Nethermoor" revolves around this. [[spoiler:It turns out that the "aliens" were the descendants of immmigrant miners who fled into caves to avoid being stoned after the mine had dried up]].

** Creator/BramStoker

* DemonicPossession: "Bedlam" deals partially with an apparent case of possessions. [[spoiler:It turns out to be the result of a psychosis inducing poison.]]

* DemonicPossession: "Bedlam" deals partially with an apparent case of possessions.

* VerySpecialEpisode: "The Monsters of Nethermoor" appears to be focused on the evils of bigotry in 1901 England, with Houdini sympathetic toward a mixed race man who's the subject of racism due to his own past experience of antisemitism, which an elderly Jewish woman also talks about with him, and Doyle's {{old shame}} over a black maid being blamed for stealing something he did. [[spoiler: It turns out that the kidnappers in the episode are descendants of immigrant miners who hid underground to escape angry mobs stoning them, driving it home further.]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The series opens in 1901, with Adelaide as a constable in the Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard), and she is identified several times as Scotland Yard's first female constable. Women officers were not admitted to the MPS until 1919. Also Doyle and Houdini never solved crimes together of course.

* AlienAbduction: "The Monsters of Nethermoor" revolves around this. [[spoiler:It turns out that the "aliens" were the descendants of migrant workers who fled into caves to avoid being stoned after the town's mines dried up]].

* VerySpecialEpisode: "The Monsters of Nethermoor" appears to be focused on the evils of bigotry in 1901 England as alien abduction, with Houdini sympathizing toward a mixed race man who's the subject of racism due to his own past experience of antisemitism, which an elderly Jewish woman also talks about with him, and Doyle's {{old shame}} over a black maid being blamed for stealing something he did. [[spoiler: It turns out that the kidnappers are descendants of immigrant miners who hid underground to escape angry mobs stoning them, driving it home further.]]

* NeverSuicide: Adelaide refused to believe that her late husband killed himself, believing he was murdered instead.

* AgentMulder[=/=]AgentScully: Doyle and Houdini, respectively, as they were in real life. For one episode, ''The Monsters of the Nethermoor'', they switch roles, with Houdini believing that a woman really was abducted by aliens, while Doyle doubts it due to the only witness being an alcoholic prone to hallucinations. Doyle peevishly accuses Houdini of taking the contrary view simply to annoy him, though he's actually sincere.

* AlienAbduction: "The Monsters of Nethermoor" revolves around this. [[spoiler:It turns out that the "aliens" were the descendants of migrant workers who fled into caves to avoid being stones after the town's mines dried up]].

* VerySpecialEpisode: "The Monsters of Nethermoor" appears to be equally about the evils of bigotry in 1901 England as alien abduction, with Houdini sympathizing toward a mixed race man who's the subject of racism due to his own past experience of antisemitism, which an elderly Jewish woman also talks about with him, and Doyle's {{old shame}} over a black maid being blamed for stealing something he did.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: In "The Monsters of Nethermoor" there is a great deal of prejudice toward Daniel Berry, being a mixed race man married to a white woman, which you'd expect in rural 1901 England. He's accused of murdering her largely based on this (although he ''was'' the last person to see her), with the police holding him for his safety, since they're afraid he'd be lynched otherwise.

* VerySpecialEpisode: "The Monsters of Nethermoor" appears to be equally about the evils of bigotry in 1901 England as alien abduction, with Houdini sympathizing toward a mixed race man who's the subject of racism due to his own experience of antisemitism, which an elderly Jewish woman also talks about with him, and Doyle's {{old shame}} over a black maid being blamed for stealing something he did.