The Great Detective

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Popular Love
43
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True Feel
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Cult Favourite
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Recommend
100
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1Core Metadata

Title & Origin
Canonical title
The Great Detective
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Territory
Global
Release & Format
Format
film_tv
Release status
concluded
Release date
1/1/1979
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Creator
Matthew O'CallaghanWriter
Peter YoungWriter
Ron ClementsDirector
John MuskerDirector
Burny MattinsonDirector
Ron ClementsWriter
John MuskerWriter
David MichenerDirector
Steve HulettWriter
Mel ShawWriter
David MichenerWriter
Vance GerryWriter
Burny MattinsonWriter
Bruce MorrisWriter
Network
CBC TelevisionNetwork

2Content

Synopsis

A Scottish policeman in the Victorian era moves to Toronto to care for his orphaned niece and ends up becoming Canada's first real detective. Based on the book Memoirs of a Great Detective by Canada's actual first detective, John Wilson Murray, who was appointed to Ontario's Department of Justice in 1875.

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3Commercial Metrics

Box Office
Box office
$38.6M
Currency
USD
Original
$14.0M
Revenue
Total revenue
$38.6M
Revenue tier
mid
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4Audience Intelligence

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Score
93.7
Score count
338
Rank
211
Audience size
2,625,672
Last updated
6/11/2026

5Industry Links

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6Community Sentiment

How people are talking about this IP — each row is a different signal: reviews, ratings or comments from one source.

Positive ≥0.6Mixed 0.4–0.6Negative <0.4
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Mixed0.50
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