Death at Victoria Dock
- Episode aired Mar 16, 2012
- 45m
Summoned to investigate a missing school girl, Phryne runs afoul of social anarchists at odds during a dock workers' strike.Summoned to investigate a missing school girl, Phryne runs afoul of social anarchists at odds during a dock workers' strike.Summoned to investigate a missing school girl, Phryne runs afoul of social anarchists at odds during a dock workers' strike.
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- (as Anthony Sharpe)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe date on the newspaper Dot hands Phryne is August 26, 1928.
- GoofsMiss Fisher refers to the Slavic language spoken at the docks, yet Latvian is not a Slavic language; it belongs to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. The names of the Latvian characters don't follow Latvian naming conventions, either, being rather generically Slavic Eastern European - suggesting the writers/makers indeed did not research Latvian culture properly.
- Quotes
Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: Oh, and did you make a note about leaving the scene of the crime in order to escort Miss Fisher home?
Hugh Collins: She made a request, sir.
Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: Miss Fisher is gonna make a good deal of requests, Constable. And while there may be circumstances in which we can be of mutual benefit to each other, we need to establish right up front who wears the trousers in this arrangement.
[Neither fail to note Miss Fisher descending the stairs wearing, by chance, trousers]
- ConnectionsReferenced in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Murder in Montparnasse (2012)
Last, but not least - motivation. It just made no sense for a Latvian to be an anarchist (even for a revolutioner), never have they used that symbol (latvians have plenty of their own as I mentioned before). A Latvian has always been a defender not an attacker. And those 5 Latvians that would have been there in Australia in the 20ies would just try to integrate. As for those thousands that came to Australia in the 40ies, they were fleeing FROM russians and certain death. So the show ignored everything about Latvian language, culture and history. Why then even choose Latvia? If they hadn't repeatedly called them latvians, I would never guess. I would assume that they are russians who spoke broken Latvian. Miss Fisher's ignorance and arrogance was very telling. But what do you expect from a french woman? Oh, she wasn't french? My bad. Frenchmen and Englishmen sound and look the same to me.
- kristine-k
- May 28, 2018
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- Runtime45 minutes
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- 16:9 HD