Glory Days

"Glory Days"
Season	8
Episode	3
Airdate	October 20, 2014
Writer	Peter Mitchell and Jordan Christianson
Director	Yannick Bisson
Guests	Steven Ogg as Bat Masterson Anthony Lemke as Father Clements
Recurring	Lachlan Murdoch as Henry Higgins Kristian Bruun as Slugger Jackson Dixie Seatle as Mrs. Kitchen
Previous	"On the Waterfront Part 2"
Next	"Holy Matrimony, Murdoch!"

"Glory Days" is the third episode of the eighth season of the Murdoch Mysteries and the ninety-ninth episode of the series.

Summary

Legendary U.S. lawman Bat Masterson is in Toronto and claims to have seen the equally legendary Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Masterson is now a newspaperman and he's already filed a story about the sighting with his New York paper. Murdoch is doubtful about the whole thing and is under the impression that Butch and Sundance had fled to Argentina the previous year. Brackenreid is keen however - and just a big starstruck - and they set off to find the two men Masterson says he saw. After the Bank of Toronto is robbed - and quickly followed by a train robbery - Masterson's claims appear confirmed. Masterson himself thinks otherwise and comes clean. Meanwhile, Julia and William's wedding day is fast approaching but they have yet to select just where they will be married. Julia has an idea however. Crabtree and Station House No. 4 chip in for Murdoch's bachelor party.

Character Revelations

• When George asks where the Detective and Doctor will live once married, Murdoch tells George, "I intend to build us a house. But Mrs. Kitchen's will have to do in the meantime." George doubts that Dr. Ogden will be keen on that arrangement.
• Beef stew is one of Murdoch's favorite dishes. Mrs. Kitchen tells Murdoch he certainly isn't going to bring his bride back to live in her boarding house. "Who'd entertain such foolishness?"
• Father Clements tells Julia that William's at peace in a way that he has never known him to be, and Julia tells him so is she. Julia and the Father meet several times.
• Bat Masterson once sat across from Butch Cassidy at a card table in Hot Springs, Montana, "I'll bet I am the only man in this city to say I've looked him in the eye."
• George rents a tavern and asks Mrs. Kitchen to bring some food. Constable Jackson has it in his head that he'll play the trumpet but George explained to him it's a bachelor party for the Detective, "not a godforsaken talent show..."

Continuity

• William doesn't want a bachelor party and Julia declines a hen party considering how the last one she and Dr. Grace attended went (ep.714).
• Father Clements tells Murdoch that he is so pleased that William has finally found someone in this world who is at the very least his equal and Julia tells William the Father has permitted their wedding to take place in the church, " And if we're to marry, I want to marry all of you."
• When Bat Masterson is taken to the most reputable house of ill-repute in town, the women dancing to Middle Eastern music reminds Inspector Brackenreid of Afghanistan.

Historical References

• Canadian boxer George “Little Chocolate” Dixon
• Bat Masterson and his pistol, "the gun that saved the West"
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Sundance's sweetheart, Etta Place
• Dodge City War and Wyatt Earp in Tombstone
• Toronto Gazette and New York Telegraph

Trivia

• Filmed in Hamilton.

Errors

• The "South Simcoe Railway" referred to in the episode is the name of the tourist railway used for filming, not a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railway as described in the dialogue. The train shown is also a Canadian Pacific prototype, and would not have operated on Grand Trunk tracks
• When Murdoch is knocked through the loft wall he loses his hat, but miraculously the hat appears back on his head when he lands.
• A notepad cannot stop a bullet.

Cast

Main Cast

Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch
Hélène Joy as Julia Ogden
Thomas Craig as Thomas Brackenreid
Jonny Harris as George Crabtree
Georgina Reilly as Emily Grace

Recurring Cast

Lachlan Murdoch as Henry Higgins
Kristian Bruun as Slugger Jackson
Dixie Seatle as Mrs. Kitchen

Guest Starring

Steven Ogg as Bat Masterson
Anthony Lemke as Father Clements
Rod Wilson as Hiram Claxon
Dan Fox as Liam Claxon
Andrew Butcher as Walter Claxon
Milton Barnes as George Dixon
Denis Germain as Arthur Brown
Sean Clement as Lucas Hunt
J. Sean Elliott as Mr. Fleet
Lorry Ayers as Madame Dupree
Diana Bentley as Cynthia
Daniel Falk as Reporter Matthew Booth
Michael Iliadis as Reporter Neil Sutherland
Dan Karpenchuk as Train Engineer
Jameson Kraemer as Railway Boss
Bruce Beaton as Hoyt O'Bannon
Peter Valdron as Ed O'Bannon
Marie Lou as Belly Dancer

Uncredited Cast

Brian Kaulback as Constable Hodge
Sean Harraher as Constable Worseley