Summer of '75

"Summer of '75"
Season	9
Episode	7
Airdate	23 November 2015
Writer	Michelle Ricci and Carol Hay
Director	Don McBrearty
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"Summer of '75" is the seventh episode of season nine and the one hundredth twenty-first of the series.

Summary

A childhood friend from wilderness camp, Winnifred “Freddie” Pink, a private investigator from Montreal - alerts Murdoch to imminent danger after a man is gunned down at close range, leading the two of them to revisit their past, Algonquin Park, and to investigate a 30-year-old murder.

Character Revelations

• Young William Murdoch was a Governor General Young Scholar.
• The second flashback starts with Young William Murdoch saying "I prefer not to be called Billy" to which young Winnifred Pink replies "Alright Billy"
• Rebecca is resuming her medical studies at the Ontario Medical College for Women while working at the morgue.

Continuity

• Young Murdoch uses two lessons learned from Father Keegan in Shipwreck : "...nothing to fear from the dead " and "What do you observe?"
• First time anyone has called Murdoch "Billy". When young Murdoch is asked "Don't your friends call you Billy?" He replies, "Not really."
• Again, Rebecca loses her position at the morgue and regains it back again with Dr. Ogden as her champion.
• Murdoch presents Julia with a scaled-model of "...our home, that I'm going to build for you."

Historical References

• Algonquin Provincial Park, established in 1893, it is the oldest provincial park in Canada. Over 2,400 lakes and 1,200 kilometres of streams and rivers are located within the park. These were formed by the retreat of the glaciers during the last ice age. The park is considered part of the "border" between Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The park is in an area of transition between northern coniferous forest and southern deciduous forest. This unique mixture of forest types, and the wide variety of environments in the park, allows the park to support an uncommon diversity of plant and animal species. It is also an important site for wildlife research.
• Murdoch's "lapboard" is an allusion to the modern laptop computer, and shares a similar layout. Upon seeing it, Freddie says she will stick with her "pad" which may be meant as an allusion to the iPad.
• Murdoch uses the phrase "Toronto the Good", with its history as a bastion of 19th century Victorian morality and coined by mayor William Holmes Howland.

Trivia

• This is the third episode the Pinkerton's Detective Agency is mentioned.

Speculations

• Young Winnifred Pink ofPrince Edward Island has similarities to the look epitomized by Anne of Green Gables, from the 1908 novel, set in Prince Edward Island, by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Although correct to the time period, this could be a nod to the Canadian TV Series as the week Summer of 75 aired was the 30-year-anniversary of its original Anne of Green Gables CBC airdate.

Errors

• Green light can be seen on Williams shirt when making the model of the house he will build.

Cast

Main Cast

Yannick Bisson as Detective William Murdoch
Hélène Joy as Dr. Julia Ogden
Thomas Craig as Inspector Thomas Brackenreid
Jonny Harris as Constable George Crabtree

Recurring Cast

Lachlan Murdoch as Constable Henry Higgins
Mouna Traoré as Rebecca James
John Paul Ruttan as Young Murdoch

Guest Cast

Alex Paxton-Beesley as Winnifred “Freddie” Pink
M. E. Lewis as Mr. Richards