Murdoch Mysteries

2008
4.7
626 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (14)

1 Power
1/24/08
While demonstrating a newfangled alternating current to the public, Miss Toronto Electric & Light dies onstage. A tragic accident or murder? Detective William Murdoch enlists the help of Nikola Tesla to find out.
1 Home For the Holidays
12/8/17
Murdoch and Julia travel to Victoria, British Columbia, to spend Christmas with Murdoch's brother, but instead of a relaxing holiday, they end up investigating a murder at an archaeological site. Mrs. Brackenreid urges her husband to invest in a money-making scheme run by a man named Ponzi.
2 The Glass Ceiling
1/31/08
A trunk delivered to Inspector Brackenreid contains a lawyer’s naked corpse and a taunting note. When a second trunk turns up, Murdoch races to find the killer before his boss becomes the next victim.
3 The Knockdown
2/7/08
After celebrating a big win, boxer Amos Robinson goes down for the count, courtesy of a gunshot to the chest. A witness finds Robinson’s wife, Fannie, standing over the body but Murdoch aims to prove her innocence.
4 Elementary, My Dear Murdoch
2/14/08
Murdoch accompanies his hero to a séance, where the medium guides him to the body of a skeptical psychic investigator. Did the clues indeed come from the spirit world? Or did the medium have a motive for murder?
5 Till Death Do Us Part
2/21/08
When Wendell Merrick dies from a blow to the head before his wedding, the case looks like a simple robbery gone wrong. But questions about the groom’s ways lead Murdoch into Toronto’s homosexual subculture.
6 Let Loose the Dogs
2/28/08
A murder brings Murdoch face to face with his troubled past, as the detective’s estranged father turns up drunk near the crime scene. Losing his usual objectivity, Murdoch seems dead set on proving his father’s guilt.
7 Body Double
3/6/08
When a corpse crashes through a theatre’s ceiling and lands onstage in the midst of Macbeth, Murdoch and Brackenreid delve into the backstage intrigues of the city’s leading Shakespearean acting troupe.
8 Still Waters
3/13/08
Boys playing on the lakeshore discover the bruised, beaten body of Richard Hartley - scion of a wealthy family. Investigating the case, Murdoch finds dark secrets beneath a gleaming world of privilege.
9 Belly Speaker
3/20/08
While researching a new novel, Arthur Conan Doyle returns to Toronto and meddles in a case involving a mad ventriloquist who seems to have murdered his father. Murdoch begins to suspect a hidden agenda.
10 Child's Play
3/27/08
Who could have murdered Howard Rookwood? Everyone admired the well-known philanthropist, killed in his glue factory. When suspicions fall on employees, Murdoch uncovers another side to the victim’s character.
11 Bad Medicine
4/3/08
After a mysterious hooded figure kills a prominent psychiatric researcher, Murdoch investigates the doctor’s former patients.
12 The Rebel and the Prince
4/10/08
The murder of a girl leads police to suspect a plot against visiting Prince Alfred. Constable Crabtree joins the prince’s retinue and finds His Highness more than a handful to guard.
13 The Annoying Red Planet
4/17/08
When a reclusive woodworker and amateur astronomer is found hanging in a tree, mounting evidence points to one conclusion: he was murdered by Martians. Murdoch searches for more earthly answers.

About this show

In this beloved, award-winning Canadian series, Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson, Sue Thomas: FB.Eye) solves turn-of-the-century Toronto's most intriguing mysteries with the help of Constable Crabtree (Jonny Harris, Still Standing); Dr. Julia Ogden (Helene Joy, Durham County); and Inspector Brackenreid (Thomas Craig, Where the Heart Is).

Ratings and reviews

4.7
626 reviews
Doug Moffat
July 31, 2017
Stilted, Wooden & Vapid. With great mysteries like Poirot, Miss Marple and Foyle's War I am baffled by the reviews for this show. It's as if the actors were collected from an inferior rep company or have been instructed to act without an affect. Is it the Canadian connection that is responsible for the ratings and reviews? Like a modern cozy series imitating the Golden Age (badly).
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Patricia Ann Hull
February 14, 2019
Found this series about 6 yes ago and just love them and soooooooooo sad 2 hear none will be made after Season 12! I purchase them now as moved where can't get satellite reception but we'll worth It! Love the period, the history, the intertwining of inventions during this Time! You really can't get bored..... so interesting!
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Angela Gamblin (WITCHYBOO)
September 19, 2020
Probably the greatest, most imaginative television show to appear in recent years. A great cast, consistently interesting stories and fun characters over the last ten years, make this a show that one can easily binge on. There aren't many shows these days, which decades later will receive the label "classic" but Murdoch's Mysteries will be one of those few.
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