7.3/10114 votes#1 - Early Checkout
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/20/2013
The Melbourne based crime-scene cleaning couple are called to a hotel to clean-up after the murder of a popular motivational author, stabbed apparently by one of the staff whose pleas of innocence result in the duo staying as guests.
Director: Shirley Barrett
Writer: Kirsty Fisher
7.7/1085 votes#2 - A Dog's Life
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/27/2013
One of the two local golf club owners is found dead following a dispute with dog owners who claim the right to walk their dogs across the council-owned land the fairway is on. The suspects? Dogs!
Director: Sian Davies
Writer: John Hugginson
7.2/1072 votes#3 - En Vogue
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/6/2013
Charlie and Nicola's hazard suits may not be the latest collection from Paris or Milan but it doesn't stop them from entering the glamorous, fabulous and superficial world of runway shows, photo shoots and haute couture.
Director: Sian Davies
Writer: Marieke Hardy
7.2/1063 votes#4 - Atlas Drugged
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/13/2013
It's a murderous level of muscle burn when a bodybuilder is found drugged and baked to death on a sunbed. There's a bulging mass of suspects: an overshadowed brother, a jealous rival, a devoted trainer and a long time grudge-holder.
Director: Shirley Barrett
Writer: Bridie O'Neill
7.3/1060 votes#5 - Lost Soul
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/20/2013
They say life's a cabaret, but that's hardly the case when the leading lady in the musical theatre show Lost Soul is found murdered beneath the stage.
Director: Daniel Nettheim
Writer: Christine Bartlett
7.3/1061 votes#6 - The Next Best Man
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/27/2013
The Best Man is poisoned on the eve of a wedding on the glamorous Scaletta family estate. He was the CFO of their successful family business, and advocating for some big changes within it.
Director: Sian Davies
Writer: Sian Davies
7.3/1063 votes#7 - Thoroughly Dead Thoroughbred
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/3/2013
A vet killed by an overdose of horse tranquilizer sets off an investigation at stables that house champion racehorses. It looks like an inside job, and Nicola and Charlie go to dangerous lengths to suss out the truth.
Director: Peter Salmon
Writer: Jay Barnes
7.5/1065 votes#8 - A Flare for Murder
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/10/2013
When Jennifer Travers is murdered on her yacht, Nicola and Charlie navigate their way through a series of clues. From a cut that won't heal, a hidden compartment, and a lovelorn message.
Director: Peter Salmon
Writer: Timothy Hobart
7.8/1062 votes#9 - The Art of Murder
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/17/2013
A homeless man is found crushed to death under a floating wall at a modern art gallery. When the death is declared a burglary gone wrong, a doubtful Nicola and Charlie investigate.
Director: Abe Forsythe
Writer: Timothy Hobart
7.4/1054 votes#10 - Little Boxes
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/24/2013
When upper crust James Langlan is harpooned through the chest in a heritage bathing box, it sends a dark ripple through a wealthy seaside community. Was it a robbery gone wrong? Or a crime of passion?
Director: Jet Wilkinson
Writer: Harold Jordan
7.4/1049 votes#11 - Keeping Up Appearances
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/1/2013
A beautiful young woman has an ugly end when she lands in the garden below a cosmetic surgery clinic for the rich and famous. Did she commit suicide as retribution against the clinic? Or was it murder?
Director: Jet Wilkinson
Writer: Katherine Thomson
7.6/1051 votes#12 - Zootopia
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/8/2013
When Gary, the big cat keeper dies and Marie, the hippo keeper goes missing, it looks like the food chain has been reversed at Maabade Zoo. But it's not the animals out for blood, it's murder.
Director: Daniel Nettheim
Writer: Jonathan Gavin
7.9/1058 votes#13 - The Course Whisperer
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/15/2013
Nicola and Charlie find a bloody mess at a restaurant where the celebrity chef has gone missing and is presumed dead. They learn the chef was a cruel dictator in the kitchen, and several employees may have wanted him dead.
Director: Abe Forsythe
Writer: Marieke Hardy
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Charlie and Nicola Buchanan are crime scene cleaners whose unique quirks and talents solve the most baffling murder mysteries.
Genres:ComedyCrime
Network:Network Ten
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Early Checkout" is the best rated episode of "Mr & Mrs Murder" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 114 votes. Directed by Shirley Barrett and written by Kirsty Fisher, it aired on 2/20/2013. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "A Dog's Life".