9.2/10 529 votes#1 - The Accident
Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2017
Murdoch investigates a car accident and uncovers sinister motives.
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8.9/10 459 votes#2 - Dead End Street
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 3/22/2011
Murdoch makes a surprising discovery at a dolls house fair; in one of the houses the artist has placed a hand firing a gun. This is no ordinary model - it’s a crime scene. Murdoch finds the creator of the streetscape, an autistic 19-year-old, Lydia, who communicates best through model building. No one has reported a murder yet, but using the model’s intricate clues left by Lydia, Murdoch discovers that someone indeed has been killed – but what happened and why? Someone is far from happy by his investigations and things begin to get even more sinister in the neighbourhood.
Director: Laurie Lynd
Writer: N/A
8.8/10 368 votes#3 - Up From Ashes
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2017
A jailed Murdoch must prove his innocence amid police and government corruption after the constables are ambushed, Ogden is kidnapped, and Brackenreid goes missing.
Director: N/A
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8.6/10 408 votes#4 - Twentieth Century Murdoch
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/22/2012
Murdoch investigates the claims of a man who says his time travels to the future provided him with information that allowed him to stop crimes, while the New Year's Eve Policeman's Ball offers exciting personal possibilities for the 20th century.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 367 votes#5 - What Lies Buried
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/2014
Murdoch's own colleagues are suspects when a police officer's skeleton is discovered in the basement.
Director: Deborah Chow
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 314 votes#6 - Bl**dy H*ll
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 3/7/2016
Murdoch and Brackenreid unwittingly put their careers at risk when they investigate high-level police corruption.
Director: N/A
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8.5/10 423 votes#7 - The Murdoch Identity
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/16/2010
Murdoch finds himself with amnesia and running for his life on the streets of Bristol, England, very far from home, if he knew where his home was. Taking refuge in a pub, he gains the assistance of a vivacious barmaid who helps him reconstruct his memories, escape his pursuers, and foil an assassination plot.
Director: Laurie Lynd
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 397 votes#8 - Love and Human Remains
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 4/13/2010
Workers laboring to build a bridge across the Don River make a grisly discovery – entombed in the swamplands bordering the river are the well-preserved bodies of a man and a woman. Called to the scene, Murdoch and Ogden quickly determine that the couple was murdered. When a third body is then discovered, Murdoch has to re-evaluate the nature of the crime.
Director: N/A
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8.5/10 395 votes#9 - Murdoch in Wonderland
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 5/10/2011
When a woman is found murdered at a costume party held in honour of the late Lewis Carroll, all clues point to a man dressed as the Mad Hatter. It seems obvious that this is the killer? This is not welcomed news as this part was played by Murdoch himself. Murdoch becomes the Alice In Wonderland prime murder suspect and it’s up to his team to prove their favourite detective is not the killer – or can we be sure of that?
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8.5/10 381 votes#10 - Murdoch in Toyland
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 5/8/2012
Detective Murdoch is taunted by a deranged criminal who leaves talking dolls with macabre personal messages at each crime scene.
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8.5/10 403 votes#11 - Artful Detective
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 3/30/2015
During a hunt for a killer who collects macabre trophies, Murdoch becomes a target.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 251 votes#12 - Darkness Before the Dawn (2)
Season 12 Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/2019
Murdoch suspects John is being framed for murder by Inspector McWorthy and Brackenreid goes after the corrupt copper.
Director: Peter Mitchell
Writer: Simon McNabb, Noelle Girard
8.4/10 398 votes#13 - Me, Myself and Murdoch
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/16/2010
A family celebration of Alexander Reynolds' 60th birthday is dampened when he's found with a knife plunged into his chest. Murdoch is called in and soon discovers the victim was universally despised by his kin. Reynolds' family instantly falls under suspicion but the field of suspects narrows considerably when daughter Charlotte Reynolds appears in a blood soaked dress and confesses to killing her father.
Director: N/A
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8.4/10 380 votes#14 - The Murdoch Trap
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 4/15/2013
With his colleague sentenced to hang for murder, Detective Murdoch races to exonerate them and steps into a trap set by the real killer.
Director: N/A
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8.4/10 344 votes#15 - The Death of Dr. Ogden
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 4/7/2014
Julia discovers a secret about her father upon his death; Brackenreid takes over a murder investigation.
Director: N/A
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8.4/10 375 votes#16 - Holy Matrimony, Murdoch!
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/2014
As their wedding day approaches, Murdoch and Ogden intervene in the trial of a woman accused of killing her husband.
Director: N/A
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8.4/10 340 votes#17 - Nolo Contendere
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2015
While Crabtree serves time for the murder of his sweetheart's husband, Murdoch investigates an inmate stabbing that may be connected to the case.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 343 votes#18 - Hell to Pay
Season 10 Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/2017
The team gets caught up in a conspiracy and is in danger when a dancer asks Murdoch for help.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 302 votes#19 - 8 Footsteps
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2017
A recording device made by Alexander Graham Bell assists in the investigation of a murder at a dinner honoring Helen Keller.
Director: N/A
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8.4/10 233 votes#20 - The Night Before Christmas
Season 15 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/2021
Murdoch and company's Christmas at an idyllic country estate turns potentially deadly.
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8.3/10 373 votes#21 - The Great Wall
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/23/2010
Murdoch is called to Station House Five when a decorated constable is murdered and the local detective is ill. Murdoch finds that everyone is ready to blame an elderly Chinaman named Fong Choy because of something to do with his granddaughter, but she is nowhere to be found and Fong Choy won't talk.
Director: N/A
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8.3/10 351 votes#22 - Invention Convention
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 4/24/2012
After a ruthless inventor is killed at a convention, Murdoch's investigation is assisted by his idol, Alexander Graham Bell.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 391 votes#23 - A Study in Sherlock
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2013
Two bank safe deposit boxes that were being transferred are taken by thieves and the crime is investigated by Detective Murdoch. The getaway driver for the thieves is killed. While on scene someone claiming to be Sherlock Holmes shows up and provides some helpful information. Dr. Ogden figures out that he is actually David Kingsley who at one time was treated for mental illness. "Sherlock Holmes" appears to have the qualities of the fictional character of the same name such as the ability to "read" an individual or a crime scene.
Director: Don McCutcheon
Writer: Cal Coons, R.B. Carney, Alexandra Zarowny, Graham Clegg
8.3/10 380 votes#24 - Murdoch Au Naturel
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2013
Murdoch enlists some revealing detective work while investigating a murder at a nudist community.
Director: N/A
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8.3/10 388 votes#25 - Return of Sherlock Holmes
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2013
Murdoch investigates a nanny's disappearance with the so-called real Sherlock Holmes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Murdoch Mysteries
Every episode of Murdoch Mysteries ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Murdoch Mysteries!
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.
Genres:MysteryDrama
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Murdoch Mysteries" is "The Accident", rated 9.2/10 from 529 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "The Accident" aired on 11/13/2017 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Dead End Street".