The Best Episodes of Murdoch Mysteries

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9.2/10(620 votes)
#1 - The Accident
S11:E711/13/2017
Murdoch investigates a car accident and uncovers sinister motives.
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8.9/10(554 votes)
#2 - Dead End Street
S4:E63/22/2011
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
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8.8/10(430 votes)
#3 - Up From Ashes
S11:E19/25/2017
A jailed Murdoch must prove his innocence amid police and government corruption after the constables are ambushed, Ogden is kidnapped, and Brackenreid goes missing.
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8.6/10(481 votes)
#4 - Twentieth Century Murdoch
S5:E135/22/2012
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.
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8.6/10(469 votes)
#5 - Artful Detective
S8:E183/30/2015
During a hunt for a killer who collects macabre trophies, Murdoch becomes a target.
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8.6/10(451 votes)
#6 - What Lies Buried
S8:E711/24/2014
Murdoch's own colleagues are suspects when a police officer's skeleton is discovered in the basement.
Director:Deborah Chow
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8.6/10(379 votes)
#7 - Bl**dy H*ll
S9:E163/7/2016
Murdoch and Brackenreid unwittingly put their careers at risk when they investigate high-level police corruption.
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8.5/10(511 votes)
#8 - The Murdoch Identity
S3:E12/16/2010
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
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8.5/10(481 votes)
#9 - Love and Human Remains
S3:E94/13/2010
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.
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8.5/10(461 votes)
#10 - Murdoch in Wonderland
S4:E135/10/2011
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(453 votes)
#11 - Murdoch in Toyland
S5:E115/8/2012
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(297 votes)
#12 - Darkness Before the Dawn (2)
S12:E183/4/2019
Murdoch suspects John is being framed for murder by Inspector McWorthy and Brackenreid goes after the corrupt copper.
Director:Peter Mitchell
Writers:Simon McNabb, Noelle Girard
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Director:Peter Mitchell
Writers:Simon McNabb, Noelle Girard
8.4/10(471 votes)
#13 - Me, Myself and Murdoch
S3:E53/16/2010
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.
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8.4/10(464 votes)
#14 - A Study in Sherlock
S6:E41/28/2013
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
Writers:Cal Coons, Graham Clegg, Alexandra Zarowny, R.B. Carney
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Director:Don McCutcheon
Writers:Cal Coons, Graham Clegg, Alexandra Zarowny, R.B. Carney
8.4/10(450 votes)
#15 - Holy Matrimony, Murdoch!
S8:E411/3/2014
As their wedding day approaches, Murdoch and Ogden intervene in the trial of a woman accused of killing her husband.
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8.4/10(448 votes)
#16 - The Murdoch Trap
S6:E134/15/2013
With his colleague sentenced to hang for murder, Detective Murdoch races to exonerate them and steps into a trap set by the real killer.
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8.4/10(414 votes)
#17 - Nolo Contendere
S9:E110/5/2015
While Crabtree serves time for the murder of his sweetheart's husband, Murdoch investigates an inmate stabbing that may be connected to the case.
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8.4/10(407 votes)
#18 - Hell to Pay
S10:E183/20/2017
The team gets caught up in a conspiracy and is in danger when a dancer asks Murdoch for help.
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8.4/10(357 votes)
#19 - 8 Footsteps
S11:E310/9/2017
A recording device made by Alexander Graham Bell assists in the investigation of a murder at a dinner honoring Helen Keller.
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8.4/10(290 votes)
#20 - The Night Before Christmas
S15:E1111/29/2021
Murdoch and company's Christmas at an idyllic country estate turns potentially deadly.
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8.3/10(461 votes)
#21 - Return of Sherlock Holmes
S7:E410/21/2013
Murdoch investigates a nanny's disappearance with the so-called real Sherlock Holmes.
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8.3/10(448 votes)
#22 - The Great Wall
S3:E22/23/2010
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.
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8.3/10(443 votes)
#23 - Murdoch Au Naturel
S6:E52/4/2013
Murdoch enlists some revealing detective work while investigating a murder at a nudist community.
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8.3/10(429 votes)
#24 - Double Life
S9:E310/26/2015
It is the eve of Dr Grace's departure for England, when a young suffragette is murdered. Murdoch is called to investigate.
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8.3/10(423 votes)
#25 - On the Waterfront (2)
S8:E210/13/2014
Murdoch and the force have to confront more violence on the waterfront as they try and bring Brackenreid to justice. Dr. Ogden and Dr. Grace go head to head in court.
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