The Best Episodes Written By Robert Murphy
Every TV Episode Written by Robert Murphy Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Robert Murphy Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Robert Murphy is "Clouds Across the Moon", rated 9/10 from 4 user votes. It was "directed by Laura Scrivano". "Clouds Across the Moon" aired on 7/10/2022 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Fall of the House of Crockett".
9.0/10 4 votes#1 - Clouds Across the Moon
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 7/10/2022
When a successful businessman is found in a shallow grave near the Glastonbury Tor on All Soul's Day, the suspects are as eccentric as the crime itself.
Director: Laura Scrivano
Writer: Robert Murphy
8.8/10 4 votes#2 - The Fall of the House of Crockett
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/2020
When a man is shot in the deserted mansion of one of Bath's most prominent industrialists, newly arrived DCI McDonald and DS Dodds unravel a tangled web of lies.
Director: Richard Senior
Writer: Robert Murphy
8.8/10 4 votes#3 - Belvedere
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 6/19/2022
When a young woman dies in a busy park in broad daylight, McDonald and Dodds are called in to untangle the mysterious circumstances of her death.
Director: Robert Quinn
Writer: Robert Murphy
8.3/10 4 votes#4 - Wilderness of Mirrors
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/2020
The chalk-and-cheese detective duo are called to a private clinic where a wealthy patient has been killed. However, their investigation is made all the more difficult by the complex relationships of the victim's former fellow residents.
Director: Laura Scrivano
Writer: Robert Murphy
8.3/10 4 votes#5 - The Man Who Wasn’t There
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/28/2021
Five friends take a hot-air balloon trip but only four come back down alive, leaving McDonald and Dodds to untangle a complex web of lies spanning 30 years.
Director: Alex Pillai
Writer: Robert Murphy
8.1/10 8 votes#6 - Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/19/2010
When a hacker interferes with air support causing a British missile to hit American forces, Porter is assigned the mission to find the man responsible, a former guidance engineer who was dismissed from the army. However, Porter is kidnapped and taken to a Taliban camp.
Director: Edward Hall
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.7/10 6 votes#7 - Episode 2
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/2016
DI Jimmy Perez is convinced that Michael Maguire is somehow implicated in the death of Robbie Morton. But with the investigation seemingly under threat before it's even started, he faces an uphill battle to uncover the truth behind Maguire's silence.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.7/10 6 votes#8 - Episode 3
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/5/2016
The murder investigation takes Perez and Tosh to Glasgow as they try to uncover the reasons behind Maguire's brutal death and his connection to Robbie Morton. But old ghosts return to haunt Perez as his enemies try to prevent him from getting to the truth.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.7/10 3 votes#9 - Strange Affair: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2012
A mysterious phone message leads Banks to Harrogate to search for his estranged younger brother, while the team investigate the murder of a young woman.
Director: Tim Fywell
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.7/10 3 votes#10 - Strange Affair: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2012
When a body found at Halton quarry turns out to be his missing brother, Banks must return to his childhood home to inform his parents of the terrible news.
Director: Tim Fywell
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.5/10 2 votes#11 - Playing with Fire: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/2011
In the first episode, DCI Alan Banks is taken to a canal where there has been a fatal fire. The crime is far from straightforward, and as another body is discovered the motive, as well as the intended victim, become increasingly unclear. However, the discovery of what appears to be a Turner landscape suggests that at least one of the victims was involved in an art forgery scam.
Director: Paul Whittington
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.5/10 2 votes#12 - Playing with Fire: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/2011
After Tom McMahon becomes the third victim following some suspicious fires, Alan realises that he is now attempting to catch a serial killer. His superiors warn him to keep his distance from the Aspern family who are trying to lodge an official complaint against him. Banks is determined to locate the ringleader of the art forgery scam which links two of the victims. Annie continues to see Mark Keane, despite Banks’ warnings. After Banks finally discovers the true identity of ‘Morrison’, he quickly realises that Annie could be in real danger.
Director: Paul Whittington
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.2/10 5 votes#13 - Episode 5
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/19/2016
Perez struggles to deal with what has happened to Tosh as he continues to investigate the murders of Robbie Morton and Michael Thompson, but a shocking discovery finally leads him to the identity of who Thompson was going to testify against.
Director: Jan Matthys
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.0/10 5 votes#14 - Episode 4
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/12/2016
Perez and his team are determined to track down the person who helped Michael Thompson's killer on Shetland. But the closer the team get to the truth in both Shetland and Glasgow, the more dangerous it becomes for all of them.
Director: Jan Matthys
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.0/10 7 votes#15 - Episode 6
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/4/2016
As the investigation reaches its final stages, Detective Inspector Perez and his team discover the person responsible for the deaths of Robbie Morton and Michael Thompson is closer to home than any of them thought.
Director: Jan Matthys
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.0/10 2 votes#16 - Cold is the Grave: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/2011
An armed robbery ends up taking a much darker twist after the culprit is brutally murdered in his own home. Before DCI Banks can start to unravel the case, Chief Superintendent Gerry Rydell, makes a personal plea for Banks to look for his missing teenage daughter. Some naked photographs found on the Internet by Rydell’s wife, Rosalind, makes it look like that she could be in London. Banks reluctantly agrees to help and manages to track Emily down to the home of a drug dealer. Emily refuses to come back home with him but changes her mind. Annie, who has been leading the investigation into the robber’s murder whilst Banks has been away, thinks that the robbery could have been staged, but the victim’s accomplice refuses to talk. After Emily contacts Banks and suggests that she has seen one of Clough’s associates in Leeds, Banks wants her to tell him everything she knows about Clough. Emily refuses to tell Banks anything though. After a battered body is found in an Eastvale nightclub, Banks is shocked to discover that the victim has been identified as Ruth Walker, somebody Emily knew whilst in London. After the true identity of the victim is revealed though, both Banks and Annie find themselves involved in a conspiracy which has changed both investigations hugely.
Director: Marek Losey
Writer: Robert Murphy
7.0/10 2 votes#17 - Cold is the Grave: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/2011
Emily Rydell has apparently been brutally beaten to death and DCI Banks quickly ends up being in the middle of a murder investigation with many suspects. After a surveillance operation establishes a link between the murder of Charles McKay and Brian Clough, Banks and Annie soon work out that the two cases have to be connected.
Director: Marek Losey
Writer: Robert Murphy
6.7/10 3 votes#18 - Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/19/2016
When a young woman goes missing, Nathan must race to solve her disappearance.
Director: Sam Donovan
Writer: Robert Murphy
5.8/10 4 votes#19 - Wednesday's Child: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/3/2014
When two bogus social workers come to Katy Heath's house and take her son away, Banks is drawn into a massive search for the boy - but is Katy telling the truth?
Director: Bill Eagles
Writer: Robert Murphy
5.5/10 2 votes#20 - Wednesday's Child: Part 2
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/10/2014
An 11-year old's body is found and Banks wonders if there is a connection between his death and Kyle's disappearance.
Director: Bill Eagles
Writer: Robert Murphy
5.5/10 2 votes#21 - Piece of My Heart: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/17/2014
When a journalist is found dead in a remote village, Banks notices a connection between the case and a mysterious death in the 1980s.
Director: Edward Bazalgette
Writer: Robert Murphy
5.0/10 2 votes#22 - Piece of My Heart: Part 2
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/24/2014
Banks races to locate a mysterious recording that appears to connect Jack Barber and the members of The Crystal Kiss together.
Director: Edward Bazalgette
Writer: Robert Murphy