The BEST episodes of Murdoch Mysteries
Every episode of Murdoch Mysteries ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. 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.
#1 - 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.
#2 - Darkness Before 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Everything Is Broken (2)
Season 14 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/15/2021
Reeling from a personal revelation, Murdoch seeks to avenge the murder of Anna Fulford.
#6 - Hell to Pay
Season 10 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/2017
When a burlesque dancer asks Murdoch for help, the Station House No. 4 team find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy and unforeseen danger.
#7 - Murdoch in Wonderland
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/10/2011
When a man 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?
#8 - The Death of Dr. Ogden
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/7/2014
When Julia Ogden's father passes away, she uncovers an unexpected truth behind his death - and his life. Meanwhile, Brackenreid must take over for Murdoch in the investigation of a murder amongst a group of geniuses.
#9 - Crime & Punishment
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/2013
Detective Murdoch and his methods are compromised when one of his colleagues is implicated in a suspicious murder.
#10 - 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.
#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.
#12 - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Season 17 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/1/2024
After a man dies in a drunken brawl at the Starbright Lounge, Murdoch's suspect is another detective.
#13 - The Accident
Season 11 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2017
When a man suffers life-threatening injuries in a motorcar collision, Murdoch's investigation reveals sinister motives and a case that must be solved before the victim dies.
#15 - The Spy Who Loved Murdoch
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2018
When Murdoch impersonates a dead diplomat to save a treaty, political and sexual intrigue complicate matters.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Everything Is Broken (1)
Season 14 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/8/2021
The brutal murder of a woman from Murdoch's past complicates his life.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Stroll on the Wild Side (2)
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/17/2012
After saving his lover Anna from the Black Hand, Detective Murdoch bargains for her life. During his investigation into the murder of a shy librarian with a secret life, he encounters another young woman behaving seductively.
#21 - On the Waterfront (2)
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2014
Murdoch and the force have to confront more violence on the waterfront as they try and bring Brackenreid's attackers to justice. Dr. Ogden and Dr. Grace go head to head in court.
#22 - What the Dickens?!
Season 18 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2024
When Crabtree and Effie attend a celebration of Charles Dickens' birth, the host winds up mysteriously dead.
#23 - Still Waters
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/2008
The body of Richard Hartley, the newest member of a prestigious men’s rowing team, is found washed up on a beach after a night of drinking with his teammates. According to his fiancée, Minerva Fairchild, Hartley had just replaced the team’s top rower Horace Briggs, who admits he’d been disappointed when he was bumped from the team – but not enough to kill. As the evidence mounts, it seems increasingly apparent that Hartley was killed in an initiation hazing gone wrong. Sure enough, the team’s coach admits that Hartley would have cost them a spot at the Olympics, so he instructed the boys to put him out of action so they could bring Briggs back. When things got rough, Hartley panicked and ran into the lake – but he was a strong swimmer; they never dreamed he’d drown. Still no closer to the truth, Murdoch orders a test on the water in Hartley’s lungs – and that’s when the investigation finally blows wide open.
#24 - Murdoch and the Treasure of Lima
Season 17 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/2024
Watts is abducted after he and Murdoch go north on a treasure hunt to find stolen Incan gold and a murder.
#25 - Dr. Osler Regrets
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2017
A spate of murders staged as suicides leads Murdoch to suspect a sequential killer targeting the elderly.