The WORST episodes of Murdoch Mysteries
Every episode of Murdoch Mysteries ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Station House of Horror
Season 17 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2023
After wishing on a mechanical soothsayer Ogden descends into a house of horrors where psychopath James Gillies is alive.
#2 - Why Is Everybody Singing?
Season 17 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/25/2024
After a shooting lands Murdoch in a coma, his world suddenly becomes a full-blown musical.
#3 - Preacher Jimmy Wilde
Season 17 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/12/2024
Murdoch suspects the sudden death of a man at a gospel revival is connected to a fiery charlatan preacher and nun.
#4 - Just Desserts
Season 16 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/6/2023
Nearly exonerated, Ogden is implicated in the warden's murder. Murdoch delves into the death of a fraternity pledge.
#5 - Dying to be Enlightened
Season 17 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2023
Odgen, Watts and Effie attend a health retreat run by a charismatic leader where a fellow guest dies mysteriously.
#6 - The Murdoch Sting
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2014
Murdoch orchestrates an elaborate sting when a past suspect returns with a deadly con.
#7 - Bloodlines
Season 15 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/2022
Violet Hart investigates when a protester dies at an event for Black people's rights.
#8 - D.O.A.
Season 16 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/2022
The sudden death of a key witness leaves Murdoch physically unsettled.
#9 - The Dominion of New South Mimico
Season 14 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/2021
Murdoch investigates a murder at the Newsome Estate, which has declared itself a nation.
#10 - Sir. Sir? Sir!!!
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/2018
Murdoch investigates an astronomical phenomenon with a strange impact on his colleagues’ behaviour and dire implications for Toronto.
#11 - Devil Music
Season 15 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/2022
Murdoch investigates the murder of a musician whose death was narrated in a blues song.
#12 - Virtue and Vice
Season 16 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/20/2023
Murdoch investigates the murder of a respected art dealer who had a sideline selling illegal pornographic drawings.
#13 - Sweet Amelia
Season 15 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/2022
When Crabtree's mentally deranged kidnapper, Amelia, turns herself in, he braces for trouble.
#14 - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Season 14 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2021
Brackenreid learns his son is wanted for murder and refuses Murdoch's help with the case.
#15 - The Trial of Terrance Meyers
Season 13 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/2020
Murdoch and Ogden are named as accomplices when Terrence Meyers faces charges of treason.
#16 - Murdochophobia
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/2013
Detective Murdoch investigates the death of Sarah Bosen who apparently threw herself from her hospital room window and breaking her neck in the fall. Sarah was being treated by Julia Ogden for arachnophobia and had been making some progress in overcoming her fears. Murdoch however finds a dead spider in her room. The three remaining members of the treatment group begin to have their doubts about their therapy. Julia's colleague, Dr. Charles Linden, thinks her therapy is a waste of time and as far as he is concerned, Sarah's death proves him correct. He launches a formal complaint to have her research terminated. When her other patients are forced to face their phobias, Murdoch concludes that someone is trying to kill her patients. Meanwhile, Crabtree tries to save his pet spider from Dr. Grace's experiments and Dr. Ogden helps Murdoch overcome his own irrational fear.
#17 - The Cottage in the Woods
Season 17 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2023
In the woods, Ogden, Hart, Effie and Louise encounter a troop of girl adventurers whose leader was killed by a madman.
#18 - Dash to Death
Season 16 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/2022
As Murdoch investigates the murder of an elite athlete impaled by a javelin, Hart and Arthur plot her father's demise.
#19 - Buffalo Shuffle
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/1/2011
Despite an unsolved break-in at the station house, Murdoch announces he’s taking a vacation. His holiday turns out to be a trip in response to a telegram from Dr. Ogden requesting his help in Buffalo to solve what she thinks is a murder at The Children’s Hospital. Murdoch agrees to go - thoughts of rekindling their relationship in the back of his mind. The case involves a 14 year-old terminally ill boy, Ben Wilkie, who has died under what Ogden feels are mysterious circumstances.
#20 - The Incorrigible Dr. Ogden
Season 15 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/2021
To solve an inmate's murder, Murdoch sends Ogden undercover at a woman's reformatory.
#21 - Clean Hands
Season 16 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/2022
While investigating a murder in a tight-lipped Mennonite colony, Murdoch and Ogden don plain clothing and go undercover.
#22 - Fire in the Sky
Season 19 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/2026
A man appears after a bright flash of light in the middle of a field and claims to have been abducted by aliens.
#23 - Murdoch of the Klondike
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/28/2012
Murdoch joins the Gold Rush in the Yukon and meets radical author Jack London.
#24 - A Starlet Is Born
Season 18 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2024
Murdoch suspects an overzealous fan after a man dies in an explosion meant for fledgling starlet, Ruth Higgins-Newsome.
#25 - Murdoch and the Sonic Boom
Season 16 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/2022
Hours before a clandestine visit by President Taft, Murdoch is entangled by Terence Meyers in an experiment gone wrong.