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.

Last Updated: 5/6/2025Network: CBC (CA)Status: Continuing
Station House of Horror
star
6.43
74 votes

#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.

Directors: Yannick Bisson
Writer: Simon McNabb
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Preacher Jimmy Wilde
star
7.14
63 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Craig Wallace
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The Murdoch Sting
star
7.15
292 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Sudz Sutherland
Writer: Jackie May
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Just Desserts
star
7.15
80 votes

#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.

Directors: Jennifer Liao
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D.O.A.
star
7.18
89 votes

#5 - D.O.A.

Season 16 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/2022

The sudden death of a key witness leaves Murdoch physically unsettled.

Directors: Elsbeth McCall
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Devil Music
star
7.18
110 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Thyrone Tommy
Writer: Andrea Scott
Sir. Sir? Sir!!!
star
7.20
239 votes

#7 - 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.

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Dying to be Enlightened
star
7.21
72 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Gloria Kim
Writer: Keri Ferencz
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Bloodlines
star
7.21
110 votes

#9 - Bloodlines

Season 15 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/2022

Violet Hart investigates when a protester dies at an event for Black people's rights.

Directors: Rama Rau
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Virtue and Vice
star
7.28
82 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: Katie Boland
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A Starlet Is Born
star
7.31
51 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Duane Crichton
Writer: Simon McNabb
Why Is Everybody Singing?
star
7.33
52 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Laurie Lynd
Writer: Paul Aitken
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The Dominion of New South Mimico
star
7.34
122 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: Ruba Nadda
Writer: Simon McNabb
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Sweet Amelia
star
7.34
103 votes

#14 - Sweet Amelia

Season 15 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/2022

When Crabtree's mentally deranged kidnapper, Amelia, turns herself in, he braces for trouble.

Directors: Elsbeth McCall
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A Most Surprising Bond
star
7.36
58 votes

#15 - A Most Surprising Bond

Season 17 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/2024

When a mysterious illness appears at her newly opened women's hospital, Odgen is forced to enlist a quarantine.

Directors: Jennifer Liao
Writer: Keri Ferencz
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Murdochophobia
star
7.37
263 votes

#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.

Directors: Cal Coons
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An Avoidable Hinder
star
7.37
83 votes

#17 - An Avoidable Hinder

Season 16 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/2023

Murdoch is asked by a former logging camp friend to exonerate him in a decades old murder.

Directors: Gloria Kim
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The Trial of Terrance Meyers
star
7.38
162 votes

#18 - 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.

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The Cottage in the Woods
star
7.38
76 votes

#19 - 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.

Directors: Sharon Lewis
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Going Postal
star
7.38
34 votes

#20 - Going Postal

Season 18 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/31/2025

Tippy Longfellow, Murdoch's neighbor, convinces him to investigate a lost letter with a death threat.

Directors: Mina Shum
Writer: Keri Ferencz
We Take Care of Our Own
star
7.39
28 votes

#21 - We Take Care of Our Own

Season 18 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/14/2025

Though Murdoch knows Tony Petrucci is behind former Constable Tucker's murder, it's complicated by the gangster's escape.

Directors: Peter Mitchell
Writer: Keri Ferencz
The Death of James Pendrick
star
7.39
38 votes

#22 - The Death of James Pendrick

Season 18 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/2025

Murdoch's investigation of a plane crash that killed the pilot reveals a nefarious plot linked to James Pendrick.

Directors: Mina Shum
Writer: Simon McNabb
Gimme Shelter
star
7.40
48 votes

#23 - Gimme Shelter

Season 18 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2024

Murdoch, Watts and Choi investigate the overdose death of a bookkeeper living in new workers' housing.

Directors: Katie Boland
Writer: Jenny Lee
Dash to Death
star
7.41
101 votes

#24 - 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.

Directors: Laurie Lynd
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Whatever Happened to Abigail Prescott
star
7.42
76 votes

#25 - Whatever Happened to Abigail Prescott

Season 16 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/27/2023

To prove Ogden's innocence in the death of an alderman's wife, Murdoch pursues the politician with a vengeance.

Directors: Jennifer Liao
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