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 - 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.
#3 - D.O.A.
Season 16 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/2022
The sudden death of a key witness leaves Murdoch physically unsettled.
#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 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Bloodlines
Season 15 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/2022
Violet Hart investigates when a protester dies at an event for Black people's rights.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Sweet Amelia
Season 15 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/2022
When Crabtree's mentally deranged kidnapper, Amelia, turns herself in, he braces for trouble.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Loch Ness Murdoch
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2013
Detective Murdoch investigates the death of Katie Buchanan who is found dead at the beach, on a hot summer's day, by her friend Elaine Lawson. Both were entrants in a beauty pageant known as the Miss Purity competition, to select the new face of Alexander soap. Dr. Ogden, who is spending her day off at the beach finds what appears to be a large animal bite on the woman's torso. Katie's boyfriend, James Bennett, had recently left her for another competitor, Marie Nicholson and becomes the prime suspect. Inspector Brackenreid however is certain he saw a monster in Lake Ontario and Murdoch is skeptical until he too sees a creature in the water. Constable Crabtree is dismissive of any suggestion that there might be a monster in the water and pursues a more realistic line of inquiry.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Breaking Ranks
Season 16 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/23/2023
Murdoch suspects malfeasance and murder in the apparent drowning of a military recruit.
#24 - Future Imperfect
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/6/2010
Murdoch is invited to attend a mysterious meeting in High Park. With Ogden to accompany him they find themselves mixing with some of city's greatest minds at a meeting of the Toronto Society for The Advancement of Eugenics, lead by James Pendrick. Murdoch discovers that Sally Pendrick invited him. The guest speaker is none other than the great science fiction writer HG Wells, and beside him stands Ruby Ogden, Julia's younger sister.
#25 - Code M for Murdoch
Season 14 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/2021
Murdoch learns from Terence Meyers that James Pendrick has been abducted and the inventor's life is in danger.