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 - 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.
#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.
#4 - Bloodlines
Season 15 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/2022
Violet Hart investigates when a protester dies at an event for Black people's rights.
#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 - 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 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - D.O.A.
Season 16 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/2022
The sudden death of a key witness leaves Murdoch physically unsettled.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#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.
#16 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Borden Ultimatum
Season 19 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2025
Murdoch pursues Terrence Meyers who is suspected of murdering two men and committing treason. Watts tracks down a man's neighbour who vanished while making a chocolate treat.
#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 - Bottom of the Barrel
Season 17 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2023
Murdoch suspects the stabbing of a man at an oyster bar is linked to a former case involving harlots sold into marriage.
#24 - Murdoch on the Couch
Season 15 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/2022
Murdoch investigates a death threat against Sigmund Freud and gets an unwelcome analysis.
#25 - Shock Value
Season 14 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2021
A part time university student is found dead with electrical burns on the head and two newly arrived American psychology professors with a penchant for unusual experiments may be responsible.