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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Fox Hunt
Season 13 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/20/2020
When a body is found during a fox hunt, Murdoch and Brackenreid suspect a group that is opposed to the sport is responsible.
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#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#10 - 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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#11 - Glory Days
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2014
Murdoch and legendary lawman Bat Masterson unite to hunt for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.
#12 - Toronto’s Girl Problem
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/16/2015
Working with Brackenreid’s nephew, Murdoch and the team discover a murdered woman may be connected to a gang of female jewel thieves
#13 - Staircase to Heaven
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/1/2012
After a high stakes card game involving Dr. Grace ends with the death of a player, Murdoch is shocked to learn the true cost of their wagers is the opportunity to die.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Midnight Train to Kingston
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2013
Detective Murdoch, Inspector Brackenreid, Dr. Ogden and several others are transporting serial killer James Gillies to the prison in Kingston, Ontario where he is scheduled to be executed the next day. It creates a bit of a stir among the passengers when they learn who is being transported. Among them are Aaron Rauls, a late arrival on the train and Nathaniel Henry. Both come under suspicion when the police find a dead man, Dennis Bolton who was released from the Don jail just a week ago. There's no direct connection between Bolton and Gillies but both were in the same jail at the same time. As tensions rise, it becomes evident that Gillies has arranged for several ex-convicts to be on the train - all part of his plan to escape.
#16 - Tour de Murdoch
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2013
Detective Murdoch investigates the sudden death of bicycle racer Joe Fenton. Murdoch was himself a participant in the race trying out his newfangled gear shifting device but Fenton was the favorite having won several recent races. Fenton's manager, Chippy Blackburn, was seen giving him a potion and they suspect he may be may be fixing races. Dr. Grace however is having considerable difficulty finding a cause of death and with Dr. Ogden's assistance performs her first brain bisection.
#17 - Murdoch and the Temple of Death
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/2015
Murdoch and Crabtree discover that a mysterious temple may house ancient treasure - and deadly consequences for anyone who dares to hunt for it.
#18 - My Big Fat Mimico Wedding
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2018
When Murdoch, Ogden, Crabtree, and Brackenreid attend Higgins’ and Ruth Newsome’s wedding, a guest repeatedly tries to kill the groom.
#19 - Brother Can You Spare a Crime
Season 15 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/7/2022
Murdoch suspects someone in a vagrant encampment robbed and killed a young woman.
#20 - Murdoch of the Living Dead
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2013
Detective Murdoch investigates the death of Emily Fuller whose body is found on the riverbank. They trace her to her home where her husband Jeremiah is completely impassive. The dead woman's daughter Betty says her father has been like this since he had been away recently for a few days. Dr. Grace determines that the Emily did not drown, as they had initially suspected, but was strangled by someone with a very large hand. Constable Crabtree thinks he knows what's happened after he finds that Jeremiah is officially dead - he's now a Haitian zombie, risen from the dead. After Dr. Grace finds that a second victim's brain has been operated on, Murdoch thinks he knows who they are dealing with.
#21 - Voices
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/19/2011
As the sisters of the Immaculate Conception prepare to put the coffin of elderly Sister Ignatius into her final resting place in the convent’s cemetery, a young novitiate peers into the dug grave and sees something poking out of the dirt – a human hand. Murdoch is called to the scene and his constables lift the bloodied body of the convent’s gardener out of the grave. But a dead body is not the only surprise the convent holds.
#22 - Pendrick's Planetary Parlour
Season 15 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/2022
Murdoch investigates after a murder is transmitted over James Pendrick's new invention.
#23 - The Curse of Beaton Manor
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/20/2010
It is a dark and stormy night. A lonely light burns in the tower of stately Beaton Hall. Suddenly, lightening flashes across the sky and a bloodcurdling scream is heard. Chauncey Beaton runs down the halls of the mansion from an unseen pursuer. He comes to a Juliet balcony and realizes he has nowhere else to go. Murdoch arrives at the scene, where Chauncey's body lies crumpled on the paving stones. He obviously fell from the balcony but did he jump or was he pushed?
#24 - 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.
#25 - Sweet Amelia
Season 15 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/2022
When Crabtree's mentally deranged kidnapper, Amelia, turns herself in, he braces for trouble.
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