The WORST episodes of The Brokenwood Mysteries

Every episode of The Brokenwood Mysteries ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Brokenwood Mysteries!

The Brokenwood Mysteries is a New Zealand detective drama set in the fictional town of Brokenwood, where the unconventional Detective Mike Shepherd and his team solve intriguing murder cases in a seemingly quiet rural community.

Last Updated: 4/25/2025Network: Acorn TVStatus: Continuing
Old Blood Money
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#1 - Old Blood Money

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/30/2023

Mike and the team discover more than one dead body, and a significant amount of family rivalry, in the manor house where a pair of aging siblings live.

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The Witches of Brokenwood
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#2 - The Witches of Brokenwood

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/20/2021

The Brokenwood Health Retreat proves rather unhealthy for one unfortunate visitor, leaving the team of detectives with a very tricky case to solve.

Directors: Aidee Walker
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Dog Day Morning
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#3 - Dog Day Morning

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/27/2021

When four masked men attempt to rob the Brokenwood Savings Bank, it's up to Mike and the team to determine which one of them pulled the trigger and killed the bank manager.

Directors: Mark Beesley
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Something Nasty at the Market
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#4 - Something Nasty at the Market

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/4/2021

Mike, Kristin and the team investigate the murder of a Farmer's Market Owner who staggers into the crowd with a garden implement fatally embedded in her back.

Writer: Fiona Samuel
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Exposed to the Light
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#5 - Exposed to the Light

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/11/2021

A fundraising evening at the historic Brokenwood Empire Cinema turns deadly when a fire breaks out, and when the smoke clears, a local businessman is found strangled.

Directors: Aidee Walker
Writer: Roy Ward
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Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson
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#6 - Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/18/2021

When Mike mysteriously leaves Brokenwood on other police business, Kristin is left to lead the investigation into a 1970s party where several party-goers wind up dead.

Directors: Mike Smith
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From the Cradle to the Grave
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#7 - From the Cradle to the Grave

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/7/2022

Mike Shepherd and the team get a lesson in local history when the Brokenwood museum uncovers a dead body in the most unlikely of places.

Directors: Josh Frizzell
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Death n Bass
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#8 - Death n Bass

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/14/2022

The Brokenwood crime fighters are called in to investigate a murder at a music festival, where it would appear the victim was quite literally killed by sound.

Directors: Mike Smith
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Spark to a Flame
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#9 - Spark to a Flame

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/21/2022

In the remote community of beaches at Pateke Point, a local resident ends up bludgeoned to death by an unknown blunt object and locked inside a house not her own.

Directors: Jacqueline Nairn
Writer: Roy Ward
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Three Coins in a Fountain
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#10 - Three Coins in a Fountain

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/28/2022

When the world champion of the curious sport of Spoofing is found dead in a fountain, the Brokenwood detectives must determine who was willing to commit murder in order to win at all costs.

Directors: David de Lautour
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Good as Gold
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#11 - Good as Gold

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/4/2022

A 160-year-old family feud over gold becomes the main motive for murder when a modern-day cowgirl is gunned down in cold blood.

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Four Fires and a Funeral
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#12 - Four Fires and a Funeral

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/11/2022

The charred remains of a body are discovered in the burned-out remnants of a rural shed, but no one lived there, and no one was meant to be there at all; this is the third in a run of accidental deaths, all attended by the Brokenwood Fire Brigade.

Directors: Mike Smith
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Brokenwood: The Musical
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#13 - Brokenwood: The Musical

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/23/2023

The history of Brokenwood gets new life as a musical. But the setting literally brings with it a shock for the composer.

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The Garotte and the Vinklebraun
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#14 - The Garotte and the Vinklebraun

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/13/2021

Mike and his team are thrust into a world of antiquities when a TV crew from the hit series All Things Old and Beautiful comes to town, and one of the hosts is murdered.

Directors: Katie Wolfe
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Nun of the Above
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#15 - Nun of the Above

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/6/2023

The strangulation death of a nun on her way to chapel poses a challenge for the investigators when they learn members of her order have taken a vow of silence.

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Going to the Dogs
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#16 - Going to the Dogs

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/13/2023

Mike, Kristin, and Chalmers must determine who wanted a veterinary nurse dead, with the answer seemingly tied to simmering tensions between the twin sisters with whom the victim worked.

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Shot of Love
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#17 - Shot of Love

Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/20/2023

While Mike's off getting his divorce papers signed, Kristin and Chalmers are left to uncover the cause of death of a man found in a motel room, with few signs of trauma to the body or disturbance to the room.

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Motorcycle Mamas
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#18 - Motorcycle Mamas

Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/27/2023

The Mama's Angels, an all-women motorcycle club, are in Brokenwood for the wedding of one of their members, until a murder casts suspicion amongst their ranks and throws the town into chaos.

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Brokenwood-o-saurus
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#19 - Brokenwood-o-saurus

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/29/2024

After dinosaur fossils are discovered in the foothills of Brokenwood, the town buzzes about the potential boost for tourism. But when a paleontologist turns up dead, the future doesn't look so rosy.

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Day of the Dead
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#20 - Day of the Dead

Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/6/2024

When the Brokenwood Small Business Association stage a Mexican "Day of the Dead" night market, they don't bargain on an actual dead body becoming part of the festivities.

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Publish or Be Damned
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#21 - Publish or Be Damned

Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/13/2024

A writers' retreat on a picturesque estate generates ample inspiration when the mentor, Dame Audrey McKinnon, is found deceased, floating under a nearby waterfall.

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Love You to Death
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#22 - Love You to Death

Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/20/2024

Brokenwood's favorite dentist, Sonny Lyman, is the subject of Jools Fahey's amorous attentions; Jools becomes a prime suspect when Sonny's wife is found gassed in an oven.

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House of Screams
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#23 - House of Screams

Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/27/2024

The local scare attraction of the House of Screams becomes the venue for an actual murder when a teenager is found with a sickle through his neck.

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Three Gold Leaves of Jesus
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#24 - Three Gold Leaves of Jesus

Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/3/2024

While a visiting troupe puts on a nativity play at St Judas, a precious holy relic goes missing, and the body of the actor playing Jesus is found dead.

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The Ghost in You
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#25 - The Ghost in You

Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/21/2025

Shepherd and his team investigate when a devoted fan of the band Stolen Arrow falls to her death from a bell tower. The detective must dig into the band’s secrets and dark history to find the actual cause of the victim’s demise.

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