The best episodes of Murdoch Mysteries
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- 01
Murdoch investigates the hanging of a farmer found in a freshly plowed field with no footprints around it. Crabtree suspects extraterrestrial involvement.
- 02
The return of an adversary threatens the lives of Murdoch and Ogden.
- 03
A battle of the sexes tennis match is disrupted when the woman playing is injured, and Chief Constable Brackenreid discovers it was deliberate sabotage.
- 04
Murdoch's investigation into a secret space program that could incite war between the U.S. and Canada leads him to an old friend.
- 05
After Murdoch discovers his childhood friend turned private investigator Freddie Pink might be implicated in a murder, he enlists his latest invention to find the truth.
- 06
Prince Alfred, grandson of Queen Victoria, is visiting Toronto and Murdoch is assigned to protect the reckless playboy a from Fenian conspiracy.
- 07
A man is found murdered at a Lewis Carroll-themed costume party. All clues point to the guest dressed as the Mad Hatter.
- 08
Murdoch investigates the claims of a man who says his time travels to the future provided him with information that allowed him to stop crimes, while the New Year's Eve Policeman's Ball offers exciting personal possibilities for the 20th century.
- 09
With his colleague sentenced to hang for murder, Detective Murdoch races to exonerate them and steps into a trap set by the real killer.
- 10
When Mark Twain stirs up controversy during a speaking engagement in Toronto, Murdoch and his team must protect the esteemed American writer.
- 11
To catch a killer, Murdoch and Crabtree pretend a murdered witness is still alive.
- 12
William and Julia celebrate their wedding anniversary in London, England. Murdoch's reunion with Ogden is disrupted by the passing of another guest at an English inn.
- 13
After a would-be Catholic assassin is killed, Murdoch contends with the powerful Protestant leader who was the target.
- 14
Murdoch investigates an explosion inside the morgue as a private citizen while he and his fellow officers fight to reopen the station house against Mayor Vaughan's orders.
- 15
Constable Roberts investigates the death of an old friend in his hometown, defying local police who rule it accidental. Murdoch's son Harry moves in, but it's a tight fit in his rooming house.
- 16
Murdoch investigates the death of a man found in a burned-out truck and catches a glimpse of the impossible, a long-gone nemesis back from the dead.
- 17
On suspension for interfering in an investigation and on the run for surreptitiously freeing a murderer to make amends, Detective William Murdoch leaves Toronto for the Klondike Gold Rush, intent on a life beyond policing. While there he stumbles upon a murder investigation and soon realizes his days as a detective are not behind him.
- 18
While investigating an explosion, Detective Murdoch infiltrates an anarchist group lead by American labour organizer Emma Goldman.
- 19
When a flying machine crashes, killing a man on the ground, Murdoch's investigation uncovers high-level conspiracy and sabotage in the race to achieve the first human-controlled flight.
- 20
Murdoch suspects the brutal murder of a waterfront merchant might be linked to the vicious assault on Inspector Brackenreid.
- 21
While pursuing a sequential killer who collects macabre trophies from his victims, Murdoch becomes a target.
- 22
As Crabtree serves hard time for the murder of his sweetheart's abusive husband, Murdoch investigates the stabbing of an inmate who might be connected to the case.
- 23
After a student dies mysteriously in a professor's opium den, Crabtree helps Ogden and Rebecca James investigate in the morgue.
- 24
When two obituaries are published before two men's deaths, Murdoch must work to keep them, as well as others, alive before their predicted demise.
- 25
The Things We Do for Love - Part One
With their lives in danger, Murdoch searches for Anna Fulford and her son in Montreal.
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