Murdoch Mysteries — Season 1
All 13 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
There is disagreement whether Toronto should continue with Edison's DC system or Nikola Tesla's AC system, differences that seemingly result in murder. While the electrocution of a young woman leads Murdoch to a war between these rival electricity suppliers, Crabtree finds himself attracted to a suspect.
- 02
A vicious criminal, known for his deadly use of a stiletto may have escaped from jail to revenge himself on those public servants that helped convict him.
- 03
Black professional boxer Amos Robinson is supposed to throw a fight to a local Toronto favorite but knocks him out instead and is murdered before the night is out.
- 04
Arthur Conan Doyle is visiting Toronto to give a lecture on spiritualism and offers to help Murdoch solve the murder of a member of a spiritualist society.
- 05
After the heir to a profitable business is murdered in church only minutes before his marriage of convenience, a post-mortem discloses he had recently engaged in sexual activity.
- 06
One of the conspirators running a fixed dog fighting competition is murdered and the drunkard who is the prime suspect happens to be Murdoch's estranged father.
- 07
When a skeletal corpse falls to the stage during a performance, Murdoch discovers not only a sinister murder plot, but Brackenreid's secret love for the theatre.
- 08
The affluent and influential young man who recently replaced one of the rowers for the 1896 Olympic rowing team is found drowned in the river.
- 09
When a drunken, philandering wastrel is found dead in his room, having had varnish forced down in his throat, his estranged disturbed ventriloquist son is found in a wardrobe.
- 10
Howard Rookwood is murdered in the horse stables of his glue factory; but who would want to kill a humanitarian involved with placing troubled English youth in foster homes?
- 11
After a physician researching brain abnormalities is murdered with a crossbow, Murdoch traces the hooded killer to the patients of his institute.
- 12
Prince Alfred, grandson of Queen Victoria, is visiting Toronto and Murdoch is assigned to protect the reckless playboy a from Fenian conspiracy.
- 13
Murdoch investigates the hanging of a farmer found in a freshly plowed field with no footprints around it. Crabtree suspects extraterrestrial involvement.
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