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The Best Episodes of Murdoch Mysteries

Every episode of Murdoch Mysteries ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Murdoch Mysteries!

The Best 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...
  1. Background image for The Accident
    9.2/10(575 votes)

    #1 - The Accident

    S11:E7

    Murdoch investigates a car accident and uncovers sinister motives.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for A Murdog Mystery
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #2 - A Murdog Mystery

    S10:E11

    Murdoch discovers his passion for canines while investigating the death of a championship show dog.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Up From Ashes
    8.7/10(394 votes)

    #3 - Up From Ashes

    S11:E1

    A jailed Murdoch must prove his innocence amid police and government corruption after the constables are ambushed, Ogden is kidnapped, and Brackenreid goes missing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Twentieth Century Murdoch
    8.6/10(445 votes)

    #4 - Twentieth Century Murdoch

    S5:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for The Murdoch Identity
    8.5/10(467 votes)

    #5 - The Murdoch Identity

    S3:E1

    Murdoch finds himself with amnesia and running for his life on the streets of Bristol, England, very far from home, if he knew where his home was. Taking refuge in a pub, he gains the assistance of a vivacious barmaid who helps him reconstruct his memories, escape his pursuers, and foil an assassination plot.

    Director:Laurie Lynd
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Love and Human Remains
    8.5/10(439 votes)

    #6 - Love and Human Remains

    S3:E9

    Workers laboring to build a bridge across the Don River make a grisly discovery – entombed in the swamplands bordering the river are the well-preserved bodies of a man and a woman. Called to the scene, Murdoch and Ogden quickly determine that the couple was murdered. When a third body is then discovered, Murdoch has to re-evaluate the nature of the crime.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Murdoch in Toyland
    8.5/10(411 votes)

    #7 - Murdoch in Toyland

    S5:E11

    Detective Murdoch is taunted by a deranged criminal who leaves talking dolls with macabre personal messages at each crime scene.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Bl**dy H*ll
    8.5/10(6 votes)

    #8 - Bl**dy H*ll

    S9:E16

    Murdoch and Brackenreid unwittingly put their careers at risk when they investigate high-level police corruption.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Me, Myself and Murdoch
    8.4/10(434 votes)

    #9 - Me, Myself and Murdoch

    S3:E5

    A family celebration of Alexander Reynolds' 60th birthday is dampened when he's found with a knife plunged into his chest. Murdoch is called in and soon discovers the victim was universally despised by his kin. Reynolds' family instantly falls under suspicion but the field of suspects narrows considerably when daughter Charlotte Reynolds appears in a blood soaked dress and confesses to killing her father.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for Dead End Street
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #10 - Dead End Street

    S4:E6

    Murdoch makes a surprising discovery at a dolls house fair; in one of the houses the artist has placed a hand firing a gun. This is no ordinary model - it’s a crime scene. Murdoch finds the creator of the streetscape, an autistic 19-year-old, Lydia, who communicates best through model building. No one has reported a murder yet, but using the model’s intricate clues left by Lydia, Murdoch discovers that someone indeed has been killed – but what happened and why? Someone is far from happy by his investigations and things begin to get even more sinister in the neighbourhood.

    Director:Laurie Lynd
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for The Murdoch Trap
    8.4/10(414 votes)

    #11 - The Murdoch Trap

    S6:E13

    With his colleague sentenced to hang for murder, Detective Murdoch races to exonerate them and steps into a trap set by the real killer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for 8 Footsteps
    8.4/10(327 votes)

    #12 - 8 Footsteps

    S11:E3

    A recording device made by Alexander Graham Bell assists in the investigation of a murder at a dinner honoring Helen Keller.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for The Night Before Christmas
    8.4/10(261 votes)

    #13 - The Night Before Christmas

    S15:E11

    Murdoch and company's Christmas at an idyllic country estate turns potentially deadly.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Invention Convention
    8.3/10(378 votes)

    #14 - Invention Convention

    S5:E9

    After a ruthless inventor is killed at a convention, Murdoch's investigation is assisted by his idol, Alexander Graham Bell.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for A Study in Sherlock
    8.3/10(423 votes)

    #15 - A Study in Sherlock

    S6:E4

    Two bank safe deposit boxes that were being transferred are taken by thieves and the crime is investigated by Detective Murdoch. The getaway driver for the thieves is killed.  While on scene someone claiming to be Sherlock Holmes shows up and provides some helpful information.  Dr. Ogden figures out that he is actually David Kingsley who at one time was treated for mental illness.  "Sherlock Holmes" appears to have the qualities of the fictional character of the same name such as the ability to "read" an individual or a crime scene.

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  17. Background image for Murdoch Au Naturel
    8.3/10(407 votes)

    #16 - Murdoch Au Naturel

    S6:E5

    Murdoch enlists some revealing detective work while investigating a murder at a nudist community.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Return of Sherlock Holmes
    8.3/10(422 votes)

    #17 - Return of Sherlock Holmes

    S7:E4

    Murdoch investigates a nanny's disappearance with the so-called real Sherlock Holmes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for The Death of Dr. Ogden
    8.3/10(370 votes)

    #18 - The Death of Dr. Ogden

    S7:E18

    Julia discovers a secret about her father upon his death; Brackenreid takes over a murder investigation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Shadows are Falling
    8.3/10(297 votes)

    #19 - Shadows are Falling

    S11:E17

    Murdoch and Ogden put aside a personal matter when Nate Desmond is charged with murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Houdini Whodunit
    8.2/10(433 votes)

    #20 - Houdini Whodunit

    S2:E4

    The young Harry Houdini becomes Murdoch's prime suspect when he investigates a daring robbery-homicide. Meanwhile, Dr. Ogden's sister comes to visit and soon becomes attracted to Murdoch.

    Director:Farhad Mann
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for The Great Wall
    8.2/10(406 votes)

    #21 - The Great Wall

    S3:E2

    Murdoch is called to Station House Five when a decorated constable is murdered and the local detective is ill. Murdoch finds that everyone is ready to blame an elderly Chinaman named Fong Choy because of something to do with his granddaughter, but she is nowhere to be found and Fong Choy won't talk.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for The Tesla Effect
    8.2/10(410 votes)

    #22 - The Tesla Effect

    S3:E13

    Murdoch is called upon to investigate an exceedingly strange murder. The deceased was found inside a room locked from within with no other entrance. But there's more to the case than that – the victim appears to have exploded and burned, yet there is no trace of an explosion or fire. Before Murdoch can proceed with his investigation, the case takes a bizarre turn when old friend and world-renowned inventor Nikola Tesla appears, announcing cryptically that he is "too late."

    Director:Steve Wright
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Voices
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #23 - Voices

    S4:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Stroll on the Wild Side (Pt 2)
    8.2/10(372 votes)

    #24 - Stroll on the Wild Side (Pt 2)

    S5:E8

    After saving his lover Anna from the Black Hand, Detective Murdoch bargains for her life. During his investigation into the murder of a shy librarian with a secret life, he encounters another young woman behaving seductively.

    Writer:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Crime & Punishment
    8.2/10(392 votes)

    #25 - Crime & Punishment

    S6:E12

    Detective Murdoch and his methods are compromised when one of his colleagues is implicated in a suspicious murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"The Accident" is the best rated episode of "Murdoch Mysteries". It scored 9.2/10 based on 575 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/13/2017. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Murdog Mystery".