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Forensic sleuthing in the age of invention.

Overview

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. Maureen Jennings

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Yannick Bisson

    Detective William Murdoch

  2. Cast 1

    Helene Joy

    Dr. Julia Ogden

  3. Cast 1

    Thomas Craig

    Chief Constable Thomas Brackenreid

  4. Cast 1

    Jonny Harris

    Constable George Crabtree

  5. Cast 1

    Lachlan Murdoch

    Constable Henry Higgins

  6. Cast 1

    Shanice Banton

    Violet Hart

Current Season

Poster

Season 19

2025 | 18 episodes

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When I first reviewed this series for another site several years ago, I gave The Murdoch Mysteries, an emphatic endorsement. Regrettably, since then, like so much other entertainment, its become a vehicle for woke ideologues to push their brand of "intolerant, tolerance" on viewers.Its revisionism is, to make matters worse,completely out of touch with the period in which this series is set. My advice, watch the first 10 or so seasons, they offer up a uniquely Canadian take on Agatha Christie style murder mysteries, albeit set in a slightly earlier, Victorian and Edwardian period. Ac...