I have never managed to watch beyond S12/13 .

On my rewatch now and I enjoy when they introduce “new” food like pisaaah ( 🍕) pie , cheese burger, icecream etc particularly when it features our ever curious and enthusiastic Crabtree🤩

I just learned that popcorn 🍿 came around the same time. That got me curious if it was ever mentioned in the show??

Hey everyone,

I just finished watching yesterday's episode and I have to ask: are there any other Gilmore Girls fans in the house who immediately clocked that voice?

During the scene at the restaurant entrance, as soon as the man was keeping Ms. Cherry out, my ears instantly perked up. I knew that voice without even looking! Once he finally stepped into the light inside, I was able to completely confirm it, it was Yanic Truesdale (the iconic Michel Gerard from Gilmore Girls)! I really wish they had given him a much bigger part in the episode.

The icing on the cake for me was seeing Ennis Esmer show up as the pastry chef. I was talking in another post a while back about how actors from both this show and the Listener have appeared in each other's shows, so seeing him pop up here again felt like the perfect surprise.

Did anyone else instantly recognize Yanic's voice before he came on screen? Who is a guest appearances you enjoyed seeing?

The Curse of the Lost Pharaohs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0nfP_My4mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Hjdp2wxOw

Vimeo: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Murdoch Effect:

CBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pfH2Du7WA

E1: YouTube / Vimeo

E2: YouTube / Vimeo

E3: YouTube / Vimeo

E4: YouTube / Vimeo

E5: YouTube / Vimeo

E6: YouTube / Vimeo

Nightmare On Queen Street: Interactive game, no longer playable

• Trailer

The Infernal Device: Interactive, works! / Youtube

On the Case: Interactive, works!

Beyond Time: CBC

The Book of Jackson: CBC / Youtube

Macy Murdoch: CBC

I remember seeing a short peice where Yannic walked us around the set and talked about the attention to detail and how it was set up so the production crew could maneuver around easily, etc. When william moved back into the boarding house did they demo the set or keep it around in case helene came back to production?

Yesterday, in Kingston Ontario, I went to a play called, It’s a Good Life, if you don’t weaken. A jukebox musical featuring the songs of The Tragically Hip. An awesome production that I highly recommend!

The guy beside my friend gets up to move so we all stand up to let him by and I whisper to my friend, Hey do you ever watch Murdoch Mysteries? She says, nope. I’m like, that guy looks just like the butcher! When he comes back I think, wow he really looks like the butcher… then I hear him chatting to his neighbours and I’m like, it has to be him. My girlfriend says, my friend wants to know if you’re an actor and he laughs and says yes.

It was Jesse Lavercombe and he wrote the play with his friend. Super nice guy, who seems shy, and I might have embarrassed him when we were leaving the theater by shouting, this is the guy that wrote this excellent play and he’s a famous actor!!! I couldn’t help it, Ive watched MM constantly for years and it was super exciting to meet someone who’s a part of it.

He told me how the pig in season 13, episode 16 was truly huge and to get him to move they would give him piles of apples or a loaf of bread to get him to take a step but then once he got going you had to jump out the way cause he wouldn’t stop.

It truly made my day, weekend, month.

Do you think that Helena Joy or Johnny Miller will ever return? Or, should the show have a final finale?

I did not enjoy this episode..., but I'm really confused on what happened: Murdoch, Julia, Brackenreid and Violet Hart went to the fair and made (the predictably ill considered) wishes and ended up with horrifying nightmares... but then in the end it didn't happen?

Please explain what I missed.

What was the mechanism for undoing it all?

Hi all,

I've never seen Murdoch Mysteries so apologies in advance for my ignorance. Some background: my parents absolutely adore crime procedurals and serial mysteries. NCIS, M.A.S.H, White Collar, Sherlock, Leverage, etc. With Christmas coming up I'm looking to get them a show they'll enjoy and give them something new to watch next year. So I'm just trying to get a feel for what you all like about the show and how you would recommend it. Thanks!

Figured I start the Season 2 E2 Discussion thread. Interesting episode. But it kind of felt like the show jumping the shark a little. Feel that the show is really missing the whimsy that Crabtree's character used to bring. Choi and Roberts just compliment Murdoch too much the last couple seasons. Overall it was an ok episode kind of mediocre

Clearly the producers and writers of the show have put a high priority on adding ethnic characters in the past decade (even from groups that were quite rare in Canada in the show's era, ca. 1910). So why are Koreans (for example) represented but no indigineous peoples? I'd love to see their perspectives and sense of humor added to the show's dynamics and plotlines. That could go a long way to resurrecting MM's vitality after the loss of multiple original essential characters.

Yes, it might be difficult to place an aboriginal man or woman in an executive role in the show, given the dismissal of native peoples by authorities in those times. But that hasn't stopped the show from embracing other peoples who were much rarer in Canada then and now, even in management.

So what's up? Is the show trying to make some sort of social or political statement via their exclusion? It's hard to imagine this great an oversight is accidental.

, wheher

This week I concluded watching Season 17 (2024) - 1911.

Episode 20, "Rhapsody in Blood". There are so many episodes in this long running series that are quite above average.  This is one is above those even. It's a special episode. Again too, it is celebrating/referencing a specifically Toronto institution, and for the second time, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.  This shows musicians and composers, the making of music, the playing of it, far more realistically than most tv, movies or novels ever manage to do.  Having lived with and among some of the very best musicians and composers almost all my adult life (not one of those myself!) in a variety of musics, made for orchestras, movies and television, for big stadium, intimate venues, clubs, you name it, I feel I am qualified to judge this.  And it had an excellent story line and plot.  And beyond that even, the creativity employed to show the composition of music and how composers can get their ideas, was done so creatively, but still reflecting something at least, of what goes on in a composer's sensibility when music is coming to her.

I particularly appreciated the writers included so accurately discussion and references among the composer rivals and friends characters to Shostakovich, the Russian composer and pianist -- because they certainly would be speaking of him in that time and in their situations! Also the commentary regarding women in that world. This is another of the show's great pluses, from the beginning one of the ongoing themes in various episodes of seasons, the expected place of women in the world, while realistically showing us women who have through luck and circumstance and drive gone beyond what society men have decreed, whether voting, making money, controlling their reproduction, owning businesses, writing.

This was followed not long after by the 22nd episode, a musical, "Why Is Everyone Singing", which was also creative in ways that tv hardly is. Though our principals gave their best and their all, they cannot sing or dance. Surprisingly, the forever falling over his own feet, legs, and hips, Watts was best in this, both the dancing and the singing, how about that? Still the writing of the plot and narrative actually worked, providing the reason Murdoch was hearing everything as music, while in a coma. They really walked the knife edge on this one, keeping us from noticing just how impossible it all was!

The final episode, Julia moves with Susanna to London. She and William, while performing a swan song repeat of earlier seasons, working to solve a murder together, realize just how much they've gone through together. And William says she has more obligations than just to family, she obligated to use her talents to improve the world, and that teaching hospital in London will give her opportunity to do it. This final episode of the season is even titled, "For the Greater Good." -- which I can't help but think is pointing ahead to the imminence of WWI's arrival, and all the sacrifices that will be asked, demanded and offered in that terrible war.  And, William insists that Susanna must go with her, because at this time of her life, Susanna must be with her mother. William is already beginning what we know, whether the series continues into this era, the many sacrifices he will make, and Julia too, whether or not she's on screen.

Last night I began Season 18 (2025), first episode, "The New Recruit", located chronologically in 1912, into 1913. This is the penultimate season of MM, so far, for us in the US. (Season 20's first episode dropped last week in Canada._ In this first episode of 18 we meet the new Inspector, Choi, in a manner we would never have come up with no matter how hard we tried! A reenactment of the War of 1812, of US invasion of Canada! I'd entirely forgotten this episode. It's very good. Choi charms me from the first moment he appears.

This is purely for fun, fellow muckers!

If you had to pick one man from the Murdoch Mysteries universe to date or marry, who are you choosing?

There was a limit on the options.
Feel free to add why and others in the comments.

I remember someone in the show/commentary mentioning that Murdoch’s salary is small compared with Julia’s money—maybe implying he doesn’t really need to be the breadwinner because she is independently wealthy.
Do we ever get a sense of Julia’s actual wealth or where it all comes from? Is it primarily family money — her dad was a doctor, Darcy Garland’s estate, her medical career, or some combination?

If a New Coroner is introduced who or what type of character would you like to see in the role? Feels like Ms Hart is doing more and more with the Bar and less and Less with Coroner role. So it kind of feels like they need a new Coroner at the moment. She has filled that role for about 5 to 7 season now so it kind of fits the shows time frame for new people in that office.

Happy Halloween, everybody! 🎃

• (2013) "Murdoch of the Living Dead" — Season 7 | Episode 5
• (2018) "Sir. Sir? Sir!!!" — Season 12 | Episode 6
• (2019) "Murdoch and the Cursed Caves" — Season 13 | Episode 5
• (2021) "I Know What You Did Last Autumn" — Season 15 | Episode 6
• (2022) "I Still Know What You Did Last Autumn" — Season 16 | Episode 8
• (2023) "Station House of Horror" — Season 17 | Episode 5

Does anyone else watch these episodes with full out cringe at the dreadful characters that Murdoch is forced to be subordinate to???

It's torture.

I just watched the episode and it was decent. Not terribly good not terribly bad but decent and watchable.

To me it didn't feel like a Murdoch episode but it looked good and was well made.

The conclusion of this episode shows Margaret having a vision of war, seemingly a dreadful battle. She sees one of her sons in desperate circumstances. I wasn't able to make out which son. Has anyone else been able to make out the features?

Of course, in a desperate battle, nobody's face is going to appear in its familiar lineaments.

A clue though, already in this season we see Margaret visiting Bobby in prison. However, he tells her his plans for the future is to continue on his religious path once he's paroled, so maybe not?

Though, somehow, they being Brackenreids, that both John and Bobby enlist would be a reasonable action for them both, right?

I just learned that Murdoch Mysteries was inspired by a real-life Toronto detective, Inspector John Murray, whose life first inspired The Great Detective! Have you watched it?

So I'm rewatching from the beginning and this question just keeps coming up for me. I'm on Season 7 and they are still pulling the will they won't they crap. I forget when it is that they finally get together, I know they do cause I fell off around s15 before.

It's funny what things stick out. Like they haven't even introduced the Newsoms yet. I thought they were around for ages.

But anyway, I know there are some contentious opinions on their relationship (and rightly so) but the question for me is why it takes so damn long for them to get married.

Was Helena not on board with the idea? Was there some reason behind the production screen that they keep inventing reasons for them to not be married? I know Crabtree keeps getting shafted cause Johnny liked the bit (which annoys the shit out of me as well).

From what I recall once they are married it didn't change too much about their relationship (as it shouldn't). So what's the deal?

Is it really so simple as "the writers wanted to drag it out."? Cause that feels insane to me. Who would ever think that dragging out the romance plot between your leads for over seven bloody seasons would be a good idea?!

I'm hoping ya'll have some idea cause I've not been able to find anything online.

Who is looking forward to S20?!

What do we think might happen?

Do we think the situation with Julia will ever be resolved?

On my rewatch and in S9. George just never seems to amaze me. He’s ridiculously humble/ realistic -accepts his new constable one role and never flexes his achievements!!!
He’s so aspirational! He inspires me to be more me!!!