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Murdoch Mysteries officially renewed on June 1, 2022 by CBC television for Season 16 offering a 24-episodes season again and premieres on CBC in its usual slot in Fall 2022. Season 16 will bring the total episode count up to 263 (not including the three stand-alone holiday specials).
Beginning September 12, 2022, audience favourite Murdoch Mysteries kicked off the Monday night drama lineup of CBC's Fall 2022 season, with the UK release the next day. The U.S. premiere of Season 16 debuted on February 11, 2023 on OvationTV, followed by an AcornTV premiere on March 27, 2023.
Season 16 filming in Toronto started June 2022 and scheduled into Spring 2023. Murdoch Mysteries originally premiered on Citytv in 2008, based on characters from the Detective Murdoch novels by Maureen Jennings, with the original principle cast lead by Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, Hélène Joy as Dr. Julia Ogden, Thomas Craig as Inspector Thomas Brackenreid and Jonny Harris as Constables George Crabtree. Season 16 will include regulars Arwen Humphreys as Margaret Brackenreid, Lachlan Murdoch as Henry Higgins, Daniel Maslany as Detective Llewellyn Watts, and Shanice Banton as Chief Coroner Violet Hart, along with the usual of recurring guest cast favorites.
Murdoch Mysteries is executive produced by Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Yannick Bisson, Hélène Joy, and Peter Mitchell, who also serves as showrunner. Stephen Montgomery and Julie Lacey are its producers.
October 13, 2022, Shaftesbury announced a new spin-off that features Detective William Murdoch’s time-travelling great-great-great-granddaughter sixteen-year-old Macy who is a forensic wunderkind. The production is now underway on Macy Murdoch (8x11), currently shooting in Toronto and will debut on CBC Gem in spring 2023. “We’re incredibly proud to bring this series to CBC Kids,” says Jennifer McCann, Executive Producer and Vice President of Kids & Family. "Our talented cast of fresh faces, brilliant showrunners, writers, director and crew have created an exciting series that will make for a great co-viewing experience." Shanice Banton (Mrs. Violet Hart) and Lachlan Murdoch (Constable Henry Higgins-Newsome) from the beloved CBC series will appear in the new series as guides to help the young detective.
Season 16 Events and other tidbits:
- The Municipality of Port Hope has given production crews with Shaftesbury Murdoch XVI Inc. permission for filming along John Street on Tuesday, July 5. The municipality has also approved the production company reserving John Street parking on Thursday, June 30, and July 4 to 6, during these times, the parking spots will be occupied with “set dressings and vehicles".
- The Scottish Rite in Hamilton will make an appearance — again; They also filmed at the Queen Street South landmark.
- Just before Season 16 premiered on September 12, MM cast and crew were filming in Brantford, city seat (1852) of Brant county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, from Friday, September 2 through Thursday, September 8, filming on the track and field enclosure at the Steve Brown Sports Complex on Edge Street.
- During the first week of the Murdoch Mysteries Transcendent Travel tour in October 2022, several tidbits were released to fans on the tour, including two titles of future episodes: Dash to Death written by Caleigh Bacchus that will involve running and feature a guest appearance by Canadian Olympian Andre De Grasse, and Vengeance Makes the Man, written by Andrea Scott.
- On November 2, 2022, Murdoch Mysteries was back in Niagara for filming. Assistant location manager Anastasia Reeve stated the show crew required a day to set up Tuesday to film about three scenes Wednesday (at a military barrack, complete with cannon fire. There was intermittent traffic stops on Lakeshore Road supervised by Niagara Parks Police) and on Thursday more scenes were shot, at Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Grand Victorian hotel on Niagara Parkway. This week’s filming will be for the 15th episode of Season 16.
- Murdoch Mysteries: The Experience - Friday November 11th at the Center in the Square, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony performs Murdoch Mysteries: In Concert with the entire cast on the big screen accompanied by Robert Carli’s score performed live by the KWS in sync to Murdoch Ahoy, one of the most beloved and musically rich episodes of the series.
- Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13, at THEMUSEUM presents Breakfast with Murdoch Mysteries: A Morning Panel+Q&A Sessions.
- Murdoch Mysteries: The Exhibition, at THEMUSEUM, step behind the camera and immerse yourself in the fascinating history, science, and fashion of the series – which has also taped episodes in various locations throughout Waterloo Region – through February 2023.
- CBC announces Winter 2023: Season 16 continues on January 2 in its usual time slot Mondays at 8PM.
- The cast and crew of Murdoch Mysteries returned to Brantford, Kitchener, on January 9 - 13, 2023. Filming for Season 16 concluded February 2023.
- Announced on February 22, 2023, Canadian Screen Awards best supporting performer nomination for Daniel Maslany.
- ACTRA Toronto announced Murdoch Mysteries as a nominee for the Members’ Choice Series Ensemble Award and the winner was announced at the 21st annual ACTRA Awards in Toronto on April 26, 2023.
- On March 11, 2023, Murder in F Major episode had an exclusive screening at Roy Thomson Hall, featuring special guests from the series there in person.
- On June 16, 2023, Canada’s longest-running hour-long drama meets Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Lucas Waldin, hosted by composer Robert Carli and Thomas Craig, giving an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the music that has helped make CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries so beloved around the world. ESO performs the soundtrack live of Carli's stunning score to the full episode of Murder in F Major.
Episodes
1601 | Peter Mitchell | Gary Harvey |
Sometimes They Come Back Part 1 | September 12, 2022 |
Crabtree bails on his marriage plans after a prophecy. Murdoch investigates the bizarre murder of two gravediggers. |
1602 | Peter Mitchell | Gary Harvey |
Sometimes They Come Back Part 2 | September 19, 2022 |
Murdoch suspects Hart is lying about her father’s death. Brackenreid leads a PI to Watts endangering both their futures. |
1603 | Derek Schreyer | Yannick Bisson |
The Write Stuff | September 26,2022 |
When a writer is murdered at a literary event, Rudyard Kipling and Lucy Maud Montgomery come under Murdoch's scrutiny. |
1604 | Noelle Girard | Yannick Bisson |
Promising Young Ladies | October 3, 2022 |
Murdoch investigates a man’s murder outside a burlesque show performed by Crabtree’s former paramour Nina Bloom. |
1605 | Simon McNabb | Jason Furakawa |
Murdoch Rides Easy | October 10, 2022 |
After a motorbike enthusiast dies, Murdoch’s investigation is aided by mechanics William Harley and Arthur Davidson. |
1606 | Andrea Scott | Eric McCormack |
Clean Hands | October 17, 2022 |
While investigating a murder in a tight-lipped Mennonite colony, Murdoch and Ogden don plain clothing and go undercover. |
1607 | Paul Aitken | Dawn Sorokolit-Burke |
Murdoch and the Sonic Boom | October 24, 2022 |
Hours before a clandestine visit by President Taft, Murdoch is entangled by Terrence Meyers in an experiment gone wrong. |
1608 | Simon McNabb | Dawn Sorokolit-Burke |
I Still Know What You Did Last Autumn | October 31, 2022 |
Murdoch investigates the brutal on-camera murder of an actress during the filming of a movie about the clown killer. |
1609 | Derek Schreyer | Laurie Lynd |
Honeymoon in Hampshire | November 7, 2022 |
Honeymooning in England, Crabtree and Effie find a dead hotel guest while Murdoch investigates an apparent suicide. |
1610 | Caleigh Bacchus | Laurie Lynd |
Dash to Death | November 14, 2022 |
Murdoch investigates the murder of an elite athlete impaled by a javelin, while Hart and Arthur plot her father's demise. |
1611 | Peter Mitchell | Elsbeth McCall |
D.O.A. | November 21, 2022 |
The sudden death of a key witness leaves Murdoch physically unsettled. |
1612 | Simon McNabb | Elsbeth McCall |
Porcelain Maiden | January 2, 2023 |
Higgins enlists Watts' help after he messes up the courier delivery of a horse statue for some very dangerous thugs. |
1613 | Andrea Scott | Yuri Yakubiw |
Vengeance Makes the Man | January 9, 2023 |
Murdoch must prove Brackenreid's innocence when he is framed for murder by a vengeful foe. |
1614 | Paul Aitken | Jayson Clute |
Murdoch at the End of the World | January 16, 2023 |
Murdoch investigates the fatal stabbing of a doomsayer on the eve of Halley's Comet. |
1615 | Julie Lacey | Gloria Kim |
Breaking Ranks | January 23, 2023 |
Murdoch suspects malfeasance and murder in the apparent drowning of a military recruit. |
1616 | Maureen Jennings | Gloria Kim |
An Avoidable Hinder | February 6, 2023 |
Murdoch is asked by a former logging camp friend to exonerate him in a decades old murder. |
1617 | Naben Ruthnum | Rama Rau |
Ballad of Gentleman Jones | February 13, 2023 |
Murdoch suspects a sequential killer is targeting hobos and enlists Watts to go undercover at a hobo camp with Crabtree. |
1618 | Christina Ray | Katie Boland |
Virtue and Vice | February 20, 2023 |
Murdoch investigates the murder of a respected art dealer who had a sideline selling illegal pornographic drawings. |
1619 | Caleigh Bacchus | Jennifer Liao |
Whatever Happened to Abigail Prescott | February 27, 2023 |
To prove Ogden's innocence in the death of an alderman's wife, Murdoch pursues the politician with a vengeance. |
1620 | Noelle Girard | Jennifer Liao |
Just Desserts | March 6, 2023 |
Nearly exonerated, Ogden is implicated in the warden's murder; Murdoch delves into the death of a fraternity pledge. |
1621 | Noelle Girard | Gary Harvey |
Murder in F Major | March 20, 2023 |
When the director of Toronto's new symphony is murdered, Murdoch suspects jealous musicians are responsible. |
1622 | Jenny Lee | Gary Harvey |
Scents and Sensibility | March 27, 2023 |
When a bride mysteriously collapses and dies before her wedding, Murdoch suspects she was poisoned by her perfume. |
1623 | Caleigh Bacchus, Simon McNabb | Peter Mitchell |
The Long Goodbye Part 1 | April 3, 2023 |
Murdoch’s investigation of a constable’s murder is hampered by interference from Brackenreid’s over-zealous replacement. |
1624 | Caleigh Bacchus, Simon McNabb | Peter Mitchell |
The Long Goodbye Part 2 | April 10, 2023 |
Disgusted by the new Inspector’s tactics, Murdoch resigns and is privately enlisted to find a missing heiress. |
Murdoch Mysteries Seasons |
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Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4 • Season 5 • Season 6 • Season 7 • Season 8 • Season 9 • Season 10 • Season 11 • Season 12 • Season 13 • Season 14 • Season 15 • Season 15 • Season 16 • Season 17 |
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