High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The following is a list of episodes of the Canadian drama series Murdoch Mysteries, which is produced by Shaftesbury Films. The first five seasons were broadcast in Canada on Citytv with the show moving to CBC for an encore of season 5 and continuing with season 6. Murdoch Mysteries is also shown on Alibi in the UK. The show stars Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the 1890s who makes use of what was then modern forensic science to solve crimes. Each episode revolves around one or more explicit historical references to an actual 19th century person, invention, event, or book. Working with Detective Murdoch are Constable George Crabtree (Jonny Harris), coroner Doctor Julia Ogden (Helene Joy), and Inspector Brackenreid (Thomas Craig). The show was developed for television by Cal Coons and Alexandra Zarowny based on the characters in the Detective Murdoch series of novels written by Maureen Jennings.