The Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries
Also known as	The Artful Detective
Genre	Crime Mystery Period drama
Based on	Characters from novels by Maureen Jennings
Developed by	R.B. Carney Cal Coons Alexandra Zarowny
Starring	Yannick Bisson Hélène Joy Thomas Craig Jonny Harris Georgina Reilly (seasons 6–9)
Composer(s)	Robert Carli
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	10
No. of episodes	150 (including 2 specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Scott Garvie Noel Hedges Cal Coons Peter Mitchell Christina Jennings
Producer(s)	Jan Peter Meyboom Julie Lacey Laura Harbin Shane Kinnear
Location(s)	Toronto Oshawa Belleville Hamilton St. John's Ottawa Cambridge Drumheller Guelph Pitt Meadows Dawson City, Canada Bristol, England
Running time	43–46 minutes
Production company(s)	Shaftesbury Films Rogers Media (seasons 1–5) UKTV ITV Studios Global Entertainment
Distributor	Genesis International
Release
Original network	City (Seasons 1–5) CBC (Seasons 6–)
Picture format	1080i (HDTV)
Original release	January 20, 2008 (2008-01-20) – present
External links
Website
Production website

Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian television drama series aired on both City and CBC Television, titled The Artful Detective on the Ovation cable TV network, featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario, around the turn of the twentieth century. The television series is based on characters from the novel series by Maureen Jennings.

The series takes place in Toronto starting in 1895 and follows Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) of the Toronto Constabulary, who solves many of his cases using methods of detection that were unusual at the time. These methods include fingerprinting (referred to as "finger marks" in the series), blood testing, surveillance, and trace evidence.

Some episodes feature anachronistic technology whereby Murdoch sometimes uses the existing technology of his time to improvise a crude prototype of a technology that would be more readily recognizable to the show's 21st-century audience. In one episode, for instance, he creates a primitive version of sonar to locate a sunken ship in Lake Ontario. In another, he effectively invents wire-tapping. In still another, a foreign police officer has a photograph that Murdoch needs as evidence, so Murdoch asks the other officer to overlay the photograph with a grid numerically coded for the colour in each square, and to transmit the numerical data to Murdoch via telegraph – with the end result that the foreign officer has essentially sent Murdoch a bitmap image they call a "facsimile" – a telefax.

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