Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian drama television series that airs on Citytv, featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the 1890s. The television series is based on the Detective Murdoch series of novels by Maureen Jennings. The fifth season was...

is a Canadian drama television series produced by Shaftesbury Films

Shaftesbury Films

Shaftesbury Films is a Canadian film and television production company founded by Christina Jennings and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1987, Shaftesbury is a leading creator and producer of original content for television and multiple platforms, with programming available in more than...

 that airs on Citytv

Citytv

Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...

 in Canada and on Alibi in the UK. The show stars Yannick Bisson

Yannick Bisson

Yannick Bisson is a Canadian film and television actor.-Career:Born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Bisson moved to Toronto as a teenager and there he began acting lessons; he has been acting since the age of 13. His big break was in CBC's critically acclaimed 1984 movie of the week Hockey Night with...

 as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the 1890s who makes use of, what was in the late Victoria era, the latest in forensic science to solve crimes. Working with Detective Murdoch are Constable George Crabtree (Jonny Harris), coroner Doctor Julia Ogden (Hélène Joy

Hélène Joy

Hélène Joy is an Australian–Canadian television actress. Her credits include roles in the television series MVP, Durham County, The Secret World of Og, An American in Canada, ReGenesis, Pearlie, and Murdoch Mysteries....

), and Inspector Brackenreid (Thomas Craig

Thomas Craig (actor)

Thomas Craig, is a British actor best known for his work on such TV series as Where the Heart Is and Tommy Harris in Coronation Street, and also the film The Navigators, directed by Ken Loach in 2001.Craig was originally a plumber before making the move into acting in the 1980s...

). 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

Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings is a British-born Canadian writer. Born on Eastfield Road in Birmingham, England she spent her formative years there until she emigrated to Canada at the age of seventeen with her mother...

.

Season 1

Filming of the first season of Murdoch Mysteries occurred between June 11 and October 17, 2007, primarily in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. The first season of Murdoch Mysteries premiered on CHMI

CHMI-TV

CHMI-DT is a television station licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, with most of its operations in Winnipeg. It is part of the Citytv system, and the only Rogers TV station not part of any duopoly ever since CIIT-TV was sold to S-VOX in 2008.-History:The station was licensed by the...

, the Winnipeg station of Citytv

Citytv

Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...

 on Sunday, January 20, 2008; the rest of the Citytv stations broadcast the series on Thursdays, beginning on January 24, 2008.

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Season 2

Filming of season two took place in Toronto, Cambridge

Cambridge, Ontario

Cambridge is a city located in Southern Ontario at the confluence of the Grand and Speed rivers in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is an amalgamation of the City of Galt, the towns of Preston and Hespeler, and the hamlet of Blair.Galt covers the largest portion of...

, and St. George in Ontario, in Drumheller, Alberta, and near Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia where they made use of the old set of Bordertown

Bordertown (TV series)

Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown when the western border between the United States and Canada was surveyed in 1880, dividing the town.-Premise:Pemmican was a town in the...

.

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Season 3

The third season was partially filmed in Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

, England.

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Season 4

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Season 5

The fifth season was announced at the Citytv 'Summer In The Square' on May 31, 2011. Part of the festivities of the day included a Victorian era costume competition with the winner getting a role in an episode of Murdoch Mysteries. On June 23, 2011 it was announced that Maureen Jennings, creator of the Detective Murdoch series of novels, will be writing one of the episodes of season 5. Filming was done in Dawson city for season 5