Product Review

Forensic sleuthing in the age of invention.

€œA terrific procedural police drama€ €"The Philadelphia Inquirer

Broadcast as The Artful Detective on Ovation

Based on novels by Maureen Jennings.

€œSo deftly done, it€s a little masterpiece of tone and style.€ €"The Globe and Mail (Canada)

At the dawn of the 20th century, Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye) solves Toronto€s trickiest cases with scientific insight and ingenuity in this award-winning mystery series. From flying early aircraft to infiltrating nudist communities, consulting with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to helping a young Winston Churchill, Murdoch has always been a man ahead of his time. In Season 6, he also confronts legal and social challenges to be with his love, pathologist-turned-psychiatrist Dr. Julia Ogden (Gemini winner H©l¨ne Joy, Durham County). Meanwhile, Constable Crabtree (Jonny Harris, Hatching, Matching & Dispatching) gains confidence as a policeman and a suitor to fetching coroner Dr. Emily Grace (Georgina Reilly, The L.A. Complex).

Guest stars include Peter Keleghan (The Red Green Show), Thomas Howes (Downton Abbey), Geraint Wyn Davies (24, Slings & Arrows), Matthew Bennett (Battlestar Galactica), Paula Brancati (Degrassi: The Next Generation, Being Erica), and Sheila McCarthy (Little Mosque on the Prairie).

Episode 5 contains mild nudity.