Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2008 (60 min)
There is disagreement whether Toronto should continue with Edison's DC system or Nikola Tesla's AC system, differences that seemingly result in murder. While the electrocution of a young woman leads Murdoch to a war between these rival electricity suppliers, Crabtree finds himself attracted to a suspect.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2008 (60 min)
A vicious criminal, known for his deadly use of a stiletto may have escaped from jail to revenge himself on those public servants that helped convict him.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2008 (60 min)
Black professional boxer Amos Robinson is supposed to throw a fight to a local Toronto favorite but knocks him out instead and is murdered before the night is out.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2008 (60 min)
Arthur Conan Doyle is visiting Toronto to give a lecture on spiritualism and offers to help Murdoch solve the murder of a member of a spiritualist society.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2008 (60 min)
After the heir to a profitable business is murdered in church only minutes before his marriage of convenience, a post-mortem discloses he had recently engaged in sexual activity.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 28, 2008 (60 min)
One of the conspirators running a fixed dog fighting competition is murdered and the drunkard who is the prime suspect happens to be Murdoch's estranged father.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 6, 2008 (60 min)
When a skeletal corpse falls to the stage during a performance, Murdoch discovers not only a sinister murder plot, but Brackenreid's secret love for the theatre.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 13, 2008 (60 min)
The affluent and influential young man who recently replaced one of the rowers for the 1896 Olympic rowing team is found drowned in the river.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 20, 2008 (60 min)
When a drunken, philandering wastrel is found dead in his room, having had varnish forced down in his throat, his estranged disturbed ventriloquist son is found in a wardrobe.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 27, 2008 (60 min)
Howard Rookwood is murdered in the horse stables of his glue factory; but who would want to kill a humanitarian involved with placing troubled English youth in foster homes?
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Apr 3, 2008 (60 min)
After a physician researching brain abnormalities is murdered with a crossbow, Murdoch traces the hooded killer to the patients of his institute.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Apr 10, 2008 (60 min)
Prince Alfred, grandson of Queen Victoria, is visiting Toronto and Murdoch is assigned to protect the reckless playboy a from Fenian conspiracy.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Apr 17, 2008 (60 min)
Murdoch investigates the hanging of a farmer found in a freshly plowed field with no footprints around it. Crabtree suspects extraterrestrial involvement.
