Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries
Genre	Crime Mystery Period drama
Based on	Detective Murdoch series 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) Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (season 18–)[1]
Composer	Robert Carli
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	18
No. of episodes	289 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	[2] Yannick Bisson Scott Garvie Noel Hedges Peter Mitchell Christina Jennings Hélène Joy
Producers	Jan Peter Meyboom Julie Lacey Laura Harbin Shane Kinnear
Production locations	Toronto Oshawa Belleville Hamilton St. John's Ottawa Cambridge Drumheller Guelph Pitt Meadows Dawson City Bristol, England Stratford Kingston
Running time	43–46 minutes
Production companies	Shaftesbury Films Rogers Media (seasons 1–5) UKTV
Original release
Network	Citytv (Seasons 1–5) CBC (Seasons 6–)
Release	January 20, 2008 (2008-01-20) – present
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Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on Citytv on January 20, 2008, and currently airs on CBC. The series is based on characters from the Detective Murdoch novels by Maureen Jennings and stars Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.^[3] The series was titled The Artful Detective on the Ovation cable TV network in the United States, until season twelve.