#we're only up to season 9 in our rewatch so might edit this in the future if we missed some

[llewellynwatts]

If i desperately need to watch a show with a gay jewish detective but cant commit to 200+ eps do you have a list of recs for episodes of murdoch mysteries im weak for gays in period dramas

Just know getting into it that they don’t really focus on either of these things in the show (currently only one episode where he discovers he’s jewish and a brief mention in another ep +  he’s confirmed gay three seasons after he’s introduced) BUT even minus being a gay and jewish icon Watts is still the best character and he’s been acting gay since he was introduced lol 

It’s week by week mysteries though so honestly you can tune in whenever and you won’t be lost. Watts is introduced in season 10 and I’ve included and italicized all the episodes he’s in below. The show is great not just for Watts though so if you want to get more into it without watching all the episodes here are some from each season that hit more major plot points or are just super good in our opinion:

Season 1

1x01 Power

1x05 Till Death Do us Part (also gay)

1x08 Still Waters

1x13 The Annoying Red Planet

Season 2

2x05 The Green Muse

2x06 Shades of Grey

2x07 Big Murder on Campus

2x13 Anything You Can Do?

Season 3 

3x01 The Murdoch Identity

3x03 Victor, Victorian

3x05 Me, Myself and Murdoch

3x06  This One Goes to Eleven (James Pendrick x Murdoch is my favourite non-canon ship on this show tbh)

3x07 Blood and Circuses

3x08 Future Imperfect 

3x12 In the Altogether

3x13 The Tesla Effect

Season 4

4x03 Buffalo Shuffle

4x06 Dead End Street

4x13 Murdoch in Wonderland

Season 5

5x01 Murdoch of the Klondike

5x03 Who Killed the Electric Carriage?

5x07 Stroll on the Wild Side pt. 1

5x08 Stroll on the Wild Side pt. 2

5x09 Invention Convention

5x11 Murdoch in Toyland

5x13 Twentieth Century Murdoch

Season 6

6x01 Murdoch Air

6x04 A Study in Sherlock

6x13 Crime & Punishment

6x13 The Murdoch Trap

Season 7

7x03 The Filmed Adventures of William Murdoch (only watch this if you end up caring about pendrick as much as we do or like sillier episodes lol)

7x04 The Return of Sherlock

7x08 Republic of Murdoch

7x09 Midnight Train to Kingston (only if you like Gillies)

7x16 Kung Fu Crabtree

7x18 The Death of Dr. Ogden

Season 8

8x04 Holy Matrimony Murdoch

8x07 What Lies Buried

8x12 The Devil Wears Whalebone (Emily Grace x Lillian Moss, a canon wlw couple starts here -Lillian is in 8x08 and 8x10 but she doesn’t play a huge role. I’m not including all their eps cause their interactions are brief and skippable in most)

8x14 Toronto’s Girl Problem

Season 9

9x03 Double Life 

9x05 24 Hours to Doomsday (again only if you like Pendrick)

9x07 Summer of ‘75

9x10 The Big Chill

Season 10

10x04 Concocting a Killer (Watts introduction episode!!!)

10x05 Jagged Little Pill

10x10 The Devil inside (it’s not good but you have to watch if you like Gillies)

10x11 A Murdog Mystery 

10x012 The Missing

10x15 Hades Hath No Fury

10x18 Hell to Pay

Season 11

11x01 Up from Ashes

the book of jackson online webseries

11x02 Merlot Mysteries

11x03 8 Footsteps

11x06 21 Murdoch Street 

11x07 The Accident

11x09 The Talking Dead

11x10 F.L.A.S.H (Pendrick is back and he has a gay assistant. a win!) 

11x12 Mary Wept

11x13 Crabtree a la Carte

11x15 Murdoch Schmurdoch (Jewish Watts!)

11x16 Game of Kings

11x17 Shadows are Falling

11x18 Free Falling

Season 12

12x01 Murdoch Mystery Mansion

12x04 Murdoch Without Borders 

12x06 Sir. Sir? Sir!!!

12x07 Brother’s Keeper 

12x11 Annabella Cinderella

12x12 Six of Best

12x17 Darkness Before Dawn pt.1

12x18 Darkness Before Dawn pt.2

Season 13

13x03 Bad Pennies

13x06 The Philately Fatality

13x08 The Final Curtain

13x09 The Killing Dose

13x10 Staring Blindly into the Future

13x13 Kill Thy Neighbour 

13x16 In the Company of Women

13x17 Things Left Behind

13x17 The Future is Unwritten