The Brokenwood Mysteries

Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd arrives on assignment in Brokenwood, a small town where memories - and animosities - run deep.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cast:Neill Rea , Fern Sutherland , Cristina Serban Ionda , Nic Sampson , Elizabeth McRae , Karl Willetts , Pana Hema Taylor , Jarod Rawiri , Colin Moy , Tracy Lee Gray , Jason Hoyte , Roy Ward , Shane Cortese , Phil Peleton , Ascia Maybury , Zara Cormack , Rawiri Jobe , Jess Loudon

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Blood & Water

Sun, Sep 28, 2014

Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd is sent to Brokenwood to investigate the death of a farmer whose body has been found by two local fishermen.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Sour Grapes

Sun, Oct 5, 2014

The annual Brokenwood wine show is disrupted when the body of the guest judge, a well-known wine critic, is found dead in a fermentation vat.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Playing the Lie

Sun, Oct 12, 2014

A morning round of golf for several prominent members of the Brokenwood Golf Club is interrupted when one of the club's organisation committee is found dead in a sand bunker, her face covered in blisters.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Hunting the Stag

Wed, Nov 19, 2014

A stag party in two senses of the word as three friends, one of whom is about to be married, go deer hunting in the bush, but only two return-the groom-to-be having been shot in the head.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Leather and Lace

Sun, Sep 27, 2015

The coach of the rugby team is found dead, strapped to a goal post.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ To Die or Not to Die

Sun, Oct 4, 2015

A cast member in The Brokenwood Theatre Society's production of Hamlet collapses and dies after a performance. But the smell of poison leads Shepherd to believe that he has not "shuffled off this mortal coil" without help.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Catch of the Day

Sat, Oct 10, 2015

When a severed human hand is discovered in a crayfisherman's catch, Shepherd and his team need to discover whose it is and whether its owner is still alive.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Blood Pink

Sun, Oct 18, 2015

A touring musician is found electrocuted in what initially looks to be a suicide. As Shepherd investigates, he finds things are murkier than they first appeared.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Black Widower

Mon, Oct 31, 2016

A "Lord of the Ringz" tour comes across the wife of the tour guide, wrapped in fake cobwebs and poisoned with spider venom.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Over Her Dead Body

Mon, Nov 7, 2016

During the funeral for beloved local poet Declan O'Grady, an unexpected turn of events reveal that his coffin has been occupied by the corpse of an unidentified young woman.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Killing Machine

Sat, Nov 19, 2016

A thief's corpse is found at a local auto repair shop, followed by the murder of the people who worked there. As Shepherd unravels the case, he realizes that the real crime may not be anything as pedestrian as theft.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ A Merry Bloody Christmas

Mon, Nov 14, 2016

The beloved mayor of Brokenwood is found brutally murdered in a Santa costume, and his girlfriend stuffed in the chimney - also in a Santa costume.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Fall from Grace

Sun, Oct 29, 2017

Birthday celebrations are underway in the park when a skydiver drops in unexpectedly.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Stone Cold Dead

Sun, Nov 5, 2017

As the historic village readies itself for its monthly opening, the owner is struck dead.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ The Scarecrow

Sun, Nov 12, 2017

A fight between farmers over land turns ugly when one of them turns up dead - a victim of an obscure poison.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ As If Nothing Had Happened

Sun, Nov 19, 2017

The Detectives turn to a rest home to find the murderer of a high-profile business man who has taken large amounts of money from the elderly.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Scared to Death

Sun, Oct 28, 2018

At the A&P Show, the owner of the rides appears to die of fright on the Ghost Train.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Bride Not to Be

Sun, Nov 4, 2018

The Detectives must unravel the mystery of how a bride-to-be ended up dead in the river during her hen's party.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Tontine

Sun, Nov 11, 2018

When Lester Nyman reaches the top of a local mountain after a gruelling ride and suffers a massive coronary it doesn't seem suspicious. But when Gina reveals his toxicology showed astronomical levels of caffeine in his system, Mike starts to look more closely.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ The Dark Angel

Sun, Nov 18, 2018

At an abandoned mental health facility, a young couple stumble upon the body of an elderly man in the old hospital wing strapped to a trolley with electrodes connected to his temples. It would seem he was the victim of electrocution.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ The Power of Steam

Sun, Nov 10, 2019

After a murder at the Brokenwood Steampunk event, Mike and his team are thrown into a world of dress-up and escapism where the suspects all have alter-egos.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ A Real Page Turner

Sun, Nov 17, 2019

World-renowned crime-writing author Jack Rudd visits Brokenwood to give a reading at the local book club from his latest novel - but never leaves, falling victim to a method of murder portrayed in his own book.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ Dead Men Don't Shoot Ducks

Sun, Nov 24, 2019

When an animal activist is killed on the first day of duck hunting season, Mike and the team must determine whether it was an accidental shooting, or something more sinister.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Dead and Buried

Sun, Dec 1, 2019

Mike and the team are reacquainted with some familiar faces when investigating a suspicious suicide at the Brokenwood Women's Prison

1Season 7

S7.E1 ∙ The Garotte and the Vinkelbraun

2021

Mike and his team are thrust into a world of antiquities when a TV crew from the hit series All Things Old and Beautiful arrives in town and one of the hosts is murdered.

2Season 7

S7.E2 ∙ The Witches of Brokenwood

Mon, Apr 5, 2021

The Brokenwood Health Retreat proves rather unhealthy for one unfortunate visitor, leaving Mike and the team with the very tricky case to solve.

3Season 7

S7.E3 ∙ Dog Day Morning

Mon, Apr 12, 2021

When four masked men attempt to rob the Brokenwood Savings Bank, it's up to Mike and the team to determine which one of them pulled the trigger and killed the bank manager.

4Season 7

S7.E4 ∙ Something Nasty in the Market

Mon, Apr 19, 2021

Mike, Kristin and the team investigate the murder of a Farmer's Market owner who staggers into the crowd with a garden implement fatally embedded in her back.

5Season 7

S7.E5 ∙ Exposed to the Light

Mon, Apr 26, 2021

A fundraising evening at the historic Brokenwood Empire Cinema turns deadly when a fire breaks out, and when the smoke clears, a local businessman is found strangled.

6Season 7

S7.E6 ∙ Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

Mon, May 3, 2021

When Mike mysteriously leaves Brokenwood on other police business, Kristin is left to lead the investigation into a 1970s party where several party-goers wind up dead.

1Season 8

S8.E1 ∙ From the Cradle to the Grave

Fri, Jul 1, 2022

Chaos ensues when a museum's Egyptian mummy case turns out to contain the body of a very recently deceased woman.

2Season 8

S8.E2 ∙ Death n' Bass

Mon, Jul 4, 2022

The detectives are called in to investigate a murder at a music festival, where it would appear the victim was quite literally killed by sound.

3Season 8

S8.E3 ∙ Spark to a Flame

Mon, Jul 11, 2022

In the remote community of beaches at Pateke Point, a local resident ends up bludgeoned to death by an unknown blunt object and locked inside a house not her own.

4Season 8

S8.E4 ∙ Three Coins in a Fountain

Mon, Jul 18, 2022

When the new world champion of the curious sport of "Spoofing" is found dead in a fountain in a public park, the detectives must determine who may have been willing to commit murder over the title. Gina is involved in a fund-raiser.

5Season 8

S8.E5 ∙ Good as Gold

Mon, Jul 25, 2022

Family feud involving gold, line dancing, cowboy hats, guns and forbidden love.

6Season 8

S8.E6 ∙ Four Fires and a Funeral

Mon, Aug 1, 2022

The charred remains of a body are discovered in a burned out rural shed. Mike and Kristin are tasked with identifying the body; it seems that this is the third in a run of "accidental" deaths, all attended by the Brokenwood Fire Brigade.

1Season 9

S9.E1 ∙ Brokenwood: The Musical

Mon, Apr 3, 2023

A musical theater performance reenacting Brokenwood's history goes horrifically awry when the composer is electrocuted on stage. But was it murder or just an unfortunate accident?

2Season 9

S9.E2 ∙ Old Blood Money

Sun, Apr 16, 2023

A wealthy and eccentric woman's 90th birthday party ends in two separate deaths, and the team must dive into a world of family rivalry and long-held secrets to find the solution.

3Season 9

S9.E3 ∙ Nun of the Above

Sun, Apr 23, 2023

After the murder of a local nun, the team investigates a convent where all the sisters have secrets and nothing is what it seems.

4Season 9

S9.E4 ∙ Going to the Dogs

Sun, Apr 30, 2023

Mike, Kristin, and Chalmers must determine who wanted a veterinary nurse dead, with the answer seemingly tied to simmering tensions between the twin sisters with whom the victim worked.

5Season 9

S9.E5 ∙ Shot of Love

Mon, May 1, 2023

While Mike and Beth take a long road trip to obtain divorce papers from his ex-wife, Kristin and Daniel contend with the mysterious death of a man in a hotel room without signs of trauma or visitors.

6Season 9

S9.E6 ∙ Motorcycle Mamas

Mon, May 8, 2023

The Mama's Angels, an all-women motorcycle club, are in Brokenwood for the wedding of one of their members, until a murder casts suspicion amongst their ranks and throws the town into chaos.