The Brokenwood Mysteries

In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.

Seasons

12

Episodes aired

60

Latest aired

S12E06

Total runtime

3d 10h

Timeline when each season aired

1. Season 1 September 2014 – October 2014 4 episodes
2. Season 2 September 2015 – October 2015 4 episodes
3. Season 3 October 2016 – November 2016 4 episodes
4. Season 4 October 2017 – November 2017 4 episodes
5. Season 5 October 2018 – November 2018 4 episodes
6. Season 6 November 2019 – December 2019 4 episodes
7. Season 7 March 2021 – May 2021 6 episodes
8. Season 8 July 2022 – August 2022 6 episodes
9. Season 9 April 2023 – May 2023 6 episodes
10. Season 10 April 2024 – June 2024 6 episodes
11. Season 11 April 2025 – May 2025 6 episodes
12. Season 12 April 2026 – May 2026 6 episodes

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  S03E01 The Black Widower

  October 30 · 90min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  The Frog and Cheetah’s publican, Ray Neilson, has branched into tourism with his ‘Lord of the Ringz Tours’ tailored to non-English speaking tourists. But when Ray’s wife Debbie is discovered dead under a giant foam spider in a supposed film location of Mirklewood things get ‘mirky’. Especially when Debbie’s cause of death is revealed to be from New Zealand’s only native venomous spider – the Katipo. But if it was, how did one spider administer ten times the lethal dose?

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  S03E02 Over Her Dead Body

  November 6 · 89min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Brokenwood is in mourning as beloved local poet Declan O’Grady is being farewelled at St Judas Church after being struck down by cancer. But things go from bad to worse when his coffin accidentally falls from the hearse revealing that the corpse inside is not Declan but a young woman identifiable only by a notable scarlet tattoo.

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  S03E03 The Killing Machine

  November 13 · 91min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  The annual Riverstone Beach Hop is a colorful festival that brings classic car enthusiasts together from far and wide to celebrate everything petrol powered and chrome plated. But on the morning of the event Charlie Baxter, the Chairman of the Classic Car Restoration Society, is found dead next to his beloved El Dorado with a lungful of gasoline. Was this a petrol siphoning accident or something more deliberate? And does it have anything to do with the unidentified dead body found in Charlie’s garage the day before?

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  S03E04 A Merry Bloody Christmas

  November 20 · 86min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  With December approaching Brokenwood is alive and well with Christmas spirit. That is until a gruesome sight confronts Mike and his team; Santa Claus with his throat slit. Or as Mike insists – ‘not Santa, but a man dressed in a Santa suit’. The man is in fact the much-loved local Mayor, Evan Whitestone, who dresses as Santa every year for the Christmas parade. But with local elections looming, attention turns to his four rivals for the mayoral chains. Each of them has an axe to grind with Evan or, in this case - a cut throat razor.