eight. The season averaged 1.1 million viewers in Canada on CBC from September 24, 2018, to March 4, 2019. Season 13 (2019-20) On March 25, 2019, CBC renewed the show for a thirteenth season of eighteen episodes. This season, Murdoch Mysteries celebrated its 200th episode, with Lisa Norton, John Tench, Dmitry Chepovetsky, David Storch and Peter Stebbings, reprising their roles as Emma Goldman, Alexander Graham Bell, Nicholas Telsa, Thomas Edison, and James Pendrick respectively. Colm Feore made a guest appearance this season as George's long lost father, George Crabtree Sr., that was directed by Yannick Bisson. Season 14 (2021) This season sees the return of Peter Keleghan, Peter Stebbings, and Matthew Bennett as Terrence Meyers, James Pendrick and Allen Clegg, respectively, with Yannick Bisson directing the first two episodes and a total of eleven episodes. Season 15 (2021-22) Season fifteen has twenty four episodes, including Halloween and Christmas specials, a first for the show. Once again, Yannick Bisson directed two episodes and Maureen Jennings wrote one. Returning recurring stars include Nigel Bennett as Chief Constable Giles, Jesse LaVercombe as Jack Walker, Colin Mochrie as Ralph Fellows, Peter Stebbings as James Pendrick and Peter Keleghan as Terrence Meyers, with Keleghan's wife, Leah Pinsent, guest starring, playing his TV wife. Season 16 (2022-23) On June 1, 2022, the sixteenth season was announced, for another twenty four episodes, including another Halloween episode. Season sixteen also marked the 250th episode, which was filmed in black and white. Jesse LaVercombe reprised his role as Jack Walker in the two part season premiere. Yannick Bisson directed the third and fourth episodes, episode three featured three famous literary characters. Rudyard Kipling, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Edith Wharton. William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson appeared in episode five, when another inventor stole their ideas for motorcycles. Brian Paul, Peter Keleghan, John Tench and Matthew Bennett reprised their roles as Prime Minister Laurier, Terrence Meyers, Alexander Graham Bell and Allen Clegg, respectively, with this being the final appearance for Bennet. This season also marks the final appearance of James Graham as Arthur Carmichael. Olympic gold medal winner, Andre De Grasse made his first TV appearance as a shop keeper, bragging how he fast he could run. Peter Stebbings returns as James Pendrick and guest stars alongside Astronaut Chris Hadfield in episode fourteen, who is a Rocket Scientist, for the event of Halley’s Comet Webisodes The Curse of the Lost