Did you know Murdoch Mysteries is CBC’s top Canadian entertainment program? Since its CBC premiere in fall 2012, over 13.5 million Canadians have tuned in — that’s about 40 percent of the population, or 2 in 5 Canadians.

In honour of the show’s Season 9 premiere tonight, and thanks to Shaftesbury and CBC fact gatherers, here’s the lowdown on Canada’s favourite artful detective:

9 seasons

134 episodes

177 murders solved

Sold to 110 countries

736 days of shooting

More than 8800 hours of filming

135 unique locations

1 screeching in

8500 production jobs triggered in Ontario

25 historical figures

32 inventions and counting…

90 guest stars including 1 prime minister and 1 Star Trek captain 2332 sideburns

1002 ties

184 corsets 1 proposal halted

1 proposal denied

1 proposal accepted

2.5 weddings 3 coroners

3 career changes for Ogden

10,346 complaints from Higgins

756,348 karate kicks 1 steamship

1 new millennium

2 trips to the future

1 future British prime minister

1 nudist camp

1 bottle of absinthe

1 James Gillies

2 disruptive Garlands

1 game of dominoes

2 nights on an island with an axe murderer

1 dose of ginseng in Brackenreid’s dinner 0 Martians

0 werewolves

0 vampires

0 Egyptian curses

0 Venusians

0 ghosts

0 revenants

0 zombies, Haitian or otherwise

0 lake monsters, which Crabtree said all along

0 mole men???

0 leprechauns (yet…)

1 Artful Detective Murdoch Mysteries airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on CBC. Related