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TV series

Midsomer Murders

1997TV-1425 seasons7.5 / 10

The deadliest county in England.

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

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Synopsis

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

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Episode 1

Death in the Slow Lane

1h 33m6.0 / 10

New DCI John Barnaby arrives in Midsomer and is bemused by the quaint villages and their quirky residents. But when a local DJ is crushed to death at a traditional girls’ boarding school, he soon discovers that murder and deception are never far away. As the death toll rises, could Barnaby’s first case also be his last?

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Directed by Richard HolthouseWritten by Michael AitkensGuest stars Barry Jackson, Barry Aird, David Warner, Edna Doré, Susan Engel, Lucy Briers, Tim Dutton, Samantha Bond

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Episode 2

Dark Secrets

1h 33m5.9 / 10

The reclusive lives of elderly eccentrics William and Mary Bingham comes under police scrutiny when a social services investigator is murdered. Barnaby and Jones must unearth generations of family secrets and decipher astronomical charts to find the killer.

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Directed by Simon LangtonWritten by Michael AitkensGuest stars Barry Jackson, Edward Fox, Phyllida Law, Neil Pearson, Beth Goddard, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Haydn Gwynne, Julian Ovenden

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Episode 3

Echoes of the Dead

1h 33m6.2 / 10

When a young woman is dressed like a bride and drowned in a bath, it triggers a spate of ghoulish wedding-themed murders in Great Worthy. The case takes Barnaby and Jones to a donkey sanctuary, a heritage steam railway, and a pub run by an ex-copper and former brothel madam. With the serial killer still at large, could history be repeating itself?

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Directed by Nicholas LaughlandWritten by Peter J. HammondGuest stars Barry Jackson, Sarah Smart, Ron Cook, Adrian Rawlins, Melanie Kilburn, Andrew Buckley, Daisy Haggard, Thomas Arnold

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Episode 4

The Oblong Murders

1h 32m7.4 / 10

Bullard asks Barnaby to investigate the disappearance of a friend's daughter who was a member of the Oblong Foundation, a cult based at Malham Hall. Jones goes undercover as a new recruit to solve the mystery, but he and Barnaby soon start digging into an old case involving the death of a couple in a boat explosion, which could be linked to the missing woman. With Will Knightley, Kevin Doyle, Holly Aird, Barbara Flynn and John Woodvine

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Directed by Renny RyeWritten by David HoskinsGuest stars Barry Jackson, Will Knightley, Richard Albrecht, Heather Tobias, John Woodvine, Kevin Doyle, Holly Aird, Sophie Stanton

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Episode 5

The Sleeper Under the Hill

1h 33m6.2 / 10

When the body of a farmer is found in the middle of a stone circle in Midsomer Mow, suspicion points at local druids. The murdered man had planned to plough Gorse Meadow, making Crowcall Circle inaccessible to the group led by high priests Ezra and Leticia. Barnaby and Jones are joined in their investigation by new pathologist Kate Wilding. The body left on the bloodstone is her first assignment, but Kate doesn’t shock easily.

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Directed by Nicholas LaughlandWritten by David HarsentGuest stars Susan Brown, Robert Pugh, Chris Wilson, Lee Ross, Richard Leaf, Susan Brown, Alan Williams, Claudia Harrison

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Episode 6

The Night of the Stag

1h 32m7.4 / 10

A tax inspector goes missing as he tries to track down the maker of an illicit, potent cider popular among the residents of Midsomer Abbas. Barnaby and Jones have a murder investigation on their hands when the man's body is found floating in a vat at the village's spring fair, where the duo are sampling the local brew

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Directed by Simon LangtonWritten by Nicholas MartinGuest stars Warren Clarke, Francis Magee, Ian Peck, Bernard Lloyd, Greg Hicks, Beatrice Comins, Niamh Quinn, Denise Black

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Episode 7

A Sacred Trust

1h 33m7.5 / 10

Barnaby and Jones investigate the cloistered world of Midsomer Priory when a nun is strangled to death. The detectives uncover a complex mystery involving holy orders, teenage romantic liaisons, African art and missing antique silver as the community is forced to open its doors to 21st-century policing

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Directed by Renny RyeWritten by Rachel Cuperman, Sally GriffithsGuest stars Philip Anthony, Jamie Blackley, Martha Mackintosh, Joanna David, Fiona Glascott, Susan Sheridan, Rosalind Knight, Hannah Arterton

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Episode 8

A Rare Bird

1h 32m7.4 / 10finale

A row breaks out between some birdwatchers in Midsomer-in-the-Marsh ends things end up turning nasty after their president is killed. Patrick Morgan died as he hoping to get a glimpse of a rare bird, but is his obsession with ornithology to blame or something much more sinister. Barnaby is called in to investigate.

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Directed by Nicholas LaughlandWritten by Steve TraffordGuest stars Sykes, Nick Thomas-Webster, Genevieve O'Reilly, Alexander Hanson, Paul Bigley, James Dreyfus, Allan Corduner, Paul Nicholls

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Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026

More about Midsomer Murders

Cast

John NettlesDCI Tom Barnaby
Gwilym LeeDS Charlie Nelson
Jane WymarkJoyce Barnaby
Nick HendrixDS Jamie Winter
Tamzin MallesonDoctor Kate Wilding
Laura HowardCully Barnaby
John HopkinsSgt Daniel Scott
Kirsty DillonWPC/DC Gail Stephens

Credits

Created by
Anthony Horowitz, Caroline Graham

Production details

Status
Returning Series
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
144
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • ITV1United Kingdom
  • Bentley ProductionsUnited Kingdom
  • ITVUnited Kingdom
  • BBCUnited Kingdom

Themes

cosy crimedepressingdisgustedenglandmidsomermurdermurder investigationpolice detective