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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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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's Shadow

Jan 20, 19991h 30m7.3 / 10

Barnaby and Troy are in Badger's Drift again, this time to investigate the murder of an unpopular property developer called Richard Bayly who had been suffering from a brain tumour. Bayly had recently come up with plans to build a new housing estate in the sleepy village, despite determined local opposition, and he was killed with an Indian sword belonging to Stephen Wentworth, the local Vicar. Another interesting factor is the recent arrival in the village of Simon Fletcher, a theatre director with unhappy childhood memories and perhaps an old grievance.

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Directed by Jeremy SilberstonWritten by Anthony HorowitzGuest stars Barry Jackson, Anna Cropper, Nick Dunning, Richard Briers, Vivian Pickles, Judy Parfitt, Gordon Gostelow, Julian Wadham

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Episode 2

Strangler's Wood

Feb 3, 19991h 30m7.1 / 10

Nine years after a series of unsolved murders at Midsomer Worthy, a new death which follows the same pattern (a girl is found strangled in the woods) leads to fears that the serial killer is back in business. Barnaby and Troy look out the old files in dealing with the first new murder - and then others follow.

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Directed by Jeremy SilberstonWritten by Anthony HorowitzGuest stars Anne Stallybrass, Phyllis Logan, Debbie Chazen, Jeremy Clyde, Trudie Styler, Kathleen Byron, Frank Windsor, Cyril Shaps

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Episode 3

Dead Man's Eleven

Sep 12, 19991h 30m6.9 / 10

Troy is in the Midsomer Worthy cricket eleven for the annual match against Fletchers Cross, so he is on the spot when the wife of Robert Cavendish, the Team Captain and a big local landowner, is found bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat. As often happens, the death toll mounts before the killer can be unmasked. Why should the cricket team's scorer be stabbed to death with a Nazi dagger at the following match? Cavendish, as a mine owner, may have been responsible for the 'accidental' deaths of two of his employees in years gone by. If someone is out for revenge, who is it? Meanwhile, a protest march to maintain footpaths across Cavendish's land finds a foot-bridge has been sabotaged, and their leader takes a ducking...

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Directed by Jeremy SilberstonWritten by Anthony HorowitzGuest stars Hilda Braid, Annabelle Apsion, Terence Rigby, Robert Hardy, Anthony Calf, Imelda Staunton, Toby Jones, Ella Jones

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Episode 4

Blood Will Out

Sep 19, 19991h 30m6.3 / 10finale

The sleepy village of Martyr Warren is invaded by quarrelsome New Age travellers, some of whom fall out with Hector Bridges, a local magistrate. The police are well aware of the tensions, but matters come to a head when Hector is found shot dead. It quickly appears that he was feared by almost everyone in sight, including his own family. And there is more to the travellers than meets the eye - one of them is a former British army officer who fought alongside Hector in the Falklands War... Then (as so often happens to Barnaby and Troy) another dead body is found, this time that of an old man at the travellers' camp.Meanwhile, Barnaby is not feeling in full fighting trim for murder investigations, as Joyce has put him on a strict diet to lose weight.

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Directed by Moira ArmstrongWritten by Douglas WatkinsonGuest stars Barry Jackson, Phyllida Law, Kevin McNally, Honeysuckle Weeks, Jerome Willis, Nick Moran, Elizabeth Garvie, Paul Jesson

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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

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