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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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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

Garden of Death

Sep 10, 20001h 30m6.8 / 10

The Inkpen family has bought back its ancestral home, Inkpen Manor at Midsomer Deverell, and they plan to turn a village Memorial Garden on their land into a tea shop. This causes consternation in the village, and the Bennetts (who previously owned the manor and founded the Memorial Garden) lead the opposition. Then young Fliss Inkpen-Thomas is found dead in the Memorial Garden with her skull smashed in, and a few days later her mother Elspeth dies of poisoning, with the possibility of suicide firmly denied by her family and friends. Barnaby investigates the deaths and finds older and more deep-seated motives for murder lurking in another ancient family.

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Directed by Peter SmithWritten by Christopher RussellGuest stars Barry Jackson, Belinda Lang, Victoria Hamilton, Anna Calder-Marshall, David Ross, Sarah Alexander, Elaine Donnelly, Tom Chadbon

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Episode 2

Destroying Angel

Aug 26, 20011h 30m7.3 / 10

Barnaby attends the funeral of the owner of the Easterly Grange Hotel and hears that the hotel manager has gone missing. The will is read, and it seems the hotel has been divided between the missing manager and his beautiful wife, the hotel's chef and its accountant.A dog finds the hotel manager's severed hand, and the others named in the will receive threatening notes. Then accidents start to happen to them all, including mushroom-poisoning, an apparently accidental shooting, a falling drinks cabinet and a sabotaged vehicle. Barnaby next learns that the missing hotel manager had in his possession a more recent will, which is also now missing....

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Directed by David TuckerWritten by David HoskinsGuest stars Barry Jackson, Samantha Bond, Tony Haygarth, Edward Jewesbury, Robert Lang, Caroline Holdaway, Philip Bowen, Jonathan Coy

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Episode 3

Electric Vendetta

Sep 2, 20011h 30m6.3 / 10

A man's naked body is found in a crop circle, then another dead man electrocuted at the wheel of his vehicle, and then yet another dead man in another crop circle. Barnaby is not impressed by rumours of extra-terrestrial killings, and is sure he is dealing with a human murderer. Before he can solve the mystery, he has to fathom a forty-year-old rivalry in love, the vengeance of the loser, and the defences of the winner.

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Directed by Peter SmithWritten by Terry HodgkinsonGuest stars John Woodvine, Patrick Baladi, Kenneth Colley, Charmian May, Ursula Howells, Peter Penry-Jones, Daisy Bates, Amanda Mealing

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Episode 4

Who Killed Cock Robin?

Sep 9, 20011h 30m7.2 / 10

Dr Burgess, on his way home from a party at the glamorous Francesca Ward's riding school, knocks a stranger down in the road at Newton Magna, and the stranger mysteriously vanishes. Barnaby identifies the missing man as Sean O'Connell, a disgraced Irish vet, then he recognizes the village's new squire as Melvyn Stockard, a retired villain. A body found in a well proves to be the father of the man Stockard's daughter is about to marry... everyone knows he was against the marriage, but is Stockard a killer, and where does the missing Irishman fit in?

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Directed by David TuckerWritten by Jeremy PaulGuest stars Barry Jackson, Mel Raido, Jane Lapotaire, Larry Lamb, Noah Huntley, Ian McNeice, Jonathan Hackett, Malcolm Storry

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Episode 5

Dark Autumn

Sep 16, 20011h 30m6.7 / 10

A postman is brutally murdered on his morning round in the hamlet of Goodman's Land. Local WPC Jay Nash helps Barnaby and Troy to establish that Dave offered a very personal service to the female villagers, leaving a trail of jealous husbands in his wake, and it becomes clear that the tiny village is riven with other adulterous affairs. Then the body count begins to go up...Meanwhile, romance is blossoming between Troy and Jay.

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Directed by Jeremy SilberstonWritten by Peter J. HammondGuest stars Barry Jackson, Kate Maberly, Nicky Henson, Gillian Kearney, Celia Imrie, Alan Howard, Philip Whitchurch, Robert Glenister

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Episode 6

Tainted Fruit

Sep 23, 20011h 30m6.5 / 10finale

A wealthy young landlady fears for her life after she callously ignores the plight of an elderly tenant.

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Directed by Peter SmithWritten by David HoskinsGuest stars Barry Jackson, Eleanor David, Adrian Rawlins, Ann Bell, Benjamin Whitrow, Lucy Punch, Charles Collingwood, Claire Price

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More about Midsomer Murders

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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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