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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

The Green Man

1h 39m8.1 / 10

The Barnaby-Troy partnership is about to come to an end, as Troy has passed his inspector's exam and is moving on. However, the murderers of Midsomer go on piling up the bodies. Joyce Barnaby gets trapped in a fallen canal tunnel, and in getting her out seven skeletons come to light in a hidden chamber. Meanwhile, two local tearaways are shot dead in the woods at Midsomer Worthy, and a tramp called Tom is accused of the killings. While Troy looks into the shootings, Barnaby wrestles with an old mystery. And although six of the skeletons found in the tunnel date from the 18th century, one is much more recent.

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Directed by Sarah HellingsWritten by Michael RussellGuest stars Barry Jackson, Tim Woodward, Cherie Lunghi, John Carlisle, Henry Cavill, David Bradley, Fred Pearson, Marc Buchner

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Episode 2

Bad Tidings

1h 39m7.7 / 10

Barnaby's new partner, Sergeant Dan Scott, arrives from London's Metropolitan Police and expects to have a quiet life. But then the murders begin. The first victim is Fiona Thompson, stabbed several times with a long knife on her way home from a flamenco night at Midsomer Mallow village hall - and a witness reports a mysterious squeaking noise at the scene of the crime...

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Directed by Peter SmithWritten by Peter J. HammondGuest stars Barry Jackson, Alex Belcourt, Helen Grace, Ruth Jones, John Standing, John Normington, Hilton McRae, Elaine Donnelly

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Episode 3

The Fisher King

1h 35m6.1 / 10

Midsomer Barrow landowner Gareth Heldman is murdered with an Iron Age spear, on the same spot where his father was killed many years before during an archaeologists' dig at the village's prehistoric earthworks. Meanwhile, troupes of new age travellers (whom Heldman strongly disapproved of) are arriving to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21st. Barnaby finds Heldman was a womaniser, with a tangled web of offspring. He also has to reopen the file on the thirty-year-old murder of Roger Heldman and investigate a tale of lost treasure.

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Directed by Richard HolthouseWritten by Isabelle GreyGuest stars Henry Ian Cusick, Nicholas Rowe, Lynda Bellingham, Susannah Doyle, Rebecca Saire, Terrence Hardiman, Malcolm Tierney, Jim Carter

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Episode 4

Sins of Commission

1h 35m8.0 / 10

The Midsomer Literary Festival opens with the real-life murder of a famous author at Midsomer St Michael. In investigating the killing, Barnaby and Scott find that the village highbrows are busy with corruption, embezzlement, and sexual peccadillos of various kinds. And the dead bodies go on piling up.

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Directed by Peter SmithWritten by Elizabeth-Anne WhealGuest stars Barry Jackson, Susan Engel, Stella Gonet, Donald Sumpter, Rachel Bell, Mark Umbers, Margot Leicester, Michael N. Harbour

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Episode 5

The Maid in Splendour

1h 35m6.3 / 10

Jamie Cruickshank, a bartender at the Maid in Splendour public house, is keen on Bella Monday, a barmaid, and follows her to a tumbledown old cottage in the woods, only to be blasted with a twelve-bore shotgun. Then the pub landlord's son, Stephen Bannerman, is also killed in the same way. Barnaby finds there was ill-feeling between locals and newcomers to the village and also between the landlord and his aggressive son, who was in the process of taking over the business.

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Directed by Richard HolthouseWritten by Andrew PayneGuest stars Barry Jackson, Alan Cox, Siobhan Hewlett, Frances Tomelty, William Gaunt, Freddie Jones, Elaine Donnelly, Sophie Hunter

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Episode 6

The Straw Woman

1h 35m7.9 / 10finale

When a traditional festival is revived at Midsomer Parva, it goes disastrously wrong, with the curate (or assistant priest) being burnt alive inside a straw effigy of a woman. Local property owner Alan Clifford holds a party at the Manor House, and it seems he has secrets... And then, just after finding a pig's head on the altar of the parish church, the dead curate's gay lover, the Reverend Jim Hale, dies too, seemingly of 'spontaneous combustion' - that is, he bursts into flames without any normal explanation. Barnaby refuses to believe in rumours of witchcraft and is vindicated when it proves that Hale's clothes had been sprinkled with phosphorus. Then, with Barnaby hot on the killer's trail, Liz Francis is knocked out with a candlestick and becomes the third villager to be burnt alive.

Episode credits

Directed by Sarah HellingsWritten by Jeff DoddsGuest stars Barry Jackson, Alex Belcourt, Jemima Rooper, Richenda Carey, Maggie O'Neill, Keith Barron, Jonathan Hackett, Daniel Weyman

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Episode information updated Sep 11, 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

amusedcosy crimeenglandmidsomermurdermurder investigationpolice detectivepolice inspector