Episode list for
"Midsomer Murders" (1997)

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Episode Count: 66
Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
Year: 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: The Killings at Badger's Drift

Original Air Date: 23 March 1997
An elderly woman is found dead in her cottage and DCI Barnaby is convinced the death is not down to natural causes.

Season 1, Episode 2: Written in Blood

Original Air Date: 22 March 1998
After a noted author speaks before a group of local Midsomer writers, the naked body of the event's host is found bludgeoned to death in his bedroom.

Season 1, Episode 3: Death of a Hollow Man

Original Air Date: 29 March 1998
Barnaby donates time to the local amateur when Joyce is cast in a revival of "Amadeus," but complications arise when the leading man is murdered onstage.

Season 1, Episode 4: Faithful unto Death

Original Air Date: 22 April 1998
When the residents of Morton Fendle learn that the local mill is to be shut, many also realize that they will lose their investments in the place. Alan Hollingsworth had encouraged the locals to invest but he is now bankrupt and refuses to explain what has happened to the money. Feelings are running high and Gray Patterson in particular, Hollingsworth's one time partner, seems ready to do something about it. When Hollingsworth's wife disappears, Barnaby concludes that she has been kidnapped and that may account for the missing money. Bur who exactly are the kidnappers and why have they targeted Mrs. Hollingsworth in particular? A hidden romance and eventual betrayal allows Barnaby to bring the culprits to justice.

Season 1, Episode 5: Death in Disguise

Original Air Date: 6 May 1999
Ian Craigie is the "master" of a new-age commune. He founded the center with a partner, Bill Carter, to scam the rich but over time, came to believe in the objectives and the good work they did. When Carter is found dead at the bottom of a staircase, the question is whether he fell or was pushed. Barnaby and Troy encounter an eclectic group of commune residents. There is Ken and Heather Beavers whom Barnaby discovers had a very interesting past; Sylvie Gamelin who has just announced that she is donating the several million pound inheritance she received on her 18th birthday; her father Guy who who is absolutely opposed to the donation and her dipsomaniac mother, Felicity; and Christopher Wainwright who may also be hiding something from his past. When another murder is committed, it is left to Barnaby to sift through the backgrounds of the various individuals to find the motive behind the two murders.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Death's Shadow

Original Air Date: 20 January 1999
Barnaby and Troy investigate the murder of Richard Bailey who is found in his home in Badger's Drift hacked to death. Bailey had recently received bad news from his doctor who informed him that he had a brain tumour. The are many possible suspects, including villagers who oppose Bailey's plan to redevelop a major property, Tye House, into a golf course and residential housing estate and his childhood friend, Ian Eastman, who lost out on an opportunity to develop the new property. Cully Barnaby gets an opportunity to work with Simon Fletcher, a one-time resident of Badger's Drift who is now a well-known director and also happens to be a childhood friend to Eastman and Bailey. When a second murder is committed, the detectives must find a motive that is linked to events some 30 years earlier.

Season 2, Episode 2: Strangler's Wood

Original Air Date: 3 February 1999
Nine years ago, the village of midsomer worthy became the stalking ground of a serial killer who raped his female victims before strangling them with a striped neck tie. However, after the third victim, the killer stopped... In the present day, another young woman has been found in "stranglers wood", strangled with a striped neck tie. She, however, has not been raped... Has the psychopath started again?? or is there a copycat killer on the loose??

Season 2, Episode 3: Dead Mans Eleven

Original Air Date: 12 September 1999
Fletchers Cross is preparing itself for their annual cricket match against neighboring village, Midsomer Worthy. Troy has also been selected to open the batting for the Midsomer team. However, tragedy strikes when the wife of local landowner and cricket captain, Robert Cavendish, is discovered murdered after taking their dog for a walk.

Season 2, Episode 4: Blood Will Out

Original Air Date: 19 September 1999
The murder of a village blow-hard, who had few supporters among his neighbors, happens while a gathering of travelers is taking place.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Death of a Stranger

Original Air Date: 31 December 1999
While Barnaby is away on holiday his replacement, the soon to be retired Ron Pringle, arrests Billie Gurdie for the murder of a tramp who lived in the woods near the village of Upper Marchwood. When Billie's father is also found dead in the same woods some three weeks later, an apparent suicide, Barnaby seriously questions the coincidence. When the post-mortem reveals the second death to also be murder, Barnaby is certain that both murders were committed by the same person.

Season 3, Episode 2: Blue Herrings

Original Air Date: 22 January 2000
A visit to his convalescent aunt prompts Barnaby to investigate a series of suspicious deaths at the nursing home where she is staying.

Season 3, Episode 3: Judgement Day

Original Air Date: 29 January 2000
The residents of Midsomer Mallow fear for their chances in the Perfect Village competition when a local thief and womanizer is brutally killed with a pitchfork.

Season 3, Episode 4: Beyond the Grave

Original Air Date: 5 February 2000
Barnaby and Troy are called in to investigate at the museum in Aspen Tallow when the painting of a local historical figure, Jonathan Lowrie, is slashed. When the museum's curator is subsequently assaulted and Lowrie's direct descendant is murdered, the detectives must unravel another mysterious knot. Barnaby does focus on one important clue, however: a packet of smoked mackerel inadvertently dropped in the cemetery. Meanwhile, they are joined by Nico, Cully's actor boyfriend, who has landed a part in a TV series as a detective sergeant.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Garden of Death

Original Air Date: 10 September 2000
When an arrogant aristocratic family's decision to develop a memorial garden into a commercial tea shop has the villagers up in arms, murders past and present rear their heads.

Season 4, Episode 2: Destroying Angel

Original Air Date: 26 August 2001
After the severed hand of an heir to a scenic rural hotel and pub is found in the woods, the other heirs receive death threats from an unknown source.

Season 4, Episode 3: The Electric Vendetta

Original Air Date: 2 September 2001
The body of a criminal is found in a crop circle, the locals blame Extra-Terrestrail activity for the death. Barnaby is not convinced by the theories. A second criminal is found dead in similar circumstances.

Season 4, Episode 4: Who Killed Cock Robin?

Original Air Date: 9 September 2001
Barnaby and Troy are drawn to Newton Magna where their search for a horse whisperer allegedly struck by a car is complicated by the discovery of a body in the town well.

Season 4, Episode 5: Dark Autumn

Original Air Date: 16 September 2001
The near decapitation of the local postman, whose hyperactive libido also makes him the village lothario, leads to a series of grisly murders involving other promiscuous villagers.

Season 4, Episode 6: Tainted Fruit

Original Air Date: 23 September 2001
When the body of arrogant local beauty Melissa Townsend is discovered by the pool at her manor house, Barnaby and Troy uncover a seedy world of adultery and deceit within the affluent rural community.

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Market for Murder

Original Air Date: 16 June 2002
Called to the village of Midsomer Market to investigate someone's car being set on fire, Barnaby and Troy soon find themselves investigating the murder of Marjorie Empson who is found in her home bludgeoned to death. The focus of their attention is the the Reading Club, a group of five women who meet regularly not to discuss books in fact, but to manage a investment fund they have established. Two of the members were hoping to cash out their investments, but were prevented from doing so by the others. There are several other suspects, all in one way or another connected to the financial and investment world, but when a second member of the book club is killed, the police realize they may need to look for an altogether different motive.

Season 5, Episode 2: A Worm in the Bud

Original Air Date: 23 June 2002
Some of the residents of Midsomer Worthy are trying to prevent James Harrington from turning Setwale Woods into a housing estate. Led by a solicitor, Bernadette Sullivan, and a local farmer, Simon Bartlett, who also happen to be having an affair, they haven't had much success in court. When Bartlett's wife Victoria is found dead in the woods, Barnaby and Troy must first determine is if her murder is related to the planned development or something as yet unknown. The information provided by two inquisitive children, who see the investigation as a fascinating game, proves invaluable in solving the crime.

Season 5, Episode 3: Ring Out Your Dead

Original Air Date: 15 September 2002
In the village of Midsomer Wellow, someone is killing off the bell ringers of the parish church, in the week before a big bell-ringing competition. One young woman on the team is even shot dead in the churchyard on her wedding day.

Season 5, Episode 4: Murder on St. Malley's Day

Original Air Date: 22 September 2002
The Devington school has a long history of educating the privileged members of society and many have gone on to illustrious careers, such as in the Diplomatic Service. The Talbot family in particular has a long association with the school with three generations having attended. When Daniel Talbot is killed during the St. Malley's Day race, the same day his elderly grandfather dies of natural causes, Barnaby and Troy investigate. They find ongoing feuds between the school and villagers, a conspiracy theorist who thinks the school is the center of criminal activity, students who are having drinking parties at the local pub and the ongoing affairs of the school's secretive Pudding Club. The discovery of a long-held school secret leads to the discovery of the murderer.

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: A Talent for Life

Original Air Date: 3 January 2003
Something is fishy about the clubbing deaths of two local residents.

Season 6, Episode 2: Death and Dreams

Original Air Date: 10 January 2003
The investigation into an elaborate suicide leads Barnaby to suspect the dead man may have had help pulling the trigger.

Season 6, Episode 3: Painted in Blood

Original Air Date: 17 January 2003
Barnaby's wife, Joyce, finds a dead body on the Midsomer Florey village green while taking part in a watercolour painting class, and she recognizes it as the elderly Miss Fairfax.

Season 6, Episode 4: A Tale of Two Hamlets

Original Air Date: 24 January 2003
The villages of Upper and Lower Warden have been feuding since the days of Cromwell and the Civil War, but now the feud has taken a deadly turn. Larry Smith, the star of a horror film titled The House of Satan, based on events centuries ago, is murdered. Smith is the son of the preeminent local family, the Smythe-Websters. His father is the local vicar, his uncle is the lord of the manor and another uncle is the producer of the movie. Some residents of Lower Warden object to the fact that an important piece of local history has been turned into a cheap horror film. Is this enough to kill or is it that there are dark secrets that offer a more serious explanation? When a second member of the Smythe-Websters is killed, Barnaby believes in the latter and looks into the family history to find the solution.

Season 6, Episode 5: Birds of Prey

Original Air Date: 31 January 2003
The police investigate the apparent suicide of Julian Shepherd who drowned after driving his car into a nearby river. Shepherd along with several other local residents had invested money in Charles Edmonton's latest invention, a fuel-less transportation system. Edmonton, despite his advanced years, instilled a good deal of confidence in his investors but Shepherd was facing severe financial difficulties and urgently needed his investment to be returned. Troy meanwhile finds himself working with the comely PC Sarah Pearce who, as a wildlife liaison officer, is investigating the illegal sales of birds of prey and their eggs. The two cases come together when a birds' egg collector is found dead after a visit to the Edmonton estate. As the number of dead bodies begins to climb, Barnaby realizes that there is something far more sinister at play.

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Season 7

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Season 7, Episode 1: The Green Man

Original Air Date: 2 November 2003
Barnaby and Troy tackle two separate cases as Troy prepares to leave Midsomer after his promotion to DI.

Season 7, Episode 2: Bad Tidings

Original Air Date: 4 January 2004
Barnaby's new Sergeant arrives on the day after the murder of a local shrew occurs, and he is immediately put to work.

Season 7, Episode 3: The Fisher King

Original Air Date: 11 January 2004
Long-suppressed family secrets, stolen ancient artifacts, and a thirty year old death at a Celtic burial site result in a series of murders in present day Midsomer.

Season 7, Episode 4: Sins of Commission

Original Air Date: 18 January 2004
When Midsomer hosts its 12th Annual Literary Festival, an author is found with his neck broken. More writers will die before the winner of the competition is announced.

Season 7, Episode 5: The Maid in Splendour

Original Air Date: 25 January 2004
DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Dan Scott investigate the shotgun murder of Jamie Cruikshank, a barman at the Maid in Splendour, a pub in the village of Midsomer Worthy. The pub is now owned by Stephen Bannerman, a much disliked local property developer who has his own plans for the pub. Bannerman's father Michael, the original owner, didn't agree with his son's plans to turn the pub into a high end restaurant nor of his affair with Bella Monday, the daughter of his lifelong friend Audrey. When Stephen is subsequently killed, also by shotgun, Barnaby begins to wonder if Cruikshank's murder may have resulted from a case of mistaken identity.

Season 7, Episode 6: The Straw Woman

Original Air Date: 29 February 2004
When the curate of the local church in Midsomer Parva is burned alive in the effigy of the straw woman, DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Dan Scott find themselves investigating what must be a murder. Many of the villagers lay the blame on Alan Clifford who has made his fortune in the sex industry and has moved into the local manor house. There were others in the village however that objected to what they saw as a pagan festival. When the vicar is also killed - he too is burned to death in what some believe is the result of spontaneous combustion - the police have difficulty keeping some of the villagers from taking justice into their own hands. As the death toll keep mounting, Barnaby realizes that the solution is to be found in old parish records.

Season 7, Episode 7: Ghosts of Christmas Past

Original Air Date: 25 December 2004
Exactly nine years after Ferdy Villers killed himself, his entire family reunite for Christams unaware that someone is out for revenge.

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Season 8

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Season 8, Episode 1: Things That Go Bump in the Night

Original Air Date: 10 October 2004
Undertaker Patrick Pennyman is found dead with his wrists slashed and suspicion turns towards a spiritualist church.

Season 8, Episode 2: Dead in the Water

Original Air Date: 17 October 2004
During a regatta, the body of Rowing Club chairman Guy Sweetman is found bludgeoned and drowned. Bachelor Sweetman was prolifically promiscuous and jealousy would seem to be the motive.

Season 8, Episode 3: Orchis Fatalis

Original Air Date: 9 January 2005
Barnaby and Scott follow a trail of dead people involved in the collecting of rare orchids.

Season 8, Episode 4: Bantling Boy

Original Air Date: 16 January 2005
Barnaby and Scott enter the world of horse racing when the trainer of thoroughbred Bantling Boy is battered to death. Bruce Hartley was an alcoholic who had vowed to expose the reason why his father bequeathed the horse to four Midsomer villagers. The other members of the syndicate come under suspicion, but the killing continues - then Bantling Boy falls ill. The detectives must unravel secrets hidden at the aristocratic Bantling Hall to find the killer.

Season 8, Episode 5: Second Sight

Original Air Date: 23 January 2005
Barnaby and Scott investigate a death in Midsomer Mere, where villagers seem to have the ability to predict future events. John Ransom's head was covered in scorch marks, the result of his brother Max's research into second sight. Is his death due to a pub brawl with his brother-in-law Ben Kirby over plans for a baptism, or is he a casualty of the bizarre experiments? In the battle between faith and science, even Barnaby thinks he has seen a man somewhere before. It's time to delve into the village's history for clues.

Season 8, Episode 6: Hidden Depths

Original Air Date: 13 March 2005
Troubled solicitor Nick Turner falls from the roof of his home, is this suicide disguised as murder?

Season 8, Episode 7: Sauce for the Goose

Original Air Date: 3 April 2005
When a corporate giant tries to acquire a small but respected relish factory owned and run by a dysfunctional family, a naked body is found in the warehouse.

Season 8, Episode 8: Midsomer Rhapsody

Original Air Date: 2 October 2005
Deaths follow the discovery of a valuable musical manuscript sold cheaply at an auction.

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Season 9

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Season 9, Episode 1: The House in the Woods

Original Air Date: 9 October 2005
A secluded house, deserted for years, is at the center of a number of deaths.

Season 9, Episode 2: Dead Letters

Original Air Date: 26 February 2006
Barnaby and Jones investigate a series of murders linked to the death of a beauty queen which occurred several years previously.

Season 9, Episode 3: Vixen's Run

Original Air Date: 5 March 2006
Sir Freddy Butler collapses during a speech. The PM suggests the death is due to natural causes, however Barnaby is not convinced. Sir Freddy's will is stolen and his lawyer's house is burned down in an arson attack.

Season 9, Episode 4: Down Among the Dead Men

Original Air Date: 12 March 2006
Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.

Season 9, Episode 5: Four Funerals and a Wedding

Original Air Date: 12 June 2006
A battle of the sexes which has raged in Broughton since the First World War comes to a head when aging feminist Mildred Danvers is found dead after returning to her childhood home. As Barnaby investigates, the misogynist vicar Rev Gant is shot through the head during a humiliating donkey race at the village fayre. Is the killer on the side of the men or women - or do tragedies in Broughton's past hold the answer?

Season 9, Episode 6: Country Matters

Original Air Date: 19 June 2006
Plans to build a supermarket lead to a man being stabbed to death.

Season 9, Episode 7: Death in Chorus

Original Air Date: 26 June 2006
A choir member is murdered in the run-up to a competition, the rest of the choir members, including Joyce Barnaby, live in fear. A bird watcher is also murdered, DCI Barnaby and DC Jones try to find the connection and prevent further deaths.

Season 9, Episode 8: Last Year's Model

Original Air Date: 3 July 2006
Barnaby begins to think the damning evidence he helped provide to convict a murderess wasn't exactly as watertight as it first looked.

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Season 10

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Season 10, Episode 1: Dance with the Dead

Original Air Date: 12 November 2006
When the body of a young man is found in a World War Two Humber full of exhaust fumes it looks like suicide. But Simon Bright was not alone - and he was hit on the head before he died. Where is his girlfriend, newcomer Laura Sharp? And what is her hold on the people of Morton Fendle, a village still overshadowed by the gloomy specter of the Second World War?

Season 10, Episode 2: The Animal Within

Original Air Date: 19 January 2007
When Faith Alexander arrives in Midsomer Deverell to meet her long-lost uncle Rex Masters, she is surprised to find he has disappeared and told everyone she was killed in a plane crash. Then Rex's body is found in the weir, and his friends produce wills, each claiming to inherit his fortune. But what is the truth about Rex's life of mischief-making, and who wanted him dead?

Season 10, Episode 3: King's Crystal

Original Air Date: 26 January 2007
King's Crystal, a glassware factory in Midsomer Magna, faces ruin following the death of its co-owner Alan King. His widow, Hilary, angers her son Ian by marrying Alan's brother Charles, and rumours circulate that Charles and accountant Peter Baxter embezzled funds. When Peter is stabbed to death with a Masonic dagger and Ian starts behaving strangely after finding his father's sketchbook, Barnaby is called. But the answer lies in Cully's new production.

Season 10, Episode 4: The Axeman Cometh

Original Air Date: 2 February 2007
Badger's Drift plays host to the Midsomer Rock Festival - with murderous consequences.

Season 10, Episode 5: Death and Dust

Original Air Date: 8 May 2007
Barnaby and Jones are called to investigate a series of murders involving a pair of feuding families.

Season 10, Episode 6: A Picture of Innocence

Original Air Date: 3 June 2007
Rivalry breaks out between film and digital camera users.

Season 10, Episode 7: They Seek Him Here

Original Air Date: 21 August 2007
A film about the French Revolution is made in Midsomer. People lose their head in the guillotine, and it's not a film trick.

Season 10, Episode 8: Death in a Chocolate Box

Original Air Date: 28 August 2007

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Season 11

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Season 11, Episode 1: Shot at Dawn

Original Air Date: 1 January 2008
A 90 years long feud between two families, the Hicks and the Hammonds, appears to have escalated to murder.

Season 11, Episode 2: Blood Wedding

Original Air Date: 24 June 2008
A wedding involving one of Midsomer's oldest and wealthiest families triggers a number of murders.

Season 11, Episode 3: Left for Dead

Original Air Date: 8 July 2008

Season 11, Episode 4: Midsomer Life

Original Air Date: 13 July 2008

Season 11, Episode 5: The Magician's Nephew

Original Air Date: 27 July 2008

Season 11, Episode 6: Days of Misrule

Original Air Date: 2008

Season 11, Episode 7: Talking to the Dead

Original Air Date: 2009

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