Midsomer Murders

regulars:
• John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby
• Daniel Casey as Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy [ Episodes 1 - 29]
• John Hopkins as Detective Sergeant Dan Scott [ Episodes 30 - 43 ]
• Jason Hughes as Detective Constable Ben Jones [ Episodes 44 - ]
recurring characters:

• Jane Wymark as Joyce Barnaby
• Laura Howard as Cully Barnaby
• Barry Jackson as Dr George Bullard
• Neil Conrich as PC Angel
production credits:

• Brian True-May, producer
• Betty Willingale, producer
• Peter Cregeen, producer [ Episode 10 ]
• Ian Strachan, line producer, and co-producer [ Episode 24 ]
• Delia Fine, executive producer for A&E
• Pat Greenland, associate producer

Pilot 1997

1. "The Killings at Badger's Drift"
   gs: Renée Asherson [ Emily Simpson ], Rosalie Crutchley [ Lucy Bellringer ], Jonathan Firth [ Michael Lacey ], Emily Mortimer [ Katherine Lacey ], Julian Glover [ Henry Trace ], Selina Cadell [ Phyllis Cadell ], Christopher Villiers [ David Whitley ], Richard Cant [ Dennis Rainbird ], Elizabeth Spriggs [ Iris Rainbird ], Bill Wallis [ Dr Trevor Lessiter ], Diana Hardcastle [ Barbara Lessiter ], Jessica Stevenson [ Judith Lessiter ], Barbara Young [ Anna Quine ], Avril Elgar [ Mary Sharp ], Cory Pulman [ Terry Bazely ], Simon Godwin [ Giovanni ], Paul Putner [ Policeman ], Peter Jordan [ Counseller 1 ], Marlene Sidaway [ Counseller 2 ], Jonathan Oliver [ Counseller 3 ], Nigel Asbridge [ Vicar ]
   rc: PC Angel (Duty police officer)
   The peace of the seemingly idyllic village of Badger's Drift is shattered by the inexplicable murder of an old lady, Emily Simpson, found dead in her cottage after witnessing something unsettling in the woods. Her old friend, Lucy Bellringer, is convinced that Emily's death was not from natural causes. She persuades DCI Barnaby & DS Troy of Causton CID to look into the matter and then hunt down the killer. Their investigation uncovers a web of sinister events, some long buried in the past.
   b: 23 Mar 97 w: Anthony Horowitz s: Caroline Graham d: Jeremy Silberston

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   1st Series 1998

2. "Written in Blood"
   gs: Jane Booker [ Laura Hutton ], Joanna David [ Amy Lyddiard ], Anna Massey [ Honoria Lyddiard ], Judith Scott [ Sue Clapper ], John Shrapnel [ Max Jennings ], Una Stubbs [ Selina Jennings ], Robert Swann [ Gerald Hadleigh ], David Troughton [ Brian Clapper ], Annoushka Le Gallois [ Barbara Neale ], Marlene Sidaway [ Mrs Bundy ], Nancy Lodder [ Edie Carter ], Daniel Newman [ Tom Carter ], Marcus Rogers [ Denzel ], Zoot Lynam [ Collar ], Mark Bagnall [ Boreham ], John Bardon [ Mr Belgrove ], Jacqueline Morgan [ Miss Panter ], Timothy Bateson [ James Jocelyne ], Jay Barrymore [ Liam ], Murray Ewan [ Liam's father ], Paul Putner [ Policeman 2 ], David Maybrick [ Policeman 3 ], Brian Parr [ Mr Baker ], Bryan Burdon [ Barman ]
   rc: PC Angel
   Gerald Hadleigh, the secretary of the writers circle in the quiet village of Midsomer Worthy, was never in favor of invitating the best-selling novelist Max Jennings to attend one of their meetings. When Hadleigh is found dead the following morning, brutally battered to death, the other members of the circle wish they had heeded his reluctance. Barnaby & Troy discover that Hadleigh was a man of mystery, with no National Insurance number, no relatives and no marriage certficate to match the wedding photo on display in his house. When another body is found, they have a double murder on their hands.
   b: 22 Mar 98 w: Anthony Horowitz s: Caroline Graham d: Jeremy Silberston

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3. "Death of a Hollow Man"
   gs: Sarah Badel [ Rosa Carmichael ], Janine Duvitski [ Deirdre Tibbs ], Bernard Hepton [ Harold Winstanley ], Geoffrey Hutchings [ Colin Smy ], Richard Huw [ Tim Young ], Nicholas Le Prevost [ Esslyn Carmichael ], Angela Pleasence [ Doris Winstanley ], Ed Waters [ Nicholas, 'Nico', Bentley ], Nick Woodeson [ Avery Phillips ], Denyse Alexander [ Agnes Gray ], Ian Fitzgibbon [ David Smy ], Debra Stephenson [ Kitty Carmichael ], Vivienne Moore [ Jenny Evers ], John Cater [ Mr Tibbs ], Hilary Crane [ Mrs Maddox ], Robert McIntosh [ Charles Makepeace ], Patricia Heneghan [ Peggy Marshall ], Michael Cronin [ Emperor Joseph ], Elizabeth Tyrrell [ Elderly lady ], Megan Fisher [ WPC Hitchens ], Eunice Roberts [ TV announcer ], Sonya Walger [ Becky Smith ], Alan Leith [ Mr Green ], Iain Fraser [ Constable ], Catherine Bott [ Solo voice ]
   rc: PC Angel
   In the village of Ferne Basset, an elderly resident is found drowned after a violent attack. Meanwhile, at the Corn Exchange in Causton, a local amateur dramatic production of Amadeus reveals a backstage world of intrigue, passion & gossip - and a whole new meaning to the term “corpsing” when there is a second murder.
   b: 29 Mar 98 w: Caroline Graham s: Caroline Graham d: Jeremy Silberston

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4. "Faithful unto Death"
   gs: Tessa Peake-Jones [ Sarah Lawton ], Roger Allam [ Alan Hollingsworth ], Michele Dotrice [ Felicity Buckley ], Paul Brooke [ Nigel Anderson ], Rosalind Ayres [ Doreen Anderson ], Eleanor Summerfield [ Elfrida Molfrey ], Peter Jones [ Bunny Dawlish ], Paul Chapman [ Reg Buckley ], Sophie Stanton [ Brenda Buckley ], Mark Bazeley [ Gary Patterson ], Alwyne Taylor [ Dr Catherine Bullard ], Andrew Powell [ Vince Perry ], David Daker [ Harry Vellacott ], Tom Mullion [ Freddy ], Ann Queensberry [ Hermione ], Neville Phillips [ Richard ], Lesley Vickerage [ Simone Hollingsworth ]
   An investigation into the finances of a village community crafts center takes a sinister turn when the wife of the center's owner disappears and a neighbor is murdered.
   b: 22 Apr 98 w: Douglas Watkinson s: Caroline Graham d: Baz Taylor

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5. "Death in Disguise"
   gs: Miles Anderson [ Guy Gamelin ], Diane Bull [ Heather Beavers ], Judy Cornwell [ May Cuttle ], Colin Farrell [ Ken Beavers ], Michael Feast [ Ian Craigie ], Stephen Moyer [ Christopher Wainwright ], Susan Tracy [ Felicity Gamelin ], Charles Kay [ Arno Gibbs ], Robert Pickavance [ William Carter ], Daniel Hart [ Tim Riley ], Tilly Blackwood [ Trixie Channing ], Anna Bolt [ Suhami/Sylvie Gamelin ], Mary Healey [ Mrs Cook ], Graham Turner [ Raymond Jennings ], Dolly Wells [ Ava Rokeby ], Ashley Artus [ Terry Lightfoot ], Caroline Lintott [ Researcher ], Jon Glover [ TV interviewer ], Geoffrey Beevers [ Newscaster ], Siobhan O'Carroll [ Waitress ]
   rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
   One of the founders of a new-age commune, The Lodge of the Golden Wind Horse, dies in a fall down the stairs, apparently accidentally. But when the other founder is mysteriously murdered in front of a roomful of people, the first death looks like it may have been deliberate too.
   b: 6 May 98 w: Douglas Watkinson s: Caroline Graham d: Baz Taylor

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6. "Death's Shadow"
   gs: Richard Briers [ Rev Stephen Wentworth ], Anna Cropper [ Claire Williams ], Nick Dunning [ Ian Eastman ], Jessica Turner [ Barbara Eastman ], Dominic Jephcott [ Richard Bayly ], Judy Parfitt [ Angela Wentworth ], Vivian Pickles [ Agnes Sampson ], Mossie Smith [ Dr Barbara Henson ], Christopher Villiers [ David Whitley ], Julian Wadham [ Simon Fletcher ], Gordon Gostelow [ Reginald Williams ], Terence Corrigan [ Charles Jennings ], Nick Robinson [ Felix Bryce ], Eileen Davies [ Olive Beauvoisin ], Timothy Bateson [ James Jocelyne ], Marlene Sidaway [ Mrs Bundy ]
   rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard, PC Angel
   A sucessful theatrical director, Simon Fletcher, arrives in the village of Badgers Drift, his head filled with disturbing childhood memories. Then, soon after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, a property developer in the village is savagely murdered with an Indian sword belonging to a vicar. Barnaby & Troy investgate the crime, trying to discover if it was motivated by ill-feeling in the village about his plans for property development or some longer buried secrets.
   b: 20 Jan 99 w: Anthony Horowitz s: Caroline Graham d: Jeremy Silberston

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7. "Strangler's Wood"
   gs: Kathleen Byron [ Dorothea Pike ], Peter Eyre [ Leonard Pike ], Frank Windsor [ George Meakham ], Anne Stallybrass [ Emily Meakham ], Nick Farrell [ John Merrill ], Phyllis Logan [ Kate Merrill ], Jeremy Clyde [ Bill Mitchell ], Trudie Styler [ Liz Frances ], Tom Eilenberg [ David Merrill ], Debbie Chazen [ Anne Santarosa ], Betti Romani [ Carla Constanza ], Toby Jones [ Dan Peterson (pathologist) ], Cyril Shaps [ Sebastian Renwick ], Katy Brittain [ Gloria Bradley ], Frankie Carson [ Nick ], Anthony Howes [ Milkman ], Elizabeth Tyrrell [ Ticket seller ], Tara Hugo [ Ad woman ], George Lane Cooper [ Brazilian bandit ], Rebecca Charles [ Pathology laboratory assistant ]
   rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, PC Angel
   The body of a young Brazilian woman is found strangled with a tie in a wood where three similar murders occurred several years previously. Barnaby & Troy visit George Meakham, the now-retired police officer who was in charge of the investigation of the earlier crimes, and who has since become obsessed with them. The trail leads them to a local cigarette and tobacco company and two of its employees in particular. The Portuguese au-pair of one of them is then murdered. Barnaby manages to solve both the new murders and the old ones, though not before the murder of another person connected with it all.
   b: 3 Feb 99 w: Anthony Horowitz d: Jeremy Silberston

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8. "Dead Man's Eleven"
   gs: Robert Hardy [ Robert Cavendish ], Anthony Calf [ Stephen Cavendish ], Annabelle Apsion [ Jane Cavendish ], Felicity Dean [ Tara Cavendish ], Penelope Beaumont [ Mrs Wilson ], Duncan Preston [ Colin Cooper ], Imelda Staunton [ Christina Cooper ], Terence Rigby [ Ian Fraser ], Delia Lindsay [ Zelda Fraser ], Zoë Hart [ Patricia Smith ], Terence Corrigan [ Charles Jennings ], Toby Jones [ Dan Peterson (pathologist) ], Hilda Braid [ Doreen Beavis ], Susan Field [ Emily Beavis ], Eileen Davies [ Olive Beauvoisin ], Joss Gower [ Matthew Draper ], Ella Jones [ Young Trish ], Amanda Walker [ Edwina the rambler ]
   rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby
   DCI Barnaby's plans to move to the village of Fletcher's Cross are disrupted when the wife of a landowner is bludgeoned to death in the village of Midsomer Worthy with a cricket bat while out walking her dog. The bat belongs to the landowner's son, but has no fingerprints on it. Barnaby & Troy gradually find themselves caught up in a succession of sinister murders.
   b: 12 Sep 99 w: Anthony Horowitz d: Jeremy Silberston

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9. "Blood Will Out"
   gs: Rowena Cooper [ Tilly Dinsdale ], John Duttine [ Will Saxby ], Elizabeth Garvie [ Muriel Saxby ], Tricia George [ Jenny Bridges ], Paul Jesson [ Hector Bridges ], Phyllida Law [ Felicity Dinsdale ], Kevin McNally [ Orville Trudway ], Honeysuckle Weeks [ Fleur Bridges ], Ian Thompson [ Peter Fairfax ], Daniel Betts [ Steffan Miller ], Jerome Willis [ John Smith ], Nick Moran [ Michael Smith ], Elizabeth Thomas [ Rachel Smith ], David Allister [ Major Henry Tomkinson ], Francis Lee [ Shop assistant ]
   rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
   When an unpleasant and unpopular local magistrate, Hector Bridges, is found shot dead in his house, investigations uncover that his wife was married to one of their neighbours, Will Saxby, and Saxby's current wife used to be Mrs Bridges, his daughter, Fleur, is really Saxby's daughter, and a new-age traveller, Orville Trudway, who has recently moved into the village was an old army comrade with a grude against him. Things are complicated still further by the presence of a group of travelers on the village common, who proceed to hold a horse-race.
   b: 19 Sep 99 w: Douglas Watkinson d: Moira Armstrong

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10. "Death of a Stranger"
    gs: Richard Johnson [ James Fitzroy ], Jennifer Hilary [ Sarah Fitzroy ], Dominic Mafham [ Grahame Tranter ], Diane Fletcher [ Marcia Tranter ], Sarah Winman [ Kate Tranter ], James Bolam [ Ronald Pringle ], Janet Dale [ Betty Pringle ], Jeanne Hepple [ Linda Wagstaff ], Peter Bayliss [ Tramp ], Jane Wood [ Cathy Gurdie ], Toby Jones [ Dan Peterson (pathologist) ], Simon McBurney [ Henry Carstairs ], Fred Ridgeway [ Ben Gurdie ], Tom Smith [ Billy Gurdie ], Jonie Broom [ Dave Hedges ], Patricia Valentine [ Sandra ], Arlene Cockburn [ Charlotte ], David Maybrick [ Policeman ], Shenagh Govan [ Matron ], Frank Mills [ Fred Rodale ], Eve Pearce [ Lady Bracknell ], Grant Gillespie [ Jack Worthing ], Simon Greiff [ Director ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby
    DCI Barnaby returns from a holiday in France to discover an unidentified tramp has been beaten to death in the woods near the village of Marshwood. While he was away, Supt Ronald Pringle, just before his retirement, quickly arrested a local young man. But Barnaby suspects that he is innocent, which is only reinforced when there is an apparent suicide at the same spot, and tries to uncover the connection before there can be further a further murder.
    b: 31 Dec 99 w: Douglas Livingstone d: Peter Cregeen

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11. "Blue Herrings"
    gs: Phyllis Calvert [ Alice Bly ], Nigel Davenport [ William Smithers ], Geoffrey Bayldon [ Arthur Prewitt ], Mary Wimbush [ Marjorie 'George' Watson ], Gudrun Ure [ Celia Armstrong ], Angela Down [ Pru Bennett ], Colin Tiernay [ Mungo Mortimer ], Clive Wood [ Dr Clive Warnford ], Deborah Findlay [ Hilary Richards ], Carolyn Pickles [ Sister Lovelace ], Miranda Kingsley [ Nurse Bartlett ], Mali Harries [ Nurse O'Casey ], Sam Beazley [ Cyril Toft ], Matyelok Gibbs [ Muriel Harrap ], Georgine Anderson [ Madge Fielding ], Daphne Goddard [ Miss Laybourne ], Arthur Cox [ Landlord ], Cyril Shaps [ Jeweller ], Caroline John [ Florist ], Sarah Ball [ Shop assistant ], Katherine Tozer [ Hotel receptionist ], David Killick [ Waiter ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby
    With a week off work to redecorate part of his house, DCI Barnaby also visits his elderly aunt, Alice Bly, who is convalescing in the Lawnside residential nursing home for the elderly in Aspern Tallow, and she prompts him to investigate a series of suspicious deaths there, after people have changed their wills.
    b: 22 Jan 00 w: Hugh Whitemore d: Peter Smith

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12. "Judgement Day"
    gs: Timothy West [ Marcus Devere ], Hannah Gordon [ Bella Devere ], Richard Hope [ Gordon Brierly ], Marsha Fitzalan [ Laura Brierly ], Maggie Steed [ Rosemary Furman ], Nickolas Grace [ Frank Mannion ], Josephine Tewson [ Samantha Johnstone ], Barbara Jefford [ Barbara Drinkwater ], Moray Watson [ Edward Allardice ], Shelagh Fraser [ Jane Rochelle ], Orlando Bloom [ Peter Drinkwater ], Chloe Tucker [ Caroline Devere ], Bill Thomas [ Ray Dorset ], Tobias Menzies [ Jack Dorset ], Toby Jones [ Dan Peterson (pathologist) ], Caroline Faber [ Ruth Weston ], Richard Trinder [ Michael Weston ], Emily Canfor-Dumas [ Annabel Weston ], Marlene Sidaway [ Mrs Foster ], Robert Goodale [ Dr Sellers ], Malcolm Rennie [ Alderman ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby
    The residents of the village of Midsomer Mallow fear for their chances of winning the Perfect Village competition when a local thief and womaniser is brutally killed with a pitchfork. Worse still, there is no shortage of suspects. And then two of the judges are murdered.
    b: 29 Jan 00 w: Anthony Horowitz d: Jeremy Silberston

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13. "Beyond the Grave"
    gs: Patricia Brake [ Anne Quarritch ], Cheryl Campbell [ Sandra McKillop ], James Laurenson [ James Tate ], Sylvestra Le Touzel [ Linda Marquis ], David Robb [ Charles McKillop ], Prunella Scales [ Eleanor Bunsall ], Charles Simon [ Marcus Lowrie ], Malcolm Sinclair [ Alan Bradford ], Roger Sloman [ Ralph Bailey ], Ed Waters [ Nicholas, 'Nico', Bentley ], Alwyne Taylor [ Dr Catherine Bullard ], Chris Stanton [ Vicar ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard, PC Angel
    The slashing of a 17th-century painting in Aspern Tallow museum appears to herald the start of a series of ghostly manifestations by the ghost of Jonathan Lowrie. Cully's boyfriend Nico has just been given a part in a soap opera as a Detective Sergeant, and asks DCI Barnaby if he can shadow DS Troy to learn more about how to play the role.
    b: 5 Feb 00 w: Douglas Watkinson d: Moira Armstrong

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14. "Garden of Death"
    gs: Sarah Alexander [ Felicity Inkpen-Thomas ], Dean Batchelor [ Michael ], Anthony Bate [ Augustus Deverell ], Raymond Bowers [ Desmond Cox ], Anna Calder-Marshall [ Susan Milland ], Tom Chadbon [ Charles King ], Simon Chandler [ Richard Deverell ], Elaine Donnelly [ Elaine ], Kate Duchene [ Jane Bennett ], Neil Dudgeon [ Daniel Bolt ], Victoria Hamilton [ Hilary Inkpen-Thomas ], Shirley King [ Marie Widger ], Belinda Lang [ Elspeth Inkpen-Thomas ], Valerie Minifie [ Cynthia ], Neville Phillips [ Archie Craddock ], David Ross [ Rodney Widger ], Katherine Stark [ Mary ], Frederick Treves [ Gerald Bennett ], Michael Tucek [ Dean ], Margaret Tyzack [ Naomi Inkpen ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    In the village of Midsomer Deverell, the proposal of the Inkpen-Thomas family, who have regained the ownership of their ancestral home, Inkpen Manor, to turn the village Memorial Garden in their grounds into a tea-room, have upset the community. One family is particularly incensed: the Bennetts, who owned the manor for a few years and founded the Memorial Garden. One of the young Inkpens is then found murdered in the Memorial Garden, with a scrap of paper beside her. Barnarby & Troy's suspicions are aroused further when they learn that Mrs Bennett disappeared mysteriously some years before.
    b: 10 Sep 00 w: Christopher Russell d: Peter Smith

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15. "Destroying Angel"
    gs: Philip Bowen [ Gregory Chambers ], Samantha Bond [ Suzanna Chambers ], Robert Lang [ Woody Pope ], Rosemary Leach [ Evelyn Pope ], Tom Ward [ Tristan Goodfellow ], Abigail McKern [ Julia Gooders ], Jonathan Coy [ Kenneth Gooders ], Adie Allen [ Annie Tyson ], Tony Haygarth [ Matthew Tyson ], Madeleine Worrall [ Clarice Opperman ], Roger Frost [ Colin Slater ], Edward Jewesbury [ Karl Wainwright ], Glen Berry [ Ben ], Niamh Daly [ Denise Daly ], Caroline Holdaway [ Florence ], Gordon Langford-Rowe [ Peter ], Maggie McCarthy [ Hilda ], Richard Syms [ Mr Bream ], Julia West [ Mrs Bream ], Nigel Betts [ Sergeant ], Lisa Ellis [ Junior cook ], Ben MacLeod [ Boy ], Jon Rake [ Builder ], Shuna Snow [ Nurse ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    Karl Wainwright, the owner of Easterly Grange Hotel has recently died and left the establishment to four people. One of them is also the local Punch & Judy man, who goes missing shortly afterwards. When his severed hand is discovered in a nearby wood, a murder enquiry is launched. There is soon a surfeit of deaths for Barnaby & Troy to investigate.
    b: 26 Aug 01 w: David Hoskins d: David Tucker

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16. "The Electric Vendetta"
    gs: Kenneth Colley [ Lloyd Kirby ], Amanda Mealing [ Sally Boulter ], John Woodvine [ Sir Harry Chatwyn ], Alison Fiske [ Lady Beatrice Chatwyn ], Alec McCowen [ Sir Christian Aubrey ], Ursula Howells [ Lady Isabel Aubrey ], Daisy Bates [ Lucy Ramsey ], Patrick Baladi [ Steve Ramsey ], Michael Bertenshaw [ Michael Rycroft ], Donald Gee [ Rev Ellis ], Nigel Harrison [ Dave Ripert ], Merelina Kendall [ Alice Leonard ], Charmian May [ Marian Leonard ], Eleanor Moriarty [ Lynn ], Peter Penry-Jones [ Peter Rhodes, Marquis of Ross ], Laurence Penry-Jones [ Young Peter Rhodes ], Simon Quarterman [ Young Christian Aubrey ], Amy Darcy [ Young Isabel ], Graham Bill [ Chauffeur ], Jonie Broom [ Dave Hedges ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby
    A series of murders starts with the discovery of the naked body of a man in the center of a mysterious crop circle in a field owned by Sir Harry Chatwyn in the village of Midsomer Parva. Rumours abound in the village that it could be the work of some alien force, when extra-terrestrial expert Lloyd Kirby interests himself in events. But Barnaby has other ideas, particularly when another body is found under very similar circumstances.
    b: 2 Sep 01 w: Terry Hodgkinson d: Peter Smith

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17. "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
    gs: Larry Lamb [ Melvyn Stockard ], Ian McNeice [ Dr Oliver Burgess ], Jane Lapotaire [ Mary Mohan ], Noah Huntley [ Noel Wooliscroft ], Patrick Drury [ Robin Wooliscroft ], Mick Ford [ Frank Lightbourne ], Jonathan Hackett [ Rev Thorne ], Yolanda Vazquez [ Francesca Ward ], Sean McGinley [ Sean O'Connell ], Polly Hemingway [ Bubbles Stockard ], George Innes [ Jackie Marsh ], Gabrielle Lloyd [ Valerie Megson ], Polly Maberly [ Julie Stockard ], Linda Marlowe [ Bridget Wooliscroft ], Robert Oates [ Bill Pitman ], Toni Palmer [ Lily Marsh ], Mel Raido [ Chris Megson ], Malcolm Storry [ Joe Megson ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    A pub owner calls on Barnaby when the local doctor, Oliver Burgess, thinks he may have hit someone while driving home, and an Irish stranger apparently vanishes at the same time. Barnaby identifies the stranger as Sean O'Connell, and then meets an old criminal acquaintance Melvyn Stockard, who is now the squire of Newton Magna. Stockard claims to be a reformed man, but he disapproves of his daughter's impending marriage, and one of the wedding party is then found dead in a local well.
    b: 9 Sep 01 w: Jeremy Paul d: David Tucker

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18. "Dark Autumn"
    gs: Celia Imrie [ Louise August ], Alan Howard [ Owen August ], Gillian Kearney [ WPC Jay Nash ], Nicky Henson [ Simon Reason ], Kim Thomson [ Janet Reason ], Robert Glenister [ John Field ], Philip Whitchurch [ Ade Jessell ], Fleur Bennett [ Debbie Shortlands ], Adam Blackwood [ Keith Shortlands ], Marian McLoughlin [ Barbara Judd ], Prue Clarke [ Mary Yeatman ], Del Henney [ Mike Yeatman ], Morris Perry [ Ben Barrow ], Kate Maberly [ Holly Reid ], Neville Phillips [ Priest ], Rachel Woolrich [ Tammie ], Peter Whitear [ Dog trainer ], Rupert Walz [ Dave Cutler ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    In the village of Goodman's Land, postman Dave Cutler is murdered while on an early morning round. With the help of local community WPC Jay Nash, Barnaby & Troy's investigations reveal that he was the local Romeo, having seduced a number of women in the locality, but would any of the jealous husbands or jilted lovers have wanted to murder him? Then another body is found. Troy is happy to stay as long as possible, as the longer it takes to solve the murders, the more time he has to pursue his growing friendship with Nash.
    b: 16 Sep 01 w: Peter J Hammond d: Jeremy Silberston

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19. "Tainted Fruit"
    gs: Lucy Punch [ Melissa Townsend ], Terence Harvey [ Archie Townsend ], Benjamin Whitrow [ Hugo Balcombe ], Ann Bell [ Cherrie Balcombe ], Eleanor David [ Georgina Canning ], Claire Price [ Sally Rickworth ], Ellie Haddington [ Joan Farley ], Miles Richardson [ Frederick Bentine-Brown ], John McGlynn [ Raif Canning ], Adrian Rawlins [ Adam Keyne ], Sara Mair-Thomas [ Liz Keyne ], Charles Collingwood [ Lord Hislop ], Pamela Miles [ Lady Hislop ], Amanda Walker [ Gwen ], Brian Poyser [ Derek ], Richard Clothier [ Postman ], Terry O'Brien [ Dog owner ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    The beautiful but arrogant and spoilt daughter of the manor of the village of Midsomer Malham, Melissa Townsend, receives death threats. Drugs and syringes are discovered stolen from the local veterinary surgery of Raif & Georgina Canning, and a local district nurse, Sally, is found at the wheel of her crashed car in a confused state. Fearing for Melissa Townsend's life, Barnaby & Troy race to Malham Manor, but it is too late: they find her dead by the swimming pool.
    b: 23 Sep 01 w: David Hoskins d: Peter Smith

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20. "Market for Murder"
    gs: Jesse Birdsall [ Harry Painter ], Serena Gordon [ Ginny Sharp ], Caroline Harker [ Tamsin Proctor ], Barbara Leigh-Hunt [ Marjorie Empson ], Christopher Ravenscroft [ Dr Rupert Bradshaw ], Anton Rodgers [ Lord James Chetwood ], Angela Thorne [ Lady Lavinia Chetwood ], Rupert Vansittart [ Selwyn Proctor ], Dilys Laye [ Vera Hopkins ], Gerda Stevenson [ Sandra Bradshaw ], Eamon Geoghegan [ Barman ], Jay Smith [ Police technician ], Catherine Bott [ Solo voice ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    In the village of Midsomer Market, five local women meet up for their reading club, which is really a cover for an investment club that they want to shield from their husbands. When the leader is found battered to death in her own home, the club's secret activities are exposed, along with many of its members' long-held secrets and desires.
    b: 16 Jun 02 w: Andrew Payne d: Sarah Hellings

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21. "A Worm in the Bud"
    gs: Gillian Barge [ Hannah Harrington ], Rosie Cavaliero [ Denise Fielding ], Wendy Craig [ Victoria Bartlett ], Janie Dee [ Caroline Harrington ], Ian Driver [ Edmund Nelson ], Charlie Hicks [ Sean Fielding ], Ian Hogg [ Jonah Bloxham ], Clarista Hoult [ Julie Fielding ], Emily Joyce [ Bernadette Sullivan ], Adam Kotz [ James Harrington ], Paul Venables [ Simon Bartlett ], Chris Walker [ Sam Fielding ], Jeffrey Wickham [ Judge ], Andy Capie [ Fireman ], Jeremy Peters [ Bus driver ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    When Susan Bartlett's body is discovered in Setwale Wood, local villagers assume she killed herself because she could not have children. However, when it comes to light that her suicide note - in the form of an e-mail - was sent too late, Barnaby & Troy soon finds themselves in the midst of witchcraft, ancient potions, infidelity and land feuds.
    b: 23 Jun 02 w: Michael Russell d: David Tucker

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22. "Ring out Your Dead"
    gs: Gwen Taylor [ Frances Le Bon ], Graham Crowden [ Reggie Barton ], Hugh Bonneville [ Hugh Barton ], Gemma Jones [ Maisie Gooch ], Adrian Scarborough [ Peter Fogden ], Lyndsey Marshal [ Emma Tysoe ], Dugald Bruce-Lockhart [ Greg Tutt ], Jamie de Courcey [ Marcus Steadman ], Seamus Whitty [ Liam Brooker ], Clare Holman [ Sue Tutt ], Carmen du Sautoy [ Rosalind Parr ], Julia Swift [ Angie Blunstone ], Harry Burton [ Dennis Ebbrell ], Caroline Lintott [ Jen Ebbrell ], Steven Pimlott [ Judge ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby
    In Midsomer Wellow, the village church bellringers are being murdered, one by one. The group is led by Peter Fogden, who is ambitious to win the upcoming competition, to make his generation of Fogden's mark on Midsomer Wellow's campanological history. As each is murdered, the killer leaves a line from a nursery rhyme by the body, except that one of the notes has been altered to allude to an long-distant incident in Midsomer Wellow's past. Barnaby & Troy have to solve the riddle of the connection with the past to stop the killer's progress. Meanwhile, Troy's attention is being distracted by a seductive lady of the manor.
    b: 15 Sep 02 w: Christopher Russell d: Sarah Hellings

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23. "Murder on St Malley's Day"
    gs: Desmond Barrit [ Jonathan Eckersley-Hyde ], Peter Wight [ Ludlow ], Jeremy Child [ Anthony Talbot ], Anna Maxwell-Martin [ Arabella Heywood ], Patrick Godfrey [ Dudley Carew ], Thom Fell [ Charley Meynell ], Sam Crane [ Daniel Talbot ], Bob Mason [ Dennis Carter ], Tom Beard [ Martin Fulmer ], Victoria Shalet [ Julia Carter ], Nicholas Audsley [ Marcus Heywood ], Jane How [ Miranda Talbot ], Luke de Woolfson [ Paul Starkey ], Eamon Boland [ Ray Starkey ], Paula Jacobs [ Mrs Bosworth ], Roger Martin [ George Woodard ], Janet Maw [ Sylvia Woodard ], Roger Brierley [ Doctor ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby
    While visiting a sports event at a private boy's school, Devington College in Midsomer Parva, Barnaby witnesses one of the boys collapse and die in front of him, from stab wounds he received on the run through the woods. Barnaby & Troy's investigations encounter an elite Mafia-like sect at the school called the Pudding Club, whose members are very tight-knit about its activities.
    b: 22 Sep 02 w: Andrew Payne d: Peter Smith

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24. "A Talent for Life"
    gs: Honor Blackman [ Isobel Hewitt ], Philip Franks [ Quentin Roka ], Jane Downs [ Dixie Goff ], Richard Durden [ Dr Duncan Goff ], Alison Rose [ Angela Goff ], John Warnaby [ Keith Scholey ], Amanda Root [ Ruth Scholey ], Jonathan Cullen [ Melrose Plunkett ], Suzanne Burden [ Rebecca Plunkett ], Jeff Rawle [ Derrick Seagrove ], Susan Wooldridge [ Margaret Seagrove ], Will Knightley [ Andrew Turner ], James Hazeldine [ Leo Bantock ], Eileen Page [ Beatrice ], June Barrie [ Gwen Dobson ], Robert Putt [ Oyster man ], Peter Cellier [ Peregrine Slade ], Malcolm Raeburn [ Steve ], Ian Peck [ James Tapsell ], Sidney Livingstone [ Barman/Landlord ], Roger Swaine [ Customer ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    In the village of Malham Bridge, Barnaby and Troy have to solve a double murder when a feisty former socialite, Isobel Hewitt, and a local Casanova, Dr Duncan Goff, are found bludgeoned to death together by the nearby fishing river, after Hewitt has been accused of assault by fellow fly-fisher Margaret Seagrove. However, the motives for the murders seem disparate, and there are several people who are suspected of involvement. Then one of the suspects is found dead in his restaurant's walk-in freezer - another murder or suicide, and why?
    b: 3 Jan 03 w: David Hoskins d: Sarah Hellings

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25. "Death and Dreams"
    gs: Isla Blair [ Dr Jane Moore ], Perdita Weeks [ Hannah Moore ], ark Richards [ Guy Moore ], Anna Maguire [ Ettie Moore ], Jan Ravens [ Sarah Wroath ], Phillip Fox [ Gordon Leesmith ], Stuart Bunce [ Tony Parish ], Jonty Stephens [ Jeff Haskin ], Paul Brennan [ Dean Hunniset ], June Watson [ Mary May ], John Branwell [ Mick May ], Jon Rake [ Ron ], Susan Porrett [ Sonia ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    Martin Wroath, a man in the process of divorce, and unliked by anyone, not least because of his habit of not paying his debts, is found in his cottage apparently having committed suicide in an unnecessarily complex manner. Barnaby's suspicions are aroused further when the man is found to have had such a large amount of an anti-depressant in his body that he would have been unconscious at the time. His investigations into the man's background lead him to the nearby Mercy Park cottage hospital, which is run by an old acquaintance, Dr Jane Moore. Then one of its staff is found dead, and before Barnaby & Troy can get to the bottom of what's going on, another person in the village is murdered. Indeed, Barnaby's own life is threatened before he realises the links between the deaths.
    b: 10 Jan 03 w: w: Peter J Hammond d: Peter Smith

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26. "Painted in Blood"
    gs: Leslie Phillips [ Godfrey Teal ], John Sessions [ Barrett Filby ], Denise Black [ Ann Carter ], Barbara Durkin [ Linda Tyrell ], Matthew Marsh [ Tony Carter ], Clive Merrison [ Colin Hawksley ], Dinah Stabb [ Tessa Hawksley ], David Mallinson [ Alan Pinkney ], Andrew Lancel [ Det Const Simon Backley ], Nigel Lindsay [ Det Sgt James Noland ], Anna Northam [ Ruth Fairfax ], Sheila Reid [ Mrs Metcalfe ], Eamon Geoghegan [ Mike Weatherby ], Jean Challis [ Mrs Bainbridge ], Colin Higgins [ Mr Miller ], Hilary Crane [ Mrs Partridge ], Michael Tucek [ Jason Hurst ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    Joyce Barnaby finds a dead woman while water-color painting in Midsomer Florey with a group of amateur painters, organised by local artist Barrett Filby. She quickly realises that it was one of their number, Ruth Fairfax, who was killed, but the more that Barnaby & Troy look into her background, the more mysterious she seems. Barnaby is soon taken off the case because his wife was part of the group, but he retains an interest in its proceedings. Meanwhile, a bag containing a valuable document and some incriminating photos is stolen in a mugging nearby, but the victim is reluctant to report the crime.
    b: 17 Jan 03 w: Andrew Payne s: Caroline Graham d: Sarah Hellings

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27. "A Tale of Two Hamlets"
    gs: Ronald Pickup [ Rupert Smythe-Webster ], Beth Goddard [ Wendy Smythe-Webster ], Christopher Good [ Simon Smythe-Webster ], Phoebe Nicholls [ Laura Smythe-Webster ], Jonathan Hyde [ Frank Webster ], Leo Bill [ Darren ], Jo Stone-Fewings [ Danny Pinchel ], Tim Preece [ Jack Wilson ], Anne Reid [ Sarah Proudle ], Alex Lowe [ Phil Harrison ], Charlie Beall [ Larry Smith ], Rebecca Johnson [ Anne ], Danielle Tilley [ Emily ], Katy Murphy [ Helen ], Jack Chissick [ Murdoch ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard, PC Angel
    The death of a young film star at the opening of a 'satanic experience' at his family's ancestral home brings Barnaby and Troy to the feuding villages of Upper and Lower Warden. Here the Smythe-Websters are exploiting the work of celebrated House of Satan author Ellis Bell - but is there more to his legacy?
    b: 24 Jan 03 w: Alan Plater d: Peter Smith

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28. "Birds of Prey"
    gs: Kate Buffery [ Mallory Edmonton ], David Calder [ Maj George Hamilton ], Alexandra Gilbreath [ Dr Naomi Sinclair ], Robert Morgan [ Julian Shepherd ], Rosalind Knight [ Eleanor Macpherson ], Sheila Shand Gibbs [ Jane Macpherson ],Anton Lesser [ Eddie Darwin ], Candida Benson [ PC Sarah Pearce ], Janet Maw [ Eileen Hamilton ], Trevor Cooper [ Sean Moorcroft ], Richard Todd [ Charles Edmonton ], Kenneth Gilbert [ Hilary Carlton ], Bernard Gallagher [ Vernon Surtees ], Jemma Churchill [ Maisie Cullen ], Harry Gostelow [ Dr James Robertshaw ], Nicholas Pritchard [ Solicitor ], Neville Phillips [ Vicar ], Edward Clayton [ Mr Pilger, the Butcher ], Tim Treloar [ Thames Valley constable ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard, PC Angel
    When Julian Shepherd is found drowned, it seems as though he committed suicide, because he couldn't access any of his money, which was all tied up in Midsomer Magna millionaire inventor Charles Edmonton's latest invention of a fuel-less transport system. But when another man dies after trying to steal peregrine eggs from the birds of Edmonton's wife, Mallory, at the Edmontons' mansion Casement Hall, Barnaby suspects foul play.
    b: 31 Jan 03 w: Michael Russell d: Jeremy Silberston

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29. "The Green Man"
    gs: David Bradley [ Tom ], John Carlisle [ Lord Fitzgibbon ], Tim Woodward [ Timothy Webster ], Cherie Lunghi [ Lillian Webster ], Marc Buchner [ Daniel Webster ], Henry Cavill [ Simon Mayfield ], Jamie King [ Steven Curtis ], Fred Pearson [ Charlie Birkett ], Andrew Dunn [ Const Crabbe ], Terence Beesley [ Jerry Curtis ], Nicola King [ Eleanor Curtis ], Paul Thornley [ Sgt Gill ], Sally Mates [ Helen Cartwright ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    Troy wins promotion to Inspector, but before he can decide on his future, a local canal tunnel collapses while undergoing restoration, revealing ancient human bones with a recent skeleton hidden among them. As Barnaby investigates this suspicious death, Troy is sent to the woods near Midsomer Worthy where a wild man, called Tom, has been attacked by a group of youths. Then one of the teenagers is caught in a mantrap and shot dead. Immediate suspicions fall on Tom.
    b: 2 Nov 03 w: Michael Russell d: Sarah Hellings

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30. "Bad Tidings"
    gs: Daniel Crowder [ Noel Woods ], Helen Grace [ Lynn Spearman ], Esther Hall [ Cassie Woods ], Ruth Jones [ Rachael Rose ], Helen Lindsay [ Mary Pierce ], Christine Moore [ Shirley Bennett ], John Normington [ Donald Tew ], John Standing [ Dr Charles Rust ], Hilton McRae [ Matthew Spearman ], Nina Marc [ Fiona Thompson ], Michael Simkins [ Gary Thompson ], Paul Thornley [ Sgt Gill ], Chris Barnes [ Pub landord ], Elaine Donnelly [ Receptionist ], Alex Belcourt [ WPC Julie ______ ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    Sergeant Dan Scott arrives from London to work with Barnaby, expecting an easy time on a rural beat, but is thrown straight into a murder investigation in Midsomer Mallow. A noise heard near the scene of Fiona Thompson's bloodstained body leads police to suspect an odd-job man. But when the murder toll rises, Barnaby becomes concerned for his daughter Cully, who is organising a 10-year school reunion.
    b: 4 Jan 04 w: Peter J Hammond d: Peter Smith

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31. "The Fisher King"
    gs: Lynda Bellingham [ Jane Willows ], Jim Carter [ Nathan Green ], Diana Kent [ Anne Heldman ], Henry Ian Cusick [ Gareth Heldman ], Nicholas Rowe [ David Hartley-Reade ], Rebecca Saire [ Miriam Hartley-Reade ], Terrence Hardiman [ Dr James Lavery ], Susannah Doyle [ Vanessa Stone ], Nick Barber [ Harry Green ], Malcolm Tierney [ Per Hansen ], Tim Treloar [ Uniformed police officer ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby
    Thirty years ago, Roger Heldman, notorious in the locality as a womaniser, died one night at the site of an archeological dig on the ancient mound of Midsomer Barrow on his land. Now his only legitimate child, Gareth Heldman, is killed by a violent blow from a Celtic spear that was taken from the mound's central chamber. Local antiquities author David Hartley-Reade, who is widely known to be an illegitimate son of Heldman's, asks his widow for permission to hold a midsummer ceremony on the mound, invoking the possibility of an inheritance claim on the land to persuade her. As the reasons for wanting to hold the ceremony start to be realised, he is shot in the back with an arrow in front of the large crowd gathered there. Barnaby and Scott's investigation stirs up a maze of twisted relationships, professional jealousies and lies festering within the picturesque village community, as they discover other illegitimate children of Heldman's.
    b: 11 Jan 04 w: Isabelle Grey d: Richard Holthouse

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32. "Sins of Commission"
    gs: Stella Gonet [ Grace Maplin ], Tom Mannion [ Sam Callaghan ], Emma Buckley [ Jezebel Tripp ], Robert Whitelock [ John Denton ], Michael N Harbour [ Harry Poulson ], Margot Leicester [ Kay Settingfield ], Donald Sumpter [ Tim Settingfield ], Susan Engel [ Camilla Crofton ], Rachel Bell [ Mrs Hunnicutt ], Mark Umbers [ Neville Williams ], Damien Lyne [ David Lowry ], Victoria Wicks [ Helen Callaghan ], Caroline Lintott [ Travel agent ], Alex Belcourt [ WPC Julie ______ ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    A prize-winning author is murdered on the eve of the 12^th Annual Midsomer St Michael Literary Festival, but despite the tragedy, sponsor Sam Callaghan is determined that the event should go ahead. The organisers have persuaded a best-selling 'chick-lit' author, Jezebel Tripp, to attend and be part of the judging panel for the Festival's lucrative literary prize, though she rapidly begins to have second thoughts about being there. When a blackout at the reception event creates an opportunity for a second murder, Barnaby begins an investigation that uncovers a hotbed of corruption, sexual scandal and financial mismanagement. Barnaby is also concerned that Cully is dating a man with a criminal past who may be involved with the events at Midsomer St Michael.
    b: 18 Jan 04 w: Elizabeth-Anne Wheal d: Peter Smith

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33. "The Maid in Splendour"
    gs: William Gaunt [ Michael Bannerman ], Sophie Hunter [ Bella Monday ], Alan Cox [ Stephen Bannerman ], Rachel Power [ Lorna Bannerman ], Frances Tomelty [ Audrey Monday ], Freddie Jones [ Benbow ], Dave Hill [ Clive Cruickshank ], Raymond Coulthard [ Lawrence Haggard ], Peter-Hugo Daly [ Wesley ], Leon Ockenden [ Jamie Cruickshank ], Stephen Beresford [ Marcus Poole ], Elaine Donnelly [ Maureen Cruickshank ], Siobhan Hewlett [ Amanda ], John Sackville [ Architect ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    Bartender Jamie Cruickshank lusts after Bella Monday, a colleague at The Maid in Splendour pub in Midsomer Worthy, but the feeling is unrequited. Thinking she is seeing someone else, he follows her one night to a ruined cottage, only to find a double-barrelled shotgun pointed at him.
    b: 25 Jan 04 w: Andrew Payne d: Richard Holthouse

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34. "The Straw Woman"
    gs: Keith Barron [ Alan Clifford ], Richenda Carey [ Margaret Hopkins ], Richard Cordery [ Dr John Cole ], Maggie O'Neill [ Agnes Waterhouse ], Jonathan Hackett [ Rev Jim Hale ], Kelly Hunter [ Kate Malpas ], Daniel Weyman [ Matthew Cole ], Jemima Rooper [ Jo Clifford ], Susannah Wise [ Liz Francis ], Martin Herdman [ Jed Fox ], Caroline Lintott [ Sally Middleton ], Sarah Ball [ Denise Jenkins ], Madeleine Rakic-Platt [ Lucy Middleton ], Alex Belcourt [ WPC Julie ______ ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    The revival of a traditional festival at Midsomer Parva ends in tragedy when the curate, the Rev Alex Dakin, is burned alive inside a straw effigy of a woman. Then his gay lover the priest, the Rev Jim Hale, dies too. Amid rumors of witchcraft, some villagers blame manor owner and orgy host Alan Clifford, who has a secret of his own, some blame the teacher, Liz Francis, who restarted the straw woman tradition, and some blame the local herbalist, Kate Malpas, who has a connection to events of previous centuries in the village.
    b: 29 Feb 04 w: Jeff Dodds d: Sarah Hellings

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35. "Things that Go Bump in the Night"
    gs: Dearbhla Molloy [ Elizabeth Key ], Mary Jo Randle [ Janet Pennyman ], Liza Sadovy [ Rosetta Price ], Jonathan Slinger [ Thomas Marr ], Cathryn Bradshaw [ Anne Marr ], Philip Martin Brown [ John Whittle ], Garry Cooper [ James Griss ], Julian Curry [ Ronald Burgess ], Linda Spurrier [ Sylvia Burgess ], Kathryn Pogson [ Eve Whittle ], Victoria Lennox/a> [ Woman in audience ], Alex Belcourt [ WPS Julie ______ ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    Barnaby's suspicions center on a local spiritualist group, headed by medium Rosetta Price, when a series of grisly murders rocks the village of Fletcher's Cross, starting with that of undertaker Patrick Pennyman. When Joyce's friend Elizabeth Key also dies, Barnaby & Scott suspect a link between the funeral parlour and the spiritualists.
    b: 10 Oct 04 w: Peter J Hammond d: Peter Smith

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36. "Dead in the Water"
    gs: Adrian Lukis [ Philip Trent ], William Scott-Masson [ John Parkway ], Benedick Blythe [ Guy Sweetman ], Diana Quick [ Clare Bonavita ], Clemmie Burton-Hill [ Hettie Trent ], Mark Frost [ Vic Lynton ], Owain Yeoman [ Henry Charlton ], Sean Baker [ Ivan Hawkins ], Janet Brown [ Mrs Sharp ], Jack Klaff [ Freddie Bonavita ], Joe Armstrong [ David Cooke ], Christopher Mellows [ Mr Stevens ], Sandra Duncan [ Mrs Stevens ], Emma Amos [ Sandra Tate ], Sir Steve Redgrave [ Scout ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    A body is found in the River Thames during the annual Midsomer Regatta: ladies' man Guy Sweetman appears to have been killed after arguing with his friends Philip Trent and John Parkway from the rowing club. When Barnaby & Scott dig into the luxury lifestyles of the members, they discover a tangled network of money problems and sexual jealousy. Then the dead man's girlfriend is attacked in her own home.
    b: 17 Oct 04 w: Douglas Watkinson d: Renny Rye

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37. "Ghosts of Christmas Past"
    gs: John Burgess [ Douglas ], Daphne Oxenford [ Muriel ], Kevin Doyle [ Ferdy Villiers ], Margery Mason [ Lydia Villiers ], Haydn Gwynne [ Jennifer Carter ], Alice Patten [ Emily Hyde ], Dominic Colenso [ Aidan Carter ], William Chubb [ Digby Frears ], Mel Martin [ Kate Frears ], Lydia Leonard [ Phoebe Frears ], Philip Quast [ Ross Villiers ], Bruce Alexander [ Dominic Jones ], Claire Carrie [ Claire English ], Bryan Matheson [ Vicar ], Harry Gostelow [ Doctor ], Rory Copus [ Howard Frears ], Charles Millham [ Detective ], Tim Treloar [ Drinker in pub ], Laura Jeffree [ Girl ], Christopher Sutton [ Aiden, aged 11 ], Gemma Martin [ Phoebe, aged 12 ], Luke Foster [ Howard, aged 4 ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    The Barnabys entertain Joyce's family for Christmas, and he is almost anxious for Sgt Scott to call him out as a diversion. Meanwhile, at the run-down historic home of the Villiers, the family gather for their Christmas, some 9 years after the suicide of one of their members, Ferdy Villiers. The atmosphere becomes more and more tense, as the family tries to keep its dark secrets hidden. When elderly aunt Lydia Villiers dies after a fall, the apparent accident is discovered to have been murder, and Barnaby & Scott are called in to investigate. Despite their warnings to the other family members to be on their guard, another soon dies in an apparent accident.
    b: 25 Dec 04 w: David Hoskins d: Renny Rye

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38. "Orchis Fatalis"
    gs: Marty Cruickshank [ Madeline Villiers ], Stuart Ong [ Jimmy Fong ], Harriet Walter [ Margaret Winstanley ], Richard Atlee [ Henry Plummer ], Amanda Harris [ Deborah Plummer ], John Nettleton [ Munro Hilliard ], Helen Ryan [ Mrs Hilliard ], Richard Simpson [ Feather ], Geoffrey Streatfeild [ Jonathan Makepeace ], Matt Bardock [ Harry Rose ], Geoffrey Chater [ Brother Robert ], Anthony Smee [ Captain Tucker ], Victoria Lennox [ Mrs Maitland ], Timothy Bateson [ Mr Jocelyn ], Chooi Beh [ Wey Tu Ho ], Mo Zainal [ Boy ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    Midsomer Malham has a significant orchid growing community, including a retired teacher, Madeline Villiers, who goes on distant collecting trips, who is found murdered at her home. Barnaby discovers her notebook, written in Latin, which records all the illegal sales of her collected specimens, including one, nicknamed the Yellow Roth, to a local of an extreme rarity for £125,000, as well as some imaginative details of sexual exploits. Then a series of other people who have owned the orchid are also murdered. Suspects include local handyman and ex-con Harry Rose, who seems to be involved with many of the people of the village, and Jimmy Fong, Madeline Villiers collecting associate, who is a wanted man in several countries for smuggling that contravenes CITES regulations.
    b: 9 Jan 05 w: Terry Hodgkinson d: Peter Smith

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39. "Bantling Boy"
    gs: Caroline Blakiston [ Angela Hartley ], Philip McGough [ Geoffrey Bantling ], Simon Kunz [ Bruce Hartley ], Anna Wilson-Jones [ Marianna Hartley ], Barnaby Kay [ Dr John Osgood ], Charlie Condou [ Jake Foley ], Julia Ford [ Joanna Craxton ], Shane Attwool [ Ray Craxton ], Thomas Grant [ Peter Craxton ], Geoffrey Freshwater [ Sam Tate ], Richard O'Callaghan [ Trevor Machin ], Hugh Dickson [ Maj Dickson ], Paul Viragh [ Vicar ], Stewart Harwood [ Bookie ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    A successful racehorse, Bantling Boy, has been left to a syndicate of four people in the will of its owner, Hartley of Bantling Hall: his son Bruce Hartley, his doctor John Osgood, his nurse Joanna Craxton, and his former gardener Trevor Machin. When local businessman Sam Tate offers them £500,000 for the horse, Bruce Hartley stops them selling it; later that night he is found dead. Then, one-by-one, the others die in almost identical attacks, and the horse sickens. Barnaby dismisses the idea that it is groom Jake Foley, even though he has been accused of horse-doping in the past, and concentrates his enquiries on the inhabitants of Bantling Hall.
    b: 16 Jan 05 w: Steve Trafford d: Sarah Hellings

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40. "Second Sight"
    gs: Owen Teale [ Little Mal Kirby ], Will Keen [ Preaching Pete ], Joe Anderson [ Max Ransom ], Geoffrey Whitehead [ Dr Gregory Ransom ], Tom Frederic [ Ben Kirkby ], Bill Stewart [ Lucky Lol Tanner ], Wanda Ventham [ Romany Rose ], Sean Chapman [ Jimmy Kirby ], Alexandra Moen [ Emma Kirby ], James Hoare [ John Ransom ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    John Ransom is found dead in Midsomer Mere, his head covered in scorch marks. Barnaby and Scott find that the villagers seem to have the ability to predict future events. Was Ransom's death the result of his brother Max's research into second sight. or was it caused in a pub brawl with his brother-in-law Ben Kirby over plans for a baptism, or was he a casualty of some strange psychical experiment? In the battle between faith and science, even Barnaby thinks he has seen one of the villagers somewhere before, and he has to delve deep into the village's history in his investigations.
    b: 23 Jan 05 w: Tony Etchells d: Richard Holthouse

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41. "Hidden Depths"
    gs: Lucy Russell [ Felicity Turner ], James Weber Brown [ Nick Turner ], Nancy Carroll [ Antonia Wilmot ], Oliver Ford Davies [ Otto Benham ], Sara Kestelman [ Bernie Benham ], Robert Daws [ Mike Spicer ], Matthew Flynn [ Jack Wilmot ], Rebecca Charles [ Jane Hampton ], Simon Armstrong [ Viv Marshall ], Caroline Laskowska [ Zara ], Ian Talbot [ George ], Philip Bird [ Jeff Martin ], Robin Soans [ Mr Perkins ], Charles Millham [ Peter Blagdon ], Eileen Davies [ Estate agent ], David Hampshire [ Cabbie ], Nicky Lilley [ Princess Diana ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    When a local solicitor falls to his death from his house roof, it is not clear whether it was murder or suicide. His death is followed by the bizarre death of a neighbor, Otto Benham, known for his involvement in various scams. Barnaby discovers some faked vintage wine labels in Benham's safe, and begins to suspect that an elaborate fraud underlies the two killings, which are soon followed by another bizarre murder.
    b: 13 Mar 05 w: David Hoskins d: Sarah Hellings

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42. "Sauce for the Goose"
    gs: Annette Crosbie [ Amelia Plummer ], John Quayle [ Mr Judd ], Jasper Britton [ Anselm Plummer ], Rod Hallett [ Dexter Lockwood ], David Ross [ Sam Hardwick ], Lizzy McInnerny [ Caroline Plummer ], James Fleet [ Ralph Plummer ], Ann Beach [ Sonia Hardwick ], Geraldine Alexander [ Helen Plummer ], Benedict Sandiford [ Alan Hardwick ], Tom Bowles [ Milner ], Steve Speirs [ Keith Carter ], Pauline Whitaker [ Jackie Carter ], Karl Johnson [ Derek Lockwood ], David Driver [ Driver ], Vivienne Ritchie [ Dr Stannard ], Lucy-Ann Holmes [ Factory worker ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    A visitor on a tour of the famous Plummer's relish factory disappears, and his naked body is discovered dumped in a vat, having been crushed to death. It is realised that he was an executive with the rival company Fieldway Foods. Barnaby & Scott's investigations concentrate on the Plummer family, and which of them might want to sell out to their rival.
    b: 3 Apr 05 w: Andrew Payne d: Renny Rye

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43. "Midsomer Rhapsody"
    gs: June Whitfield [ Peggy Alder ], Trevor Peacock [ Charlie Speight ], Belinda Sinclair [ Melody Thorpe ], David Lyon [ Alan Thorpe ], Nicholas Amer [ Arthur Leggott ], David Burke [ John Farrow / Hedge ], Frank Middlemass [ Noah Farrow ], Oliver Cotton [ Michael Maybury ], Clare Higgins [ Laura Crawford ], Christopher Benjamin [ Harvey Crane ], Stephen Boxer [ Owen Swinscoe ], Richard Vanstone [ Joe Smeeton ], Julia Deakin [ Valerie Smeeton ], Tom Ellis [ Lee Smeeton ], Kate Fleetwood [ Sarah Douglas ], Malcolm Raeburn [ Auctioneer ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    Joan Alder, the local composer of a very successful piece of music, 'Midsomer Rhapsody', died twenty years ago, leaving bitternesses among her family. Barnaby and his wife know her mother, Peggy Alder, who is about to remarry. A local man is murdered, and Barnaby realises that he was her music teacher. Then a valuable manuscript shows up among the murdered man's effects, that appears to be an early draft of the work as a collaboration by two hands, but Barnaby suspects it is a forgery, by someone who hopes to gain a share in the continuing royalties. Then Joan's long-lost daughter, Sarah Douglas, appears, followed by the revelation that her boyfriend, who was thought to be dead, is living close by. As the number of people with an interest in Joan Alder's work increases, the number of those interested in her work decreases as further murders occur.
    b: 2 Oct 05 w: Richard Cameron d: Richard Holthouse

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44. "The House in the Woods"
    gs: George Baker [ Charlie Magwood & Jack Magwood ], Ruth Gemmell [ Anne Merrick ], Anita Carey [ Barbara Flux ], Gawn Grainger [ Lesley Flux ], Rebecca Egan [ Harriet Davis ], David Westhead [ Gerry Moore ], Andrée Evans [ Grace Woodhall ], Michael Elwyn [ Giles Cato ], Katy Brittain [ Miss Owen ], Ben Meyjes [ Alan Harcourt ], Caroline Faber [ Caroline Cave ], Richard Trinder [ Peter Cave ], Greg Sheffield [ Philip Merick ], Charlie Lucas [ Danny Merrick ], Jack McIntosh [ Brian ], Lily-May Anson [ Tracey ], Abigail Williamson [ Kylie ], Alex Matten [ Jason ], Jared Garfield [ Sean ], Francis Lee [ Roman ], Pauline Whitaker [ Hotel receptionist ], Adam Fair [ PC ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    A couple who have been searching the Midsomer area for a suitable property to renovate, Peter & Caroline Cave, are found brutally garrotted in their car outside a supposedly haunted dilapidated old cottage in the woods near Midsomer Newton. There are several other people interested in buying the house, but are they desperate enough to murder potential rivals? Barnaby investigates, with the assistance of PC Ben Jones, who he temporarily appoints Detective Constable, in the absence of DS Scott. Joyce Barnaby is helping a local group of conservationists identify architecturally important buildings in the area, and is asked to investigate the same cottage, potentially putting her in danger. Barnaby then discovers that there is something odd about the person selling the cottage.
    b: 9 Oct 05 w: Barry Simner d: Peter Smith

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45. "Dead Letters"
    gs: Claire Askam [ Marion Slade ], Tom Bennett [ Rob Pride ], Elizabeth Spriggs [ Ursula Gooding ], David Bamber [ John Starkey ], Jenny Jackson [ Vicki ], Richard Cant [ Alistair Gooding ], Tom Georgeson [ Ron Chalk ], Tracy Brabin [ Ruth Chalk ], Simon Callow [ Dr Wellow ], Caroline Goodall [ Grace Starkey ], Sophie Thompson [ April Gooding ], Paul Ireland [ Mark Castle ], Louise Breckon-Richards [ Helen Castle ], Cally Hamilton [ Sadie Castle ], Clemmie Hooton [ Phoebe ], Alice Knight [ Queen of Hearts ], Josef Lindsay [ Robin Hood ], Sarah Pritchard [ Bella Slade ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr George Bullard
    The village of Midsomer Barton is celebrating Oak Apple Week when a local single mother, Marion Slade, is found drowned in the village stream. It looks like suicide, and that she was driven to it by grief over the death, eight years before, of her daughter, Bella, a local beauty pageant winner. Barnaby investigates and is shaken by two villagers who look like murder victims from his past. Then another body is discovered and it appears that the festivities have stirred up a cocktail of adultery, contempt, unrequited love and revenge in the village. And it all appears to center around Bella Slade.
    b: 26 Feb 06 w: Peter J Hammond d: Renny Rye

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46. "Vixen's Run"
    gs: Joss Ackland [ Sir Freddy Butler ], Sian Phillips [ Lady Annabel Butler ], Sheila Ruskin [ Lady Lucinda Butler ], Annabel Mullion [ Lady Tara Butler ], David Beames [ Richard Butler ], Joanna Riding [ Sandra Butler ], Matthew Tennyson [ Michael Butler ], John Franklyn-Robbins [ Teddy Butler ], Richard Clothier [ Simon Oliver ], Carol MacReady [ Hatty Down ], Rebecca Johnson [ Jenny Down ], Leslie Schofield [ Amos Brown ], Charles Kay [ Henry York ], Victoria Lennox [ Doris Maple ], David Shaw-Parker [ Bert Delling ], Ian Barritt [ Finch ], Neville Phillips [ Vicar ], Naomi Hill [ Young woman ], Andrew Keelan [ Young man ], Ian Knight [ Bagpiper ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby
    The elderly Sir Freddy Butler has invited both his ex-wives, Annabel & Lucinda, to stay with him and his current wife, Tara. When he dies suddenly of a heart attack, the bitter rivalry between the three and Sandra, the wife of his heir, comes to the surface, with murderous consequences. To solve the mystery, Barnaby must unravel paternity questions about some of the residents of the hall, and find the legendary missing emeralds.
    b: 5 Mar 06 w: Michael Aitkens d: Peter Smith
    NOTE: In the opening scenes, which are set after the Coronation (June 1953), there are two pheasants hanging on the wall of the keeper's cottage. The pheasant season is well over by then, so they would either have dropped off the nail, or there was an error in the set dressing.

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47. "Down among the Dead Men"
    gs: Grant Masters [ Martin Barrett ], Charlotte Emmerson [ Hayley Redfern ], Sam Kelly [ Jack Fothergill ], Julia McKenzie [ Ruby Wilmott ], Rob Edwards [ Richard Florian ], Christine Kavanagh [ Margaret Florian ], Derek Hutchinson [ Reg ], Paul Freeman [ Sir John Waverley ], Arthur Kohn [ Billy ], Dermot Crowley [ Peter Hatchard ], Frank Mills [ Ted ], Rebecca Lamb [ Staff nurse ], Duncan Clyde [ Policeman ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    Barnaby and Jones investigate the shooting of a blackmailer, Martin Barrett. But he had so many victims, they are spoiled for choice for a suspect. Then one of his victims, Sir John Waverley, gets another demand. The trail leads them to the seaside and diving for treasure on an uncataloged wreck.
    b: 12 Mar 06 w: Douglas Watkinson d: Renny Rye

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48. "Death in Chorus"
    gs: Patrick Drury [ Connor Simpson ], Peter Capaldi [ Laurence Barker ], Annabelle Apsion [ Ellen Barker ], Sara Stewart [ Carolyn Armitage ], Ronan Vibert [ Giles Armitage ], Scott Handy [ Stephen Latimer ], John Shrapnel [ Leo Clarke ], Michael Fitzgerald [ Francis Crawford ], John Cording [ Sam Judd ], Alwyne Taylor [ Kath Bullard ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    The Midsomer Worthy local amateur choir includes Joyce Barnaby & Dr Bullard amongst its members. Their conductor, Laurence Barker, has a bitter feud with a rival. Following a rehearsal for the regional Four Choirs competition, the lead tenor, Connor Simpson, dies mysteriously.
    b: 3 Sep 06 w: David Lawrence d: Sarah Hellings

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49. "Country Matters"
    gs: Clare Holman [ Rose Southerly ], Sophie Stuckey [ Dora Southerley ], Tim Hardy [ Frank Hopkirk ], Maggie Ollerenshaw [ Mrs Hopkirk ], Jonny Phillips [ Orlando Lamington ], Juliet Aubrey [ Ginny Lamington ], Madeleine Potter [ Celia Patchett ], John McAndrew [ Jeremy Patchett ], Dorian Healy [ Danny Piggott ], Jack Crutch [ Otis Piggott ], Antony Byrne [ Gary Talbot ], Elli Garnett [ Tracy Talbot ], Kirsty Bushell [ Rev Suze ], Jackie Morrison [ Miranda Harvey ], Dominic Rickhards [ Dudley Painter ], Miles Richardson [ Sir Charles ], Stuart Milligan [ Mr Hundsecker ], Frank Mills [ Ezra ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    Frank Hopkirk, an environmental adviser on the proposed site of a controversial Goodfare supermarket in Elverton-cum-Latterly, is found stabbed to death in an old farm building on the site. Barnaby & Jones question locals on both sides of the debate over the plans, and find that Mr Hopkirk had extra-curricular dealings with a number of the local ladies and their businesses. But which one of these caused passions to be stirred up to such a murderous extent?
    b: 10 Sep 06 w: Andrew Payne d: Richard Holthouse

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50. "Last Year's Model"
    gs: Josette Simon [ Samantha Flint ], Siobhan Redmond [ Pru Plunkett ], Thelma Barlow [ Mrs Beverley ], Miles Anderson [ Lance Woodrow ], Saskia Wickham [ Annie Woodrow ], Brian Protheroe [ John Trevelyan ], Emily Gloyens [ Ed Trevelyan ], Rosa Hoskins [ Sophie Trevelyan ], Barbara Young [ Gwen Trevelyan ], Caroline Trowbridge [ Tanya Crammer ], Jamie Glover [ Jamie Crammer ], Helen Dallimore [ Felicity ], David Birrell [ Mark Thomas ], Guy Henry [ Marcus Bramwell ], Charles Millham [ Clerk ], Giles Havergal [ Judge ], Stephanie Jacob [ Solicitor ], Alex Belcourt [ Female Sergeant ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    Annie Woodrow, a charity worker from Midsomer Malham, is standing trial for killing her best friend, Frances Trevelyan, in a case that Barnaby had investigated ten months previously. But he becomes increasingly unsettled that the prosecution's case doesn't match the facts. Barnaby & Jones enlist the help of key witness Mrs Beverly in a risky entrapment to find out what really happened. Jones's promotion to Det Sgt comes through at the same time.
    b: 17 Sep 06 w: David Hoskins d: Richard Holthouse

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51. "Four Funerals and A Wedding"
    gs: Sian Thomas [ Peggy Aynscombe ], Jessica Brooks [ Fiona Aynscombe ], Dominic Jephcott [ Henry Marwood ], Joseph Kennedy [ Roland Marwood ], Struan Roger [ Dr O'Dowd ], Daphne Oxenford [ Muriel ], Richard McCabe [ Rev Anthony Gant ], Shaughan Seymour [ Archdeacon Able ], Andrew Hawkins [ Alan ], Lloyd McGuire [ Bob ], Lucy-Anne Holmes [ Polly ], Ann Morrish [ Mildred Danvers ], Sandra Voe [ Lorna Hastings ], Hattie Ladbury [ Deacon Cathy Hewlett ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    Barnaby's mother-in-law comes to visit, and insists on being taken to the village of Broughton, which has seen a war between the sexes for decades. During this year's traditional fair, elderly women's campaigner Mildred Danvers is murdered. And then the misogynist vicar, the Rev Anthony Gant, is murdered during a bizarre traditional event that forms part of the proceedings. Is this an evening of the score, or is another long-standing feud responsible?
    b: 24 Sep 06 w: Elizabeth-Anne Wheal d: Sarah Hellings

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52. "Dance with the Dead"
    gs: Georgine Anderson [ Rosemary Wood ], Felicity Dean [ Frances Kirby ], Danny Webb [ Tony Kirby ], Harriet Thorpe [ Elaine Trim ], Derek Hutchinson [ Richard Budd ], Nicola Redmond [ Marissa Clarke ], Ifan Huw Dafydd [ Paul Bright ], Wendy Wason [ Carol Prentice ], David Henry [ Eric Usher ], Geoff Leesley [ Jim Druce ], Lizzy Watts [ Laura Sharp ], Edward Davenport [ Simon Bright ], Isabella Furst [ Bella Prentice ], Henry Pettigrew [ Sailor ], Liza Pulman [ Crooner ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    The abandoned Coopers Cross WW2 airfield near the village of Morton Fendle continues to hold attractions for many of the villagers. Simon Bright, a local young man, is found dead in his old car at the site, apparently having used its exhaust fumes to carry out a suicide pact with his girlfriend, Laura Sharp. But she is nowhere to be found. As Barnaby and Jones fear the worst for her, they have to unravel her many tangled relationships, in order to find out what has happened to her, and identify the killer amongst the villagers.
    b: 12 Nov 06 w: Peter J Hammond d: Peter Smith

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53. "The Animal Within"
    gs: Lisa Eichhorn [ Faith Alexander ], David Troughton [ Miles King ], Emily Woof [ Janet Bailey ], Samuel West [ Jeremy Thacker ], Linda Bassett [ Eileen Carnack ], Malcolm Stoddard [ Richard Carnack ], John Cater [ Jack Pearce ], Freda Dowie [ Amie Pearce ], Helen Masters [ Jane Benbow ], Richard Johnson [ Rex Masters ], William Hope [ Alan Alexander ], Adam Farr [ PC ], Maggie Holland [ WI woman ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    After the body of Rex Masters, a roguish, retired society photographer, is found in a weir, several people each produce a different will of his that appears to bequeath his fortune to them. His solicitor, Jane Benbow, checks that the most recent one, that of his cleaner Janet Bailey, is the most recent and therefore the valid one. His death occurs just as a long-estranged niece from America, Faith Alexander, arrives to meet him, surprising many of his acquaintances, as he had told them that she and her family had been killed in a plane crash. Barnaby and Jones soon discover that the estrangement dates back many years, to an incident involving Masters and a local girl Lucy Thacker, who subsequently became a famous missionary, and was the mother of local resident Jeremy Thacker, who runs a small museum dedicated to her life, is the fiancé of Janet Bailey, and who has recently published a book appearing to denounce Masters.
    b: 19 Jan 07 w: David Hoskins d: Renny Rye

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54. "King's Crystal"
    gs: Tony Haygarth [ Jack Tewson ], John Castle [ Charles King ], Ray Lonnen [ Peter Baxter ], Joseph Rye [ James Taylor ], Sam Heughan [ Ian King ], Susan Tracy [ Hilary King ], Flora Montgomery [ Sophie Baxter ], Tim Delap [ David Monroe ], David Henry [ Photographer ], Hugh Sachs [ Harold Blumstead ], Oliver Ryan [ Hamlet ], Morris Perry [ Rupert, pub landlord ], David Firth [ Alan King ], Boy 1 [ Charlie Brown ], Boy 2 [ Luke McMillan ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    King's Crystal, a family glassware business in Midsomer Magna, appears to suffer financial meltdown after the death in Shanghai of Alan King, one of its partners. Six months later, his widow Hilary marries his brother Charles, who is now running the company. The firm's accounts executive, Peter Baxter, is found murdered after a break-in at the now-closed factory. The now-redundant staff, led by Jack Tewson, are agitating for compensation for their stolen pensions. Alan's son Ian becomes increasingly moody, sullen and resentful, particularly to his mother Hilary and would-be girlfriend Sophie Baxter, daughter of the accounts executive. Barnaby asks Jones to use his Masonic connection to help the investigation to untangle the firm's financial irregularities. Barnaby is inspired by a performance of Hamlet in which Cully plays Ophelia, to see its parallels with the case.
    b: 26 Jan 07 w: Steve Trafford d: Peter Smith

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55. "The Axeman Cometh"
    gs: Philip Madoc [ DI Owen Jenkins ], Phil Davis [ Gary Cooper ], James Cosmo [ Jack 'Axeman' McKinley ], Fiona Button [ Willow McKinley ], Michael Angelis [ Nicky Harding ], Rachel Davies [ Jeannie Harding ], Suzi Quatro [ Mimi Clifton ], Sam Hazeldine [ Simon Dixon ], Annie Lambert [ Ingrid Peterson ], David Horovitch [ James Hobson ], Robin Weaver [ Serena Stanton ], Rupert Vansittart [ Desmond Harcourt ], Tilly Blackwood [ Finola Harcourt ], Bryan Matheson [ Cedric ], Ford Kenyon [ Roadie ], Roger Chapman [ Himself ], Geno Washington [ Himself ], Mike Read [ Compere ], Steve Simpson [ Guitarist ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    This year's Midsomer Rocks Music Festival in Badger's Drift features the recently-reformed group Hired Gun, an old idol of Barnaby's; for the event, the band members are staying in the nearby mansion of Gary Cooper, the bass player and co-writer of their music, who grew up in the area. But the tensions that led to their earlier split are still present, and there is still the unanswered question of what happened to Ginger Foxton, a band member and the other co-writer, who disappeared 30 years previously, and his royalties. The disappearance was investigated by the now retired DI Owen Jenkins, who was Barnaby's superior officer when he was a sergeant. At the festival site Cully meets Hired Gun's new young manager, Simon Dixon, and there is instant mutual attraction, much to Barnaby's disapproval. But somebody is trying to kill the band members one by one, and Barnaby has to put aside his respect for the group to investigate who is responsible.
    b: 2 Feb 07 w: Michael Aitkens d: Renny Rye

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56. "Death and Dust"
    gs: Sam Hazeldine [ Simon Dixon ], Sharon Morgan [ Delyth Mostyn ], David Yelland [ Dr James Kirkwood ], Simon Wilson [ Dr Alan Delaney ], Alwyne Taylor [ Kath Bullard ], Jenny Livsey [ Megan Mostyn ], Daniel Evans [ David Mostyn ], William Thomas [ Bryn Williams ], Gareth Thomas [ Huw Mostyn ], Elizabeth Conboy [ Harriet Tidyman ], Kirsty Dillon [ WPC Gail Stephens ], John Lightbody [ Jason Slater ], Stephanie Cole [ Dorothy Hutton ], Nigel Betts [ DC Briars ], Bill Moody [ Clifford Rawnsley ], Nicholas Pritchard [ Justin Pickard ], William Ilkley [ Foreman ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    After Midsomer Market doctor Alan Delaney is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Barnaby & Jones learn that he had once been accused by his senior partner, Dr James Kirkwood, of stealing money from their practice. As they investigate, they realise that it may have been Kirkwood who was the intended target.
    b: 8 May 07 w: Douglas Watkinson d: Sarah Hellings

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57. "A Picture of Innocence"
    gs: Nigel Anthony [ Lionel Bell ], Andrew Tiernan [ Steve Bright ], Adrian Scarborough [ Eddie Carfax ], Peter Eyre [ Headley Madrigal ], Richard Lintern [ Martin Spellman ], Martin Hutson [ Seb Madrigal ], Montserrat Lombard [ Philomena Bell ], Caroline Trowbridge [ Imogen ], Ian Peck [ Adam Knox ], François Domange [ Maitre d'Hotel ], Malcolm Raeburn [ Hotel Manager ], Liza Goddard [ Marion Bell ], Francine Morgan [ Middle Aged Woman ], Michael Geary [ Lee Peters ], Brian Parr [ Postman ], Lynn Farleigh [ Sonia Madrigal ], Steven North [ Nigel Woodley ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    In the village of Luxton Deeping, there's a bitter rivalry between a group of digital photographers and the dwindling number of traditional film photographers, the activities of the latter group being centred on a small shop run by Lionel Bell. When he is found strangled with a cord from his own equipment at a local beauty spot, a suspiciously large collection of clues point to Barnaby being the culprit. He is suspended from duty, and has to surreptitiously use Jones to identify the real murderer and the motive behind the killing.
    b: 3 Jun 07 w: Andrew Payne d: Richard Holthouse

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58. "Shot at Dawn"
    gs: Donald Sinden [ Col Henry Hammond ], Malcolm Sinclair [ Johnny Hammond ], Samantha Bond [ Arabella Hammond ], Charlotte Lucas [ Sophie Hammond ], Charlie Covell [ Kate Hammond ], George Cole [ Lionel Hicks ], Brian Capron [ Dave Hicks ], Gemma Craven [ Judy Hicks ], Grant Ibbs [ Danny Hicks ], Tom Harper [ Will Hicks ], Lloyd Hutchinson [ Mickey Ryan ], Marcia Ashton [ Biddy Dixon ], Robert Morgan [ Martin Chadwick ], Graham Seed [ Dr Tibbs ], Kirsty Dillon [ PC Gail Stephens ], Robert Blythe [ George Miller ], Josh Stanley [ Duggie Hammond ], Will Featherstone [ Tommy Hicks ], Jeremy Gittins [ Officer ], Barry Aird [ Derek ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    The Hicks family of Midsomer Parva celebrate when the name of their ancestor Tommy Hicks, who was shot for cowardice at the Battle of the Somme in the First World War, is added to the local war memorial. But the local military Hammond family is not so pleased, as it was one of their members who was in the firing squad. The drunken prank of a mock trial and execution of the domineering elderly Col Henry Hammond goes wrong, and results in his death. Other members of the Hammond family then die before Barnaby and Jones can penetrate the depths of the long-standing feud between the two families.
    b: 1 Jan 08 w: Michael Aitkens d: Richard Holthouse

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59. "They Seek Him Here"
    gs: Marian McLoughlin [ Gwen Morrison ], Richard Hope [ Neville Hayward ], Jonathan Moore [ Jed Norris ], Kieran Bew [ Danny Twyman ], Emily Hamilton [ Leonie Charteris ], Jay Villiers [ Nick Cheyney ], Nicky Henson [ Terence Charteris ], Fiona Mollison [ Diane Charteris ], Matthew Marsh [ Jack Braxton ], Paul Grunert [ Freddie Greenaway ], Desmond Barrit [ Raymond Clandillon ], Gemma Page [ "Lady Blakeney" ], Kirsty Dillon [ WPC Gail Stephens ], Mark Webb [ 1st Assistant Director ], Adam Farr [ PC ], Charlotte Moore [ Hotel receptionist ], Richard Bailey [ Cameraman ], Gracie May & Ava May [ Josh ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    A new film version of The Scarlet Pimpernel is being shot at the manor house in Midsomer Magna owned by Terence & Diane Charteris, but there is plenty of strife behind the cameras as well. The producer, Jack Braxton, and the director, Nick Cheyney, hate each other, and the Charteris's marriage is breaking up. Then Cheyney is found beheaded by the guillotine being used as a prop. Joyce Barnaby joins some of the residents from The Cedars local rest home as extras on the set. One of them, Gwen Morrison, used to be in a group of actors called The Four Musketeers, with her husband Ted and two of the film's cast. But before Barnaby can delve deep enough into the history of their relationships, there is another beheading.
    b: 27 Apr 08 w: Barry Purchese d: Sarah Hellings

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60. "Death in a Chocolate Box"
    gs: Sam Hazeldine [ Simon Dixon ], Pip Donaghy [ Jack Colby ], Clare Higgins [ Gina Colby ], Edward Petherbridge [ Victor Godbold, Lord Holm ], Christopher Fairbank [ Ronnie Tyler ], Nigel Harrison [ Eddie Marston ], Chris Barrie [ Lionel Poulter ], Philip Bond [ Dr Wyatt ], Keith Drinkel [ Tommy Crinney ], Marcia Warren [ Melissa Shrike ], Sue Jenkins [ Mrs Walker ], Sion Tudor Owen [ Bob Walker ], Martyn Whitby [ Lenny Leigh ], Wendy Morgan [ Maria Godbold ], Kirsty Dillon [ WPC Gail Stephens ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    Reformed criminal Ronnie Tyler has been living at a halfway house in the village of Midsomer Holm, run by Lord Holm, who himself has served a sentence for murder, & Prof Gina Colby. Tyler's place is taken by Eddie Marston, who soon goes missing. Prof Colby's husband, Jack, was a colleague of Barnaby's, but who left the police force under a cloud and is now a probation officer. Cully and her boyfriend, Simon Dixon, make a surprise visit. Jack Colby is found murdered, and then Eddie Marston goes missing. Barnaby investigations lead him to question what happened with 'The Friday Nighters', a group of police officers, at Causton police station several years earlier.
    b: 11 May 08 w: Tony Etchells & David Lawrence d: Richard Holthouse

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61. "Blood Wedding"
    gs: Daniel Casey [ Gavin Troy ], Sam Hazeldine [ Simon Dixon ], Daphne Oxenford [ Cully's grandmother ], John Burgess [ Cully's grandfather ], Richard Bailey [ Uncle Richard ], Simon Paisley Day [ Randall Colquhoun ], Mark Umbers [ Harry Fitzroy ], Emma Cunniffe [ Sally Fielding ], Elizabeth Dermot Walsh [ Beth Porteous ], Charles Edwards [ Ned Fitzroy ], Nicholas Palliser [ Marcus Fitzroy ], James Howard [ Lord Fitzroy ], Martin Wenner [ Robin Lawson ], Beth Chalmers [ Marina Fellows ], Veronica Roberts [ Mary Cooper ], Denyse Alexander [ Peggy Benson ], Patrick Barlow [ Maurice Morrison ], Olivia Llewellyn [ Helen ], Charity Reindorp [ Lady ], Sally-Ann Burnett [ Young Peggy Benson ], Perri Snowdon [ James ], Ian Mann [ unknown ], Kirsty Dillon [ WPC Gail Stephens ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    At the reception of the wedding of Beth Porteous to local Baronet Ned Fitzroy, held at his country mansion, the bride's best friend and bridesmaid, Marina Fellows, is murdered. Barnaby has to uncover the tangled relationships of the bride and the house's sullen, grudge-bearing employee Robin Lawson, while playing his part in the preparations for the wedding of his own daughter, Cully, to musician boyfriend Simon Dixon, which is not going smoothly - will he be able to drag himself away from the bloody aftermath of the society wedding to walk Cully up the aisle?
    b: 6 Jul 08 w: David Lawrence d: Peter Smith

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62. "Midsomer Life"
    gs: Simon Williams [ Guy Sandys ], David Crow [ Gareth Platt ], Debbie Chazen [ Gemma Platt ], Samuel Oatley [ Brad ], MyAnna Buring [ Mandy ], Thomas Lockyer [ Matt Morecroft ], Selina Cadell [ Eleanor Crouch ], Richard Morant [ Mr Tomlin ], Pooky Quesnel [ Julia Benson ], Daniel Hill [ Martin Reid ], Serena Gordon [ Christina Finleyson ], Mary Healey [ Mrs Wilson ], Roger Evans [ Mickey ], Hazel McBride [ Governor ], Chris Sloman [ Shop keeper ], Ian Mann [ unknown ], Jennifer Nicholls [ Eve ], Chris Wilson [ Police Officer ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    Guy Sandys is a retired City financier, who has bought Midsomer Life magazine, almost as a hobby, and enjoys using its pages to publish sharp reviews of local businesses. The body of Charlie Finleyson is found in woods near Sandys's house, and suspicion falls on Sandys, as his wife Cristina had left him for Finleyson some years previously. Then Sandys himself is found dead in his Midsomer Life office, and Barnaby & Jones have to sift through the long list of people who might hold a grudge against Sandys.
    b: 13 Jul 08 w: Guy Andrews d: Peter Smith

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63. "Left for Dead"
    gs: Maggie Steed [ Lynne Fox ], Harry Peacock [ Patrick Bradley ], Albert Welling [ Ron Wilson ], Indra Ové [ Charlotte Knight ], Marion Bailey [ Alyssa Bradley ], Ben Crompton [ Spud ], Matthew Flynn [ Jack Purdy ], Shaun Dooley [ Mark Purdy ], Nia Roberts [ Stacey Purdy ], Kate Miles [ Louise ], Danny Harfield [ Young Jack Purdy ], Joseph Scatley [ Young Mark Purdy ], Louisa Connolly-Burnham [ Young Louise ], Jade Gould [ Young Charlotte Knight ], Alfie Adams [ Young Patrick ], Alex Blake [ Bailiff ], Caroline Laskowska [ Young Mum ], Kirsty Dillon [ WPC Gail Stephens ], Nick Thomas-Webster [ Road Protestor (uncredited) ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    Lynne Fox continues to organise protests against the building of a bypass for Dunstan, even as its construction is well underway, and the house of Alyssa Bradley is to be demolished to make way for it. Her son Patrick Bradley disappeared nineteen years before, and was never found. Fox discovers the bodies of reclusive local couple, the Wilsons, in their cottage when she calls to enlist their support. Their son, Michael Wilson, was killed in a road accident twenty years before. Barnaby & Jones's investigations soon lead them to encounter a group of four old friends: the brothers Jack & Mark Purdy, who own a company involved in building the bypass; Louise, who is engaged to Mark; and Charlotte Knight, who is a local photographer drafted in to help with the police investigations into the deaths. Then at Mark & Louise's wedding, Jack is murdered, and someone unexpected shows up in the wedding photos.
    b: 20 Jul 08 w: Peter J Hammond d: Renny Rye

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64. "The Magician's Nephew"
    gs: Stuart Wilson [ Aloysius Wilmington ], Dominic Rowan [ Simon Wilmington ], Sian Brooke [ Christine Turner ], Michael FitzGerald [ Hugo Cartwright ], Ronald Pickup [ Ernest Balliol ], Brigit Forsyth [ Estelle Balliol ], Rachel Pickup [ Isolde Balliol ], Tom Goodman-Hill [ Tristan Balliol ], Rosemary McHale [ Rosemary Balliol ], David Roper [ Anton Thorneycroft ], Vivien Heilbron [ Felicity Brand ], Kate Crutchley [ Jean Wildacre ], Bill Thomas [ Derek Wildacre ], Angela Rippon [ Interviewer ], James Staddon [ Rector ], Olivia Thomas [ Elisabeth Shepherd ], Kirsty Dillon [ WPC Gail Stephens ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Cully Barnaby Dixon, Dr Bullard
    Jean Wildacre dies suspiciously during a performance as assistant to local magician Aloysius Wilmington, and Barnaby & Jones are called in. They have to investigate the relationships of Midsomer's Magic Circle, a group of old friends whose activities spun off a new cult, and led to long-running animosities. Soon they are looking for colorful South American poison-dart frogs, as the death count rises.
    b: 27 Jul 08 w: Michael Russell d: Richard Holthouse

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65. "Days of Misrule"
    gs: Elspeth Rae [ Layla Barkham ], Joseph Millson [ James Parkes ], Alexandra Morris [ Daisy Fisher ], Judy Parfitt [ Caroline Halsey ], Tim Pigott-Smith [ Col Matt Parkes ], Nick Fletcher [ CS John Cotton ], Niamh Cusack [ Penny Galsworthy ], Gus Gallagher [ Dale Mitchinson ], Sidney Livingstone [ Don Mitchinson ], Tom Beard [ Capt Tim Galsworthy ], Tony Bell [ Ed Lovell ], Alyson Spiro [ Nina Barkham ], Philip Martin Brown [ George Barkham ], Kirsty Dillon [ WPC Gail Stephens ], Adam Kirley [ Harry ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    Barnaby, Jones and colleagues are sent by their superior, Chief Superintendent Cotton, on a team-building exercise run by the local Territorial Army under Capt Tim Galsworthy & Col Matt Parkes. Joyce joins the local carol-singers. Meanwhile, there is an explosion at Parkes Freight, the company run by Col Parkes together with his ruthless son James who manages to rub most of the locals up the wrong way, unnecessarily. Then retired gangster Alec Granger is found dead in a toolbox in a local lake in Calham Woods, and so Barnaby & Jones have a murder investigation on their hands - but what was the victim, now resident in Spain, doing in Midsomer?
    b: 24 Dec 08 w: Elizabeth-Anne Wheal d: Renny Rye

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66. "Talking to the Dead"
    gs: Jeroen Krabbé [ Cyrus LeVanu ], Paul Jesson [ Lynton Pargeter ], Anton Lesser [ Rev Wallace Stone ], Victoria Wicks [ Sarah Stone ], Bill Ward [ Sam Nelms ], Richard Graham [ Stanley Goodfellow ], Paul Greenwood [ John Temple ], Anne Lambton [ Dr Mary McKay ], Elizabeth Payne [ Nesta Goodfellow ], Brian Parr [ Colin Thomas ], Sarah Huntley [ Molly Thomas ], Kirsty Dillon [ WPC Gail Stephens ], Rufus Jones [ Talk Show Host ], Clare Higgins [ Reader of 'Medea' ]
    rc: Joyce Barnaby, Dr Bullard
    Investigating the murder of Molly Thomas, Barnaby finds connections between a supposedly haunted forest, the traceless disappearances of two couples and a gang of antiques thieves.
    b: __ ___ 09 w: David Lawrence d: Sarah Hellings

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