Pilot 1997

"The Killings at Badger's Drift"

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.

1st Series 1998

"Written in Blood"
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.

"Death of a Hollow Man"

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.

1. "Faithful unto Death"

An investigation into the finances of a village community crafts centre takes a sinister turn when the
wife of the centre’s owner disappears and a neighbour is murdered.
2. "Death in Disguise"
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.

2nd Series 1999

3. "Death's Shadow"
A successful 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 tumour, a property
developer in the village is savagely murdered with an Indian sword belonging to a vicar. Barnaby &
Troy investigate 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.

4. "Strangler's Wood"
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.

5. "Dead Man's Eleven"

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.

6. "Blood Will Out"

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
grudge against him. Things are complicated still further by the presence of a group of travellers on the
village common, who proceed to hold a horse-race.

3rd Series 1999/2000

7. "Death of a Stranger"
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,
who 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.

8. "Blue Herrings"
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.

9. "Judgement Day"
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.

10. "Beyond the Grave"

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.

4th Series 2000/2001

11. "Garden of Death"
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, has 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.

12. "Destroying Angel"

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.

13. "The Electric Vendetta"

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.

14. "Who Killed Cock Robin?"

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.
15. "Dark Autumn"
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.

16. "Tainted Fruit"

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.

5th Series 2002

17. "Market for Murder"
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.

18. "A Worm in the Bud"

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.

19. "Ring out Your Dead"

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.

20. "Murder on St Malley's Day"

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.

6th Series 2003

21. "A Talent for Life"
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?

22. "Death and Dreams"

Martin Wroath, a man in the process of divorce, and disliked 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.

23. "Painted in Blood"

Joyce Barnaby finds a dead woman while water-colour 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.

24. "A Tale of Two Hamlets"

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?

25. "Birds of Prey"

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.

7th Series 2003/2004

26. "The Green Man"
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.

27. "Bad Tidings"

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.

28. "The Fisher King"

Thirty years ago, Roger Heldman, notorious in the locality as a womaniser, died one night at the site of
an archaeological 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.

29. "Sins of Commission"

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.

30. "The Maid in Splendour"

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.

31. "The Straw Woman"

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 rumours 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.

32. "Ghosts of Christmas Past"

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.

8th Series 2004/2005

33. "Things that Go Bump in the Night"
Barnaby's suspicions centre 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.

34. "Dead in the Water"

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.

35. "Orchis Fatalis"

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.

36. "Bantling Boy"

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.

37. "Second Sight"

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.

38. "Hidden Depths"

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 neighbour, 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.

39. "Sauce for the Goose"

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.

40. "Midsomer Rhapsody"

Joan Alder, the local composer of a very successful piece of music, Midsomer Rhapsody, died twenty
years ago, leaving bitterness 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 appear to be
an early draft of the work as 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.

9th Series 2005/2006

41. "The House in the Woods"
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.

42. "Dead Letters"

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 centre around Bella Slade.

43. "Vixen's Run"

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.

44. "Down among the Dead Men"

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 uncatalogued
wreck.

45. "Four Funerals and A Wedding"

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?

46. "Country Matters"

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?

47. "Death in Chorus"

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.

48. "Last Year's Model"

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.

10th Series 2006/2008

49. "Dance with the Dead"
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.

50. "The Animal Within"

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.

51. "King's Crystal"

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, is 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.
52. "The Axeman Cometh"
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.

53. "Death and Dust"

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.

54. "A Picture of Innocence"

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.

55. "They Seek Him Here"

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.

56. "Death in a Chocolate Box"

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.

11th Series 2008

57. "Shot at Dawn"
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.

58. "Blood Wedding"

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?

59. "Left for Dead"

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, shortly before Mark & Louise's wedding, Jack is murdered, and someone unexpected
shows up in the wedding photos.

60. "Midsomer Life"

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.

61. "The Magician's Nephew"

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 colourful South American poison-dart frogs, as the
death count rises.

62. "Days of Misrule"

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?

63. "Talking to the Dead"

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.

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64. "The Dogleg Murders"
The Whiteoaks Golf Club is home to a fiendishly difficult 13th green in the shape of a dogleg, known
as Crisp's Folly, after the former owner of a very old house nearby. The chairman, Martin Crisp, is
trying to buy the house back, as he's the grandson of the owner whose debts lost it for the family. The
club members treat with disdain the 'village members' who are only allowed to use the course at very
restricted times, which leads to resentments. And there's the strange Fountain family, whose various
members have worked at the club for decades: a scheming mother and two feuding brothers. When
one of the members is found murdered off Crisp's Folly, Barnaby & Jones's enquiries uncover
gambling and other dubious financial dealings leading to blackmail among the members and staff.

65. "The Black Book"

A newly identified painting by Midsomer artist Henry Hogson sells for £400,000 at auction to a Texan
collector, George Arlington. Shortly after, the former owner is tortured and killed, and another Hogson
painting is stolen. Matilda Simms, the daughter of Henry Hogson, helps Barnaby familiarise himself
with Hogson's work, enabling him to spot the sign of a forgery.
66. "Secrets and Spies"
Barnaby is persuaded to umpire at a local cricket match. A member of MI6 is murdered while staying
at Allenby, a government safe house in Midsomer, run by a retired spymaster. Barnaby was briefly
recruited to MI6 at the start of his career, and he goes to meet his former boss again, but is then
removed from the case, until there is another murder and he is reinstated. He becomes convinced that
the murders are connected with the time that many of the members of the Allenby household spent in
East Berlin during the Cold War.

67. "The Glitch"

George Jeffers, a science research fellow in St Frideswide's College of Midsomer University, threatens
to make public a serious problem with Kernel Logic, a field of computing which he invented and is
being used by a locally-based company to make a new world air traffic control system. The college
and Clinton Finn, the company's American head, are increasingly desperate to stop him, as it would
threaten the company's profits, and the chances of the company giving a new building to the college.
Local villagers are despairing of the fast cars driven thoughtlessly by the firm's staff, which appears to
have led someone to throw paint over the cars and their drivers. Jeffers is a keen cyclist and helps
organise the many local cyclists on the Pilgrim's Ride to the ruined monastery of Midsomer Sanctae
each year. A schoolteacher is killed in a hit-and-run accident, and it looks like the antipathy between
the cyclists and company staff is getting out of hand, until Barnaby suspects that it was a murder
attempt that got the wrong person.

68. "Small Mercies"

Local trouble-maker Richard Tanner is found dead in the model village in Little Worthy, with his body
tied down like Gulliver in the land of Lilliput. Barnaby & Jones interview the man's ex-girlfriend,
Rebecca Rix, his current girlfriend, Christa Palfrey, and her father, Edward Palfrey, and his new love,
Bernice, the model maker, Bob Moss, the two elderly women who own the tourist attraction, the
Comptons, the owners of the local gift-shop, the Johnsons, and the owners of the local tea-rooms, the
Doves. Then at the local fancy-dress boat race, another resident of the village is found murdered.

69. "The Creeper"

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70. "The Great and the Good"

Original
Episode # Prod # Air Date Titles
_____ ______ ___________ ___________

Season 1

1. 1- 1 8 Jan 89 The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

2. 1- 2 15 Jan 89 Murder in the Mews
3. 1- 3 22 Jan 89 The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
4. 1- 4 29 Jan 89 Four and Twenty Blackbirds
5. 1- 5 5 Feb 89 The Third Floor Flat
6. 1- 6 12 Feb 89 Triangle at Rhodes
7. 1- 7 19 Feb 89 Problem at Sea
8. 1- 8 26 Feb 89 The Incredible Theft
9. 1- 9 5 Mar 89 The King of Clubs
10. 1-10 19 Mar 89 The Dream

Season 2

11. 2- 1 7 Jan 90 Peril at End House (1)

12. 2- 2 7 Jan 90 Peril at End House (2)
13. 2- 3 14 Jan 90 The Veiled Lady
14. 2- 4 21 Jan 90 The Lost Mine
15. 2- 5 28 Jan 90 The Cornish Mystery
16. 2- 6 4 Feb 90 The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
17. 2- 7 11 Feb 90 Double Sin
18. 2- 8 18 Feb 90 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
19. 2- 9 25 Feb 90 The Kidnapped Prime Minister
20. 2-10 4 Mar 90 The Adventure of the Western Star
21. 2-11 16 Sep 90 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1)
22. 2-12 16 Sep 90 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (2)

Season 3

23. 3- 1 6 Jan 91 How Does Your Garden Grow?

24. 3- 2 13 Jan 91 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
25. 3- 3 20 Jan 91 The Plymouth Express
26. 3- 4 27 Jan 91 Wasps' Nest
27. 3- 5 3 Feb 91 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
28. 3- 6 10 Feb 91 The Double Clue
29. 3- 7 17 Feb 91 The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
30. 3- 8 24 Feb 91 The Theft of the Royal Ruby
31. 3- 9 3 Mar 91 The Affair at the Victory Ball
32. 3-10 10 Mar 91 The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

Season 4

33. 4- 1 5 Jan 92 The ABC Murders (1)

34. 4- 2 5 Jan 92 The ABC Murders (2)
35. 4- 3 12 Jan 92 Death in the Clouds (1)
36. 4- 4 12 Jan 92 Death in the Clouds (2)
37. 4- 5 19 Jan 92 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1)
38. 4- 6 19 Jan 92 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (2)

Season 5

39. 5- 1 17 Jan 93 The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

40. 5- 2 24 Jan 93 The Underdog
41. 5- 3 31 Jan 93 Yellow Iris
42. 5- 4 7 Feb 93 The Case of the Missing Will
43. 5- 5 14 Feb 93 The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
44. 5- 6 21 Feb 93 The Chocolate Box
45. 5- 7 28 Feb 93 Dead Man's Mirror
46. 5- 8 7 Mar 93 Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

Special

S- 1 1 Jan 95 Hercule Poirot's Christmas

S- 2 12 Feb 95 Hickory Dickory Dock
S- 3 11 Feb 96 Murder on the Links

Season 6

50. 6- 4 16 Mar 97 Dumb Witness

Season 7

51. 7- 1 2 Jan 00 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

52. 7- 2 19 Feb 00 Lord Edgware Dies

Season 8

53. 8- 1 20 Apr 01 Evil Under the Sun

54. 8- 2 8 Jul 01 Murder in Mesopotamia

Season 9

55. 9- 1 14 Dec 03 Five Little Pigs

56. 9- 2 26 Dec 03 Sad Cypress
57. 9- 3 12 Apr 04 Death on the Nile
58. 9- 4 26 Apr 04 The Hollow

Season 10

59. 10- 1 1 Jan 06 The Mystery of the Blue Train

60. 10- 2 19 Mar 06 Cards on the Table
61. 10- 3 26 Mar 06 After the Funeral
62. 10- 4 2 Apr 06 Taken at the Flood

Season 11

63. 11- 1 14 Sep 08 Mrs McGinty's Dead

64. 11- 2 21 Sep 08 Cat among the Pigeons
65. 11- 3 28 Sep 08 Third Girl
66. 11- 4 25 Dec 09 Appointment with Death

Season 12

67. 12- 1 3 Jan 10 Three Act Tragedy

68. 12- 2 The Clocks
69. 12- 3 Hallowe'en Party
70. 12- 4 Murder on the Orient Express