An elderly woman is found dead in her own cottage and DCI Tom Barnaby is convinced the death is not a simple accident.
After a noted author speaks before a group of local Midsomer writers, the naked body of the event's host is found bludgeoned to death in his bedroom.
DCI Barnaby donates time to the local amateur dramatic society when his wife Joyce is cast in a revival of "Amadeus," but complications arise when the leading man is murdered onstage.
When the wife of a wealthy local businessman disappears, Barnaby finds that Fawcett Green harbors a complex web of financial and romantic entanglements.
DCI Barnaby needs all his wits about him as he investigates a string of deaths at a local New Age commune.
A group of five children - members of a secret society - peel away from the rest of the pupils and head towards the woods. There is something conspiratorial about them. They congregate at a ruined greenhouse and begin smashing the windows with bricks. Simon, one of the eldest boys, hands Felix, the youngest and most vulnerable of the group, a brick which he lobs at the greenhouse.
When Carla Constanza - the face of Brazil's leading cigarette brand for Monarch Tobacco - is found strangled in the infamous Strangler’s Wood, Barnaby and Troy not only find themselves investigating her murder, but three identical unsolved murders of innocent girls from eight years before.
Shock ripples across the village of Fletcher's Cross when a prominent businessman's trophy wife is bludgeoned to death with a cricket bar. While the victim had no apparent enemies, her avaricious husband, Robert Cavendish, is hated by all.
Some distance away the demented bee-like sound of an old moped cuts through the silence of the valley as Fleur motors her way through the village. She waves to the mild mannered shopkeeper, Peter Fairfax who is preparing his shop window. As Peter watches her go Tilly Dinsdale cycles past, wearing her usual green wellies and waxed jacket, in too much of a rush to stop - much to Peter's relief.
Fox hunting, taxidermy and Oscar Wilde are part of the backdrop as Barnaby and Troy investigate a series of murders, beginning with that of a tramp in the woods.
A visit to his convalescent aunt prompts Barnaby to investigate a series of suspicious deaths at the nursing home where she is staying.
When a local thief and womanizer is killed with a pitchfork, the residents of Midsomer Mallow fear for their chances in the Perfect Village Competition.
With much enthusiasm he recounts the story of The Battle of Aspern Tallow and the wealthy royalist, Jonathan Lowrie. He describes how Jonathan, having survived the conflict, made his way through the village, pausing only briefly to drink from the well, towards the church.
When an arrogant aristocratic family's decision to develop a memorial garden into a commercial tea shop has the villagers up in arms, murders past and present rear their heads.
When a hotel owner dies, the manager misses the reading of the will that names him part-owner.
The body of a criminal is found in a crop circle, and the locals blame extra terrestrial activity for the death. But Barnaby is not convinced.
Barnaby and Troy are drawn to Newton Magna where their search for a horse whisperer allegedly struck by a car is complicated by the discovery of a body in the town well.
The near decapitation of the local postman, whose hyperactive libido also makes him the village lothario, leads to a series of grisly murders involving other promiscuous villagers.
When the body of a local beauty is discovered by the pool at her manor house, Barnaby and Troy uncover a seedy world of adultery and deceit within the affluent rural community.
An investigation of a car fire and a bludgeon murder lead Barnaby and Troy to investigate the members of a local reading club which has an agenda that goes beyond books.
A woman is found dead in Setwale Wood, an apparent suicide, except that her suicide note is emailed after her body has already been sighted.
Someone is killing off bell ringers of parish church in the week before a big bell-ringing competition takes place in the village of Midsomer Wellow.
Barnaby investigates the murder of a boy during a traditional annual race at an exclusive private school but is met with resentment.
Something fishy is going on concerning the clubbing deaths of two local residents.
The investigation into an elaborate suicide leads Barnaby to suspect the dead man may have had help pulling the trigger.
Barnaby's wife finds a body on the Midsomer Florey village green while taking part in a watercolor class.
When heirs of the aristocratic Smythe-Webster family are killed, Barnaby's investigation uncovers long-hidden family secrets.
Investment in a secret invention leads to an apparent suicide in Midsomer Magna, and a plan to steal valuable falcon eggs leads to another death.
Barnaby and Troy tackle two separate cases as Troy prepares to leave Midsomer after his promotion to DI.
Barnaby's new sergeant, Dan Scott, arrives on the day after the murder of a local shrew occurs, and he is immediately put to work.
Long-suppressed family secrets, stolen artifacts, and a thirty year-old death at a Celtic burial site result in a series of murders in present-day Midsomer.
When Midsomer hosts its 12th Annual Literary Festival, an author is found with his neck broken. More writers will die before the winner of the competition is announced.
Midsomer Worthy's beloved local pub figures in a case involving unrequited love, secret business deals and passionate affairs.
Midsomer comes closer and closer to its boiling point when a priest is burned to death inside the effigy of a straw woman and more people burst into flames spontaneously, as though by witchcraft.
Nine years after Ferdy Villers killed himself, his family reunites for Christmas, unaware that someone is out for revenge.
Undertaker Patrick Pennyman is found dead with his wrists slashed and suspicion turns towards a spiritualist church.
During a regatta, the body of Rowing Club chairman Guy Sweetman is found bludgeoned and drowned. Bachelor Sweetman was prolifically promiscuous and jealousy would seem to be the motive.
Barnaby and Scott follow a trail of dead people involved in the collecting of rare orchids.
A four-member syndicate owns a racehorse that two of them are desperate to sell and two of them are determined to keep. When one of them is murdered, Barnaby is on the case.
John Ransom collapses and dies outside a pub after a fight with his brother-in-law over the baptism of his niece. He has electrical scars across the top of his head.
Troubled solicitor Nick Turner falls from the roof of his home. Is this suicide disguised as murder?
When a corporate giant tries to acquire a small but respected relish factory owned and run by a dysfunctional family, a naked body is found in the warehouse.
Deaths follow the discovery of a valuable musical manuscript sold cheaply at an auction.
A secluded old dark house, believed haunted by the residents of Midsomer Newton, becomes the scene of a double murder when a house-hunting yuppie couple is found garroted.
When Sergeant Scott falls ill, Barnaby and PC Ben Jones (Jason Hughes, "Killing Me Softly") investigate a series of murders linked to the death of a beauty queen which occurred several years previously.
Sir Freddy Butler collapses during a speech. The PM suggests the death is due to natural causes, however Barnaby is not convinced. Sir Freddy's will is stolen and his lawyer's house is burned down in an arson attack.
Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.
A 90-year-old battle of the sexes comes to a head in Midsomer Broughton, with casualties on both sides.
Controversy about a proposed supermarket ruining the quality of life in a small village, marital infidelity, contaminated soil and kinky sex lead to murder.
A heated competition among Midsomer church choirs is interrupted by the bludgeon murder of the Midsomer Worthy's tenor, a local artist.
Barnaby begins to think the damning evidence he helped provide to convict a murderess wasn't exactly as watertight as it first looked.
When the body of a young man is found at a WWII hangar full of exhaust fumes, it looks like suicide. But the man was not alone - and he was hit on the head before he died. Where is his girlfriend, newcomer Laura Sharp?
Super Sleuth: The Making Of Midsomer Murders MIDSOMER MURDERS is the biggest drama export out of the UK, becoming one of the most successful mysteries both in its domestic market and overseas. This special documentary examines Inspector Barnaby - his methods and techniques of investigation, from his time in the original novels through his translation to television. Super Sleuth goes behind the scenes on Midsomer Murders including interviews with stars John Nettles (Barnaby), Daniel Casey (Troy), Jane Wymark (Joyce Barnaby) and Laura Howard (Cully Barnaby) plus series producer Brian True-May, script writer Anthony Horowitz and novelist Caroline Graham.
When Faith Alexander arrives in Midsomer Deverell to meet her long-lost uncle Rex Masters, she is surprised to find he has disappeared and told everyone she was killed in a plane crash. Then Rex's body is found in the weir and his friends produce wills, each claiming to inherit his fortune.
When King's family enterprise shatters into pieces and its accountant winds up stabbed, Barnaby digs into rivalries of business and blood-while Jones explores secret Masonic rites.
30 years past their prime, the band Hired Guns hopes to play at the Midsomer Rocks Music Festival. But their fans are disappointed when someone kills the band members one by one.
The detectives have to decide if the murder of a young GP killed the wrong victim, or if the recently engaged Dr. James Kirkwood was really the intended target.
Barnaby is implicated in a murder when a photo of him in a passionate embrace with another woman is displayed shortly before the woman's estranged husband, photographer Lionel Bell, is strangled.
When Nick Cheyney, the director of a new adaptation of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' is beheaded by a guillotine on set, there is no shortage of suspects. Can Barnaby and Jones find the killer before the case becomes as bloody as the French Revolution?
Barnaby and Jones investigate a murder of a former friend and colleague in Midsomer Holm, a small village inhabited by reformed ex-cons.
A 90-year-long feud between two families, the Hicks and the Hammonds, appears to have escalated to murder.
Season 11 Extras, Map of Midsomer John Nettles explores the locations used when filming the popular mystery series.
Barnaby has to deal with a murder at the wedding reception for a local aristocratic family as well as daughter Cully's upcoming nuptials.
Jones is brought back to his home town to help investigate a series of murders linked to childhood friends and events that occurred years earlier.
When a man who has been missing for two weeks is found dead in the woods near Midsomer, Barnaby finds connections between him and a magazine editor known for his killer reviews of local hotels and restaurants.
The traditions of the Temple of Thoth, a local cult in Midsomer, appear to be related to a series of murders using poison of the poison dart frog.
During the Christmas days, Barnaby has to solve an explosion as well as a number of murders near a freight company while trying to cope with his acting CS who has very strong beliefs about teamwork.
Barnaby finds connections between a supposedly haunted forest, the traceless disappearances of two couples and a gang of antiquity thieves.
A member is killed with a golf club on the Whiteoaks Golf Course. During the investigation, Barnaby discovers Whiteoaks to be full of hatred, gambling, violence, jealousy and extortion.
The sale of a previously unknown painting by an 18th century painter sends Barnaby into an investigation of murders as well as art forgery.
A number of murders near a government safe house in Midsomer appear to be connected to a group of British spies stationed in East Berlin during the Cold War.
An air traffic computer system, based on the theories of an eccentric college professor, is denounced by the creator, causing a financial crisis for its backers.
The dead body of a local troublemaker and lady's man is found in the model village which is the chief tourist attraction of Little Worthy.
A cat burglar named "The Creeper" is breaking into the estates of Causton, and the alcoholic writer threatening a "tell-all" book about his friends turns up dead.
A troubled schoolteacher, subject to sleepwalking and quasi-paranoia, feels that an intruder has been in her house, and doubters find dead bodies to confirm her fears.
A tailor dies of a heart attack. Two years later, his widow is murdered on her way to the vicarage. The vicar is also murdered after receiving a mysterious letter.
The Causton Chamber of Commerce takes a bus trip to the seaside resort of Brighton, and a serial killer decapitates several of them with an ancient sword.
A Wild West show comes to Ford Florey and a serial killer starts to eliminate villagers in "Western" ways over a parcel of disputed swampland.
Jeff Bowmaker runs a profitable business in Midsomer Magna, conducting spooky "ghost tours" at night, but the unpopular village librarian turns up dead.
A gifted young pianist with emotional issues is in competition with other young talents for a scholarship to a prestigious private musical academy.
When a famous 1860 bareknuckle boxing bout is restaged with great pomp in Midsomer Morchard, dead bodies begin to pile up.
A group of conservationists objects to the development of a pristine part of the village and adherents from both sides of the disagreement become victims of a mysterious killer.
Joyce talks Barnaby into enrolling in a spa located in a remodeled manor house but the bodies start to pile up when he's there.
When a local DJ is crushed to death at a traditional girls' boarding school, new Midsomer DCI John Barnaby - cousin to Tom - discovers that murder and deception are never far away from the quaint villages.
The reclusive lives of an eccentric elderly couple come under police scrutiny when a social services investigator is murdered.
The drowning of a woman in a bathtub is the first in a series of copycat murders imitating infamous killings from the past.
Barnaby sends Jones undercover into a New Age cult to investigate the disappearance of a young woman who entered an introduction course and then never left the movement.
The gruesome discovery of a farmer's eviscerated body in an ancient stone circle is made just days before the spring equinox.
Local bootleggers come under suspicion after the disappearance of a government inspector.
Vandalism and violence send shock waves through Midsomer's cloistered nunnery.
Barnaby and Jones investigate whether competition between ornithology enthusiasts led to murder.
The DeQuettevilles and the Fleetwoods have been enemies since the English Civil War. Now, the DeQuettevilles are dying after seeing a headless horseman. Is the ancient feud to blame?
When a barrister is killed in Midsomer, suspicion falls on convicted murderer Grady Felton. But Grady has a solid alibi. Barnaby suspects he is working with an accomplice - until Grady himself is targeted in an arson attack.
During a total eclipse of the sun, an astronomer is bludgeoned to death by a meteor and an astrologer claims to have predicted each subsequent murder.
A film historian writing about a 1960s horror actress is killed in her home. It becomes the start of what appear to be a series of copycat murders based on the actress' films.
When a young girl wakes up from a mysterious coma, she finds that no one knows what happened to her boyfriend who disappeared around the same time she was attacked.
At the factory where the world-famous Midsomer Blue Cheese is made, a dairy worker is brutally murdered by a giant round of weaponized cheese.
Barnaby and his new partner, Detective Sergeant Charlie Nelson (Gwilym Lee), investigate the fatal stabbing of a man with an antique sword during a ghost-hunting party at a 'haunted' manor house.
A series of murders in Midsomer St Claire seems to be inspired by macabre images on a medieval fresco recently discovered in the church crypt.
When the landlord of Wyvern House meets a brutal and untimely death in his own woods, many aspersions are cast.
The owner of Finchmere airfield is dropped from a plane to meet a gruesome death. Are anti-craft campaigners behind his murder? Or does it link back to a WWII mission?
Barnaby and Nelson join forces with two female Danish police detectives after a Midsomer businessman is poisoned during a trip to Copenhagen.
Artist Suzie Colebrook is electrocuted by a roulette wheel shortly after discovering a break-in at her home in Luxton Deeping.
Pub landlady Hannah Altman is crushed to death by a giant Perspex box during a magic show by famous illusionist Gideon Latimer.
Festival organizer Toby Winning is found dead on the morning of the Lower Crosby Folk Festival, shortly after announcing plans to move the festival nearer to London.
When people start collapsing at the launch tasting of Midsomer Vineyard's newest sparkling wine, Kate Wilding discovers that the glasses had been laced with slug pellets.
When a wealthy landowner's body goes missing right after his death, a sinister web of secrets and lies is exposed in the village of Little Malton.
A local forest-ranger suffers a strange death after mysterious lights appear in the sky over UFO hot-spot Cooper Hill.
Cyclist Greg Eddon is murdered after winning the local leg of a national race, beating teammate Mitch McCordell at the last minute.
The grand opening of a new Sculpture Park is marred by murder in the picturesque Midsomer village of Angel's Rise.
A saint's bones are discovered in the village of Midsomer Cicely. When the body of the leader of the archaeological dig is found, detectives learn they were buried alive.
When the owner of an equestrian center is trampled by his own horse, Barnaby unravels a complex feud from the past.
When a man is found murdered during the reopening of a ghost village, Barnaby and his new temporary DS, Jamie Winter, must unravel a sinister web of lies from both past and present in order to catch the killer.
The Bleakridge Watch patrols the streets of their remote village, exposing anyone who steps outside the law. When one of their members dies, Barnaby uncovers just how far some people will go for power.
When star cricketer Leo Henderson dies during a tournament, the investigation draws Barnaby into a dangerous game with a surprise visitor from his past.
The discovery of a body covered in live rabbits reveals a sinister side to the local pet show. Is this a rivalry taken too far or is the killer driven by something darker?
When a young girl dressed in period attire slips away from a Jane Austen weekend and is found stabbed in the woods, Barnaby needs to look back in time to find the killer.
When a prize-winning violinist is killed and his Stradivarius stolen, Barnaby must sort through a myriad of suspects and motives to find the real killer.
Causton is buzzing at the opening of a new brewery on the site of a famously cursed Abbey. But excitement turns to fear when a man is found boiled to death in one of the vats. DCI Barnaby and DS Winter are puzzled; could this really be about beer?
When Mahesh Sidana - butterfly collector and founding member of an elite IQ society - is found murdered, pinned to a wall in a manner akin to his treasured butterfly specimens, DCI Barnaby and DS Winter are thrust into a crime that impacts not only on their community, but internationally.
Carver Valley’s comic festival is in full swing when the village is shocked by the murder of a former supermodel. With a scathing comic shaming several villagers as the only lead, Barnaby and Winter are left trying to separate fact from fiction.
Barnaby gets to relive his former days of sporting glory when a death at the local Rugby Club sends Barnaby and Winter into a muddle of rucks, old grudges, new romances… and artisanal chocolates?
Barnaby is less than impressed when Sarah drags him to a family friend's wedding. But things soon go from bad to worse when tragedy strikes and Barnaby is called into action to catch a murderer with an apparent penchant for local brides.
Things take a gruesome turn when Ferabbees Circus comes to town, bringing with it a chain of sinister clown sightings, threatening notes and deathly dangerous circus acts. Barnaby will have to face up to his fears in order to solve the case.
When a former ballroom-dance champion is found dead, Barnaby and Winter go toe-to-toe with rival dancers, jealous partners, and suspicious corporate sponsors.
The worlds of miniature dollhouses and real houses collide when a prolific real-estate agent is shot at the unveiling of a museum’s new dollhouse collection.
Barnaby and Winter are called to the home of a master beekeeper after he is injured trying to apprehend a thief. Suspicions fly when one of the locals is stung to death.
When participants in a fishing competition and an extreme obstacle course sabotage each other’s events, it’s not long before someone’s life is on the line.
After a local photographer wins an urban myth competition with his creation of The Wolf Hunter, it unexpectedly gains a cult following.
A local outcast, who was controversially acquitted of murder years previously, is the latest inductee into a post-operative heart rehab club. Following his arrival, members dreams of a second chance at life begin being cut short.
Barnaby is investigating the murder of Victor Karras, a manufacturer of exclusive board games, who appears to have been poisoned.
The annual scarecrow festival in Midsomer takes a terrible turn when dead bodies are found placed on piles next to the festival's straw creations. Barnaby's investigation shows a deep competitive rivalry that makes people do just about anything to win.
The Midsomer Mummers, a company for amateur opera, is in the middle of rehearsals for a charity concert when a dead body is found at the theatre. The investigation's goal is to find out which person has the greatest wishes to be at the centre of attention.
When a body is found surrounded by ritual symbols on the eve of a Psychic Fayre, Barnaby must step into the spiritual world of mediums, psychics, and occult followers to find the killer.
Death Of A Hollow Man - 1998 (Series 1, Episode 3)
The Electric Vendetta - 2001 (Series 4, Episode 3)
Murder on St. Malley's Day - 2002 (Series 5, Episode 3)
A Talent for Life - 2002 (Series 6, Episode 1)
Strangler's Wood - 1998 (Series 2, Episode 2)
An interview with Jason Hughes, who plays Detective Sergeant Ben Jones - the third character to act as Barnaby's assistant.
Presented by John Nettles, this anniversary special features stars past and present discussing the peculiar quirks of the delightful yet deadly county.
