Episodes cast for
"Midsomer Murders" (1997)

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

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Season 1

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

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

	John Nettles	...	D.C.I. Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	Barry Jackson	...	Dr Bullard
	Renée Asherson	...	Emily Simpson (as Renee Asherson)
	Rosalie Crutchley	...	Lucy Bellringer
	Jonathan Firth	...	Michael Lacey
	Emily Mortimer	...	Katherine Lacey
	Julian Glover	...	Henry Trace
	Selina Cadell	...	Phyllis Cadell
	Christopher Villiers	...	David Whitely
	Richard Cant	...	Dennis Rainbird
	Elizabeth Spriggs	...	Iris Rainbird
	Bill Wallis	...	Dr Trevor Lessiter
	Diana Hardcastle	...	Barbara Lessiter
	Jessica Hynes	...	Judith Lessiter (as Jessica Stevenson)
	Barbara Young	...	Anne Quine
	Avril Elgar	...	Mary Sharpe
	Cory Pulman	...	Terry Bazely
	Peter Jordan	...	Counseller 1
	Marlene Sidaway	...	Counseller 2
	Jonathan Oliver	...	Counseller 3
	Simon Godwin	...	Giovanni
	Neil Conrich	...	Duty Police Officer
	Paul Putner	...	Policeman
	Nigel Asbridge	...	Vicar

Season 1, Episode 2: Written in Blood

22 March 1998
The Midsomer Worthy Writers Circle invites well-known author Max Jennings to one of their monthly meetings. The group's secretary, Gerald Hadleigh is opposed to to the invitation, but is outvoted. It becomes apparent that Jennings and Hadleigh knew one another at one time. When Hadleigh is found dead the next day, Barnaby and Troy begin looking into the backgrounds of the various Circle members and try to locate Jennings. When they do find him he is, as they say, incapable of assisting them with their enquiries. A second murder adds to the puzzle but in the end, the solution rests on learning of long ago events and a hidden family secret. At home, the Barbabys agree to care for daughter Cully's Russian Blue cat Killmouskie, with interesting results for Tom.

	John Nettles	...	D.C.I. Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	Barry Jackson	...	Dr Bullard
	Anna Massey	...	Honoria Lyddiard
	Joanna David	...	Amy Lyddiard
	David Troughton	...	Brian Clapper
	John Shrapnel	...	Max Jennings
	Jane Booker	...	Laura Hutton
	Judith Scott	...	Sue Clapper
	Robert Swann	...	Gerald Hadleigh
	Una Stubbs	...	Selina Jennings
	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
	Neil Conrich	...	PC Angel
	Paul Putner	...	Policeman 2
	David Maybrick	...	Policeman 3
	Brian Parr	...	Mr Baker
	Bryan Burdon	...	Barman
	Richard Parkin	...	Brad (Cully's Boyfriend) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 3: Death of a Hollow Man

29 March 1998
Barnaby and Troy investigate the death of Agnes Gray, a middle-aged resident of Ferne Basset whose body is found floating in the river. The autopsy reveals that she was suffering from advanced cancer, but she was beaten to death with a metal bar. The police find her home ransacked and her clothes shredded. They also learn that she lived quite frugally and gave most of her money to charities. When Agnes's cousin Esslyn Carmichael dies on stage during a performance of the local theatrical society, Barnaby must determine what hidden secret has driven someone to murder.

	John Nettles	...	D.C.I. Tom Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Gavin Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	Barry Jackson	...	Dr. George Bullard
	Denyse Alexander	...	Agnes Gray
	Janine Duvitski	...	Dierdre Tibbs
	Ian Fitzgibbon	...	David Smy
	Geoffrey Hutchings	...	Colin Smy
	Bernard Hepton	...	Harold Winstanley
	Angela Pleasence	...	Doris Winstanley
	Sarah Badel	...	Rosa Carmichael
	Ed Waters	...	Nicholas Bentley
	Nicholas Woodeson	...	Avery Phillips (as Nick Woodeson)
	Richard Huw	...	Tim Young
	Nicholas Le Prevost	...	Esslyn Carmichael
	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
	Neil Conrich	...	PC Angel
	Megan Fisher	...	WPC Hitchens
	Eunice Roberts	...	TV Announcer
	Sonya Walger	...	Becky Smith
	Alan Leith	...	Mr. Green
	Iain Fraser	...	Constable
	Catherine Bott	...	Solo Voice
	Laurence Richardson	...	Police Officer (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 4: Faithful unto Death

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

	John Nettles	...	D.C.I. Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	Barry Jackson	...	Dr. Bullard
	Paul Brooke	...	Nigel Anderson
	Rosalind Ayres	...	Doreen Anderson
	Eleanor Summerfield	...	Elfrida Molfrey
	Peter Jones	...	Bunny Dawlish
	Tessa Peake-Jones	...	Sarah Lawton
	Lesley Vickerage	...	Simone Hollingsworth
	Roger Allam	...	Alan Hollingsworth
	Michele Dotrice	...	Felicity Buckley
	Paul Chapman	...	Reg Buckley
	Sophie Stanton	...	Brenda Buckley
	Mark Bazeley	...	Gray Patterson
	Alwyne Taylor	...	Catherine Bullard
	Andrew Powell	...	Vince Perry
	David Daker	...	Harry Vellacott
	Neville Phillips	...	Richard
	Ann Queensberry	...	Hermione
	Tom Mullion	...	Freddy

Season 1, Episode 5: Death in Disguise

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

	John Nettles	...	D.C.I. Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	Barry Jackson	...	Dr. Bullard
	Judy Cornwell	...	May Cuttle
	Charles Kay	...	Arno Gibbs
	Michael Feast	...	Ian Craigie
	Colin Farrell	...	Ken Beavers
	Diane Bull	...	Heather Beavers
	Stephen Moyer	...	Christopher Wainwright
	Miles Anderson	...	Guy Gamelin
	Susan Tracy	...	Felicity Gamelin
	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	...	Interviewer
	Geoffrey Beevers	...	Newscaster
	Siobhan O'Carroll	...	Waitress
	Brett Allen	...	Police Officier
	Guy Thompson	...	Roman General (uncredited)

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Death's Shadow

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

	John Nettles	...	DCI Tom Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sgt. Gavin Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	Barry Jackson	...	Dr. George Bullard
	Richard Briers	...	Stephen Wentworth
	Judy Parfitt	...	Angela Wentworth
	Julian Wadham	...	Simon Fletcher
	Dominic Jephcott	...	Richard Bayly
	Christopher Villiers	...	David Whitely
	Nick Dunning	...	Ian Eastman
	Jessica Turner	...	Brenda Eastman
	Vivian Pickles	...	Agnes Sampson
	Anna Cropper	...	Claire Williams
	Gordon Gostelow	...	Reginald Williams
	Mossie Smith	...	Barbara Henson
	Terence Corrigan	...	Charles Jennings
	Nick Robinson	...	Felix Bryce
	Eileen Davies	...	Olive Beauvoisin
	Timothy Bateson	...	Mr. Jocelyne
	Marlene Sidaway	...	Mrs. Bundy
	Neil Conrich	...	PC Angel

Season 2, Episode 2: Strangler's Wood

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

	John Nettles	...	D.C.I. Tom Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Gavin Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	Peter Eyre	...	Leonard Pike
	Kathleen Byron	...	Dorothea Pike
	Frank Windsor	...	George Meakham
	Anne Stallybrass	...	Emily Meakham
	Trudie Styler	...	Liz Frances
	Jeremy Clyde	...	Bill Mitchell
	Phyllis Logan	...	Kate Merrill
	Nicholas Farrell	...	John Merrill (as Nick Farrell)
	Tom Eilenberg	...	David Merrill
	Debbie Chazen	...	Anna Santarosa
	Betty Romani	...	Carla Constanza (as Betti Romani)
	Toby Jones	...	Dan Peterson (pathologist)
	Cyril Shaps	...	Sebastian Renwick
	Katy Brittain	...	Gloria Bradley
	Neil Conrich	...	P.C. Angel
	Frank Carson	...	Nick (as Frankie Carson)
	Anthony Howes	...	Milkman
	Elizabeth Tyrrell	...	Ticket Seller
	Tara Hugo	...	Ad Woman
	George Lane Cooper	...	Brazilian Bandit
	Rebecca Charles	...	Path Lab Assistant

Season 2, Episode 3: Dead Mans Eleven

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

	John Nettles	...	D.C.I. Tom Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Gavin Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	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	...	Christine Cooper
	Terence Rigby	...	Ian Frasier
	Delia Lindsay	...	Zelda Frasier
	Zoë Hart	...	Patricia Smith (as Zoe Hart)
	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

Season 2, Episode 4: Blood Will Out

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

	John Nettles	...	D.C.I. Tom Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Gavin Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	Barry Jackson	...	Dr. George Bullard
	Kevin McNally	...	Orville Tudway
	John Duttine	...	Will Saxby
	Elizabeth Garvie	...	Muriel Saxby
	Paul Jesson	...	Hector Bridges
	Tricia George	...	Jenny Bridges
	Honeysuckle Weeks	...	Fleur Bridges
	Rowena Cooper	...	Tilly Dinsdale
	Phyllida Law	...	Felicity Dinsdale
	Ian Thompson	...	Peter Fairfax
	Daniel Betts	...	Stefan Miller
	Jerome Willis	...	John Smith
	Nick Moran	...	Michael Smith
	Elizabeth Thomas	...	Rachel Smith
	David Allister	...	Major Harry Tomkinson
	Francis Lee	...	Shop Assistant

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Death of a Stranger

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

	John Nettles	...	D.C.I. Tom Barnaby
	Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Gavin Troy
	Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
	Laura Howard	...	Cully Barnaby
	Richard Johnson	...	James Fitzroy
	Jennifer Hilary	...	Sarah Fitzroy
	Dominic Mafham	...	Grahame Tranter
	Diane Fletcher	...	Marcia Tranter
	Sarah Winman	...	Kate Tranter
	James Bolam	...	Ron Pringle
	Janet Dale	...	Betty Pringle
	Jeanne Hepple	...	Linda Wagstaff
	Peter Bayliss	...	Tramp
	Jane Wood	...	Cathy Gurdie
	Fred Ridgeway	...	Ben Gurdie
	Tom Smith	...	Billy Gurdie
	Jonie Broom	...	Dave Hedges
	Arlene Cockburn	...	Charlotte
	Simon McBurney	...	Henry Carstairs (as Simon Mcburney {in end credits})
	David Maybrick	...	Policeman
	Toby Jones	...	Dan Peterson
	Patricia Valentine	...	Sandra
	Shenagh Govan	...	Matron
	Frank Mills	...	Fred Rodale
	Eve Pearce	...	Lady Bracknell
	Grant Gillespie	...	Jack Worthing