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Season 1

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

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

Season 1, Episode 2: Written in Blood

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

Season 1, Episode 3: Death of a Hollow Man

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

Season 1, Episode 4: Faithful unto Death

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

Season 1, Episode 5: Death in Disguise

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

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Death's Shadow

Original Air Date—20 January 1999
Barnaby and his wife plan to renew their wedding vows for their 25th anniversary, but he is distracted by the investigation of a brutal murder committed with an Indian sword.

Season 2, Episode 2: Strangler's Wood

Original Air Date—3 February 1999
The nude body of a Brazilian woman is found strangled in the woods, which suggests that a serial killer from nine years before has begun killing again.

Season 2, Episode 3: Dead Man's Eleven

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

Season 2, Episode 4: Blood Will Out

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

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: Death of a Stranger

Original Air Date—31 December 1999
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.

Season 3, Episode 2: Blue Herrings

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

Season 3, Episode 3: Judgement Day

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

Season 3, Episode 4: Beyond the Grave

Original Air Date—5 February 2000
Barnaby and Troy, with an actor tagging along for research, investigate a slashed painting at a museum, which later turns out to be the site of a murder.

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: Garden of Death

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

Season 4, Episode 2: Destroying Angel

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

Season 4, Episode 3: The Electric Vendetta

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

Season 4, Episode 4: Who Killed Cock Robin?

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

Season 4, Episode 5: Dark Autumn

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

Season 4, Episode 6: Tainted Fruit

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

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: Market for Murder

Original Air Date—16 June 2002
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.

Season 5, Episode 2: A Worm in the Bud

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

Season 5, Episode 3: Ring Out Your Dead

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

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

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

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: A Talent for Life

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

Season 6, Episode 2: Death and Dreams

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

Season 6, Episode 3: Painted in Blood

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

Season 6, Episode 4: A Tale of Two Hamlets

Original Air Date—24 January 2003
When heirs of the aristocratic Smythe-Webster family are killed, one by explosion and another by electrocution, Barnaby's investigation uncovers long-hidden family secrets.

Season 6, Episode 5: Birds of Prey

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

Season 7

Season 7, Episode 1: The Green Man

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

Season 7, Episode 2: Bad Tidings

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

Season 7, Episode 3: The Fisher King

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

Season 7, Episode 4: Sins of Commission

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

Season 7, Episode 5: The Maid in Splendour

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

Season 7, Episode 6: The Straw Woman

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

Season 7, Episode 7: Ghosts of Christmas Past

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

Season 8

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

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

Season 8, Episode 2: Dead in the Water

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

Season 8, Episode 3: Orchis Fatalis

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

Season 8, Episode 4: Bantling Boy

Original Air Date—16 January 2005
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.

Season 8, Episode 5: Second Sight

Original Air Date—23 January 2005
DCI Barnaby and Sgt. Scott investigate the death of John Ransom in the village of Midsomer Mere. He had just been ejected from a pub for fighting but the post mortem shows a series of burn marks on his skull indicating he may have been subject to electric shock. The police find that the dead man's brother Max was conducting experiments in precognition and had applied the shocks. As Barnaby delves deeper, he learns of an ongoing dispute between the Ransom and the Kirby families over whether a newborn niece should be baptized. The families have a long history of fighting and both claim to have the power of second sight.

Season 8, Episode 6: Hidden Depths

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

Season 8, Episode 7: Sauce for the Goose

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

Season 8, Episode 8: Midsomer Rhapsody

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

Season 9

Season 9, Episode 1: The House in the Woods

Original Air Date—9 October 2005
A secluded old dark house, believed haunted by the residents of Midsomer Newton, becomes the scene of a double murder when a househunting yuppie couple is found garroted.

Season 9, Episode 2: Dead Letters

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

Season 9, Episode 3: Vixen's Run

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

Season 9, Episode 4: Down Among the Dead Men

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

Season 9, Episode 5: Four Funerals and a Wedding

Original Air Date—12 June 2006
Out on a family excursion, accompanied by Joyce, daughter Cully and Joyce's mother who is visiting, the Chief Inspector soon finds himself investigating the murder of Mildred Danvers, whose flask of brandy was apparently spiked with barbiturates. They were all there to attend the annual Skimmington Fair, a decades-old village fête that essentially pitted the women against the misogynist men. There are several suspects including Henry Marwood who returned Danvers' flask to her but has lied to the police about it; the local Doctor who seems just a tad too quick to pronounce the death to be of natural causes; and the Rev. Anthony Gant who, in addition to being Mrs. Danvers' cousin, was also mounting a court action against the Skimmington women in a attempt to stop what he saw as the annual denigration of men. A second murder, this time from a target shooting rifle, clearly puts Barnaby and DS Jones in the middle of a major investigation. A third death leads to the discovery of hidden family connections and the solution to the mystery.

Season 9, Episode 6: Country Matters

Original Air Date—19 June 2006
Controversy about a proposed supermarket ruining the quality of life in a small village, marital infidelity, contaminated soil, and kinky sex lead to murder

Season 9, Episode 7: Death in Chorus

Original Air Date—26 June 2006
A heated competition among Midsomer church choirs is interrupted by the bludgeon murder of the Midsomer Worthy's tenor, a local artist.

Season 9, Episode 8: Last Year's Model

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

Season 10

Season 10, Episode 1: Dance with the Dead

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

Season 10, Episode 2: The Animal Within

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

Season 10, Episode 3: King's Crystal

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

Season 10, Episode 4: The Axeman Cometh

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

Season 10, Episode 5: Death and Dust

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

Season 10, Episode 6: A Picture of Innocence

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

Season 10, Episode 7: They Seek Him Here

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

Season 10, Episode 8: Death in a Chocolate Box

Original Air Date—28 August 2007
Lord Holm, an aristocrat who once served a prison sentence for killing his sluttish wife, has turned his home into a rehabilitation centre for other ex-offenders. Gina and Jack Colby, married ex-police officers, assist him, Jack as administrator and Gina as a counsellor. Jack has expressed concerns over the hostel's financial situation shortly before he is murdered. Eddie Marston, a new arrival at the hostel, over whose admittance Tom Barnaby has had misgivings, goes missing, and the local postman, a disgraced former policeman, tells Tom that he has been blackmailing Jack over information given him by Marston when they were cell-mates. Also in the frame is the bad-tempered local inn-keeper, whose neglected wife had been using Jack as a confidant. Nothing is ever simple when investigating a Midsomer murder.

Season 11

Season 11, Episode 1: Shot at Dawn

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

Season 11, Episode 2: Blood Wedding

Original Air Date—10 May 2008
A wedding involving one of Midsomer's oldest and wealthiest families triggers a number of murders.

Season 11, Episode 3: Left for Dead

Original Air Date—24 May 2008
Near the construction site of a bypass an elderly couple are found dead in their home. Later, the manager of the company building the bypass is found murdered and Barnaby finds connections between the recent events and the disappearance of a young boy years earlier.

Season 11, Episode 4: Midsomer Life

Original Air Date—31 May 2008
When a man who's 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 killing reviews of local hotels and restaurants.

Season 11, Episode 5: The Magician's Nephew

Original Air Date—14 June 2008
The traditions of a local cult in Midsomer, the Temple of Thoth, appear to be related to a series of murders using poison of the poison dart frog.

Season 11, Episode 6: Days of Misrule

Original Air Date—5 July 2008
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.

Season 11, Episode 7: Talking to the Dead

Original Air Date—5 August 2008
Barnaby finds connections between a supposedly haunted forest, the traceless disappearances of two couples and a gang of antiquity thieves.

Season 12

Season 12, Episode 1: The Dogleg Murders

Original Air Date—19 March 2009
On the Midsomer Golfclub Whiteoaks a member is killed with a golfclub. In the course of the investigation they discover Whiteoaks to be full of hatred, gambling, violence, jealousy and extortion.

Season 12, Episode 2: The Black Book

Original Air Date—26 March 2009
The sale of a previously unknown painting by an 18th century painter sends Barnaby into an investigation of murders as well as art forgery.

Season 12, Episode 3: Secrets and Spies

Original Air Date—7 July 2009
A number of murders near a government safe house in Midsomer appears to be connected to a group of British spies stationed in East Berlin during the Cold War.

Season 12, Episode 4: The Glitch

Original Air Date—21 July 2009
Midsomer's cycling club is amused by the Bucketman, who throws red paint over road hogs, all employees of the Soft Earth computer company, the latest victim being its pompous boss Clinton Finn. Club president George Jeffers also angers Finn by threatening to expose a glitch in the air traffic control system Dr. Jeffers has devised, the scrapping of which will cost Finn millions. Another club member,Emily, is killed in a nocturnal hit-and-run whilst riding the bike belonging to Jeffers, whom Barnaby sees as the real intended target though Jeffers' ex-wife, who is seeing Finn, blames Emily for her marriage breakdown. Garage owner Dan Snape is murdered when he apparently finds a clue whilst working on one of the Bucketman's victim's car, which he is about to relay to Dr. Jeffers. However, the killer is closer to home with motives of family loyalty and the identity of the Bucketman brings Jeffers closer to his young son, though no charges can be pressed because of a glitch.

Season 12, Episode 5: Small Mercies

Original Air Date—20 September 2009

Season 12, Episode 6: The Creeper

Original Air Date—27 September 2009

Season 12, Episode 7: The Great and the Good

Original Air Date—4 October 2009

Season 13

Season 13, Episode 1: The Made for Measure Murder

Original Air Date—2009

Season 13, Episode 2: The Sword of Guillaume

Original Air Date—2009

Season 13, Episode 3: Blood on the Saddle

Original Air Date—2009

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