7.9/105 votes#1 - Hidden Depths
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 3/13/2005
When local solicitor Nick Turner falls to his death from his house roof, it is not clear whether it was murder or suicide.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: David Hoskins
7.8/105 votes#2 - The Green Man
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/2003
The Barnaby-Troy partnership is about to come to an end, as Troy has passed his inspector's exam and is moving on. However, the murderers of Midsomer go on piling up the bodies. Joyce Barnaby gets trapped in a fallen canal tunnel, and in getting her out seven skeletons come to light in a hidden chamber. Meanwhile, two local tearaways are shot dead in the woods at Midsomer Worthy, and a tramp called Tom is accused of the killings. While Troy looks into the shootings, Barnaby wrestles with an old mystery. And although six of the skeletons found in the tunnel date from the 18th century, one is much more recent.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Michael Russell
7.8/105 votes#3 - Death and Dust
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 5/8/2007
When Dr Alan Delaney is killed by a hit and run driver, Barnaby realises the real target was Delaney's senior partner, Dr James Kirkwood. Is the killer trying to prevent James from marrying beautiful divorcee Delyth Mostyn? And how is his death linked to £30,000 which is missing from the surgery accounts? Barnaby and Jones must travel to Snowdonia to unravel the truth.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Douglas Watkinson
7.7/105 votes#4 - Market for Murder
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 6/16/2002
A ladies reading group in Midsomer Market starts losing members to murder.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Andrew Payne
7.7/106 votes#5 - Painted in Blood
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/2003
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.Barnaby is given the case, then finds himself taken off it and replaced by a team from the National Intelligence Squad, while he is assigned to deal with a missing handbag. However, he continues his investigation into the murder, finding deceit and double-dealing. It appears that 'Miss Fairfax' was not an elderly spinster at all, but a young detective sergeant from the National Intelligence Squad working under cover, and that her colleagues are busy fitting up the village handyman for the murder of an old lady who never was. He discovers that someone is busy hunting for some five million pounds still missing from an old robbery. In the closing moments, Barnaby has to lock two of the National Intelligence Squad's officers in a bank strong-room, where they are trying to snatch the missing cash, and to arrest the
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Andrew Payne
7.7/103 votes#6 - Talking to the Dead
Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 8/5/2008
Two couples disappear in the tiny village of Monks Barton amid rumours of witchcraft and haunted woods. As Barnaby and Jones investigate, psychic Cyrus LeVanu clashes with cleric Wallace Stone over their different methods of `healing' the woods, while other locals seem to be caught up in a stolen antiques racket. When a body is unearthed and the death toll rises, the detectives race to find a connection between the missing couples and the thefts to catch the killer.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: N/A
7.4/105 votes#7 - The Straw Woman
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 2/29/2004
When a traditional festival is revived at Midsomer Parva, it goes disastrously wrong, with the curate (or assistant priest) being burnt alive inside a straw effigy of a woman. Local property owner Alan Clifford holds a party at the Manor House, and it seems he has secrets... And then, just after finding a pig's head on the altar of the parish church, the dead curate's gay lover, the Reverend Jim Hale, dies too, seemingly of 'spontaneous combustion' - that is, he bursts into flames without any normal explanation. Barnaby refuses to believe in rumours of witchcraft and is vindicated when it proves that Hale's clothes had been sprinkled with phosphorus. Then, with Barnaby hot on the killer's trail, Liz Francis is knocked out with a candlestick and becomes the third villager to be burnt alive.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Jeff Dodds
7.4/104 votes#8 - Bantling Boy
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 1/16/2005
DCI Tom Barnaby and Sgt Dan Scott investigate the murders of a horse-racing syndicate.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Steve Trafford
7.4/105 votes#9 - They Seek Him Here
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2008
Nick Cheney was once a successful director, but he has now ended up mainly directing low-budget films. We meet him as he is directing The Scarlet Pimpernel at Magna Manor. A former convict, Jed Norris, has been hired as a security guard on the film set, and one night he finds the director dead, beheaded by the use of a guillotine.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Barry Purchese
7.2/105 votes#10 - Four Funerals and a Wedding
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/2006
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?
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Elizabeth-Anne Wheal
6.4/106 votes#11 - Ring Out Your Dead
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/15/2002
In the village of Midsomer Wellow, someone is killing off the bellringers 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. Before he can crack the case, Barnaby has to understand the significance of an old killing in the same village in the year 1860, when the Midsomer Wellow Vicar of the day, the Reverend Jonathan Ebbrell, was murdered and thrown down a well by the bellringers of his church. So where are the Ebbrells now?
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Christopher Russell
6.3/107 votes#12 - Death in Chorus
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 9/3/2006
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.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: David Harsent
6.1/107 votes#13 - A Talent for Life
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/2003
Accusations of unsportsmanlike conduct on the river are bedevilling the Midsomer game fishermen, and Barnaby has to interview elegant widow Isobel Hewitt, a spendthrift, fast-living, Jaguar-driving 75-year-old, when another lady fly-fisher accuses her of a violent assault. Then first Isobel and later her fellow villager Dr Duncan Goff are found on the river-bank with their skulls smashed in, and there is no shortage of suspects - including an antique dealer who apparently specializes in befriending elderly widows. The picture is confused when one of the suspects, chef-restaurateur Keith Scholey, is found frozen to death in his walk-in deep freeze, with the lock of the door jammed by a nail. Troy has a theory that Scholey was the killer and has made his suicide look like murder, but will that be the end of the affair?
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: David Hoskins
5.0/104 votes#14 - The Mark of the Rani (1)
Season 22 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1985
England, the 1820s. As the Industrial Revolution gathers pace, the village of Killingworth is disturbed by crazed Luddite miners intent on smashing all machinery and engineers. But is there another cause of the situation?
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Pip Baker
4.7/103 votes#15 - The Mark of the Rani (2)
Season 22 Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/1985
The Master uses The Rani's mind-controlling parasites to keep a meeting of Earth's leading scientists from being cancelled, and helps her plant transformation land mines for The Doctor, as he continues to propose an alliance with her in ruling over Earth.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Pip Baker
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"Hidden Depths" is the best rated episode directed by Sarah Hellings. It scored 7.9/10 based on 5 votes. It was written by David Hoskins. It aired on 3/13/2005 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Green Man".