Midsomer Murders

The Best Episodes of Midsomer Murders

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Every episode of Midsomer Murders ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Midsomer Murders!

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and...
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  1. 8.4/10(8 votes)

    #1 - Till Death Do Us Part

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    S20:E5

    Barnaby is less than impressed when Sarah drags him to a wedding. But things go from bad to worse when Barnaby must unveil a murderer with an apparent penchant for local brides.

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    Director:N/A
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  2. 8.3/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Fit for Murder

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    S13:E8

    Barnaby reluctantly accompanies Joyce on a spa weekend to Swavely Manor. But as he attempts to de-stress, a woman is found dead in the flotation chamber. He abandons his treatment to investigate, but his personal worries are never far away as he contemplates his future.

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  3. 8.2/10(1.5k votes)

    #3 - Death's Shadow

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    S2:E1

    Barnaby and Troy are in Badger's Drift again, this time to investigate the murder of an unpopular property developer called Richard Bayly who had been suffering from a brain tumour. Bayly had recently come up with plans to build a new housing estate in the sleepy village, despite determined local opposition, and he was killed with an Indian sword belonging to Stephen Wentworth, the local Vicar. Another interesting factor is the recent arrival in the village of Simon Fletcher, a theatre director with unhappy childhood memories and perhaps an old grievance.

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  4. 8.2/10(1.5k votes)

    #4 - Judgement Day

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    S3:E3

    Midsomer Mallow has a shot at the Perfect Village title, provided it can keep a murderer at bay.

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  5. 8.2/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Ghosts of Christmas Past

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    S8:E3

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

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    Director:Renny Rye
  6. 8.2/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Last Year's Model

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    S9:E8

    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.

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  8. 8.2/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Dressed to Kill

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    S23:E4

    The residents of the village of Elverton-Cum-Latterly gather for the annual domino tournament. This year, the tournament has interim competition from a drag queen event to benefit charity. This creates friction - and soon one of the domino players is found dead. But who was behind it? It's up to Barnaby to find the answer.

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  9. 8.1/10(2.5k votes)

    #8 - The Killings at Badger's Drift

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    S1:E1

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

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  10. 8.1/10(1.1k votes)

    #9 - Painted in Blood

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    S6:E3

    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

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  11. 8.1/10(1.2k votes)

    #10 - The Green Man

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    S7:E1

    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.

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  12. 8.1/10(6 votes)

    #11 - Orchis Fatalis

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    S8:E4

    When a rare orchid is smuggled illegally into Midsomer Malham it releases the heady scents of passion, jealousy and death.

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  13. 8.0/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Vixen's Run

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    S9:E3

    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.

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  14. 8.0/10(6 votes)

    #13 - Down Among the Dead Men

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    S9:E4

    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 uncataloged wreck.

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  15. 8.0/10(5 votes)

    #14 - The Animal Within

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    S10:E2

    Faith Alexander arrives in Midsomer Deverell to visit her estranged Uncle Rex, much to the surprise of his friends and associates who had been told she was dead. The problem is Rex is missing and Barnaby's initial investigation into his disappearance becomes more sinister when Rex's body is found at the bottom of the weir. The case becomes more complicated as it appears the eccentric Rex left several different wills and everyone wants a slice of his estate. Was this the reason for murder, or is it related to a family feud from 40 years ago? What was the secret of the feud? Those who know are not saying but someone is prepared to commit further murders to ensure it is not revealed.

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    Director:Renny Rye
  16. 8.0/10(5 votes)

    #15 - Breaking the Chain

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    S18:E3

    An international cycling competition goes through the village of Burwood Mantle and after the race leader is murdered, DCI Barnaby and DS Nelson find themselves involved in a competitive world of blackmail, bribery and bloodshed where winning matters at any cost.

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  17. 7.9/10(1.4k votes)

    #16 - Strangler's Wood

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    S2:E2

    Nine years after a series of unsolved murders at Midsomer Worthy, a new death which follows the same pattern (a girl is found strangled in the woods) leads to fears that the serial killer is back in business. Barnaby and Troy look out the old files in dealing with the first new murder - and then others follow.

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  18. 7.9/10(1.3k votes)

    #17 - Dead Man's Eleven

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    S2:E3

    Troy is in the Midsomer Worthy cricket eleven for the annual match against Fletchers Cross, so he is on the spot when the wife of Robert Cavendish, the Team Captain and a big local landowner, is found bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat. As often happens, the death toll mounts before the killer can be unmasked. Why should the cricket team's scorer be stabbed to death with a Nazi dagger at the following match? Cavendish, as a mine owner, may have been responsible for the 'accidental' deaths of two of his employees in years gone by. If someone is out for revenge, who is it? Meanwhile, a protest march to maintain footpaths across Cavendish's land finds a foot-bridge has been sabotaged, and their leader takes a ducking...

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  19. 7.9/10(1.2k votes)

    #18 - Destroying Angel

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    S4:E2

    Barnaby attends the funeral of the owner of the Easterly Grange Hotel and hears that the hotel manager has gone missing. The will is read, and it seems the hotel has been divided between the missing manager and his beautiful wife, the hotel's chef and its accountant.A dog finds the hotel manager's severed hand, and the others named in the will receive threatening notes. Then accidents start to happen to them all, including mushroom-poisoning, an apparently accidental shooting, a falling drinks cabinet and a sabotaged vehicle. Barnaby next learns that the missing hotel manager had in his possession a more recent will, which is also now missing....

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  20. 7.9/10(5 votes)

    #19 - Hidden Depths

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    S8:E7

    When local solicitor Nick Turner falls to his death from his house roof, it is not clear whether it was murder or suicide.

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  21. 7.9/10(959 votes)

    #20 - Blood Wedding

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    S11:E2

    An upper class wedding results in an evil and sudden death, which becomes another challenge for Barnaby. These people are not used to having the police around asking a lot of silly questions. Besides, Barnaby has Cully's wedding to sort out as well

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    Director:Peter Smith
  22. 7.9/10(913 votes)

    #21 - The Creeper

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    S12:E6

    Midsomer's Chettham Park House, once owned by Sir William Chettham, has been bought by entrepreneur Jack Filby to save Sir William from financial ruin. Long-term friends dating back to the days of university, Jack has allowed William, his mother Elizabeth, wife Isobel and son Freddy to stay on living at The Dower House - the smaller house on the estate where the Baronet's widowed mother would traditionally live. Jack is the man of the manor now with William and Isobel's son Freddy as his right hand man.

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  23. 7.8/10(1.8k votes)

    #22 - Written in Blood

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    S1:E2

    Gerald Hadleigh, secretary of a writers' circle, is found battered to death the morning after the group's meeting with best-selling novelist (and former psycho-therapist) Max Jennings. Gerald did not want to invite Max to Midsomer Worthy, and he seemed apprehensive about the visit.Barnaby's investigations show that Gerald was a man of mystery - he had no National Insurance number, no family, and no marriage certficate to go with his wedding photographs. And it seems he had a mysterious woman visitor on the night of his death... then Max Jennings goes missing and is found dead.

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  24. 7.8/10(6 votes)

    #23 - Market for Murder

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    S5:E1

    A ladies reading group in Midsomer Market starts losing members to murder.

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  25. 7.8/10(6 votes)

    #24 - Midsomer Rhapsody

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    S8:E9

    When retired music teacher Arthur Leggott is battered to death with a torch, Barnaby and Scott investigate a web of family feuds and long lost love affairs to discover the truth.

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  26. 7.8/10(5 votes)

    #25 - Death and Dust

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    S10:E5

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Till Death Do Us Part" is the best rated episode of "Midsomer Murders". It scored 8.4/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/7/2019. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Fit for Murder".