The Best Episodes of Midsomer Murders Season 8

John Ransom is found murdered with suspicious burn marks to his head. The investigation leads to two feuding families - one with the ability of second sight.

Director: Richard Holthouse

Writer: Tony Etchells

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

Director: Renny Rye

Writer: David Hoskins

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

The Midsomer Regatta is halted by the discovery of the body of the chairman of the Midsomer Rowing Club floating at the finishing line.

Director: Renny Rye

Writer: Douglas Watkinson

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.

Director: Richard Holthouse

Writer: Richard Cameron

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

Director: Peter Smith

Writer: Terry Hodgkinson

Barnaby and Scott investigate when the dead body of rival employee, Dexter Lockwood, is found in the Plummer family's factory steriliser.

Director: Renny Rye

Writer: Andrew Payne

DCI Tom Barnaby and Sergeant Dan Scott investigate a link between a murder spree and a spiritualist church.

Director: Peter Smith

Writer: Peter J. Hammond

DCI Tom Barnaby and Sgt Dan Scott investigate the murders of a horse-racing syndicate.

Director: Sarah Hellings

Writer: Steve Trafford