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The Worst 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...
  1. Background image for Dressed to Kill
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Dressed to Kill

    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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  2. Background image for The Witches of Angel's Rise
    3.2/10(3 votes)

    #2 - The Witches of Angel's Rise

    S22:E6

    Each year, the village of Angel's Rise hosts the Psychic Fayre. Founded by the Saint-Stephens family in memory of their late daughter, the event attracts mediums, psychics, and followers of the occult. When a body is found surrounded by ritual symbols on the eve of the festival, Barnaby must step into the spiritual world to find the killer.

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    Writer:Maria Ward
  3. Background image for The Blacktrees Prophecy
    4.2/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Blacktrees Prophecy

    S23:E1

    When a doomsdayer is found murdered in his bombproof shelter, a dark conspiracy is revealed - how far people will go to escape the end of the world?

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  4. Background image for The Debt of Lies
    4.2/10(2 votes)

    #4 - The Debt of Lies

    S23:E2

    The latest resident of a police retirement community is found dead.

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    Writer:Jeff Povey
  5. Background image for The Ghost of Causton Abbey
    5.4/10(7 votes)

    #5 - The Ghost of Causton Abbey

    S20:E1

    Causton is buzzing at the opening of a new brewery on the site of a famously cursed Abbey. But excitement turns to fear when a man is found boiled to death in one of the vats. DCI Barnaby and DS Winter are puzzled; could this really be about beer?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Death of the Small Coppers
    5.4/10(7 votes)

    #6 - Death of the Small Coppers

    S20:E2

    A butterfly collector is found pinned to a wall like one of his specimens.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy
    5.4/10(7 votes)

    #7 - The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy

    S22:E1

    After a local photographer wins an urban myth competition with his creation of The Wolf Hunter, it unexpectedly gains a cult following.

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    Director:Matt Carter
  9. Background image for With Baited Breath
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #8 - With Baited Breath

    S21:E4

    Tensions run high in the village of Solomon Gorge when a fishing competition and extreme obstacle course are scheduled for the same weekend. With each group attempting to sabotage the other, it's not long before someone's life is on the line.

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    Writer:Jeff Povey
  10. Background image for The Silent Land
    5.8/10(7 votes)

    #9 - The Silent Land

    S13:E4

    On a dark night in the village of March Magna, Barnaby's wife Joyce swerves her car to narrowly miss a shadowy figure in the road. Or so she thinks. Later that night a body is discovered in the old cemetery. Did Joyce hit someone after all or was the victim, who seems to have plenty of enemies, killed by one of the villagers? Barnaby and Jones have their work cut out as all the villagers seem to be hiding something - but is it murder?

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  11. Background image for Dark Secrets
    5.9/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Dark Secrets

    S14:E2

    The reclusive lives of elderly eccentrics William and Mary Bingham comes under police scrutiny when a social services investigator is murdered. Barnaby and Jones must unearth generations of family secrets and decipher astronomical charts to find the killer.

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  12. Background image for Send in the Clowns
    5.9/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Send in the Clowns

    S20:E6

    Things take a gruesome turn when Ferabbees Circus comes to town, bringing with it a chain of sinister clown sightings, threatening notes and deathly dangerous circus acts. Barnaby will have to face up to his fears in order to solve the case.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Days of Misrule
    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Days of Misrule

    S11:E6

    It is Christmas and DCI Barnaby deals with an explosion and some killings near a freight company, at the same time as trying to deal with his acting CS who has very strong beliefs about teamwork.

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    Director:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Harvest of Souls
    6.0/10(5 votes)

    #13 - Harvest of Souls

    S18:E6

    The annual harvest fair and the daredevil riders of the Wall of Death arrive in the Midsomer village of Whitcombe Mallet. But when the owner of an equestrian centre is trampled by his horse, DCI Barnaby and DS Nelson, along with the expertise of forensic pathologist Kam Karimore, must unravel a complex feud from the past. However, nothing is as it seems, and they are in a race against time as they work to solve the case.

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    Director:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Blood Will Out
    6.1/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Blood Will Out

    S2:E4

    The sleepy village of Martyr Warren is invaded by quarrelsome New Age travellers, some of whom fall out with Hector Bridges, a local magistrate. The police are well aware of the tensions, but matters come to a head when Hector is found shot dead. It quickly appears that he was feared by almost everyone in sight, including his own family. And there is more to the travellers than meets the eye - one of them is a former British army officer who fought alongside Hector in the Falklands War... Then (as so often happens to Barnaby and Troy) another dead body is found, this time that of an old man at the travellers' camp.Meanwhile, Barnaby is not feeling in full fighting trim for murder investigations, as Joyce has put him on a strict diet to lose weight.

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  16. Background image for The Black Book
    6.1/10(4 votes)

    #15 - The Black Book

    S12:E2

    The sale of a previously unknown painting by an 18th century painter sends Barnaby into an investigation of murders as well as art forgery.

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    Director:Peter Smith
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Not in My Back Yard
    6.1/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Not in My Back Yard

    S13:E7

    A planning dispute turns to murder after a leading light in the Midsomer Conservation Society suspects her neighbours are involved in a money-making development scam. Political wrangling, burglaries and sexual liaisons abound in picturesque Great Pelfe - but why is someone driven to start killing? Barnaby and Jones investigate.

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    Director:Peter Smith
  18. Background image for Death in the Slow Lane
    6.1/10(7 votes)

    #17 - Death in the Slow Lane

    S14:E1

    New DCI John Barnaby arrives in Midsomer and is bemused by the quaint villages and their quirky residents. But when a local DJ is crushed to death at a traditional girls’ boarding school, he soon discovers that murder and deception are never far away. As the death toll rises, could Barnaby’s first case also be his last?

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    Director:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Lions of Causton
    6.1/10(8 votes)

    #18 - The Lions of Causton

    S20:E4

    Barnaby gets to relive his former sporting glory when a death at the local Rugby Club sends Barnaby and Winter into a muddle of rucks, grudges, romance… and artisanal chocolates?

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    Director:Unknown
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  20. Background image for The Sword of Guillaume
    6.2/10(6 votes)

    #19 - The Sword of Guillaume

    S13:E1

    Barnaby decides to join Causton's annual trip to Brighton when he become suspicious about the mayor's plans to buy up coastal land for holiday chalets. But before he can get to the bottom of the dubious deal, a hated property developer is beheaded at a funfair and a collection of valuable historical swords goes missing. With the help of his cousin DCI John Barnaby, the detective sets out to crack the case. Guest starring Neil Dudgeon (Roman's Empire), Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen), Coronation Street villain Brian Capron and Blackadder's Tim McInnerny

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    Director:Unknown
  21. Background image for Echoes of the Dead
    6.2/10(7 votes)

    #20 - Echoes of the Dead

    S14:E3

    When a young woman is dressed like a bride and drowned in a bath, it triggers a spate of ghoulish wedding-themed murders in Great Worthy. The case takes Barnaby and Jones to a donkey sanctuary, a heritage steam railway, and a pub run by an ex-copper and former brothel madam. With the serial killer still at large, could history be repeating itself?

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    Director:Unknown
  22. Background image for Written in the Stars
    6.2/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Written in the Stars

    S15:E3

    As darkness covers Midsomer Stanton during a total eclipse of the sun, amateur astronomer Jeremy Harper is killed by blow to the head with a meteorite. Barnaby and Jones are called in to investigate, and the duo discover that intrigue, sexual tension and academic rivalry are rife among the local stargazing community. Murder mystery, guest starring Maureen Lipman and Kenny Ireland, with Neil Dudgeon and Jason Hughes

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Sting of Death
    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #22 - The Sting of Death

    S21:E3

    Barnaby and Winter are called to the stately home of a master beekeeper after he is injured attempting to apprehend a thief. The village of Granville Norton is abuzz with news of the missing bees, and suspicions fly when one of the locals is stung to death.

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    Director:Matt Carter
  24. Background image for Dark Autumn
    6.3/10(8 votes)

    #23 - Dark Autumn

    S4:E5

    A postman is brutally murdered on his morning round in the hamlet of Goodman's Land. Local WPC Jay Nash helps Barnaby and Troy to establish that Dave offered a very personal service to the female villagers, leaving a trail of jealous husbands in his wake, and it becomes clear that the tiny village is riven with other adulterous affairs. Then the body count begins to go up...Meanwhile, romance is blossoming between Troy and Jay.

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  25. Background image for Dance with the Dead
    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #24 - Dance with the Dead

    S10:E1

    Suicide pact or murder? Barnaby quickly discovers it's the latter when the body of a young man turns up in a hanger at an old disused World War Two airfield. There is also the puzzling disappearance of the victims girlfriend, Laura Sharp. Despite her dubious reputation she seemed popular with many in the local community. Barnaby has to probe deep beneath the soft underbelly of Morton Fendle in order to reveal what Laura actually meant to many of its inhabitants and if one of them may have committed murder on her behalf.

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  26. Background image for Drawing Dead
    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #25 - Drawing Dead

    S20:E3

    Carver Valley’s comic festival is in full swing when the village is shocked by the murder of a former supermodel. With a scathing comic shaming several villagers as the only lead, Barnaby and Winter are left trying to separate fact from fiction.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Dressed to Kill" is the worst rated episode of "Midsomer Murders". It scored 1/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Paul Gibson, Leon Lopez and written by Maria Ward, it aired on 11/10/2024. This episode scored 2.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Witches of Angel's Rise".