The Best Episodes Written By Andrew Payne

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.3/10(7 votes)

   #1 - Picture of Innocence

   S10:E66/3/2007

   There's a shock for Joyce when she and Tom visit a photo exhibition in Luxton Deeping. Barnaby also gets a glimpse of the bitter rivalry between the traditional film photo followers and the digital enthusiasts. Things develop a more serious turn, however, when a member of the local camera club is brutally strangled. For once there are no shortage of clues and leads, all pointing to one suspect - Barnaby himself !! Suspended from duty, Barnaby, with a little covert help from Jones, has to use all his deductive powers to discover the motive and unmask the real murderer before they strike again.

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   8.1/10(8 votes)

   #2 - Market for Murder

   S5:E16/16/2002

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

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   8.0/10(9 votes)

   #3 - Painted in Blood

   S6:E31/17/2003

   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

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   8.0/10(8 votes)

   #4 - Sauce for the Goose

   S8:E84/3/2005

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

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #5 - Minder on the Orient Express

   S6:E712/25/1985

   When a gangster passes away, he leaves his daughter with clues to the location of his ill-gotten gains. She offers Terry tickets to the Orient Express, and Terry and Arthur spot underworld business on the luxury train to Venice.

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   7.9/10(7 votes)

   #6 - Murder on St Malley's Day

   S5:E49/22/2002

   Members of an elite student club close ranks after a murder at the Devington School.

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   7.8/10(5 votes)

   #7 - Innocent Graves: Part 2

   S2:E611/14/2012

   In spite of the trial of Owen Pierce collapsing, Banks still believes that he is the murderer. But Morton tries to persuade him to keep an open mind.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #8 - Innocent Graves: Part 1

   S2:E511/7/2012

   Banks and his team investigate the murder of the daughter of an internet entrepreneur. The prime suspect is quickly identified, but Morton is not so sure.

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   7.0/10(12 votes)

   #9 - Country Matters

   S9:E69/10/2006

   Frank Hopkirk, an environmental adviser on the proposed site of a controversial Goodfare supermarket in Elverton-cum-Latterly, is found stabbed to death in an old farm building on the site. Barnaby & Jones question locals on both sides of the debate over the plans, and find that Mr Hopkirk had extra-curricular dealings with a number of the local ladies and their businesses. But which one of these caused passions to be stirred up to such a murderous extent?

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Best of Both Worlds

    S1:E13/13/1994

    Henry lets Hooperman escape, and Fisher takes the opportunity to suspend his retirement.

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    6.1/10(8 votes)

    #11 - The Maid in Splendour

    S7:E51/25/2004

    Jamie Cruickshank, a bartender at the Maid in Splendour public house, is keen on Bella Monday, a barmaid, and follows her to a tumbledown old cottage in the woods, only to be blasted with a twelve-bore shotgun. Then the pub landlord's son, Stephen Bannerman, is also killed in the same way. Barnaby finds there was ill-feeling between locals and newcomers to the village and also between the landlord and his aggressive son, who was in the process of taking over the business.

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