8.0/101 votes#1 - Cromm Cruac
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/1986
After Much is injured in a pit trap, the outlaws seek help for him at the nearest village, Cromm Cruac, a place no one has heard of until now. All is not right, as becomes evident by the things the men see and the way some of them begin to act. Robin must confront Gulnar, a sorceror who once served Owen of Clun.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
7.5/1015 votes#2 - The Killings at Badger's Drift
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/1997
An elderly woman is found dead in her cottage and DCI Tom Barnaby is convinced the death is not down to natural causes
Director: Jeremy Silberston
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
7.2/1012 votes#3 - Written in Blood
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/22/1998
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.
Director: Jeremy Silberston
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
7.2/109 votes#4 - Death's Shadow
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/1999
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.
Director: Jeremy Silberston
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
7.0/101 votes#5 - The Inheritance
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/1986
An old man and his beautiful daughter live alone in the ancient castle of Caerleon. They are about to be attacked by a horde of brigands led to the castle by a former employee of the old man's. This traitor knows there is a priceless treasure in the castle, but never found out exactly what it was. The daughter seeks out Robin Hood to defend her, her father and the treasure that is beyond price. Robin must ultimately make a staggering choice of loyalty.
Director: Ben Bolt
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
7.0/101 votes#6 - The Sheriff of Nottingham
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/1986
Robert de Rainault, high Sheriff of Nottingham, failing one time too many to end the activities of Robin Hood, is dismissed by the king and replaced by Philip Mark, "The Butcher of Lincoln". Mark captures six villagers from Wickham and sends out word that Robin Hood must turn himself in or the captives will die the next noon, and six more the day after that until Robin is captured. Nasir must face the new Sheriff's servant, Sarak, a masked assassin out of the Saracen's past.
Director: Christopher King
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
7.0/101 votes#7 - Adam Bell
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 5/31/1986
The Sheriff's young nephew, Martin, is kidnapped by Adam Bell, an ageing outlaw who was the Robin Hood of his day, but now robs only for himself. The Sheriff, using his hostage, Much, as a bargaining chip, persuades Robin to rescue the boy from Bell.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
6.9/108 votes#8 - Strangler's Wood
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/3/1999
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.
Director: Jeremy Silberston
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
6.9/108 votes#9 - Dead Man's Eleven
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/12/1999
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...
Director: Jeremy Silberston
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
6.9/1011 votes#10 - Judgement Day
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/2000
Midsomer Mallow has a shot at the Perfect Village title, provided it can keep a murderer at bay.
Director: Jeremy Silberston
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
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"Cromm Cruac" is the best rated episode written by Anthony Horowitz. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Gerry Mill. It aired on 5/17/1986 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Killings at Badger's Drift".