The Best Episodes Written By Michael Russell

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #1 - Appropriate Adults

   S3:E11/8/1995

   An 8-year-old girl is missing, and the last person to have seen her is Billy Conrad, a gentle young man with Down's syndrome, but who appears is hiding something.

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   Writer:Michael Russell

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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #2 - Unknown Soldiers

   S4:E21/14/1996

   Frost is held at gunpoint by a drugs dealer, a Territorial soldier is shot dead on an exercise, and a security van is robbed by a shotgun-wielding gang. Frost investigates the three incidents, and tries to find any links between them. His intrusions onto the army base stir up hostility from the commanding officer.

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   Writer:Michael Russell

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   7.8/10(6 votes)

   #3 - The Green Man

   S7:E111/2/2003

   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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   Writer:Michael Russell

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   7.4/10(7 votes)

   #4 - Birds of Prey

   S6:E51/31/2003

   Julian Shepherd, who has most of his money invested in Charles Edmonton's new invention, is found drowned, and there is every appearance that he killed himself due to money problems. Then a villager who has been stealing peregrine falcon eggs from Charles's widow is also found dead, and Barnaby and Troy investigate.

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   Writer:Michael Russell

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   7.0/10(10 votes)

   #5 - A Worm in the Bud

   S5:E26/23/2002

   A suspicious suicide note has Barnaby wondering if foul play was involved in a young woman's death.

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   Writer:Michael Russell

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   7.0/10(7 votes)

   #6 - The Magician's Nephew

   S11:E56/14/2008

   Jean Wildacre dies suspiciously during a performance as assistant to local magician Aloysius Wilmington, and Barnaby & Jones are called in. They have to investigate the relationships of Midsomer's Magic Circle, a group of old friends whose activities spun off a new cult, and led to long-running animosities. Soon they are looking for colorful South American poison-dart frogs, as the death count rises

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   Writer:Michael Russell

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   6.8/10(11 votes)

   #7 - War Games

   S2:E311/30/2003

   When a British food corporation signs a secret agreement with the Nazis to provide essential food services to the enemy during wartime, murders result.

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   Writer:Michael Russell

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