7.8/103 votes#1 - Small Mercies
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2009
Richard Tanner is found murdered in a model village, stabbed and trussed up like Gulliver in a macabre tableau. The disturbing manner of his death leads Barnaby and Jones to suspect that someone in the village of Little Worthy is criminally insane. As further gruesome killings rock the community, the detectives face a race against time to unravel past events that lead to the making of a dangerous serial killer.
Director: Peter Smith
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
7.4/105 votes#2 - Bad Tidings
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/2004
Barnaby's new partner, Sergeant Dan Scott, arrives from London's Metropolitan Police and expects to have a quiet life. But then the murders begin. The first victim is Fiona Thompson, stabbed several times with a long knife on her way home from a flamenco night at Midsomer Mallow village hall - and a witness reports a mysterious squeaking noise at the scene of the crime...
Director: Peter Smith
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
7.4/105 votes#3 - Dead Letters
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 2/26/2006
The village of Midsomer Barton is celebrating Oak Apple Week when a local single mother, Marion Slade, is found drowned in the village stream. It looks like suicide, and that she was driven to it by grief over the death, eight years before, of her daughter, Bella, a local beauty pageant winner. Barnaby investigates and is shaken by two villagers who look like murder victims from his past. Then another body is discovered and it appears that the festivities have stirred up a cocktail of adultery, contempt, unrequited love and revenge in the village. And it all appears to center around Bella Slade.
Director: Renny Rye
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
6.8/1012 votes#4 - Small Worlds
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/2006
Jack catches up with a very old friend of his, who is investigating fairy sightings in the local wood. After having visited her, Torchwood are informed of a man's mysterious death in a prison cell. Then, Tosh uncovers a series of localised, extreme weather patterns. Nobody at the organisation is sure of these events, or how they may be connected. Except Jack, who has witnessed the creatures causing this, almost a century ago.
Director: Alice Troughton
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
6.7/106 votes#5 - Death and Dreams
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2003
Barnaby investigates a death which looks very much like suicide. The dead man was a troubed and depressed gambler on a losing streak, but Barnaby's nose tells him to look for a murderer. During the investigation he recognizes someone from his past, in the shape of Dr Jane Moore.
Director: Peter Smith
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
6.7/109 votes#6 - From Out of the Rain
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/2008
An old cinema reopens and mysterious horrors of the past return to Cardiff. Why are people trapped between life and death, questions are asked about the Night Travellers, and what Torchwood can do to stop them.
Director: Jonathan Fox Bassett
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
6.4/106 votes#7 - Things That Go Bump in the Night
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2004
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
6.3/108 votes#8 - Dark Autumn
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 9/16/2001
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.
Director: Jeremy Silberston
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
6.2/107 votes#9 - Echoes of the Dead
Season 14 Episode 3 - Aired 4/20/2011
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?
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
6.0/105 votes#10 - Dance with the Dead
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/2006
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.
Director: Peter Smith
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
5.8/107 votes#11 - The Silent Land
Season 13 Episode 4 - Aired 9/22/2010
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?
Director: Peter Smith
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
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"Small Mercies" is the best rated episode written by Peter J. Hammond. It scored 7.8/10 based on 3 votes. It was directed by Peter Smith. It aired on 10/28/2009 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "Bad Tidings".