Season 1
🎬 5 Episodes 📅 1997 ⏱ 90 min
When a respected member of the Midsomer community is found dead under suspicious circumstances, a veteran detective and his young partner must navigate the tangled web of rural secrets and buried resentments. As they methodically separate truth from deception, the investigation reveals that the victim's seemingly ordinary life concealed complex betrayals and dark family histories. Midsomer Murders peels back the veneer of respectability to expose the violent passions simmering beneath the surface of a peaceful English village.
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📊 Season Stats
5
Episodes
1997
Year
90
min / ep
7.5
Watch Hours
1/25
Season No.
⭐ 7.6
Best Episode
Ep. 2 · Written in Blood
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🎬 Episodes 5 episodes
1
⭐ 7.5
The Killings at Badger's Drift
An elderly woman is found dead in her cottage and DCI Tom Barnaby is convinced the death is not down to natural causes
🎬 Jeremy Silberston ✍️ Caroline Graham
2
⭐ 7.6
Written in Blood
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 investig…
🎬 Jeremy Silberston ✍️ Caroline Graham
3
⭐ 6.6
Death of a Hollow Man
The body of Agnes Gray, a woman who loved only animals, is found in the river - but she did not drown. And then her cousin Esslyn Carmichael is tricked into killing himself on stage during an amateur production of the murder mystery Amadeus. Barnaby has to get to grips with clues which include adul…
🎬 Jeremy Silberston ✍️ Caroline Graham
4
⭐ 7.4
Faithful Unto Death
A craft centre in the old mill at Morton Fendle is losing money. Several locals have invested in the business and believe they have been swindled by Alan Hollingsworth, the man behind it. When Hollingsworth's glamorous wife Simone goes missing, Barnaby believes she has been kidnapped and puts Hollin…
🎬 Baz Taylor ✍️ Douglas Watkinson
5
⭐ 7.2
Death in Disguise
At a local New Age commune (fancifully called the Lodge of the Golden Windhorse) William Carter is found dead with a broken neck, lying at the bottom of a staircase. Barnaby and Troy have to decide whether the death was an accident or murder.
🎬 Baz Taylor ✍️ Douglas Watkinson