The BEST episodes directed by Renny Rye

#1 - Sauce for the Goose

Midsomer Murders - Season 8 - Episode 7

When a corporate giant tries to acquire a small but respected relish factory owned and run by a dysfunctional family, a naked body is found in the warehouse.

#2 - Murder of Innocence

Midsomer Murders - Season 15 - Episode 2

When a barrister is killed in Midsomer, suspicion falls on convicted murderer Grady Felton. But Grady has a solid alibi. Barnaby suspects he is working with an accomplice - until Grady himself is targeted in an arson attack.

#3 - The Animal Within

Midsomer Murders - Season 10 - Episode 2

When Faith Alexander arrives in Midsomer Deverell to meet her long-lost uncle Rex Masters, she is surprised to find he has disappeared and told everyone she was killed in a plane crash. Then Rex's body is found in the weir and his friends produce wills, each claiming to inherit his fortune.

#4 - Dead Letters

Midsomer Murders - Season 9 - Episode 2

When Sergeant Scott falls ill, Barnaby and PC Ben Jones (Jason Hughes, "Killing Me Softly") investigate a series of murders linked to the death of a beauty queen which occurred several years previously.

#5 - Ghosts of Christmas Past

Midsomer Murders - Season 7 - Episode 7

Nine years after Ferdy Villers killed himself, his family reunites for Christmas, unaware that someone is out for revenge.

#6 - The Axeman Cometh

Midsomer Murders - Season 10 - Episode 4

30 years past their prime, the band Hired Guns hopes to play at the Midsomer Rocks Music Festival. But their fans are disappointed when someone kills the band members one by one.

#7 - Peril at End House

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 2 - Episode 1

While Poirot is staying in Cornwall, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.

#8 - The Creeper

Midsomer Murders - Season 12 - Episode 6

A cat burglar named "The Creeper" is breaking into the estates of Causton, and the alcoholic writer threatening a "tell-all" book about his friends turns up dead.

#9 - Days of Misrule

Midsomer Murders - Season 11 - Episode 6

During the Christmas days, Barnaby has to solve an explosion as well as a number of murders near a freight company while trying to cope with his acting CS who has very strong beliefs about teamwork.

#10 - Dead in the Water

Midsomer Murders - Season 8 - Episode 2

During a regatta, the body of Rowing Club chairman Guy Sweetman is found bludgeoned and drowned. Bachelor Sweetman was prolifically promiscuous and jealousy would seem to be the motive.

#11 - Down Among the Dead Men

Midsomer Murders - Season 9 - Episode 4

Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.

#12 - Secrets and Spies

Midsomer Murders - Season 12 - Episode 2

A number of murders near a government safe house in Midsomer appear to be connected to a group of British spies stationed in East Berlin during the Cold War.

#13 - Master Class

Midsomer Murders - Season 13 - Episode 5

A gifted young pianist with emotional issues is in competition with other young talents for a scholarship to a prestigious private musical academy.

#14 - The Sword of Guillaume

Midsomer Murders - Season 13 - Episode 1

The Causton Chamber of Commerce takes a bus trip to the seaside resort of Brighton, and a serial killer decapitates several of them with an ancient sword.

#15 - Fit for Murder

Midsomer Murders - Season 13 - Episode 8

Joyce talks Barnaby into enrolling in a spa located in a remodeled manor house but the bodies start to pile up when he's there.

#16 - A Sacred Trust

Midsomer Murders - Season 14 - Episode 7

Vandalism and violence send shock waves through Midsomer's cloistered nunnery.

#17 - Problem at Sea

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 7

An obnoxious passenger threatens Poirot's hopes of resting on a Mediterranean cruise.

#18 - The Affair at the Victory Ball

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 3 - Episode 10

A fragment of a costume is the only clue when a man is killed at a masquerade ball.

#19 - Crime and Punishment

Midsomer Murders - Season 19 - Episode 2

The Bleakridge Watch patrols the streets of their remote village, exposing anyone who steps outside the law. When one of their members dies, Barnaby uncovers just how far some people will go for power.

#20 - Beyond Guilty (1)

Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 7

Sam is asked to look into the brutal murder of Craig Proctor, for which a man is currently on trial. She is also asked to investigate a professor linked to the case, and she discovers that the case is a lot more complicated than originally supposed.

#21 - The Ballad of Midsomer County

Midsomer Murders - Season 17 - Episode 3

Festival organizer Toby Winning is found dead on the morning of the Lower Crosby Folk Festival, shortly after announcing plans to move the festival nearer to London.

#22 - Saints and Sinners

Midsomer Murders - Season 18 - Episode 5

A saint's bones are discovered in the village of Midsomer Cicely. When the body of the leader of the archaeological dig is found, detectives learn they were buried alive.

#23 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 3 - Episode 6

Poirot is asked to solve a fictional murder, but then a real killing takes place nearby.

#24 - The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 3 - Episode 11

A reluctant Poirot joins Hastings for a grouse shoot, but one of their party is murdered.

#25 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 4

Poirot is intrigued by a reclusive artist's unusual behavior in a restaurant.

#26 - Triangle at Rhodes

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 6

On holiday, Poirot uncovers the complicated relationships between his fellow hotel guests.

#27 - Kith and Kill (1)

Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 3

Sam is called upon to investigate the murders of a ruthless businessman and his family, but still finds time for romance when the grisly case reunites her with an old flame. Meanwhile, a preoccupied Leo unwittingly puts his reputation on the line by dismissing a junior pathologist's doubts concerning the seemingly routine death of an elderly woman.

#28 - Left for Dead

Midsomer Murders - Season 11 - Episode 3

Jones is brought back to his home town to help investigate a series of murders linked to childhood friends and events that occurred years earlier.

#29 - Fatal Error (2)

Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 4

#30 - Fatal Error (1)

Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 3

A series of murders forces Sam to revisit an old case when its believed that she's the link, and it appears someone is following her and going through her office.

#31 - The Incident at Cooper Hill

Midsomer Murders - Season 18 - Episode 2

A local forest-ranger suffers a strange death after mysterious lights appear in the sky over UFO hot-spot Cooper Hill.

#32 - The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 3

Inspector Japp does not consider a ransom note a threat to public order. Poirot disagrees.

#33 - Wild Harvest

Midsomer Murders - Season 16 - Episode 3

When the landlord of Wyvern House meets a brutal and untimely death in his own woods, many aspersions are cast.

#34 - The King of Clubs

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 9

Poirot uncovers a case of deception at a film studio - when is a murder not a murder?

#35 - The Oblong Murders

Midsomer Murders - Season 14 - Episode 4

Barnaby sends Jones undercover into a New Age cult to investigate the disappearance of a young woman who entered an introduction course and then never left the movement.

#36 - Beyond Guilty (2)

Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 8

#37 - Written in the Stars

Midsomer Murders - Season 15 - Episode 3

During a total eclipse of the sun, an astronomer is bludgeoned to death by a meteor and an astrologer claims to have predicted each subsequent murder.

#38 - Kith and Kill (2)

Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 4