The BEST episodes of Midsomer Murders

Every episode of Midsomer Murders ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Midsomer Murders!

A veteran DCI and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer.

Last Updated: 3/17/2024Network: ITV1Status: Continuing
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Last Year's Model
star
8.40
400 votes

#1 - Last Year's Model

Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/3/2006

Barnaby begins to think the damning evidence he helped provide to convict a murderess wasn't exactly as watertight as it first looked.

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Hidden Depths
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8.33
325 votes

#2 - Hidden Depths

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/14/2005

Troubled solicitor Nick Turner falls from the roof of his home. Is this suicide disguised as murder?

Directors: Sarah Hellings
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Country Matters
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8.29
319 votes

#3 - Country Matters

Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/19/2006

Controversy about a proposed supermarket ruining the quality of life in a small village, marital infidelity, contaminated soil and kinky sex lead to murder.

Writer: Andrew Payne
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Painted in Blood
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8.26
299 votes

#4 - Painted in Blood

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/2003

Barnaby's wife finds a body on the Midsomer Florey village green while taking part in a watercolor class.

Writer: Andrew Payne
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Garden of Death
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8.26
304 votes

#5 - Garden of Death

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2000

When an arrogant aristocratic family's decision to develop a memorial garden into a commercial tea shop has the villagers up in arms, murders past and present rear their heads.

Directors: Peter Smith
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The Green Man
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8.26
334 votes

#6 - The Green Man

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/2003

Barnaby and Troy tackle two separate cases as Troy prepares to leave Midsomer after his promotion to DI.

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Murder on St. Malley's Day
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8.25
332 votes

#7 - Murder on St. Malley's Day

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/22/2002

Barnaby investigates the murder of a boy during a traditional annual race at an exclusive private school but is met with resentment.

Directors: Peter Smith
Writer: Andrew Payne
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Market for Murder
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8.23
357 votes

#8 - Market for Murder

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/16/2002

An investigation of a car fire and a bludgeon murder lead Barnaby and Troy to investigate the members of a local reading club which has an agenda that goes beyond books.

Directors: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Andrew Payne
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Sauce for the Goose
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8.20
311 votes

#9 - Sauce for the Goose

Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/3/2005

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.

Directors: Renny Rye
Writer: Andrew Payne
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Birds of Prey
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8.18
270 votes

#10 - Birds of Prey

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/2003

Investment in a secret invention leads to an apparent suicide in Midsomer Magna, and a plan to steal valuable falcon eggs leads to another death.

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The Maid in Splendour
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8.17
272 votes

#11 - The Maid in Splendour

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/25/2004

Midsomer Worthy's beloved local pub figures in a case involving unrequited love, secret business deals and passionate affairs.

Writer: Andrew Payne
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Ring Out Your Dead
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8.17
335 votes

#12 - Ring Out Your Dead

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/15/2002

Someone is killing off bell ringers of parish church in the week before a big bell-ringing competition takes place in the village of Midsomer Wellow.

Directors: Sarah Hellings
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The Straw Woman
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8.14
266 votes

#13 - The Straw Woman

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/29/2004

Midsomer comes closer and closer to its boiling point when a priest is burned to death inside the effigy of a straw woman and more people burst into flames spontaneously, as though by witchcraft.

Directors: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Jeff Dodds
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Tainted Fruit
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8.12
313 votes

#14 - Tainted Fruit

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/2001

When the body of a local beauty is discovered by the pool at her manor house, Barnaby and Troy uncover a seedy world of adultery and deceit within the affluent rural community.

Directors: Peter Smith
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Destroying Angel
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8.12
391 votes

#15 - Destroying Angel

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/26/2001

When a hotel owner dies, the manager misses the reading of the will that names him part-owner.

Directors: David Tucker
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Judgment Day
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8.10
348 votes

#16 - Judgment Day

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/2000

When a local thief and womanizer is killed with a pitchfork, the residents of Midsomer Mallow fear for their chances in the Perfect Village Competition.

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Bantling Boy
star
8.07
331 votes

#17 - Bantling Boy

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/16/2005

A four-member syndicate owns a racehorse that two of them are desperate to sell and two of them are determined to keep. When one of them is murdered, Barnaby is on the case.

Directors: Sarah Hellings
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The Made-to-Measure Murders
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8.07
349 votes

#18 - The Made-to-Measure Murders

Season 13 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/12/2010

A tailor dies of a heart attack. Two years later, his widow is murdered on her way to the vicarage. The vicar is also murdered after receiving a mysterious letter.

Directors: Peter Smith
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Orchis Fatalis
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8.05
234 votes

#19 - Orchis Fatalis

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/9/2005

Barnaby and Scott follow a trail of dead people involved in the collecting of rare orchids.

Directors: Peter Smith
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Death in the Slow Lane
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8.05
463 votes

#20 - Death in the Slow Lane

Season 14 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/2011

When a local DJ is crushed to death at a traditional girls' boarding school, new Midsomer DCI John Barnaby - cousin to Tom - discovers that murder and deception are never far away from the quaint villages.

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Dead Letters
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8.05
335 votes

#21 - Dead Letters

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/26/2006

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.

Directors: Renny Rye
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Murder of Innocence
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8.04
269 votes

#22 - Murder of Innocence

Season 15 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/21/2012

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.

Directors: Renny Rye
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The Animal Within
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8.04
380 votes

#23 - The Animal Within

Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2007

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.

Directors: Renny Rye
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The Axeman Cometh
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8.03
331 votes

#24 - The Axeman Cometh

Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2007

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.

Directors: Renny Rye
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Death in a Chocolate Box
star
8.02
320 votes

#25 - Death in a Chocolate Box

Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/11/2008

Barnaby and Jones investigate a murder of a former friend and colleague in Midsomer Holm, a small village inhabited by reformed ex-cons.

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