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.
#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.
#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?
#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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Ghosts of Christmas Past
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/25/2004
Nine years after Ferdy Villers killed himself, his family reunites for Christmas, unaware that someone is out for revenge.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#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.