The BEST episodes written by Andrew Payne
#5 - Country Matters
Midsomer Murders - Season 9 - Episode 6
Controversy about a proposed supermarket ruining the quality of life in a small village, marital infidelity, contaminated soil and kinky sex lead to murder.
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#6 - Painted in Blood
Midsomer Murders - Season 6 - Episode 3
Barnaby's wife finds a body on the Midsomer Florey village green while taking part in a watercolor class.
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#7 - Murder on St. Malley's Day
Midsomer Murders - Season 5 - Episode 4
Barnaby investigates the murder of a boy during a traditional annual race at an exclusive private school but is met with resentment.
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#8 - Market for Murder
Midsomer Murders - Season 5 - Episode 1
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.
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#9 - 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.
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#10 - The Maid in Splendour
Midsomer Murders - Season 7 - Episode 5
Midsomer Worthy's beloved local pub figures in a case involving unrequited love, secret business deals and passionate affairs.
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#12 - The Made-to-Measure Murders
Midsomer Murders - Season 13 - Episode 2
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.
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#13 - Picture of Innocence
Midsomer Murders - Season 10 - Episode 6
Barnaby is implicated in a murder when a photo of him in a passionate embrace with another woman is displayed shortly before the woman's estranged husband, photographer Lionel Bell, is strangled.
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#16 - 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.
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#17 - Get Daley
Minder - Season 4 - Episode 10
When an illegal bookie threatens a customer who owes him money, the customer collapses and dies of a heart attack. Arthur, who is about to go into hospital for an operation, is an eye witness to the event and in no time he is being chased by the police, the bookie and the customer's family.
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#18 - The Dogleg Murders
Midsomer Murders - Season 12 - Episode 1
A member is killed with a golf club on the Whiteoaks Golf Course. During the investigation, Barnaby discovers Whiteoaks to be full of hatred, gambling, violence, jealousy and extortion.
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#19 - 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.
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#20 - Goodbye Sailor
Minder - Season 5 - Episode 1
Arthur is involved in a deal to buy some dodgy tobacco from a sailor (Commander Hawksley) so he sends Terry and Arnie down to the South Coast to complete the deal only to find that the tobacco has to be smuggled ashore from a French boat. When Arthur turns up all three and Commander Hawksley go out to sea to pick up the goods but when Terry finds out what is happening, and then the police turn up they dump the tobacco in the sea.
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#21 - Lovejoy Loses It
Lovejoy - Season 4 - Episode 13
Lovejoy makes an exhibition of his 'sixth sense' for antiques on a television programme. Later, working on a house clearance, he overlooks an important item and starts to think he may be abusing and losing his talent. After he gets a letter, Lovejoy goes to see another 'divvie' who has lost the magic touch.
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#22 - Highland Fling (1)
Lovejoy - Season 3 - Episode 12
Some old sketches put Lovejoy and Jane on a trail which takes them up to Scotland, where they uncover a plot by another antiques dealer to con one of Jane's friends. At home, Eric is involved with a young woman with some unsavory relations, but she also has an antique mirror to sell. Lovejoy and Jane are moving closer to romance... but who is the girl Lovejoy keeps seeing in the woods?
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