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Midsomer Murders

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Charley1988 · 19/10/2019 13:15

I love the old episodes of this on ITV 3 . They really reel you in - Olivia Colman was really good as the perpetrator in an episode from about 2009 - it's interesting looking at the cast of some of these episodes - it's another series that's attracted a lot of A list actors

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Hedgehogblues · 19/10/2019 15:41

She was called Cully after the place they spent their honeymoon and Joyce got knocked up.

I think it was probably the only time Tom and Joyce ever spent more than five minutes in the same room without Tom dashing out detectiving

Drabarni · 19/10/2019 15:44

Yes, Tom does have to dash out quite often. He must have missed every performance Cully ever did. Grin

I love the corniness though, and the extra's used to really ham it up. It's got much better ito this.

stayathomer · 19/10/2019 15:45

Bobboblaw thats awful!!!

googleyourheartout · 19/10/2019 15:51

Love Midsomer murder. My ideal lazy day is being curled up on the couch with a cuppa and watching back to back episodes of this and Lewis, Poirot and Miss Marple.

thecatsthecats · 19/10/2019 15:54

I know an actor whose been in two episodes - except in the first one he was murdered Grin

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Charley1988 · 19/10/2019 15:57

It's on now - !!! ITV3 - I love the plethora of 'RP'

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Charley1988 · 19/10/2019 15:58

Very young Hugh Bonneville!!

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Drabarni · 19/10/2019 16:08

I heard that the area it was filmed had trouble for residents with people coming to view.
I don't think I'd go that far as to have to check the homes and landscape.

TooLittleTooLate80 · 19/10/2019 16:49

Amazing show. Barnaby and Jones were the peak of it but its all good.

LilyJade · 19/10/2019 16:54

Midsomer has to be the murder capital of the uk...

smileylottie87 · 19/10/2019 16:56

Love a bit of Midsomer and especially Jones. Almost hoping the OH goes out tonight so I can watch but will have to make do with tomorrow morning when he's at football Grin

DaveCoachesgavemetheclap · 19/10/2019 16:56

What did Joyce actually do?

drudgewithagrudge · 19/10/2019 17:15

I thumbed through one of the original books at the library and was amazed to find Joyce described as overweight and a terrible cook. Jones was Welsh and ginger.

WineOrGinOrBoth · 19/10/2019 17:20

The books are quite dark from what I remember.

Floralnomad · 19/10/2019 17:21

Joyce was a terrible cook . I love John Nettles in anything and was very resistant to the new Barnaby but don’t actually mind him now - I think Sykes helped ! Apparently in some countries it’s called Inspector Barnaby not MM that’s why they needed another Barnaby .

WingDefence · 19/10/2019 17:28

DH and I only started watching after John Nettles left so I’m afraid I don’t know any other Midsomer. By the sounds of things, we should start watching the old ones!
@Charley1988 what’s the name of the episode you’re watching now with Hugh Bonneville please - I’ll look it up and record it when it’s next on. 😊

Drabarni · 19/10/2019 17:30

What did Joyce actually do?

Well, I imagine she raised Cully almost single handedly. It would have been hard to fit a job around Tom's hours and of course childcare wasn't what it is now. She had hobbies and classes as Cully got older and I bet she was on the PTA at school and helped in church.
That's why the new wife works. Better conditions for working women and it fits in with Johns work as he will have better parental rights etc.

AuntieStella · 19/10/2019 17:30

I think the different name might be helpful - even in this country, where people are completely familiar with terminology, shedloads of people don't realise Midsomer is a county (not a village or town)

(And nothing to do with Midsommar, though in terms of existence of weird cults perhaps it should be!)

longwayoff · 19/10/2019 17:35

Love Midsummer. Some years ago, my sister and I, doing family tree stuff and visiting quite a few Chiltern and Cotswold villages both felt a bit deja vu about a lot of them. Genetic memory? No, favourite Midsummer locations we later realised.

TooLittleTooLate80 · 19/10/2019 17:35

Also to add, I went to Sweden in 2012 for work and made small talk with my Swedish equivalent around how much I was in to the new Wallander episodes (trying to get Brownie points!).

Her response? "Yes it is good but we love your Midsomer Murders and Morse"

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Charley1988 · 19/10/2019 17:51

WingDefence it's called 'Ring Out Your Dead' from 2002

Also there's an actor from Gavin and Stacey in it and 'Duty Free'

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Leighhalfpennysthigh · 19/10/2019 17:54

I heard that some of the bit part actors have their own fan clubs for their characters? One of them was a milkman - no idea which episode, if it's true or anything.

Love them. A perfect afternoons YV

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 19/10/2019 17:54

TV

WineOrGinOrBoth · 19/10/2019 17:56

Some of the early episodes are on ITV hub I think at the moment.

Toddlerteaplease · 19/10/2019 17:58

@maras2 I was wondering about the name Cully, I presumed it was a nick name?