Midsomer Murders

[Charley1988]

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

@LilyJade no, St Mary Mead is the capital
Of crime!

@Wingdefence! You haven't lived life to the full if you haven't seen original Inspector Barnaby twinkling away. And you've missed one of the favourites, Death by a Giant Cheese. Hunt them down, they're always on ITV3.

I wouldn't visit where they film it. It's more dangerous than Enfield 🤣🤣🤣

Do love a bit of MM though.

The problem after Brian TM made an utter arse of himself is not that they introduced minority characters but that you knew they’d never be the killer! (Had he kept quiet no one would ever have noticed or cared).

Adore MM! Old ones my fave but Neil Dudgeon very good too .Too many "best" episodes to list but I think "Midsomer Life"( JN )was good and My Cousin and I went to old Aylesbury where it was filmed . Nothing like a good episode, plus Hot Chocolate /Small Sherry to watch it with on a chilly afternoon!

I've looked on various sites, including the one I linked to and can't find the title of my favourites.

The first was the psychological murders with the kids. I think it's the best episode ever.
Anyone they didn't like they killed.
Quite a long one iirc.

I met Troy after a performance of Abigail's Party, which was fabulous. He's very tall and good looking!

New Detective Barnaby was first the pervy gardner in the episode called Destroying Angel!

I saw Cully in a play about Dracula. I kept waiting for JN to come in and say," Hello Cully. What are you doing here?".

Thanks @Charley1988 and okay you’ve persuaded me @longwayoff

Midsomer murders makes me feel all warm and cosy even though it's about murdering! At a particularly lonely point I was so hoping I would meet someone like Troy as he seemed so nice and would never do anything to hurt you. Although he seemed a bit dim and feckless at times so I did go off him. I adore John nettles though.

Ooh the very first episode is showing on Monday. I read the book last year when it was free/v cheap on kindle and it was far darker than I expected. Will have to record it!

I watched them 20 years ago on maternity leave, they were perfect for the sleep deprived new mother.

A lot of it was filmed in and around the town where my parents live, so a lot of the extras are the local Am Dram society, and the location unit was at a farm where my dad helped so there are episodes where he and his mate are driving tractors/moving sheep and suchlike.

Same with death in paradise, A listed actors getting some sun. I have that, MSM and West wing on permanent series link, keep promising myself I'll stop but i'm addicted

I'm a big fan of MSM. I don't mind the new Barnaby but I do think that he and Sarah were perhaps a bit mature to be having their first child. No reason why they couldn't have arrived with a couple of older children - say teens or 'tweens.

I love the fact his wife wants to move to a village and he won’t let her. He thinks towns are safer!

CMOT there was an episode my dad and I were extras in, with a bunch of other people who participated in the same "hobby" (not am dram) - it's been a fun day out for various locals over the past 20 years!

John Nettles reminds me of my Dad.. I love the series. I feel all cosy and lovely.

It has indeed Incognita. Dad used to eat well during filming as they'd park the catering at the hay yard and he'd get 2 meals plus snacks a day!

I was going to come on and say that I'd seen the new Barnaby in an old episode as a randy gardener, but I see Drink got there before me. Very funny though - he was like a lecherous young goat.

Many years ago I saw John Nettles out shopping in Kingston upon Thames. Very tanned and even better in the flesh. The new Barnaby just doesn't cut it, dull and stodgy.

MM is one of my go-to series when I need some cosy telly, alongside Poirot, Miss Marple, Morse, Vera and Murder She Wrote. Not sure why I class all these murderous programmes as cosy, but I do. There used to be Wycliffe too. I'm quite peaceable in real life, honestly.

I grew up between a small town called Midsomer Norton and a village called Corston (in which I pronounce the r, but I know most people don't), and spent the first couple of series of Midsomer Murders very confused about where it was meant to be set.

I love the sheer thrill of discovering a midsummer murder I have never seen.

I like both Barnabys equally.