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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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BootyMcBootFace · 20/10/2019 22:24

I love a Midsomer Murders! I'm with those who enjoyed the death by falling cheese episode, but also enjoy murder through wild boar and being run over by a steam roller.

I particularly enjoy the fact that a tiny village in the Cotswolds has, among other things, a sports science facility, university, museum, vineyard, cheese maker, championship boxer, championship racing stables and much, much more.

MrsToothyBitch · 20/10/2019 22:43

Love the Bunny Cakes ep Grin. Death by tumble dryer is Selina Cadell in Midsomer Life, I think?

Cully & Troy have a snog in Death & Dreams (which is, as a Pp has stated, a belter of an episode), I think, just before they find a body one Cully made earlier. Think they possibly manage a bit of a thing in a few more eps? I always thought she should've married him, too!

Does any know the name of the Punch & Judy themed episode? That scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid!

BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo · 20/10/2019 22:58

Destroying Angel Mrstoothybitch my favourite episodes are always the ones with a touch of the supernatural about them, the one where Joyce was convinced she had run someone over and it was actually a ghost....😱

Tink1990 · 21/10/2019 04:33

I love it too! The one where the lady drinks some of the poison so she appears to be a victim is by far my fave! Its one of the earlier ones, which are by far the best!

BBInGinDrinking · 21/10/2019 04:49

Randy gardener/new Barnaby tried it on with Joyce and was caught in the act by Tom - offered to return to fertilise her seedlings or some such oo er mrs.

Silene · 21/10/2019 05:25

I watched the one with the terrifying undertakers that were always eating cakes....aaaarghh, watched it at night, woke screaming!

MrsToothyBitch · 21/10/2019 08:40

@Tink1990 - that one is on ITV Hub atm if you have it. That's also the ep where Orlando Bloom meets a pitchfork!

I didn't work for about 3 months last year & have lovely memories of watching lots of Midsomer, Lewis & Endeavour. I was a bit sad to go back to work!

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Tink1990 · 21/10/2019 18:27

Thanks @40MrsToothyBitch ! Thats my night sorted Grin

HerBigChance · 21/10/2019 19:49

Ring Out Your Dead, mentioned above, is a cracking episode. As is Market for Murder, which was on over the weekend.

Troy is my favourite sidekick. Endearingly dim and gets pulled up by the more PC Barnaby, which is the opposite to what you might expect.

The creepy pilot episode is called The Killings at Badgers Drift, but I'm not sure if I'm referencing the correct one from a PP above.

HerBigChance · 21/10/2019 19:50

Dark Autumn is another cracker, not shown very often.

Death and Dreams is indeed one of the much darker ones.

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Charley1988 · 21/10/2019 20:10

I like Dark Autumn I think it's been repeated a few times

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HelloDoris · 21/10/2019 23:06

I've always dipped in and out of MM but now because of this thread I've gone back to the beginning, watched the pilot now on series 1 episode 1. I'm loving a bit of random murders of an evening Grin

MrsToothyBitch · 21/10/2019 23:55

@HerBigChance I also think the episode @Silene is referencing is the pilot. Denny & Iris Rainbird are the characters in question; they make playing card suit sandwiches and Iris giving Denny a motherly kiss on the lips is the creepiest moment of the whole thing, imo!

Destroying Angel, Dark Autumn and Market for Murder are some of my favourites. Dark Autumn especially is creepily brilliant and isn't shown enough. Glad to see we're all fond of the same ones!

Murder on St Malleys Day was partly filmed at my uni! Not whilst I was a student, sadly. Before my time. Similarly the school I went to for VI form was in an Inspector Linley.

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 22/10/2019 15:31

John Nettles’ first wife was called Joyce!

drudgewithagrudge · 22/10/2019 15:45

Creepy Dennis and his Mum were reprieved in another episode when the same actors played their identical cousins.
I was quite taken by the chap who played Dennis and was amazed to find on go ogling him that he is Brian Cant of Playschool fame's son.

PrivateSpidey · 22/10/2019 15:59

Omg why have I only just seen this thread now?! When I could have been enjoying days of MM/MN chat?!

The only Midsomer is the John Nettles one, preferably the Troy episodes - although I don't mind Jones or Scott too much.

One of my favourite episodes was on the other day: Market for Murder, the one with the fake book club, and where Barnaby also has trouble with his pension. Meanwhile Troy is going to cash in on his pristine original edition of The Hawk comic Grin

BOOnanasAreTheSourceOfEvil · 22/10/2019 16:00

I love love love MM. My nan and I used to watch them, even when she had dementia she never forgot when MM was on and we'd watch together. It really is the ultimate comfort tv.

PrivateSpidey · 22/10/2019 16:09

MrsToothyBitch Market for Murder fist bump - it's a classic.

My two favourite episodes ever are Ghosts of Christmas Past, which is actually a Jones episode but is brilliant. It's an Agatha Christie style feuding family gathered at the old stately home for Christmas, and contains one of the best characters ever on TV (Howard - he's about 12, and keeps Barnaby and Jones on their toes with his amateur detectiving and magic tricks).

Then my other fave is - Beyond the Grave - Prunella Scales is in that one and she's marvellous. It's also got a great storyline where Cully's boyfriend is playing a policeman in a soap opera and shadows Troy to find out what it's really like - and ends up at the bottom of the chain of command, but finds the vital evidence that solves the crime. Brilliant.

I like the Bunny Cakes episode mentioned above as well although the way the woman with the glasses dies (can't remember the character's name but Michelle Dotrice plays her mum) is really grim.

Lellochip · 22/10/2019 16:21

I've only seen a few episodes with New Barnaby, never Old.... I just assumed it was the same character recast until this thread 😄

MrsToothyBitch · 22/10/2019 16:21

@PrivateSpidey- Beyond the Grave is also currently on the itv hub, I think. I like the Christmas one you mentioned, the little boy is a poppet!

Drabarni · 22/10/2019 16:26

lellochip

Honestly my love, you don't know what you are missing. JN in the earlier episodes, just marvellous.
We watch on ITV3, but I'm sure you'll find them in other channels too. Check out afternoons, evenings, both weekdays and weekends.
Where have you been?
In fairness, if you are young you might not have been born when they first started.

I'll post this link again as the info on it is quite useful, if you are a fan midsomermurders.org/mainepisodeguide.htm

PrivateSpidey · 22/10/2019 16:32

Brill, thanks MrsToothy - just downloaded it.

The descriptions on the tv guide never match the bits I remember, e.g. If it just said "the Bunny Cakes" episode, or "the one with Jones in the shower", I'd know what they meant! When they describe the murder I never know which episode it is (although that's good in some ways, as I hardly ever remember whodunnit).