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

Tom Barnby must be the only detective on telly who is happy with his life. Most of them are either alcoholics, suffering from PTSD , having an affair with a colleague or are in some way involved with the victim
Yes Dublin Murders I'm looking at you.

It's on now. Good old Joyce at her art group. It warms your heart how they carry on despite a murder 😅
Guess they don't get get up about an odd body in Midsomer
I like DCI Banks too but get fed up of his personal traumas

Do you have any suggestions for similar? I like Mids.murd., poirot, marble, Lewis and Morse, F. Brown. Something with finished episodes.

Foyle and death in Paradise are okayish.

Young Morse, Banks (same as Ishouldfall) not so much. They rerun Taggart here alll the time... There's been a murddeerr. Not a fan anymore .

All the Scandi noir not my thing (though being Scandi ).

Dublin Murders, what/how is that one @drudgewithagrudge?

Please any suggestions?

brokenwood mysteries is good. its like new zealand version of MM

Thanks @Samcro, off to see if I can find it.

Love this thread. I'm also a big Midsommer Murders fan, and like most of you I took some time to warm to the new Barnaby. But then, I used to have a massive crush on John Nettles when he was Bergerac, so it made me nostalgic.

I also love Poirot and Miss Marple, though I'm not so keen on the more recent versions of Miss Marple. They change the original plots almost beyond recognition sometimes. (That's because I like the Agatha Christie books, though.)

And I also love Lewis and Frost, and let's not forget Foyle's War., I love the early ones of that series.

I love it but got wound up this week. They featured a farm in late spring early summer, but the farmer was out shooting game. Game shooting starts much later, the continuity was awful, crop circles and shooting dont happen at the same time of year!
Their idea of farms is pitiful. Throwing some feed about on a farmyard to ten chickens or a couple of pigs. No farm on any of these programmes would ever make any money The farmer never has any shit on them

closely followed by Martine Muchucheon being crushed by a giant cheese! Most ludicrous death ever

I like 'Death of a Hollow Man' which is based around an Amdram society (guess what? Joyce is a member!), 'Midsomer Rhapsody' and 'Beyond the Grave'

The one thing that I don't like about MM is the number of times the motive for the murders is completely bizarre. It makes it impossible to work out whodunnit.

Oh yes Midsomer Rhapsody - that's another good one - with June Whitfield? And a young Tom Ellis. It also has one of the most gruesome deaths.

That's another good example of a completely random, un-guessable motive, IIRC!

I love this thread, I've found my people!!

Love a bit of MSM, I especially love the old episodes with Troy. I still remember not sleeping as a kid after watching the episode in Badgers Drift where the elderly vicar was offing people, he killed one with a giant sword. I thought it was so creepy!

I love Midsomer!

It’s one of those shows the whole family (maybe not very young kids) actually want to watch and gather together for.

I don’t know if anyone has linked it but there is a driving tour you can do, we even had lunch in the pub on the green that has been shown quite a few times!

www.visitmidsomer.com/explore-midsomer/

It’s free and you just download either map (there are two routes) It was excellent fun working out the places we had seen on the tele

I think one of the worst murders were the one where an elderly lady was stabbed through the head with a hatpin, shutters.

But so many nasty/weird/over the top murders .

Just watched Death of a Hollow Man. Haven't seen that one before - think I was too young for the first few series when they were first out. Noticed that Joyce was shaken up by the death and given powerful sedatives. I'm sure that, in later series, she and Cully just take deaths in their stride - like they've been desensitized to them (which you probably would after a few years in Midsomer!)

I'm not sure if this is Midsomer as I don't remember JN in it, maybe he'd had a week off.

It's got old dance band music playing every time someone is murdered. Was part of the story but don't want to soil for others.
iirc, there was a Policewoman who was a victim, but didn't die.

We love it!! We had some filming done near us and when it came on the telly excitably paused it to take a photo for the family WhatsApp chat
My dad is the spitting image of Tom Barnaby and to our amusement my FIL is the spitting image of Morse.

I love the kitchens esp Barnaby Mk2

I love that Midsomer is apparently the murder capital of the world yet gets by with one DI, a DS and the odd DC floating by.

@Drabarni
Dark Autumn?

@Drabarni - Dark Autumn? Barnaby is in it a bit, as I recall, but it's Troy centric.

I made the mistake years ago of buying a load on DVD. It was great for binge watching at the time but now it means half the time I've recorded one on the Sky box lately I've alreay seen it.

Drabarni, that's Dark Autumn

Aw, thank you.
Must find it for dd, it has Hot Toddy played on Baritone Sax.
Was Barnaby off that week, I don't seem to remember him in it?

I live in Denmark and the Danes bloody love Barbaby! And Morse, Lewis and so on, but Barnaby is the accepted favourite. When DS was born I could soothe him by singing the theme tune.