Your Favorite Midsomer Murders Episode

Here's the full episode of The Killing's at Badger's Drift.

Joyces' hairdresser secretly hated her.

That hair was the real crime.

R2, I thought her cooking was.

I’ve caught a few shows here and there and wondered if the series was worth watching. Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll start at the beginning.

Any overall favorite seasons?

I binged the series in the early days of Netflix when they were the only streaming service. What a large selection of tv shows they had.

R5 the first 5 seasons are my favorite.

Season 1 was "beyond murderous& funny "and Episode #1 was brilliant.

I still want to retire to rural England, but do I live in Midsomer or St Mary Mead (and have Miss Jane Marple as my neighbor) so she can teach me how to grow an English garden& solve murder together.

Midsomer was categorised as an entire county, which made the murder rate rather less extreme, though it must still greatly outdo counties like Wiltshire or Herefordshire.

I'm with you, OP. That first episode, The Killings at Badger's Drift, was what drew me into the show, and that episode remains one of my all-time favorites for all the reasons you list. So many other great eps too, though, but that one definitely stands out because you almost always remember your first time.

R9 did you watch the later episodes where the actors who play Iris Rainbird and her son also play her cousin and her son? It’s like they knew we wanted more.

Watching the first episode now. Ms. Rainbird looks like Mrs. Doubtfire! I can’t unsee it, although I’m liking it so far.

You know Denny Rainbird was a DLer.

Oh gosh Jonathan Firth was gorgeous in the first episode, it was such a great pilot, I remember watching it with my mum as a kid and not quite getting it!

I loved lots of episodes, mostly the early ones:

Written In Blood: a cozy book club member gets murdered. Whacky characters, cross dressing, gay undertones

Death's Shadow: schoolboy secrets come back to haunt three men as someone takes revenge for a past mistake. Murder by decapitation, fire and arrow.

Strangler's Wood: Is a serial killer back in action and targeting young women, or is it a copycat?

Dead Man's Eleven: Lady of the manor bludgeoned to death at her husband's quarry. Who is trying to get even with the family? Includes a cricket subplot

Judgement Day: A 'best village's competition is overshadowed by murders. Special guest appearances by Orlando Bloom's bum and death by pitchfork

Market For Murder: Members of a women's investment group hide secrets. Who's got a screw loose and starts randomly bumping people off? "Bookie's daughter!"

Ring Out Your Dead: Local bellringers get bumped off to the theme of "Ding Dong Bell".

The Maid In Splendor: Was the first murder a case of mistaken identity? Locals up in arms about changes to the village pub

The Straw Woman: Pagan festivals, witchcraft, spontaneous human combustion and Dan Scott getting laid!

Blood Wedding: A maid of honour is killed after a wedding and sets off a series of murders to hide a family secret.

The Creeper: A cat burglar is on the loose and murders abound. They help knock Joyce down the stairs but she manages to survive.

I forgot how delicious Vixen’s Run is. They’re all available to watch on Amazon Prime for free as well as Acorn TV.

The one about the hot rugby guys and their “physio”. The victim was found frozen solid in the cold storage recovery room thingy.

They had many hot guys on the show over the years.

R10 - YES! I recognized them instantly and was so pleased. I've seen the male actor in a number of other BBC crime dramas/mysteries as a side character, and it always makes me smile because he's so recognizable.

PBS Passport holders may watch all but the most recent years.

Midsomer Murders was my comfort watch through the Pandemic. Reading all of these comments is making me want to rewatch the series, which I shall do beginning this weekend. The show definitely makes me fantasize about moving to one of these cozy English villages/towns where murder and eccentric characters seem to be rampant. Even though I know that's not a realistic portrayal, I still want it to be!

R13 did his homework!

R15 which episode is that? That’s one I don’t remember. Perhaps I’ve missed an episode. The horror!

Death Shadow is on right now in the local PBS. The one with the ministers who kills.

Rugby…The Lions of Causon

I’ve got A Picture of Innocence on in the background right now. Not one of my favorites but I’ll take it. MM is great background music.

One of my favorites is Dark Autumn. The ending bugs me, but I love the tiny village of Goodman’s Land, the Aunt Sally match, and the surrounding hills. “Bit of a fresh air freak.”

I was beyond delighted when I landed in a village in Yorkshire and found a sign on a tree on the green advertising the weekly hours for the visit from the fish and chips van.

Also love Market for Murder, but it’s so sad because all the victims are so decent. I blame the passive doctor. “I find it very shaming.”

Death’s Shadow is great. “I should have done it years ago!”

Love The Creeper! Mostly for Sid, the beautiful fox. And speaking of beautiful foxes 🦊, The Green Man is another atmospheric episode.

Music is fantastic in so many episodes.

Some of the sidekick detectives have been so attractive dressed in suits. Yum

I’ve been watching it, with commercials, for free on Tubi.

I want to pull Detective Dan Scott's pants down and fellate his truncheon, right in the middle of Aspern Tallow!

Painted In Blood is on right now and I forgot the intricacies of it.

Any that feature Cully.

I was going to describe the one R15 and R22 mention. The younger deputy has a scene in a towel in a locker room and It gave me a boner.

I think this is Midsomer but honestly, we blow through the English mystery shows like butter, so I may be wrong: the episode where once a year, men from an adjoining village invade another and kidnap/rape the wives. This time, murder is involved.

We rewatch the series out of order now and I’ve forgotten how little I liked Joyce’s character - no reason, she just seemed bland. Julie is annoying in her own way: works full time running a school yet still has time to constantly chair the various fetes. And why has their daughter (Betty?) completely gone missing?

Still, we love it and yes, I also Imagine living in a flower- and murder-filled village.

There was one episode where they show his sidekick (the second one, I think) in the shower.. full frontal!!

The show caught some flack for it's lack of visible minorities and then more when the producer (or director?) said that was because he wanted to show the 'real Britain'. He was quickly replaced and Midsomer became much more diverse.

[quote]Judgement Day: A 'best village's competition is overshadowed by murders. Special guest appearances by Orlando Bloom's bum and death by pitchfork

Well done, R13

I came to post about "Judgment Day" with Orlando Bloom at the peak of his beauty. It's also a well-done episode, and I like the other episodes you cited too.

^ but why does Joyce Barnaby have to poke her nose in every episode?

A villager is selected to be a guest judge of the Prettyist Village contest...and here's Joyce.

Barnaby and Troy stop to chat with some prostitutes...and here's Joyce.

And don't even get me started on that horrid Cully!

The episode with Bloom also has a young Tobias Menzies as his thieving partner.

Neil Dudgeon plays a gardener in a 2000 episode 11 years before he took the reign as the new Barnaby.

R31 fuck off! If only he'd gone nude, he was dreamy!

R30 you might find this thread of interest. There are many reasons to dislike that social-climbing Joyce

Season 7, Episode 1 (The Green Man) has a baby Henry Cavill fucking his friend’s mom and harassing Mr. Filch from Harry Potter.

The first episode blew me away.

R39 Bella, is that you?

Not r30, but thanks for the link to that thread, r37.

R30, that episode is Night of the Stag. Creepy!!

Happy to R41! I was the OP of the Joyce thread and she still gets in my nerves, especially in later episodes!

Heh R37 I like Joyce but Cully gets on my nerves. She seemed like an idiot.

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R47 I don't think you saw the good episodes towards the beginning. And there were plenty of hot guys. Orlando Bloom even got his arse out!

Minge needs some anger management assistance. Try posting without all of the cheap insults and gratuitous cussing out. You’d likely get a better reaction to your “thoughts.”

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R58 I just read your comment about how hot it would be if Ryan Philippe fucked his son; I don't think you're the kind of person who would appreciate Midsomer Murders. Kindly bugger off!

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Well at least you didn’t use the word cunt in that last post.^

…baby steps.

I like the Bellringers one with the MILF who keeps trying to get her hands down Troy's briefs

The new season is free on Tubi now.

Did you look at your cunt?

What R64?

[quote]Your Favorite Midsomer Murders Episode

It's a 138-episode tie for last place.