Archive by period
Midsomer through the decades.
A spoiler-light route through changing teams, production eras and recurring village ingredients.
1990s
10 released cases · Landmark · Classic · Dark · Eccentric
The Killings at Badger's Drift
The feature-length case that established the entire Midsomer formula.
Open file →1998 · Series 1Written in Blood
A particularly sharp collision of village insecurity and literary vanity.
Open file →1998 · Series 1Death of a Hollow Man
Midsomer's love affair with catastrophically competitive societies begins early.
Open file →1998 · Series 1Faithful Unto Death
An early case that keeps changing shape as Barnaby tests every convenient explanation.
Open file →1998 · Series 1Death in Disguise
The first series closes by putting its most traditional detective inside its least traditional household.
Open file →1999 · Series 2Death's Shadow
One of the early era's darkest and most highly regarded mysteries.
Open file →1999 · Series 2Strangler's Wood
A sombre early mystery that places an old serial-killer fear beside corporate and family pressure.
Open file →1999 · Series 2Dead Man's Eleven
Cricket, class and a formidable guest performance make this a distilled piece of early Midsomer.
Open file →2000s
61 released cases · Classic · Eccentric · Dark · Landmark
Blue Herrings
A gentler, character-led case in which older residents prove sharper than their carers expect.
Open file →2001 · Series 4Dark Autumn
Its autumnal atmosphere and ordinary village rounds create one of the show's most quietly unsettling cases.
Open file →2003 · Series 6Death and Dreams
A disturbing late-Troy case that pushes the series closer to psychological horror.
Open file →2004 · Series 7Sins of Commission
Publishing's polite language of prizes, advances and commissions conceals a particularly competitive village economy.
Open file →2005 · Series 8Bantling Boy
The sporting syndicate is only the outer circle of a much darker story about Bantling Hall and its inheritance.
Open file →2006 · Series 9Vixen's Run
Joss Ackland presides over a magnificently quarrelsome dynasty whose natural death proves only the start of the case.
Open file →2007 · Series 10The Animal Within
The case turns a circle of apparently devoted friends into rival narrators of one man's estate.
Open file →2008 · Series 11Shot at Dawn
Donald Sinden and George Cole give a 90-year grievance enough force to threaten a new generation.
Open file →2010s
49 released cases · Classic · Landmark · Dark · Eccentric
The Creeper
The theft mystery and murder inquiry overlap without becoming the same puzzle, giving Barnaby two kinds of secrecy to untangle.
Open file →2010 · Series 13Master Class
Classical music, inheritance and an unsettling family design create one of the era's most operatic cases.
Open file →2011 · Series 14Echoes of the Dead
One of the darker John Barnaby cases, using bridal imagery as both a signature and a clue to a fractured personal history.
Open file →2012 · Series 15The Dark Rider
A maximalist country-house case with a supernatural surface, a grey horse and gratifyingly practical mechanics.
Open file →2013 · Series 16The Christmas Haunting
A seasonal introduction that gives Charlie Nelson a haunted manor, an antique sword and no gentle first day in Midsomer.
Open file →2015 · Series 17Murder by Magic
A strong stage-magic case in which misdirection is both the evening's entertainment and the investigation's central problem.
Open file →2016 · Series 18A Dying Art
Ownership applies to almost everything in the case—the land, the sculptures, the artistic ideas and the future promised to a family.
Open file →2017 · Series 19Red in Tooth & Claw
The show ring offers classic Midsomer spectacle while ownership, breeding and property give almost everybody something to guard.
Open file →2020s
24 released cases · Dark · Eccentric · Classic
Till Death Do Us Part
The wedding-day surface is colourful, but the case takes persistent harassment and the failures around it seriously.
Open file →2020 · Series 21The Miniature Murders
The tiny houses offer a neat visual counterpoint to a case driven by very real homes, landlords and broken relationships.
Open file →2021 · Series 22The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy
Midsomer discovers viral folklore and responds in the only reasonable way: with a themed murder case.
Open file →2022 · Series 22The Scarecrow Murders
The visual conceit is pure late-period Midsomer, but the motive remains grounded in financial harm.
Open file →2024 · Series 23The Blacktrees Prophecy
A prepper community built to survive global catastrophe proves much less prepared for mistrust inside its own village.
Open file →2024 · Series 23Dressed to Kill
The episode uses a public culture clash as its first theory, then shifts attention to identity, reinvention and the cost of an old secret.
Open file →2023 · Series 24Claws Out
Pet ownership, training culture and inheritance law combine in a case where almost every clue has teeth.
Open file →2025 · Series 25Lawn of the Dead
The genteel order of lawn bowls provides an ideal surface for competitive grievance and disputed valuables.
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