Complete released-series file · 2006–2007
Series 10
8 feature-length cases from the Tom Barnaby era, led by DCI Tom Barnaby with DS Ben Jones across the run.
Episodes 1–8
Year-level chronology
Principal fictional places
Expanded case files
Before you open the folder
What defines Series 10?
This run sits in the Tom Barnaby period and contains 8 cases. Its archive labels lean dark, with 4 cases carrying that tone.
- Best entry point
- Dance with the Dead
- Opening case
- Dance with the Dead
- Final case
- Death in a Chocolate Box
- Recurring settings
- Midsomer Magna (2)
Archive highlights
Three ways into Series 10
Editorial signposts drawn from the Casebook catalogue—not a claim that every murder needs a podium.
Dance with the Dead
A young man is found dead in a vintage car at a disused airfield while his girlfriend remains conspicuously absent.
Episode 1 →Casebook focus · DarkDance with the Dead
A wartime-dance setting gives Jones's first case as a detective sergeant an unusually melancholy rhythm.
Open the case →Filming trailPicture of Innocence
3 broader filming areas are already connected to this file.
Follow the places →Who works these cases
Core cast in Series 10
Every lead detective, investigating partner and credited on-screen pathologist represented in this series.
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John Nettles
Tom Barnaby · 8 casesAn English actor, author and narrator who was already a household name as Jersey detective Jim Bergerac. After Bergerac he spent five seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and later returned to television drama in Poldark.
Open actor profile →Jason Hughes
Ben Jones · 8 casesA Welsh actor who first became widely known as Warren Jones in the BBC drama This Life. His later television work includes Marcella and The Pact, alongside substantial theatre work at venues including the Donmar Warehouse and Royal Court.
Open actor profile →Barry Jackson
Dr George Bullard · 8 casesAn English stage and screen character actor whose career lasted more than five decades. His credits ranged from the landmark television play Cathy Come Home to Doctor Who, Barry Lyndon and many familiar British television dramas.
Open actor profile →Complete episode ledger
Every Series 10 case
8 expanded dossiers and 0 concise catalogue records, all linked in broadcast order.
- Episode01
2006 · Morton Fendle
Dance with the Dead
A young man is found dead in a vintage car at a disused airfield while his girlfriend remains conspicuously absent.
- Episode02
2007 · Bellville
The Animal Within
An Australian niece arrives to visit a wealthy uncle and learns that his friends have already been told she died in a plane crash.
- Episode03
2007 · Midsomer Magna
King's Crystal
A glassmaking dynasty begins to resemble Hamlet after its chairman dies abroad and the family company faces closure.
- Episode04
2007 · Badger's Drift
The Axeman Cometh
A veteran rock band reunites at the Midsomer Rocks festival before its singer is electrocuted in front of the crowd.
- Episode05
2007 · Midsomer Market
Death and Dust
A doctor is killed in a hit-and-run while driving his colleague's car, suggesting that the wrong man may have taken the impact.
- Episode06
2007 · Luxton Deeping
Picture of Innocence
A feud between traditional and digital photographers becomes personal when a man is strangled and the evidence points towards Barnaby.
- Episode07
2007 · Midsomer Magna
They Seek Him Here
A Scarlet Pimpernel film loses its director to the prop guillotine while a known criminal watches the production from nearby.
- Episode08
2007 · Midsomer Holm
Death in a Chocolate Box
The murder of a disgraced former policeman reopens an ugly chapter in Causton's force and a rehabilitation scheme for offenders.