Complete released-series file · 1999
Series 2
4 feature-length cases from the Tom Barnaby era, led by DCI Tom Barnaby with DS Gavin Troy across the run.
Episodes 1–4
Year-level chronology
Principal fictional places
Expanded case files
Before you open the folder
What defines Series 2?
This run sits in the Tom Barnaby period and contains 4 cases. Its archive labels lean dark, with 3 cases carrying that tone.
- Best entry point
- Death's Shadow
- Opening case
- Death's Shadow
- Final case
- Blood Will Out
- Recurring settings
- Each principal setting appears once
Archive highlights
Three ways into Series 2
Editorial signposts drawn from the Casebook catalogue—not a claim that every murder needs a podium.
Death's Shadow
A brutal death interrupts the Barnabys' anniversary plans and reopens a tragedy from three decades earlier.
Episode 1 →Casebook focus · DarkDeath's Shadow
One of the early era's darkest and most highly regarded mysteries.
Open the case →Filming trailDeath's Shadow
3 broader filming areas are already connected to this file.
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Core cast in Series 2
Every lead detective, investigating partner and credited on-screen pathologist represented in this series.
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John Nettles
Tom Barnaby · 4 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.
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Gavin Troy · 4 casesAn English stage and television actor also known for Our Friends in the North, Steel River Blues, EastEnders and Emmerdale. He later returned to the Midsomer world to play Tom Barnaby in the first professional stage adaptation.
Open actor profile →Barry Jackson
Dr George Bullard · 2 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.
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Toby Jones
Dr Dan Peterson · 2 casesAn acclaimed English character actor across theatre, film and television. His work includes Infamous, Detectorists, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the voice of Dobby in Harry Potter and an Olivier-winning performance in The Play What I Wrote.
Open actor profile →Complete episode ledger
Every Series 2 case
4 expanded dossiers and 0 concise catalogue records, all linked in broadcast order.
- Episode01
1999 · Badger's Drift
Death's Shadow
A brutal death interrupts the Barnabys' anniversary plans and reopens a tragedy from three decades earlier.
- Episode02
1999 · Midsomer Worthy
Strangler's Wood
The death of a visiting model resembles a notorious unsolved case, but the local tobacco business supplies fresher motives.
- Episode03
1999 · Fletcher's Cross
Dead Man's Eleven
A village cricket match continues around a body and a grand estate whose family history refuses to stay in the pavilion.
- Episode04
1999 · Martyr Warren
Blood Will Out
The arrival of two travelling communities intensifies an old feud in Martyr Warren before a local magistrate is killed.