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TV-14 D,L,S,V (120 MIN)

The Maid in Splendour is a popular pub in the village of Midsomer Worthy. Its former publican Michael Bannerman, who is well-liked among the locals, has handed control of The Maid to his humourless son Stephen. When barman Jamie Cruickshank, and then Stephen Bannerman, are shot dead, Barnaby and Scott have to find out whether Jamie or Stephen was the intended target of the first murder.

TV-14 D,L,S,V (120 MIN)

An old pagan festival is revived in Midsomer Parva, with the burning effigy of a straw woman as its centrepiece. To the horror of the onlookers, the local curate, Alex Deakin, is found trapped within the effigy and burns to death. As the police investigate, a series of further deaths from apparent spontaneous human combustion follow. Barnaby and Scott soon suspect that someone is using the illusion of witchcraft to hide their true motives.

TV-14 D,L,S,V (120 MIN)

Nine years after Ferdy Villiers committed suicide at the family home of Draycott Hall, his family gather at the Hall to celebrate Christmas. When Ferdy's nephew, Howard, finds a message in a Christmas cracker predicting that two members of the family will be dead by Boxing Day, everyone dismisses it a prank until Aunt Lydia falls down the stairs and is fatally injured. Barnaby and Scott investigate, uncovering many secrets and lies connected to Ferdy's death, but are unable to prevent a further death.

TV-14 D,L,S,V (120 MIN)

In the village of Fletcher's Cross, undertaker Patrick Pennyman is found dead in his own chapel of rest by his wife. Barnaby and Scott start looking into a controversial spiritualist church in the village. Villager Elizabeth Key tells her friend Joyce of her suspicions that the murdered undertaker had been stealing from the dead and that the spiritualist church had been using very non-spiritual methods to acquire information revealed in their services. When both Elizabeth and a local labourer are also killed, Barnaby and Scott uncover more secrets in Fletcher's Cross in their quest to find the perpetrator.

TV-14 D,L,S,V (120 MIN)

Nine years after Ferdy Villiers committed suicide at the family home of Draycott Hall, his family gather at the Hall to celebrate Christmas. When Ferdy's nephew, Howard, finds a message in a Christmas cracker predicting that two members of the family will be dead by Boxing Day, everyone dismisses it a prank until Aunt Lydia falls down the stairs and is fatally injured. Barnaby and Scott investigate, uncovering many secrets and lies connected to Ferdy's death, but are unable to prevent a further death.

TV-14 D,L,S,V (120 MIN)

When a local handyman finds a female classics teacher and a member of a group of orchid enthusiasts poisoned in her own home, DCI Barnaby finds himself heading back to Midsomer Malham, the day after he and Joyce had helped out during the village's annual garden show. It is discovered that the victim had a secret lover and had helped to smuggle a rare orchid, the Yellow Roth, out of Borneo. With suspects and motives abounding, the police find themselves dealing with grudges, jealousies, and envy. Where the orchid goes, murders follow.

TV-14 D,L,S,V (120 MIN)

After a successful day at the races for the racehorse, Bantling Boy, it is not long before one of the horse's owners is found murdered in the horses' stables. The victim, Bruce Hartley, had been in dispute with the other owners of Bantling Boy, having had a heated argument with them over an offer to buy the horse. Things get worse for the other owners when a series of further killings follow, before a darker motive is revealed and the detectives bring the culprit to justice.