Midsomer murders Set 7
(DVD Video)

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Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham.

Based on the characters created by Caroline Graham.

Special features: Disc 1. Caroline Graham : biography & booklist. All discs. Map of Midsomer County; Cast filmographies (John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard, Cherie Lunghi, John Hopkins, John Standing, Lynda Bellingham, Henry Ian Cusick, Diana Kent, Stella Gonet, Donald Sumpter).

John Nettles, Daniel Casey, John Hopkins (The green man) David Bradley, John Carlisle, Laura Howard, Barry Jackson, Cherie Lunghi, Fred Pearson, Tim Woodward, Jane Wymark (Bad tidings) Helen Grace, Esther Hall, Laura Howard, Barry Jackson, Ruth Jones, Helen Lindsay, Hilton McRae, John Normington, Michael Simkins, John Standing, Jane Wymark ; (The Fisher King) Linda Bellingham, Jim Carter, Henry Ian Cusick, Susannah Doyle, Terrence Hardiman, Diana Kent, Nicholas Rowe, Rebecca Saire, Malcolm Tierney, Jane Wymark (Sins of commission) Emma Buckley, Susan Engle, Stella Gonet, Michael N. Harbour, Laura Howard, Margot Leicester, Tom Mannion, Donald Sumpter, Robert Whitelock, Jane Wymark.

The cozy villages of Midsomer County reval their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries.

The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The green man: Troy passes his inspector's exam and is moving on, but not before one more challenging case with Barnaby in Midsomer Worthy. Bad tidings: Dan Scott, Barnaby's new partner, gets a baptism by fire with a case in Midsomer Mallow that implicates Cully and her old schoolmates. The Fisher King: Barnaby and Scott follow a maze of Celtic rites, ancient artifacts, and twisted relationships to find the murderer of a Midsomer Barrow landowner. Sins of commission: Murder attends the annual literary festival in Midsomer St. Michael, leading Barnaby and Scott to discover a hotbed of corruption within the highbrow crowd.

The Green Man: The Barnaby-Troy partnership is about to come to an end, as Troy has passed his inspector's exam and is moving on. However, the murderers of Midsomer go on piling up the bodies. Joyce Barnaby gets trapped in a fallen canal tunnel, and in getting her out seven skeletons come to light in a hidden chamber. Meanwhile, two local tearaways are shot dead in the woods at Midsomer Worthy, and a tramp called Tom is accused of the killings. While Troy looks into the shootings, Barnaby wrestles with an old mystery. And although six of the skeletons found in the tunnel date from the 18th century, one is much more recent.

Bad Tidings: Barnaby's new partner, Sergeant Dan Scott, arrives from London's Metropolitan Police and expects to have a quiet life. But then the murders begin. The first victim is Fiona Thompson, stabbed several times with a long knife on her way home from a flamenco night at Midsomer Mallow village hall - and a witness reports a mysterious squeaking noise at the scene of the crime.

The Fisher King: Midsomer Barrow landowner Gareth Heldman is murdered with an Iron Age spear, on the same spot where his father was killed many years before during an archaeologists' dig at the village's prehistoric earthworks. Meanwhile, troupes of new age travellers (whom Heldman strongly disapproved of) are arriving to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21st. Barnaby finds Heldman was a womaniser, with a tangled web of offspring. He also has to reopen the file on the thirty-year-old murder of Roger Heldman and investigate a tale of lost treasure.

Sins of commission: The Midsomer Literary Festival opens with the real-life murder of a famous author at Midsomer St Michael. In investigating the killing, Barnaby and Scott find that the village highbrows are busy with corruption, embezzlement, and sexual peccadillos of various kinds. And the dead bodies go on piling up.

Not rated.

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.