Midsomer Murders (1997)

Crime · Drama · Mystery

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

IMDb rating: 7.9 (44,279 votes)
Seasons: 25
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Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (1997)

7.62 avg 5 episodes 8.2 → 7.3 105 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Killings at Badger's Drift	8.2	2,670
2	Written in Blood	7.8	1,944
3	Death of a Hollow Man	7.3	1,673
4	Faithful unto Death	7.5	1,527
5	Death in Disguise	7.3	1,468

Season 2 (1999)

7.85 avg 4 episodes 8.2 → 7.4 100 min avg

Declining

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Death's Shadow	8.2	1,648
2	Strangler's Wood	7.9	1,500
3	Dead Man's Eleven	7.9	1,461
4	Blood Will Out	7.4	1,333

Season 3 (1999)

7.70 avg 4 episodes 7.5 → 7.6 100 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Death of a Stranger	7.5	1,262
2	Blue Herrings	7.5	1,301
3	Judgement Day	8.2	1,622
4	Beyond the Grave	7.6	1,227

Season 4 (2000)

7.50 avg 6 episodes 7.6 → 7.7 99 min avg

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Garden of Death	7.6	1,340
2	Destroying Angel	7.9	1,340
3	The Electric Vendetta	7.2	1,238
4	Who Killed Cock Robin?	7.1	1,135
5	Dark Autumn	7.5	1,207
6	Tainted Fruit	7.7	1,182

Season 5 (2002)

7.65 avg 4 episodes 7.8 → 7.6 99 min avg

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Market for Murder	7.8	1,249
2	A Worm in the Bud	7.4	1,106
3	Ring Out Your Dead	7.8	1,311
4	Murder on St. Malley's Day	7.6	1,185

Season 6 (2003)

7.64 avg 5 episodes 7.6 → 7.5 99 min avg

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Talent for Life	7.6	1,159
2	Death and Dreams	7.7	1,271
3	Painted in Blood	8.1	1,215
4	A Tale of Two Hamlets	7.3	1,083
5	Birds of Prey	7.5	1,020

Season 7 (2003)

7.64 avg 7 episodes 8.1 → 8.3 99 min avg

Big finale
Rebound

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Green Man	8.1	1,347
2	Bad Tidings	7.5	1,065
3	The Fisher King	7.3	1,117
4	Sins of Commission	7.5	1,086
5	The Maid in Splendour	7.6	1,060
6	The Straw Woman	7.2	1,125
7	Ghosts of Christmas Past	8.3	1,370

Season 8 (2004)

7.49 avg 8 episodes 7.3 → 7.4 94 min avg

Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Things That Go Bump in the Night	7.3	989
2	Dead in the Water	7.5	1,031
3	Orchis Fatalis	7.6	1,020
4	Bantling Boy	7.4	964
5	Second Sight	7.0	1,057
6	Hidden Depths	8.1	1,137
7	Sauce for the Goose	7.6	969
8	Midsomer Rhapsody	7.4	1,042

Season 9 (2005)

7.81 avg 8 episodes 8.0 → 8.2 93 min avg

Big finale

Season 9 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The House in the Woods	8.0	1,214
2	Dead Letters	7.6	1,059
3	Vixen's Run	8.1	1,115
4	Down Among the Dead Men	7.8	1,032
5	Four Funerals and a Wedding	7.2	994
6	Country Matters	7.9	1,101
7	Death in Chorus	7.7	1,015
8	Last Year's Model	8.2	1,153

Season 10 (2006)

7.55 avg 8 episodes 7.3 → 7.5 93 min avg

Season 10 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Dance with the Dead	7.3	972
2	The Animal Within	7.9	1,137
3	King's Crystal	7.4	1,029
4	The Axeman Cometh	7.6	1,138
5	Death and Dust	7.6	940
6	Picture of Innocence	7.8	1,019
7	They Seek Him Here	7.3	875
8	Death in a Chocolate Box	7.5	870

Season 11 (2008)

7.47 avg 7 episodes 7.4 → 7.6 97 min avg

Season 11 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Shot at Dawn	7.4	1,029
2	Blood Wedding	7.9	1,041
3	Left for Dead	7.6	964
4	Midsomer Life	7.5	899
5	The Magician's Nephew	7.1	884
6	Days of Misrule	7.2	845
7	Talking to the Dead	7.6	918

Season 12 (2009)

7.67 avg 7 episodes 7.5 → 7.7 93 min avg

Season 12 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Dogleg Murders	7.5	908
2	The Black Book	7.9	987
3	Secrets and Spies	7.6	980
4	The Glitch	7.3	861
5	Small Mercies	7.8	984
6	The Creeper	7.9	986
7	The Great and the Good	7.7	946

Season 13 (2010)

7.35 avg 8 episodes 7.7 → 7.8 90 min avg

Season 13 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Sword of Guillaume	7.7	1,042
2	The Made-to-Measure Murders	7.3	953
3	Blood on the Saddle	6.3	1,026
4	The Silent Land	7.3	929
5	Master Class	7.9	1,072
6	The Noble Art	7.2	878
7	Not in My Back Yard	7.3	829
8	Fit for Murder	7.8	939

Season 14 (2011)

7.39 avg 8 episodes 7.4 → 7.4 93 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 14 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Death in the Slow Lane	7.4	1,045
2	Dark Secrets	7.9	1,042
3	Echoes of the Dead	7.3	970
4	The Oblong Murders	7.7	931
5	The Sleeper Under the Hill	7.3	814
6	The Night of the Stag	6.4	923
7	A Sacred Trust	7.7	858
8	A Rare Bird	7.4	794

Season 15 (2012)

7.42 avg 6 episodes 7.5 → 7.6 89 min avg

Season 15 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Dark Rider	7.5	925
2	Murder of Innocence	7.6	842
3	Written in the Stars	7.0	813
4	Death and the Divas	7.5	908
5	The Sicilian Defence	7.3	858
6	Schooled in Murder	7.6	867

Season 16 (2013)

7.56 avg 5 episodes 7.5 → 7.8 89 min avg

Season 16 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Christmas Haunting	7.5	892
2	Let Us Prey	7.3	831
3	Wild Harvest	7.8	880
4	The Flying Club	7.4	794
5	The Killings of Copenhagen	7.8	976

Season 17 (2015)

7.48 avg 4 episodes 7.3 → 7.8 89 min avg

Rising
Big finale

Season 17 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Dagger Club	7.3	820
2	Murder by Magic	7.3	843
3	The Ballad of Midsomer County	7.5	896
4	A Vintage Murder	7.8	885

Season 18 (2016)

7.20 avg 6 episodes 7.4 → 7.4 88 min avg

Season 18 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Habeas Corpus	7.4	840
2	The Incident at Cooper Hill	7.2	819
3	Breaking the Chain	6.7	803
4	A Dying Art	7.3	778
5	Saints and Sinners	7.2	761
6	Harvest of Souls	7.4	711

Season 19 (2016)

7.38 avg 6 episodes 7.5 → 7.3 88 min avg

Season 19 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Village That Rose from the Dead	7.5	887
2	Crime and Punishment	7.4	791
3	Last Man Out	7.8	910
4	Red in Tooth & Claw	7.2	772
5	Death by Persuasion	7.1	824
6	The Curse of the Ninth	7.3	730

Season 20 (2018)

7.27 avg 6 episodes 7.3 → 7.0 89 min avg

Season 20 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Ghost of Causton Abbey	7.3	871
2	Death of the Small Coppers	7.3	851
3	Drawing Dead	7.3	800
4	The Lions of Causton	7.2	778
5	Till Death Do Us Part	7.5	742
6	Send in the Clowns	7.0	681

Season 21 (2019)

7.25 avg 4 episodes 7.1 → 7.3 89 min avg

Season 21 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Point of Balance	7.1	799
2	The Miniature Murders	7.5	755
3	The Sting of Death	7.1	710
4	With Baited Breath	7.3	670

Season 22 (2021)

7.20 avg 6 episodes 6.6 → 6.6 93 min avg

Bad finale
Mid-peak

Season 22 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy	6.6	905
2	The Stitcher Society	7.3	737
3	Happy Families	8.0	926
4	Scarecrow Murders	7.3	702
5	For Death Prepare	7.4	722
6	The Witches Of Angel's Rise	6.6	630

Season 23 (2022)

6.78 avg 4 episodes 6.8 → 6.0 93 min avg

Bad finale

Season 23 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Blacktrees Prophecy	6.8	710
2	The Debt of Lies	7.3	588
3	A Grain of Truth	7.0	581
4	Dressed to Kill	6.0	936

Season 24 (2023)

6.95 avg 4 episodes 7.2 → 6.7 89 min avg

Declining

Season 24 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Devil's Work	7.2	600
2	Book of the Dead	7.0	520
3	Claws Out	6.9	437
4	A Climate of Death	6.7	469

Season 25 (2025)

7.33 avg 4 episodes 7.2 → 7.7 89 min avg

Rising
Big finale

Season 25 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Treasures of Darkness	7.2	297
2	Lawn of the Dead	7.2	259
3	Death Strikes Three	7.2	226
4	Top of the Class	7.7	185