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 (44,483 votes)
Seasons: 25
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Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 25 seasons indexed

Cast

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	2,695
2	Written in Blood	7.8	1,953
3	Death of a Hollow Man	7.3	1,682
4	Faithful unto Death	7.5	1,537
5	Death in Disguise	7.3	1,477

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	1,657
2	Strangler's Wood	7.9	1,509
3	Dead Man's Eleven	7.9	1,466
4	Blood Will Out	7.4	1,338

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	1,274
2	Blue Herrings	7.5	1,314
3	Judgement Day	8.2	1,636
4	Beyond the Grave	7.6	1,233

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	1,352
2	Destroying Angel	7.9	1,350
3	The Electric Vendetta	7.2	1,249
4	Who Killed Cock Robin?	7.1	1,144
5	Dark Autumn	7.5	1,220
6	Tainted Fruit	7.7	1,189

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	1,258
2	A Worm in the Bud	7.4	1,114
3	Ring Out Your Dead	7.8	1,319
4	Murder on St. Malley's Day	7.6	1,198

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	1,168
2	Death and Dreams	7.7	1,280
3	Painted in Blood	8.1	1,229
4	A Tale of Two Hamlets	7.3	1,092
5	Birds of Prey	7.5	1,030

Season 7 (2003)

7.64 avg 7 episodes 8.1 → 8.3 99 min avg

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Green Man	8.1	1,358
2	Bad Tidings	7.5	1,077
3	The Fisher King	7.3	1,128
4	Sins of Commission	7.5	1,092
5	The Maid in Splendour	7.6	1,066
6	The Straw Woman	7.2	1,132
7	Ghosts of Christmas Past	8.3	1,379

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	1,000
2	Dead in the Water	7.5	1,044
3	Orchis Fatalis	7.6	1,034
4	Bantling Boy	7.4	973
5	Second Sight	7.0	1,073
6	Hidden Depths	8.1	1,154
7	Sauce for the Goose	7.6	985
8	Midsomer Rhapsody	7.4	1,057

Season 9 (2005)

7.80 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	1,234
2	Dead Letters	7.6	1,071
3	Vixen's Run	8.1	1,134
4	Down Among the Dead Men	7.8	1,049
5	Four Funerals and a Wedding	7.2	1,009
6	Country Matters	7.8	1,115
7	Death in Chorus	7.7	1,029
8	Last Year's Model	8.2	1,167

Season 10 (2006)

7.53 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	993
2	The Animal Within	7.9	1,157
3	King's Crystal	7.4	1,043
4	The Axeman Cometh	7.5	1,155
5	Death and Dust	7.6	954
6	Picture of Innocence	7.7	1,037
7	They Seek Him Here	7.3	889
8	Death in a Chocolate Box	7.5	884

Season 11 (2008)

7.44 avg 7 episodes 7.4 → 7.6 97 min avg

Season 11 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Shot at Dawn	7.4	1,047
2	Blood Wedding	7.9	1,055
3	Left for Dead	7.6	982
4	Midsomer Life	7.4	914
5	The Magician's Nephew	7.0	898
6	Days of Misrule	7.2	857
7	Talking to the Dead	7.6	934

Season 12 (2009)

7.66 avg 7 episodes 7.4 → 7.7 93 min avg

Season 12 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Dogleg Murders	7.4	924
2	The Black Book	7.9	1,000
3	Secrets and Spies	7.6	995
4	The Glitch	7.3	874
5	Small Mercies	7.8	997
6	The Creeper	7.9	999
7	The Great and the Good	7.7	957

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	1,057
2	The Made-to-Measure Murders	7.3	965
3	Blood on the Saddle	6.3	1,038
4	The Silent Land	7.3	939
5	Master Class	7.9	1,084
6	The Noble Art	7.2	887
7	Not in My Back Yard	7.3	839
8	Fit for Murder	7.8	953

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	1,056
2	Dark Secrets	7.9	1,055
3	Echoes of the Dead	7.3	983
4	The Oblong Murders	7.7	944
5	The Sleeper Under the Hill	7.3	819
6	The Night of the Stag	6.4	930
7	A Sacred Trust	7.7	864
8	A Rare Bird	7.4	798

Season 15 (2012)

7.43 avg 6 episodes 7.5 → 7.6 89 min avg

Season 15 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Dark Rider	7.5	934
2	Murder of Innocence	7.6	851
3	Written in the Stars	7.0	822
4	Death and the Divas	7.5	917
5	The Sicilian Defence	7.4	864
6	Schooled in Murder	7.6	872

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	903
2	Let Us Prey	7.3	835
3	Wild Harvest	7.8	884
4	The Flying Club	7.4	799
5	The Killings of Copenhagen	7.8	983

Season 17 (2015)

7.48 avg 4 episodes 7.3 → 7.8 89 min avg

Season 17 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Dagger Club	7.3	827
2	Murder by Magic	7.3	850
3	The Ballad of Midsomer County	7.5	903
4	A Vintage Murder	7.8	893

Season 18 (2016)

7.20 avg 6 episodes 7.4 → 7.4 88 min avg

u-shaped

Season 18 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Habeas Corpus	7.4	846
2	The Incident at Cooper Hill	7.2	822
3	Breaking the Chain	6.7	806
4	A Dying Art	7.3	780
5	Saints and Sinners	7.2	763
6	Harvest of Souls	7.4	715

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	893
2	Crime and Punishment	7.4	796
3	Last Man Out	7.8	918
4	Red in Tooth & Claw	7.2	776
5	Death by Persuasion	7.1	830
6	The Curse of the Ninth	7.3	734

Season 20 (2018)

7.25 avg 6 episodes 7.2 → 7.0 89 min avg

Season 20 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Ghost of Causton Abbey	7.2	880
2	Death of the Small Coppers	7.3	857
3	Drawing Dead	7.3	808
4	The Lions of Causton	7.2	786
5	Till Death Do Us Part	7.5	749
6	Send in the Clowns	7.0	687

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	805
2	The Miniature Murders	7.5	763
3	The Sting of Death	7.1	715
4	With Baited Breath	7.3	676

Season 22 (2021)

7.20 avg 6 episodes 6.6 → 6.6 93 min avg

Season 22 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy	6.6	912
2	The Stitcher Society	7.3	742
3	Happy Families	8.0	936
4	Scarecrow Murders	7.3	707
5	For Death Prepare	7.4	733
6	The Witches Of Angel's Rise	6.6	637