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 (44,780 votes)
Seasons: 25
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Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Aug 19, 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	2,737
2	Written in Blood	7.8	1,980
3	Death of a Hollow Man	7.3	1,701
4	Faithful unto Death	7.5	1,553
5	Death in Disguise	7.3	1,487

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	1,674
2	Strangler's Wood	7.9	1,521
3	Dead Man's Eleven	7.9	1,482
4	Blood Will Out	7.4	1,345

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	1,280
2	Blue Herrings	7.5	1,322
3	Judgement Day	8.2	1,648
4	Beyond the Grave	7.6	1,238

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	1,355
2	Destroying Angel	7.9	1,358
3	The Electric Vendetta	7.2	1,255
4	Who Killed Cock Robin?	7.1	1,150
5	Dark Autumn	7.5	1,225
6	Tainted Fruit	7.7	1,197

Season 5 (2002)

7.68 avg 4 episodes 7.8 → 7.6 99 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Market for Murder	7.8	1,267
2	A Worm in the Bud	7.5	1,123
3	Ring Out Your Dead	7.8	1,326
4	Murder on St. Malley's Day	7.6	1,206

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	1,179
2	Death and Dreams	7.7	1,290
3	Painted in Blood	8.1	1,242
4	A Tale of Two Hamlets	7.3	1,101
5	Birds of Prey	7.5	1,038

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	1,368
2	Bad Tidings	7.5	1,086
3	The Fisher King	7.3	1,135
4	Sins of Commission	7.5	1,099
5	The Maid in Splendour	7.6	1,076
6	The Straw Woman	7.2	1,143
7	Ghosts of Christmas Past	8.3	1,393

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	1,012
2	Dead in the Water	7.5	1,052
3	Orchis Fatalis	7.6	1,041
4	Bantling Boy	7.4	978
5	Second Sight	7.0	1,080
6	Hidden Depths	8.1	1,164
7	Sauce for the Goose	7.6	994
8	Midsomer Rhapsody	7.4	1,063

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	1,247
2	Dead Letters	7.6	1,084
3	Vixen's Run	8.1	1,154
4	Down Among the Dead Men	7.8	1,066
5	Four Funerals and a Wedding	7.2	1,028
6	Country Matters	7.8	1,132
7	Death in Chorus	7.7	1,043
8	Last Year's Model	8.2	1,183

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	1,004
2	The Animal Within	7.9	1,169
3	King's Crystal	7.4	1,053
4	The Axeman Cometh	7.5	1,177
5	Death and Dust	7.6	969
6	Picture of Innocence	7.7	1,052
7	They Seek Him Here	7.3	901
8	Death in a Chocolate Box	7.5	899

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	1,056
2	Blood Wedding	7.9	1,067
3	Left for Dead	7.6	997
4	Midsomer Life	7.4	926
5	The Magician's Nephew	7.0	908
6	Days of Misrule	7.2	864
7	Talking to the Dead	7.6	941

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	934
2	The Black Book	7.9	1,012
3	Secrets and Spies	7.6	1,010
4	The Glitch	7.3	886
5	Small Mercies	7.8	1,011
6	The Creeper	7.9	1,016
7	The Great and the Good	7.7	969

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	1,075
2	The Made-to-Measure Murders	7.3	976
3	Blood on the Saddle	6.3	1,053
4	The Silent Land	7.3	954
5	Master Class	7.9	1,099
6	The Noble Art	7.2	898
7	Not in My Back Yard	7.3	849
8	Fit for Murder	7.8	963

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	1,067
2	Dark Secrets	7.9	1,066
3	Echoes of the Dead	7.3	993
4	The Oblong Murders	7.7	955
5	The Sleeper Under the Hill	7.3	834
6	The Night of the Stag	6.4	947
7	A Sacred Trust	7.7	880
8	A Rare Bird	7.4	813

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	951
2	Murder of Innocence	7.6	866
3	Written in the Stars	7.0	834
4	Death and the Divas	7.5	935
5	The Sicilian Defence	7.4	876
6	Schooled in Murder	7.6	891

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	913
2	Let Us Prey	7.3	849
3	Wild Harvest	7.8	896
4	The Flying Club	7.4	811
5	The Killings of Copenhagen	7.8	995

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	839
2	Murder by Magic	7.3	860
3	The Ballad of Midsomer County	7.5	912
4	A Vintage Murder	7.8	906

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	862
2	The Incident at Cooper Hill	7.2	836
3	Breaking the Chain	6.7	819
4	A Dying Art	7.3	796
5	Saints and Sinners	7.2	778
6	Harvest of Souls	7.4	728

Season 19 (2016)

7.37 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	908
2	Crime and Punishment	7.4	807
3	Last Man Out	7.7	932
4	Red in Tooth & Claw	7.2	786
5	Death by Persuasion	7.1	840
6	The Curse of the Ninth	7.3	741

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	886
2	Death of the Small Coppers	7.3	864
3	Drawing Dead	7.3	814
4	The Lions of Causton	7.2	792
5	Till Death Do Us Part	7.5	756
6	Send in the Clowns	7.0	693

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	813
2	The Miniature Murders	7.5	770
3	The Sting of Death	7.1	726
4	With Baited Breath	7.3	685

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	919
2	The Stitcher Society	7.3	750
3	Happy Families	8.0	945
4	Scarecrow Murders	7.3	716
5	For Death Prepare	7.4	740
6	The Witches Of Angel's Rise	6.6	644

Season 23 (2022)

6.80 avg 4 episodes 6.9 → 6.0 93 min avg

Bad finale

Season 23 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Blacktrees Prophecy	6.9	723
2	The Debt of Lies	7.3	601
3	A Grain of Truth	7.0	595
4	Dressed to Kill	6.0	961

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	619
2	Book of the Dead	7.0	538
3	Claws Out	6.9	453
4	A Climate of Death	6.7	489

Season 25 (2025)

7.23 avg 4 episodes 7.1 → 7.6 89 min avg

Season 25 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Treasures of Darkness	7.1	387
2	Lawn of the Dead	7.1	332
3	Death Strikes Three	7.1	290
4	Top of the Class	7.6	252