•(Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S22E05: For Death Prepare)Diesen Artikel gibt es auch auf Deutsch.• Right at the beginning, we see a house on a river with the inscription ‘Empson Playhouse’. A man comes out of the front door with a poster in his hand and hangs it on the wall of the house…
Category: Chapters
Midsomer’s Old Railways
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S08E01: Things That Go Bump in the Night) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Joyce and Tom Barnaby are guests of Elizabeth Key in Fletcher’s Cross. They go out of the cottage into the garden. Elizabeth Key carries a tray with three cups and saucers, sugar bowl…
Treasures & Raiders in Midsomer County
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S05E04: Mord am St Malley’s Day, S14E05: The Sleeper under the Hill, S18E05: Saints and Sinners, and a little bit S09E04: Down Among Dead Men and S25E01: Treasure of Darkness) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Three episodes of Midsomer Murders are about treasure and its theft….
The History of Midsomer Villages
An overview of historical events in Midsomer County (excluding Midsomer Parva and Midsomer Worthy). •(Caution: Contains spoilers for all episodes until series 24; the information on episode S24E01 contains no relevant spoilers and the information on episode S24E04 is hidden here spoiler markers)• Having looked at the historic Midsomer villages of Parva and Worthy,…
Francis Galton, founder of eugenics
•(Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes S13E05: Master Class, and a bit for S14E06: The Night of the Stag)Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch.• The Fieldings’ manor, Devington Hall, is currently hosting auditions for Sir Michael Fielding’s Master Class. The manor is a 19th century country house, the grounds of which belonged to the…
A traitor from Midsomer in the American Independence War?
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S08E04: Bantling Boy) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • We enter Bantling Hall with Tom Barnaby and Angela Hartley, because among the large gentlemen in oil on canvas is Thomas Bantling. One of the men of whom the lady speaks only with contempt. He fought as an…
Midsomer and the Battle of the Somme
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S11E01: Shot at Dawn) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • The episode begins with a black and white picture. “France, July 1916.” is superimposed. It is 1 July 1916 – the first day of the Battle of the Somme. We see soldiers marching forward. Landmines explode,…
The Fisher King in Midsomer County
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S07E03: The Fisher King and a bit of S03E03: Judgement Day) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Near to the village Midsomer Priors, on the site of today’s Midsomer Barrow, in Celtic times, during the Iron Age, 3000 years ago, there was a local chieftain: the…
Not Dead But Sleepeth
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S13E04: The Silent Land) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Joyce and Cully Barnaby attend a concert by a tenor singer and a pianist. While Joyce listens with enthusiasm and devotion to Ben John’s rendition of “Drink to me only with thine eyes”, Cully is visibly…
Ghost Villages in World War 2
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S19E01: The Village That Rose From the Dead) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • A curtain opens to reveal a room with nine people. All of them are dressed in 1940s style. Almost all of them are sitting at three tables, only the older woman who opened…