• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S04E01: Garden of Death, S07E06: The Straw Woman, and S11E07: Talking to the Dead. With a little bit of S20E01: The Ghost of Causton Abbey, S08E03: Orchid Fatalis, and S14E07: A Sacred Trust.) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Tom Barnaby and Ben Jones are in Bow…
Category: Epochs
Midsomer Connections: Episodes & Epochs
The chart shows it clearly: the 20th century is very strongly represented in Midsomer Murders, especially the period after the Second World War. Tudor, Stuart, Georgian are equally represented, as are Victorian and Modern 1. It is much more often mentioned that a tradition or estate has existed since Henry VIII than since the Domesday…
Deeds Not Words
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S09E05: Four Funerals and a Wedding) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Joyce’s mother, Muriel, is a guest at the Barnaby home. Much to the chagrin of Tom Barnaby, who, while not getting along badly with his mother-in-law, does not appear to have a warm relationship…
ATA – Anything To Anywhere
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S16E04: The Flying Club. With a bit of S13E02: The Sword of Guillaume, and a tiny bit of S10E01: Dancing with the Dead) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutschauch auf Deutsch. • A murder has occurred at Finchmere airfield. John Barnaby interrogates the Darnley family who own…
The Sword Of Guillaume
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: 13×02: The Sword of Guillaume) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • To begin with, there is a disappointment: The Sword of Guillaume mentioned in the episode is as fictitious as Sir Richard Guillaume himself. And there is no connection between the Battle of Hastings and Brighton. I…
The Bell Ringers from Midsomer Wellow
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S05E03: Ring out your Dead) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutschauch auf Deutsch. • Tom and Joyce Barnaby are sitting at the table in the kitchen, and Tom is looking through numerous papers, most of which are in front of him. In 1860, the vicar of Midsomer Wellow…
Sports History in Midsomer, pt. 2: Other Sports
As well as playing a lot of cricket, Midsomer has been very successful in chess, Formula 1 and boxing. The famous boxing match of 1860 is a topic for another time: here we look at chess and F1 first. • (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S06E01: A Talent of Life, S08E02: Dead in the Water,…
Public Footpaths
•(Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S02E03: Dead Man’s Eleven, S09E02: Dead Letters, S13E02: The Sword of Guillaume, and S14E04: The Oblong Murders)Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch.• The Barnaby family are looking for a new place to live in Fletcher’s Cross and have a bite to eat in the Queen’s Arms, outside, in…
Witch-Hunting in Midsomer County
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S05E02: A Worm in a Bud, and S07E06: The Straw Woman) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Witch-hunting is not a medieval invention. It was not until the early modern period, i.e. the 15th and 16th centuries, that the persecution and condemnation of women who did not…
Doom Paintings
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S16E02: Let us prey) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Towards the end of the 11th century, people began to worry – again, it must be said – that the world was coming to an end and that the Last Judgement was imminent. Scholars kept calculating new…