In 2025, there are many reasons to celebrate and commemorate in Midsomer County. What happened 25 years ago and more? They are listed here in chronological order. And at the end you can read which episodes will be a quarter of a century old in 2025.   January ❓ 60 years ago (24 January): Midsomer Worthy’s Eric Edwards is reported missing. (07×01: The Green Man)   April 🎂 55 years ago (15 April): Emma Harris of Midsomer Langley is born. (15×04: Death and the Divas)   June 🙏150 years ago (25 June): Carolina Maria Roberts, terminally ill with tuberculosis, commits suicide on the grand staircase of the entrance hall of St Fidelis, March Magna. According to her tombstone, she is ‘not dead, but sleepth.’ 🙏 30 years ago (26 June): Bella Trace is murdered in the woods of Badger’s Drift. (Pilot episode: The murders at Badger’s Drift)   October 🙏 50 years ago (16 October): Midsomer Wellow bell-ringer Gordon Fogden died. A quarter peal of Grandsire Double was rung in his honour. (05×04: Ring Out …

It was sometime in the summer of 2005 when my mother mentioned, almost in passing: ‘There’s a new crime series on TV. It’s really good.‘ That was all I needed to hear. I had been allowed to watch Murder, She Wrote and Columbo with her from the age of eight, and by my teenage years I had worked my way through nearly all of Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Marple novels. So a recommendation like this, coming from her, carried weight. That Sunday evening, I sat down to watch Midsomer Murders – or, as it’s known in Germany (and a few other countries), Inspector Barnaby. I must have taken to it quickly, although the episode that truly lodged itself in my memory was Dead Man’s Eleven. It didn’t air in Germany until the summer of 2006, under the title ‚Sport is a Murder‘ – a play on the German phrase ‚Sport ist Mord.‘ I remember it particularly because I found the ending so troubling. A mother and daughter, grieving the loss of their husband and father …