This chronology lists all events in Midsomer’s history mentioned in Midsomer Murders, sorted by season and episode.
Are you watching a particular episode? Or you just don’t want a chronological overview of Midsomer’s history, but in the order of the series?
No problem, here it is! 💁🏼♀️
And for a better overview (and to reduce the loading time of this page) I have created a subpage for each season. Sometimes there is only one episode per season, sometimes there are several. So that you don’t click in vain, the episodes are listed directly on this page.
01×01 Written in Blood
02×01: Death‘s Shadow
02×02: Strangler’s Wood
02×03: Dead Man’s Eleven
03×03: Judgement Day
03×04: Beyond the Grave
The old graveyard in Dorchester-on-Thames, June 2023. By Petra Tabarelli. Public Domain.
04×01: Garden of Death
05×01: Market for Murder
05×02: A Worm in a Bud
05×03: Ring Out Your Dead
05×04 Murder on St Malley’s Day
06×01: A Talent for Life
06×03: Painted in Blood
06×04: A Tale of Two Hamlets
The Battle of Marston Moor painting. The battle was on 2 July 1644, during the English Civil War (1642-52) between Royalists and Parliamentarians. It was also a battle of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (England, Scotland and Ireland) of 1639 – 1653. Oil on canvas by John Barker (19th century); 101.6×152.5 cm. Public Domain.
07×01: The Green Man
07×02: Bad Tidings
07×03: The Fisher King
07×06: The Straw Woman
08×01: Things That Go Bump in the Night
08×04: Bantling Boy
08×07: Sauce for the Goose
08×08: Midsomer Rhapsody
09×01: The House in the Woods
09×04: Down Among Dead Men
09×05: Four Funerals and a Wedding
Ravenseft: Quainton Road Railway Station, Buckinghamshire, 2008. CC-BY SA 2.0.
10×01: Dance with the Dead
10×06: Picture of Innocence
10×07: They Seek Him Here
11×01 Shot at Dawn
11×02: Blood Wedding
11×05: The Magician’s Nephew
11×07: Talking to the dead
12×02: The Black Book
12×03: Secrets and Spies
12×04: The Glitch
Waverley Abbey in June 2023, by Petra Tabarelli. Public Domain.
13×01: The Sword of Guillaume
13×04: The Silent Land
13×06: The Noble Art
14×01: Death in the Slow Lane
14×02: Dark Secrets
14×05: The Sleeper Under the Hill
14×06: The Night of the Stag
14×07: A Sacred Trust
15×01: The Dark Rider
15×03: Written in the Stars
15×04: Death and the Divas
15×05: The Sicilian Defence
A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; Death is standing next to her, representing tuberculosis. By R. Cooper, c. 1912. Public Domain.
16×02: Let Us Prey
16×03: Wild Harvest
16×04: The Flying Club
17×02: Murder by Magic
17×03: The Ballad of Midsomer County
17×04: A Vintage Murder
18×05: Sinners and Saints
West London Aero Clubhouse at White Waltham Airfield, 2012. By Stuart Logan. CC-BY SA 2.0.
19×01: The Village That Rose from the Dead
19×03: Last Man Out
19×05: Death by Persuasion
20×01: The Ghost of Causton Abbey
21×02: The Miniature Murders
Sir Arthur Sullivan, to the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music: “Don’t find composing comic-opera so easy as you thought, do you, Mackenzie?“, sketch by Alfred Bryan, 1898. Public Domain.
22×05: For Death Prepare
23×02: Debt of Lies
23×03: A Grain of Truth
24×01: The Devil’s Work
24×04: A Climate of Death
This chronology contains all the important dates in Midsomer’s history up to the end of season 24. (but no risk of spoilers). For the calculation of some events that are only indirectly dated (e.g. “a hundred years ago”), I have chosen the year of broadcast in the UK as the reference year.
More dates – especially murders – from 1997 onwards will be added. For this I still need a good concept of which events to mention in a county chronology and which not. You could choose local celebrities and particularly bizarre murders – but at what point is someone a local celebrity? And when is a murder particularly bizarre? I’m afraid we all answer these questions differently. And that’s why I need a guideline. If I might have forgotten something, please contact me by email.
🤓 Read more about Midsomer Murders & History
The Chronology of Midsomer County by Year or by Episodes • Deep Dives into Midsomer & History • History of Midsomer Murders Film Locations
I would like to point out that this is an unofficial fan site and I am not connected to Bentley Productions, ITV or the actors.
