Midsomer Murders: Season 4

2000 · 6 episodes · ★ 6.9

Series 4

What Season 4 of Midsomer Murders

The fourth season of Midsomer Murders once again puts Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, played by John Nettles, in the fictional county of Midsomer. Each case takes him to a village that seems calm, where the residents hide tensions. The first conflict arises when an aristocratic family decides to turn a memorial garden into a tearoom, which infuriates the locals. Later, the heirs of a country hotel receive threats from an unknown source. In Newton Magna, Barnaby and Troy search for a horse trainer as the investigation grows more complicated. Barnaby, a skeptic, examines a crop circle that the villagers attribute to aliens. Another case uncovers a wealthy rural community marked by betrayal, and dark humor runs throughout the season.

6episodes

Sep 10, 2000premiered

Sep 23, 2001last episode

9.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Garden of Death
Sep 10, 2000 · 100 min · ★ 7.0
The Inkpen family has bought back its ancestral home, Inkpen Manor at Midsomer Deverell, and they plan to turn a village Memorial Garden on their land into a tea shop. This causes consternation in the village, and the Bennetts (who previously owned the manor and founded the Memorial Garden) lead the opposition. Then young Fliss Inkpen-Thomas is found dead in the Memorial Garden with her skull smashed in, and a few days later her mother Elspeth dies of poisoning, with the possibility of suicide firmly denied by her family and friends. Barnaby investigates the deaths and finds older and more deep-seated motives for murder lurking in another ancient family.
Directing: Peter Smith · Writing: Christopher Russell · Starring: Barry Jackson, Belinda Lang, Victoria Hamilton, Anna Calder-Marshall
4x02 Destroying Angel
Aug 26, 2001 · 99 min · ★ 7.5
Barnaby attends the funeral of the owner of the Easterly Grange Hotel and hears that the hotel manager has gone missing. The will is read, and it seems the hotel has been divided between the missing manager and his beautiful wife, the hotel's chef and its accountant.A dog finds the hotel manager's severed hand, and the others named in the will receive threatening notes. Then accidents start to happen to them all, including mushroom-poisoning, an apparently accidental shooting, a falling drinks cabinet and a sabotaged vehicle. Barnaby next learns that the missing hotel manager had in his possession a more recent will, which is also now missing....
Directing: David Tucker · Writing: David Hoskins · Starring: Barry Jackson, Samantha Bond, Tony Haygarth, Edward Jewesbury
4x03 Electric Vendetta
Sep 2, 2001 · 99 min · ★ 6.3
A man's naked body is found in a crop circle, then another dead man electrocuted at the wheel of his vehicle, and then yet another dead man in another crop circle. Barnaby is not impressed by rumours of extra-terrestrial killings, and is sure he is dealing with a human murderer. Before he can solve the mystery, he has to fathom a forty-year-old rivalry in love, the vengeance of the loser, and the defences of the winner.
Directing: Peter Smith · Writing: Terry Hodgkinson · Starring: John Woodvine, Patrick Baladi, Kenneth Colley, Charmian May
4x04 Who Killed Cock Robin?
Sep 9, 2001 · 99 min · ★ 7.2
Dr Burgess, on his way home from a party at the glamorous Francesca Ward's riding school, knocks a stranger down in the road at Newton Magna, and the stranger mysteriously vanishes. Barnaby identifies the missing man as Sean O'Connell, a disgraced Irish vet, then he recognizes the village's new squire as Melvyn Stockard, a retired villain. A body found in a well proves to be the father of the man Stockard's daughter is about to marry... everyone knows he was against the marriage, but is Stockard a killer, and where does the missing Irishman fit in?
Directing: David Tucker · Writing: Jeremy Paul · Starring: Barry Jackson, Mel Raido, Jane Lapotaire, Larry Lamb
4x05 Dark Autumn
Sep 16, 2001 · 99 min · ★ 6.8
A postman is brutally murdered on his morning round in the hamlet of Goodman's Land. Local WPC Jay Nash helps Barnaby and Troy to establish that Dave offered a very personal service to the female villagers, leaving a trail of jealous husbands in his wake, and it becomes clear that the tiny village is riven with other adulterous affairs. Then the body count begins to go up...Meanwhile, romance is blossoming between Troy and Jay.
Directing: Jeremy Silberston · Writing: Peter J. Hammond · Starring: Barry Jackson, Kate Maberly, Nicky Henson, Gillian Kearney
4x06 Tainted Fruit Season Finale
Sep 23, 2001 · 98 min · ★ 6.5
A wealthy young landlady fears for her life after she callously ignores the plight of an elderly tenant.
Directing: Peter Smith · Writing: David Hoskins · Starring: Barry Jackson, Eleanor David, Adrian Rawlins, Ann Bell