Midsomer Murders: Season 7

2003 · 6 episodes · ★ 7.4

Series 7

What Season 7 of Midsomer Murders

The season opens with Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby juggling two cases at once, while his partner Troy says goodbye to Midsomer after being promoted to Detective Inspector. Soon after, a new sergeant arrives and gets straight to work. The investigations take Barnaby to villages where calm conceals old grudges, family secrets and stolen objects. A literary festival puts the community and the inspector's daughter at risk, and she is friends with a former soldier. Later on, Barnaby works with Sergeant Scott amid a climate of distrust between locals and outsiders.

6episodes

Nov 2, 2003Aired

Feb 29, 2004last episode

9.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 7 Episodes

7x01 The Green Man
Nov 2, 2003 · 99 min · ★ 8.0
The Barnaby-Troy partnership is about to come to an end, as Troy has passed his inspector's exam and is moving on. However, the murderers of Midsomer go on piling up the bodies. Joyce Barnaby gets trapped in a fallen canal tunnel, and in getting her out seven skeletons come to light in a hidden chamber. Meanwhile, two local tearaways are shot dead in the woods at Midsomer Worthy, and a tramp called Tom is accused of the killings. While Troy looks into the shootings, Barnaby wrestles with an old mystery. And although six of the skeletons found in the tunnel date from the 18th century, one is much more recent.
Directing: Sarah Hellings · Writing: Michael Russell · Starring: Barry Jackson, Tim Woodward, Cherie Lunghi, John Carlisle
7x02 Bad Tidings
Jan 4, 2004 · 99 min · ★ 7.8
Barnaby's new partner, Sergeant Dan Scott, arrives from London's Metropolitan Police and expects to have a quiet life. But then the murders begin. The first victim is Fiona Thompson, stabbed several times with a long knife on her way home from a flamenco night at Midsomer Mallow village hall - and a witness reports a mysterious squeaking noise at the scene of the crime...
Directing: Peter Smith · Writing: Peter J. Hammond · Starring: Barry Jackson, Alex Belcourt, Helen Grace, Ruth Jones
7x03 The Fisher King
Jan 11, 2004 · 95 min · ★ 6.4
Midsomer Barrow landowner Gareth Heldman is murdered with an Iron Age spear, on the same spot where his father was killed many years before during an archaeologists' dig at the village's prehistoric earthworks. Meanwhile, troupes of new age travellers (whom Heldman strongly disapproved of) are arriving to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21st. Barnaby finds Heldman was a womaniser, with a tangled web of offspring. He also has to reopen the file on the thirty-year-old murder of Roger Heldman and investigate a tale of lost treasure.
Directing: Richard Holthouse · Writing: Isabelle Grey · Starring: Henry Ian Cusick, Nicholas Rowe, Lynda Bellingham, Susannah Doyle
7x04 Sins of Commission
Jan 18, 2004 · 95 min · ★ 8.2
The Midsomer Literary Festival opens with the real-life murder of a famous author at Midsomer St Michael. In investigating the killing, Barnaby and Scott find that the village highbrows are busy with corruption, embezzlement, and sexual peccadillos of various kinds. And the dead bodies go on piling up.
Directing: Peter Smith · Writing: Elizabeth-Anne Wheal · Starring: Barry Jackson, Susan Engel, Stella Gonet, Donald Sumpter
7x05 The Maid in Splendour
Jan 25, 2004 · 95 min · ★ 6.2
Jamie Cruickshank, a bartender at the Maid in Splendour public house, is keen on Bella Monday, a barmaid, and follows her to a tumbledown old cottage in the woods, only to be blasted with a twelve-bore shotgun. Then the pub landlord's son, Stephen Bannerman, is also killed in the same way. Barnaby finds there was ill-feeling between locals and newcomers to the village and also between the landlord and his aggressive son, who was in the process of taking over the business.
Directing: Richard Holthouse · Writing: Andrew Payne · Starring: Barry Jackson, Alan Cox, Siobhan Hewlett, Frances Tomelty
7x06 The Straw Woman Season Finale
Feb 29, 2004 · 95 min · ★ 7.9
When a traditional festival is revived at Midsomer Parva, it goes disastrously wrong, with the curate (or assistant priest) being burnt alive inside a straw effigy of a woman. Local property owner Alan Clifford holds a party at the Manor House, and it seems he has secrets... And then, just after finding a pig's head on the altar of the parish church, the dead curate's gay lover, the Reverend Jim Hale, dies too, seemingly of 'spontaneous combustion' - that is, he bursts into flames without any normal explanation. Barnaby refuses to believe in rumours of witchcraft and is vindicated when it proves that Hale's clothes had been sprinkled with phosphorus. Then, with Barnaby hot on the killer's trail, Liz Francis is knocked out with a candlestick and becomes the third villager to be burnt alive.
Directing: Sarah Hellings · Writing: Jeff Dodds · Starring: Barry Jackson, Alex Belcourt, Jemima Rooper, Richenda Carey