Midsomer Murders: Season 9

2005 · 8 episodes · ★ 7.7

Series 9

What Season 9 of Midsomer Murders

The season opens with Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, played by John Nettles, investigating villages in Midsomer, a fictional county in England whose capital is Causton. Each episode takes him to a different town, where calm surroundings and picturesque scenery hide secrets. His cases include a lonely house with a reputation for being haunted, a missing will that puts a family in the spotlight, a family outing that goes wrong, a competition between church choirs, and doubts about evidence that helped convict a woman. Jones assists Barnaby on some investigations, while Barnaby's life with his wife takes a back seat. Dark humor accompanies the intrigue at every turn.

8episodes

Oct 9, 2005aired

Sep 24, 2006last episode

12.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 9 Episodes

9x01 The House in the Woods
Oct 9, 2005 · 94 min · ★ 8.1
A couple who have been searching the Midsomer area for a suitable property to renovate, Peter & Caroline Cave, are found brutally garrotted in their car outside a supposedly haunted dilapidated old cottage in the woods near Midsomer Newton. There are several other people interested in buying the house, but are they desperate enough to murder potential rivals? Barnaby investigates, with the assistance of PC Ben Jones, who he temporarily appoints Detective Constable, in the absence of DS Scott. Joyce Barnaby is helping a local group of conservationists identify architecturally important buildings in the area, and is asked to investigate the same cottage, potentially putting her in danger. Barnaby then discovers that there is something odd about the person selling the cottage.
Directing: Peter Smith · Writer: Barry Simner · Starring: George Baker, Ruth Gemmell, Anita Carey, Gawn Grainger
9x02 Dead Letters
Feb 26, 2006 · 94 min · ★ 8.1
The village of Midsomer Barton is celebrating Oak Apple Week when a local single mother, Marion Slade, is found drowned in the village stream. It looks like suicide, and that she was driven to it by grief over the death, eight years before, of her daughter, Bella, a local beauty pageant winner. Barnaby investigates and is shaken by two villagers who look like murder victims from his past. Then another body is discovered and it appears that the festivities have stirred up a cocktail of adultery, contempt, unrequited love and revenge in the village. And it all appears to center around Bella Slade.
Directing: Renny Rye · Writer: Peter J. Hammond · Starring: Sophie Thompson, Caroline Goodall, David Bamber, Richard Cant
9x03 Vixen's Run
Mar 5, 2006 · 94 min · ★ 8.6
The elderly Sir Freddy Butler has invited both his ex-wives, Annabel & Lucinda, to stay with him and his current wife, Tara. When he dies suddenly of a heart attack, the bitter rivalry between the three and Sandra, the wife of his heir, comes to the surface, with murderous consequences. To solve the mystery, Barnaby must unravel paternity questions about some of the residents of the hall, and find the legendary missing emeralds.
Directing: Peter Smith · Writer: Michael Aitkens · Starring: John Franklyn-Robbins, Joss Ackland, Joanna Riding, Leslie Schofield
9x04 Down Among the Dead Men
Mar 12, 2006 · 94 min · ★ 8.6
Barnaby and Jones investigate the shooting of a blackmailer, Martin Barrett. But he had so many victims, they are spoiled for choice for a suspect. Then one of his victims, Sir John Waverley, gets another demand. The trail leads them to the seaside and diving for treasure on an uncataloged wreck.
Directing: Renny Rye · Writer: Douglas Watkinson · Starring: Sam Kelly, Paul Freeman, Julia McKenzie, Dermot Crowley
9x05 Four Funerals and a Wedding
Sep 24, 2006 · 94 min · ★ 7.7
Barnaby's mother-in-law comes to visit, and insists on being taken to the village of Broughton, which has seen a war between the sexes for decades. During this year's traditional fair, elderly women's campaigner Mildred Danvers is murdered. And then the misogynist vicar, the Rev Anthony Gant, is murdered during a bizarre traditional event that forms part of the proceedings. Is this an evening of the score, or is another long-standing feud responsible?
Directing: Sarah Hellings · Writer: Elizabeth-Anne Wheal · Starring: Sandra Voe, Struan Rodger, Joseph Kennedy, Sian Thomas
9x06 Country Matters
Sep 10, 2006 · 93 min · ★ 7.0
Frank Hopkirk, an environmental adviser on the proposed site of a controversial Goodfare supermarket in Elverton-cum-Latterly, is found stabbed to death in an old farm building on the site. Barnaby & Jones question locals on both sides of the debate over the plans, and find that Mr Hopkirk had extra-curricular dealings with a number of the local ladies and their businesses. But which one of these caused passions to be stirred up to such a murderous extent?
Directing: Richard Holthouse · Writer: Andrew Payne · Starring: Stuart Milligan, Juliet Aubrey, Madeleine Potter, Clare Holman
9x07 Death in Chorus
Sep 3, 2006 · 94 min · ★ 7.1
The Midsomer Worthy local amateur choir includes Joyce Barnaby & Dr Bullard amongst its members. Their conductor, Laurence Barker, has a bitter feud with a rival. Following a rehearsal for the regional Four Choirs competition, the lead tenor, Connor Simpson, dies mysteriously.
Directing: Sarah Hellings · Writer: David Harsent · Starring: Annabelle Apsion, Peter Capaldi, Ronan Vibert, Sara Stewart
9x08 Last Year's Model Season Finale
Sep 17, 2006 · 93 min · ★ 6.8
Annie Woodrow, a charity worker from Midsomer Malham, is standing trial for killing her best friend, Frances Trevelyan, in a case that Barnaby had investigated ten months previously. But he becomes increasingly unsettled that the prosecution's case doesn't match the facts. Barnaby & Jones enlist the help of key witness Mrs Beverly in a risky entrapment to find out what really happened. Jones's promotion to Det Sgt comes through at the same time.
Directing: Richard Holthouse · Writer: David Hoskins · Starring: Barbara Young, Miles Anderson, Thelma Barlow, Josette Simon