The Best Episodes Directed By Nicholas Laughland

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.6/10(5 votes)

   #1 - One for Sorrow (2)

   S9:E210/13/2015

   Lewis' team must delve into the worlds of social media, drugs, taxidermy, alternative art and the homeless East European community.

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   8.2/10(11 votes)

   #2 - A Vintage Murder

   S17:E42/18/2015

   The fizz goes out of a sparkling wine launch when the glasses are laced with poison. Who is targeting the Midsomer Vinae Winery and what does the attack have to do with the death of a child in a hit-and-run accident?

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   8.0/10(6 votes)

   #3 - One for Sorrow (1)

   S9:E110/6/2015

   Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the apparent death by drug overdose of over achieving student and amateur taxidermist Talika Desai.

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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Shadows Rising (1)

   S1:E311/28/2002

   Dr. Hill strives to deduce the connection between the bodies of two teenage girls dumped in a lake and the motives for their murder.

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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #5 - Shadows Rising (2)

   S1:E412/5/2002

   Dr. Hill pieces together the convoluted history of a formerly retired serial killer and the whereabouts of the latest victim the killer abducted.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Powerhouse

   S4:E55/7/2007

   The team reinvestigates the 1950s murder of a young wages clerk at Battersea Power Station. Richard Dunne was hanged for Frederick Tully's murder, but his granddaughter, Hannah, is waging a campaign to have Dunne posthumously pardoned. The discovery of a suitcase containing used fivers in the attic of the Tully home sheds new light on the case, revealing a possible blackmail plot. A trace on the used fivers reveals that they should have been destroyed in the Battersea Power Station furnaces back in the 1950s, but were actually being saved by Douglas Murray, a friend of Tully's. It also becomes clear that the Battersea furnaces were being used to destroy other sensitive documents as well as used bank notes. When the team discovers a classified document relating to a massacre of civilians carried out by the British Army in Kenya, they uncover a blackmail plot spanning more than 50 years.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Father's Pride

   S4:E75/21/2007

   When a camera and film belonging to a photographic lab assistant murdered in 1987 are found in a Soho pub toilet, the team reopen a 20-year-old case. Elsewhere, Gerry is less than happy when his daughter Emily joins the team and looks to Sandra as a role model.

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   7.9/10(5 votes)

   #8 - Death and the Divas

   S15:E51/9/2013

   The murder of a journalist leaves reminders of a 1960's horror movie starring Midsomer’s Stella Harris. After Stella’s more famous sister returns following a 40-year family rift, the killings contiue, each reminiscent of a film plot.

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   7.9/10(8 votes)

   #9 - The Village That Rose from the Dead

   S19:E112/18/2016

   The Village of Little Auburn has stood abandoned since World War Two but plans are afoot to restore it to its former glory, However, the grand reopening takes a grisly turn when a man is murdered. DCI Barnaby and his new partner, DS Jamie Winter, are soon on the case, and must unravel a web of lies connecting past and present to bring the killer to justice.

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    7.8/10(3 votes)

    #10 - The Darkness of Light

    S2:E22/19/2004

    The remains of corpses are discovered whilst new foundations are being dug at the Norton Hotel, a building which stands on the site of an abbey, a fact which leads to a suspicion that these were religious killings. Then the hotel is burnt down and,as the first of a series of murders takes place, Carol asks for Tony's involvement. The strange thing is that these murders are identical to those committed some five hundred years earlier.

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    7.5/10(7 votes)

    #11 - The Christmas Haunting

    S16:E112/24/2013

    DCI Barnaby and DS Nelson investigate the fatal stabbing of a man with an antique sword during a ghost-hunting party at a 'haunted' manor house

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Only the Lonely (2)

    S2:E63/28/1997

    The murderer makes a direct threat against Sam's life after she uncovers the evidence needed to identify them.

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    7.4/10(6 votes)

    #13 - A Rare Bird

    S14:E81/11/2012

    A row breaks out between some birdwatchers in Midsomer-in-the-Marsh ends things end up turning nasty after their president is killed. Patrick Morgan died as he hoping to get a glimpse of a rare bird, but is his obsession with ornithology to blame or something much more sinister. Barnaby is called in to investigate.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Only the Lonely (1)

    S2:E53/21/1997

    The murder of a married woman who was having an affair seems straightforward. Friction develops between Dr Ryan and the police when the evidence complicates their case.

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    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #15 - The Lions of Nemea

    S8:E310/24/2014

    When a classics scholar is stabbed to death and dumped in the Oxford Canal, Lewis, Hathaway and Maddox find themselves sorely tested by a bizarre case. After a difficult start, Lewis and Hathaway's partnership seems to have gained some semblance of normality. DS Maddox has become a part of the team. Her abilities will be put to the test when an investigation begins on the brutal murder of an American classics student Rose Anderson Her body is hauled from the canal with a stand wound to the neck and abdomen. Suspicious soon fall on astrophysics professor, Felix Garwood who had recently broken off an affair with Rose. However, Felix was married to Rose's supervisor, Philippa Garwood. Could the jealous wife have committed such a murder?

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    6.2/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Echoes of the Dead

    S14:E34/20/2011

    When a young woman is dressed like a bride and drowned in a bath, it triggers a spate of ghoulish wedding-themed murders in Great Worthy. The case takes Barnaby and Jones to a donkey sanctuary, a heritage steam railway, and a pub run by an ex-copper and former brothel madam. With the serial killer still at large, could history be repeating itself?

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    6.2/10(9 votes)

    #17 - The Sleeper Under the Hill

    S14:E59/21/2011

    When the body of a farmer is found in the middle of a stone circle in Midsomer Mow, suspicion points at local druids. The murdered man had planned to plough Gorse Meadow, making Crowcall Circle inaccessible to the group led by high priests Ezra and Leticia. Barnaby and Jones are joined in their investigation by new pathologist Kate Wilding. The body left on the bloodstone is her first assignment, but Kate doesn’t shock easily.

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    5.6/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Send in the Clowns

    S20:E611/7/2019

    Things take a gruesome turn when Ferabbees Circus comes to town, bringing with it a chain of sinister clown sightings, threatening notes and deathly dangerous circus acts. Barnaby will have to face up to his fears in order to solve the case.

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    5.4/10(7 votes)

    #19 - Harvest of Souls

    S18:E62/17/2016

    The annual harvest fair and the daredevil riders of the Wall of Death arrive in the Midsomer village of Whitcombe Mallet. But when the owner of an equestrian centre is trampled by his horse, DCI Barnaby and DS Nelson, along with the expertise of forensic pathologist Kam Karimore, must unravel a complex feud from the past. However, nothing is as it seems, and they are in a race against time as they work to solve the case.

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