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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 4 Episode 6 - Gary's Cake
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E6

    An armed hold-up at 'Pie in the Sky' while jewel-rich Mrs. Burdett is present brings DS Stringer to investigate. His abrasive manner alienates all the restaurant staff, including the normally placid Henry. He accuses first Gary, then Nicola and her new boy friend Paul of passing on the information regarding the Burdetts' booking to the thieves. But Henry's judicious questioning of the victim brings the solution, in time for Gary to celebrate two years of sobriety.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - Black Pudding
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E6

    In a moment of weakness famous cookery writer Hilary Smallwood has given her unscrupulous nephew Colin a Power of Attorney. He has sold her house and put her into a retirement home; now he is trying to steal her recently written memoirs. Hilary calls on Henry Crabbe and her lifelong friend Seymour to help. Meantime there is friction behind the scenes in the restaurant between Steve and John.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  3. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - Money Talks
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E1

    The restaurant is heavily in debt, and the Crabbe's new bank manager is unsympathetic. Steve and John have left for pastures new, and an agency chef is unsatisfactory. Crabbe learns that Dudley Hooperman is dead, and resurrects his hopes of early retirement. Meantime there is a surveillance operation to be run on a dodgy pizza delivery business.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  4. undefined Season 10 Episode 6 - Picture of Innocence
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    S10:E6

    There's a shock for Joyce when she and Tom visit a photo exhibition in Luxton Deeping. Barnaby also gets a glimpse of the bitter rivalry between the traditional film photo followers and the digital enthusiasts. Things develop a more serious turn, however, when a member of the local camera club is brutally strangled. For once there are no shortage of clues and leads, all pointing to one suspect - Barnaby himself !! Suspended from duty, Barnaby, with a little covert help from Jones, has to use all his deductive powers to discover the motive and unmask the real murderer before they strike again.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  5. undefined Season 13 Episode 8 - Fit for Murder
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    S13:E8

    Barnaby reluctantly accompanies Joyce on a spa weekend to Swavely Manor. But as he attempts to de-stress, a woman is found dead in the flotation chamber. He abandons his treatment to investigate, but his personal worries are never far away as he contemplates his future.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  6. undefined Season 5 Episode 1 - Market for Murder
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    S5:E1

    A ladies reading group in Midsomer Market starts losing members to murder.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  7. undefined Season 5 Episode 4 - Murder on St Malley's Day
    8.2/10(9 votes)

    S5:E4

    Members of an elite student club close ranks after a murder at the Devington School.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  8. undefined Season 6 Episode 3 - Painted in Blood
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    S6:E3

    Barnaby's wife, Joyce, finds a dead body on the Midsomer Florey village green while taking part in a watercolour painting class, and she recognizes it as the elderly Miss Fairfax.Barnaby is given the case, then finds himself taken off it and replaced by a team from the National Intelligence Squad, while he is assigned to deal with a missing handbag. However, he continues his investigation into the murder, finding deceit and double-dealing. It appears that 'Miss Fairfax' was not an elderly spinster at all, but a young detective sergeant from the National Intelligence Squad working under cover, and that her colleagues are busy fitting up the village handyman for the murder of an old lady who never was. He discovers that someone is busy hunting for some five million pounds still missing from an old robbery. In the closing moments, Barnaby has to lock two of the National Intelligence Squad's officers in a bank strong-room, where they are trying to snatch the missing cash, and to arrest the

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  9. undefined Season 8 Episode 8 - Sauce for the Goose
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    S8:E8

    Barnaby and Scott investigate when the dead body of rival employee, Dexter Lockwood, is found in the Plummer family's factory steriliser.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  10. undefined Season 12 Episode 1 - The Dogleg Murders
    8.1/10(8 votes)

    S12:E1

    On the Midsomer Golfclub Whiteoaks a member is killed with a golfclub. In the course of the investigation they discover Whiteoaks to be full of hatred, gambling, violence, jealousy and extortion.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  11. undefined Season 3 Episode 12 - Highland Fling (1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E12

    Some old sketches put Lovejoy and Jane on a trail which takes them up to Scotland, where they uncover a plot by another antiques dealer to con one of Jane's friends. At home, Eric is involved with a young woman with some unsavory relations, but she also has an antique mirror to sell. Lovejoy and Jane are moving closer to romance... but who is the girl Lovejoy keeps seeing in the woods?

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  12. undefined Season 4 Episode 13 - Lovejoy Loses It
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E13

    Lovejoy makes an exhibition of his 'sixth sense' for antiques on a television programme. Later, working on a house clearance, he overlooks an important item and starts to think he may be abusing and losing his talent. After he gets a letter, Lovejoy goes to see another 'divvie' who has lost the magic touch.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  13. undefined Season 6 Episode 7 - Minder on the Orient Express
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S6:E7

    When a gangster passes away, he leaves his daughter with clues to the location of his ill-gotten gains. She offers Terry tickets to the Orient Express, and Terry and Arthur spot underworld business on the luxury train to Venice.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Undesirable Elements
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E6

    Steve investigates the burglary of Pie in the Sky, while Henry does battle with murderous private sector cops.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Endangered Species
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E10

    Margaret and Henderson side with Reynard the Fox in opposing a new bypass, while Henry must question his loyalties.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  16. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - Hard Cheese
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E1

    Henry investigates a prowler fond of older ladies, and begins to suspect the celibate supplier of his cheese.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Brown Bread
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E2

    A diner collapses and dies in the restaurant's toilet. But when the police arrive the body has disappeared. Soon on the scene are two detectives from the Crime Squad, who have a long standing interest in the dead man, and in his missing car. Crabbe tracks down the car before they do and finds a huge sum of money in the boot.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 10 - Lemon Twist
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E10

    Crabbe has to join ACC Fisher and DS Cambridge on a management development seminar, but Fisher is having a crisis of confidence in 'The Job' and after a rave review, 'Pie' has customers queuing at the door - could this be Crabbe's chance to leave the Force and concentrate on cooking?

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  19. undefined Season 4 Episode 3 - Chinese Whispers
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E3

    The Chen family appear to be victims of racial harassment when their Chinese takeaway is set fire to but widowed Mr. Chen will not go to the police so his daughter Mei asks Henry for help, It turns out that Chen is a gambler deeply in debt to a restauranteur in London's Chinatown who has been has been threatening him for the money he owes. When Pie in the Sky makes it to the final of the Great British Grub contest being held in London, Henry uses the trip to visit Chinatown and act as go-between. A winner and a loser return to Middleton come the end of the day.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  20. undefined Season 5 Episode 7 - In the Smoke
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S5:E7

    The Crabbes holiday in London in a flat owned by ex-policeman Nick Spencer whilst he is in America on business. However Margaret finds his packed suitcase under the bed and hears an answer-machine message from his daughter warning that her violent ex-con boyfriend Danny is on his way to see him. Henry discovers Nick in hiding whilst Margaret discovers Danny's corpse in the dust-bin, killed in self-defence by Nick. Henry's loyalty is put to the test, as is the patience of Sally and Gary when the agency staff turn out to be a quarrelsome married couple.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  21. undefined Season 13 Episode 2 - The Made-to-Measure Murders
    7.9/10(5 votes)

    S13:E2

    The residents of Milton Cross, a feudal estate with a church, farms, houses and acres of land, depend on lord of the manor Edward Milton for their livelihoods. When Sonia Woodley is stabbed to death in the churchyard two years after the death of her husband, bespoke tailor Gerald, Barnaby and Jones investigate, and the village begins to reveal its secrets. Guest staring James Wilby, Gwyneth Strong and Karl Davies (formerly Emmerdale's Robert Sugden), with John Nettles and Jason Hughes

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - Innocent Graves: Part 2
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    S2:E6

    In spite of the trial of Owen Pierce collapsing, Banks still believes that he is the murderer. But Morton tries to persuade him to keep an open mind.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  23. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - Innocent Graves: Part 1
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    S2:E5

    Banks and his team investigate the murder of the daughter of an internet entrepreneur. The prime suspect is quickly identified, but Morton is not so sure.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  24. undefined Season 12 Episode 6 - The Creeper
    7.1/10(9 votes)

    S12:E6

    Midsomer's Chettham Park House, once owned by Sir William Chettham, has been bought by entrepreneur Jack Filby to save Sir William from financial ruin. Long-term friends dating back to the days of university, Jack has allowed William, his mother Elizabeth, wife Isobel and son Freddy to stay on living at The Dower House - the smaller house on the estate where the Baronet's widowed mother would traditionally live. Jack is the man of the manor now with William and Isobel's son Freddy as his right hand man.

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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  25. undefined Season 9 Episode 6 - Country Matters
    7.0/10(14 votes)

    S9:E6

    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?

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    Writer:Andrew Payne

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Andrew Payne Ratings Summary

"Gary's Cake" is the best rated episode written by Andrew Payne. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 10/20/1996 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Black Pudding".