Season 14, Episode 6

The Night of the Stag

7.4/ 10October 12, 201192 min

A tax inspector goes missing as he tries to track down the maker of an illicit, potent cider popular among the residents of Midsomer Abbas. Barnaby and Jones have a murder investigation on their hands when the man's body is found floating in a vat at the village's spring fair, where the duo are sampling the local brew

Directed by
Simon Langton
Written by
Nicholas Martin

Guest stars

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    Death in the Slow Lane

    Mar 23, 2011693 min

    New DCI John Barnaby arrives in Midsomer and is bemused by the quaint villages and their quirky residents. But when a local DJ is crushed to death at a traditional girls’ boarding school, he soon discovers that murder and deception are neve

  2. S14 E2

    Dark Secrets

    Mar 30, 20115.993 min

    The reclusive lives of elderly eccentrics William and Mary Bingham comes under police scrutiny when a social services investigator is murdered. Barnaby and Jones must unearth generations of family secrets and decipher astronomical charts to

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    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

  4. S14 E4

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    May 25, 20117.492 min

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  5. S14 E5

    The Sleeper Under the Hill

    Sep 21, 20116.293 min

    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

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