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.
- Directed by
- Richard Holthouse
- Written by
- Andrew Payne
Guest stars
Barry Jackson
Dr. George Bullard
Alan Cox
Stephen Bannerman
Siobhan Hewlett
Amanda
Frances Tomelty
Audrey Monday
William Gaunt
Michael Bannerman
Freddie Jones
Benbow
Elaine Donnelly
Maureen Cruickshank
Sophie Hunter
Bella Monday
Leon Ockenden
Jamie Cruickshank
Raymond Coulthard
Lawrence Haggard
Dave Hill
Clive Cruickshank
Peter-Hugo Daly
Wesley
All episodes — Series 7
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S7 E1The Green Man
Nov 2, 20038.1103 min
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 ge
S7 E2Bad Tidings
Jan 4, 20047.7103 min
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 f
S7 E3The Fisher King
Jan 11, 20046.199 min
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
S7 E4Sins of Commission
Jan 18, 2004899 min
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 pec
S7 E6The Straw Woman
Feb 29, 20047.999 min
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 Ho