Product Details

• Actors: John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Jason Hughes, Laura Howard
• Writers: Caroline Graham
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: May 12, 2000
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 0767012852
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #433,348 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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One of fiction's most popular detectives comes alive in this scintillating adaptation of Caroline Graham's bestselling Inspector Barnaby mystery. The beautiful rural area of Midsomer is filled with more than its share of intrigue and colorful characters. Keeping an eye on it all is Inspector Barnaby, a contemplative, comfortably married man with a worrisome college-age daughter and a slow, bumbling assistant, Sergeant Troy. A master of a New Age commune is prematurely transported into the Other World, and all fingers point to a ruthless tycoon who had visited the commune to see his long lost daughter. But Barnaby is not convinced that the billionaire is to blame and, ignoring pressure to close the case, delves into the past lives of the commune's inhabitants. Eventually, Barnaby discovers that one of them is not who he pretends to be.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How are bees in a storm Ken?, August 21, 2008

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This review is from: Midsomer Murders:Death in Disguise [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In the shade of the Lodge of the Golden Wind Hoarse we find that a dispute between the founders William Carter (Robert Pickavance) and Ian Craigie (Michael Feast) the founders are having a dispute as to wither to cash and run or build on a new way of life.

The dispute may have turned into something nasty except for an accidental fall and a broken neck. Later people begin to wonder if it was an accident as later someone is almost flattened by a stone ball.

We are introduce to a lot of obscure characters and are in for a regression, Gaius Quintus (Judy Cornwell.) Added to the group is a gripy old but very rich curmudgeon Guy Gamelin (Miles Anderson.) He is upset to find that his daughter taken in to the Loge is about to donate 3 million quid to a bunch of nutters.

D.C.I. Barnaby (John Nettles) with his trusty sidekick Detective Sergeant Troy (Daniel Casey,) must determine if it is murder or an accident and if he does not hurry there maybe another demise or two.

And is Christopher Wainwright (Stephen Moyer) the photographer who covered the war in Rwanda harboring a dark secret. Do not over look Ken and Heather Beavers.

You will need to watch this several times to get all the nuances.

Midsomer Murders - Set One