Midsomer Murders: Neil Dudgeon's Top 10 Moments

DCI John Barnaby"s relationship with his new partner, DS Ben Jones, is off to a rough start after the older detective belittles Jones"s enthusiasm for a local classic-car show. When one of the show"s judges is found dead near a vintage car, the two detectives are forced to cooperate before the killer can strike again.

As two prominent families plan a reenactment of a Civil War battle between their ancestors, the aristocratic DeQuettevilles are haunted by a headless horseman, rumored to foretell the death of those who see him. Barnaby and Jones delve into historical rivalries and family feuds to expose the phantom rider and end the trail of carnage.

A wealthy eccentric dies on the opening night of his outdoor sculpture park, with his body positioned in one of the artworks. Barnaby and DS Charlie Nelson soon realize that the victim had made enemies in the art community, the village, and even in his own family.

After a vandal smashes a stained-glass window at Midsomer Priory, the insular community refuses the detectives" help. But after one of their own is murdered, they"re forced to open the nunnery"s door to investigators, who realize that a nun may be hiding something from her past.

The head of Calder's Biscuits dies on a business trip to Copenhagen. Upon finding that he was poisoned by biscuits sent from Midsomer, Danish detective Birgitte Poulsen asks Barnaby to join the inquiry. Together they expose the lethal legacy of a double life.

Gregory Lancaster dies at home surrounded by his family, but when the undertakers arrive, they discover that the corpse has disappeared. When another body connected to the Lancaster family goes missing from a cemetery, Barnaby and Nelson must search for a serial body-snatcher.

After attempting to pay a visit to a reclusive couple, a social services investigator is found dead in a nearby creek. Barnaby and Jones race to unravel a series of long-standing secrets and scandals in order to find the killer. Meanwhile, Barnaby's wife arrives in Causton, where she receives a less-than-enthusiastic welcome.

A woman crushed by a giant wheel of cheese had been embroiled in controversy both at the dairy where she worked and at the local prep school her daughter attends. As a group of prep school alumnae with ties to the dairy find their long-held secrets coming to light, the death toll mounts.

Carver Valley's comic festival is in full swing when the village is shocked by the murder of a former supermodel. With a scathing comic's shaming of several villagers as the only lead, Barnaby and DS Jamie Winter are left trying to separate fact from fiction.

The death of a forest ranger in a UFO-sighting hotspot leads locals to believe that she was killed by aliens. Barnaby and Nelson probe more earthly suspects related to the victim, including her estranged father, fiancé, and secret lover.