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Midsomer Murders is like
Agatha Christie on speed.
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We're in Midsomer now,
and things happen differently here.
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The deaths are unusual and fascinating.
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Who in their right mind
chooses to be surrounded by death?
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Midsomer Murders is one
of the most popular crime dramas,
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not just in Britain, but on the planet.
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The French version is quite my favourite.
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Over the next hour,
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we'll celebrate 25 years
of the strangest going on...
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I loved the human candle,
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which was particularly
amazing to see on set.
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...reveal the show's dark secrets...
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I believe I've killed 18 people.
And I'm still at large.
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...bring curious insights...
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He said, "I'm not gonna blink."
And I went, "Wow."
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...and look back at
the world-famous stars...
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I will drive straight over you.
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...who dared take their first
TV steps in Midsomer county.
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It's actually quite family—friendly,
despite all the murders.
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As we go behind-the-scenes on a
quarter of a century of mystery...
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It's like I was in some
sort of apocalyptic world
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where people just died all the time.
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...and mayhem...
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You know, we kill people with cheese.
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There isn't another program me,
I think, that can do that.
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Have we got a murder weapon?
You're standing in it.
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...in the glorious
English countryside.
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What's not to like about Midsomer?
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As long as you survive it, really.
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'I killed them because I wanted to.'
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'Death by chocolate.'
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'No good deed goes unpunished, eh?'
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Here in these deadly woodlands,
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filming for the latest series
of Midsomer Murders has begun.
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Action!
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And Inspector Barnaby has yet
another death to investigate.
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Quite possibly,
the 396th Midsomer murder,
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but no-one really knows.
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They've got this beautiful scenery
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and then they've got these murders,
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which sometimes are quite outlandish.
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Over the past 25 years,
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audiences the world over have
embraced Midsomer's reputation
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as the deadliest place on television.
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Midsomer Murders has a light feel to it,
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in a lot of ways,
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and has an awful lot of comedy within it.
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Of course, the public laughed
at the unfeasible number of deaths,
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and all those things.
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There would be at least
three or four murders
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before Tom Barnaby found out whodunnit!
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He's the most useless cop in the world!
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But, thankfully,
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the Causton Police
are dogged and reliable,
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and over the years have brought us,
not one, but two Inspector Barnabys
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to keep on top of the body count.
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Midsomer takes everything seriously
enough for us to enjoy it,
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but not so seriously
that we can't also go,
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"What is going on in this place?!"
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There's nothing intrinsically
nasty about Midsomer anywhere.
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Although, people get murdered.
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They're sort of escapist deaths,
fun deaths.
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Here we are all celebrating
the 25th anniversary
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of Midsomer Murders.
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Already enjoying the sights
of Oxfords hire today,
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this group of Midsomer fans
are about to discover the location
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of one of the series'
most infamous murders.
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Here we are in Badger's Drift,
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otherwise known as
The Lee in Buckinghamshire.
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What you are looking at here
is exactly where,
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in the opening sequence
of that very first episode,
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you saw Emily Simpson riding
her bicycle along the road.
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Here is where the whole story
of Midsomer Murders started.
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25 years ago,
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the fictional Midsomer village
of Badger's Drift
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was the sleepy setting
for the debut episode
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of a brand-new crime drama.
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Hello, Miss Simpson.
Have a very good afternoon.
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The Killings at Badger's Drift,
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all the tropes of the provincial
murder drama were there.
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There was blackmail and knife killings
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and all the rest of those things.
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How did she die?
That's easy. Broken neck.
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But the question is — did she fall?
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Or was she pushed?
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The brother and sister had been caught
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by the Rainbirds,
who were the local undertakers.
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And so they were blackmailing people.
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How much do you think it's worth?
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Think what the police will make of it
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if their forensic people get hold of it!
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They'd have a field day.
Oh, ho!
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This is the big one, Denny.
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This is going to make us
very, very rich! Mummy!
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The characters were
wonderfully well-written.
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They were caricatures,
of course they were.
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But of course, the main star
of this opening whodunnit
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was the genial local detective,
Inspector Barnaby.
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Who are you? What do you want?
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I'm Detective Inspector Barnaby...
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and this is Detective Sergeant Troy.
Who are you?
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The producer came to see me
with the proposition
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that I should play a detective in
this new series he had coming up.
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I thought
"Well, I've already done Bergerac."
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But it was as far away
from the world of Bergerac
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as could possibly be.
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Here was a guy who was
a respectably married man.
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He had no hang-ups, no psychological
difficulties of life.
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What's this, then?
It's Delia Smith.
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Stewed neck of lamb
with mushroom dumplings.
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You can't go wrong with Delia Smith.
That's what I've always thought.
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He finds himself in a world
full of extraordinary characters.
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Every one of the people
he sees in the high street there
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is a potential murderer!
And I thought that was fun.
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You know, Mrs Rainbird,
I'd have said that eight o'clock
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was a bit late for your hobby.
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I mean, what are you likely
to see flying at that time?
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Owls.
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I was right there from the beginning.
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The pilot, we went to the then producer,
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Brian True-May, and we said to him,
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"So, you know,
do you think this is going well?"
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"Do you think we might get
a series out of it?"
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And he said, "I've got plans
for Midsomer Murders for 12 years."
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We went straight to John and said,
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"Do you wanna
hear something really funny?
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"Apparently we're gonna be
doing this for 12 years."
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Why do I get the feeling that
everyone is lying to me? Everyone!
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They always lie to you, Tom,
and you always know.
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That's why you're so good at your job.
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And then I was in it
for another 14 years.
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Oh, it was amazing.
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We got 15.8 million viewers
for that first episode.
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It's 2:15.
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Said I'd meet Joyce at the fete.
Are you coming?
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Yeah, I thought I'd win myself a coconut.
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And what inspired this series,
full of strange people and plots,
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was a collection of acclaimed
crime novels.
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Arghg
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It was a series of books by a lovely
writer called Caroline Graham.
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I'd read them, actually.
They were terrific.
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The original artistic producer
on it, Betty Willingale,
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it was clever to spot it,
you know, and do what she did,
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along with the first writer,
to make it work for television.
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Caroline Graham's books
inspired the first five episodes,
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but over the next few years
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a host of new writers would take
Barnaby on many new adventures.
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We're on.
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But there was another key character
whose role was to remain calm
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amongst this wicked world of murder.
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Dinner's ready, Tom.
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It's not easy playing
the nicest woman in the world.
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You know Cully's coming tomorrow?
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She's going to want
to see a bit of you. Yes.
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Just I know how you are when
you get started on a case. Yes.
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For 14 years,
it was Barnaby's wife, Joyce,
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whose happy home life with Tom
and their daughter Cully
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was in stark contrast to the many
deadly challenges they faced,
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including Joyce's cooking.
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Not much meat on this chicken, is there?
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It's not a chicken, it's a quail.
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She was a terrible cook.
Fried wren and stuff like that.
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Barnaby had to pretend to like them.
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Dad, I brought you
a present from Cambridge.
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What is it?
It's chicken and ham.
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The bad cooking lasted for a bit
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but there's limits to how many
lousy meals you can cook.
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So she became, er, more and more involved
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in the actual cases as time went on.
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It was very handy that Joyce
didn't have a career,
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because she could therefore have hobbies.
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You've caught me digging up
rather too much of your lawn.
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Yeah, I'm still working, actually.
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Do you have pictures in those plant
encyclopaedias of yours? Yes.
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That was quite a handy device for writers
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and nice for me, you know, to not
always be sitting in the kitchen.
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Being out in the world,
being blown up in a canal.
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Or doing watercolour painting,
that was a good one.
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Instead of being a grace note
in the great symphony of Midsomer,
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she became a whole theme on her own.
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Coming up, there's confessions
of a Midsomer sidekick...
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When I think of my time on it,
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it's like I was in some kind
of apocalyptic world
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where people just died all the time.
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...as we celebrate a hit series
that's always left us seeing stars.
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I'd already watched the show
since the beginning and loved it,
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so I jumped at the chance,
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little thinking that I might
return for a longer stay.
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This is the new DCI Barnaby,
cousin of the other DCI Barnaby.
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For 25 years,
Midsomer Murders has lead us on
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a trail of death and destruction.
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A path which, has in turn,
put many of the quaintest villages
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in Oxfords hire on
a rather unusual tourist map.
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Here we are outside the estate agent
that was used in an episode
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called House In The Woods.
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It was Harriet Davis Estate Agency
in that show.
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In that episode,
a couple who were looking to buy
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the house in the woods
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find themselves garrotted outside
the house
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and there, the mystery begins.
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Over the years, fighting crime
in Midsomer has been quite a task
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for the overworked,
understaffed Causton Police.
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And when it comes to the real legwork...
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the running, jumping, flirting,
or going undercover,
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it often falls to the Midsomer sidekick.
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The lowly detective sergeant
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and first in line was
Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy.
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John and I clicked from day one
and we laughed every single day.
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In the books, he was a right little thug.
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I could force it, sir.
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You've broken enough rules
for one day, Troy,
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thank you all the same.
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He had no charm at all and was entirely
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not good detective material.
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That was changed in
the television version.
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The character became...
I think the word is "lovable".
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He couldn't drive a car.
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Wherever he went, used to hit
the hedge or hit somebody else.
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Yeah, Troy was an appalling driver.
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But I used to love it
because it meant that I could do
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a lot of the stunt driving
that we could do.
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Some of it I wasn't allowed to do,
but a lot of it I was.
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Duh-duh-duh...
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Troy!
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But after six years on the rural beat,
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actor Daniel Casey
decided to move onto pastures new.
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Thank you, sir.
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I mean... thank you for everything
over the years.
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I will never forget that final scene
cos we filmed that last,
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and when Barnaby speaks to Troy,
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er, it did feel very real.
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I know how much I've, er,
I've relied on you, Troy.
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Midsomer will miss you.
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And I'll miss Midsomer.
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He's a leading man
in every sense of the word.
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He led that company beautifully.
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Troy?
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Now, the next sidekick was
John Hopkins. He's a terrific actor.
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What we got?
Good question, sir.
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Victim's name's Nicholas Turner,
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he's a local solicitor.
Took a stroll off his roof.
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He was a very dark
and kind of brooding figure.
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Initial impression as to cause of death —
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catastrophic head and spinal injuries.
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He's quite a snappy dresser.
Erm...
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And then Jason Hughes came in.
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And you are?
Er, Constable Jones, sir.
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Constable Jones.
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Yeah, I thought it was just
brilliant the way that they did it.
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No Scott this morning?
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No, he called in sick.
I'm on my own.
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I just showed up in a uniform
and somebody said,
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"Well, where's the guy?"
and they went, "Oh, he's sick."
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And that was it!
He was gone and I was in.
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Do you possess a suit, Jones?
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Yes, sir.
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And a tie?
I do, sir, yes.
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How do you fancy working with
the CID for a couple of days?
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Yes, sir.
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They made me do all kinds of stuff.
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The nun would be the standout one.
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I was luring a killer...
to then pounce on them.
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Oh! 00f!
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On your feet.
Who the hell trained her?
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I mean, when I think of my time
on it, those seven years,
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it's like I was in some kind of
apocalyptic world
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where people just died all the time.
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I haven't been up that way for a while.
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Junction 2 to Junction 7
on the M40, I just divert,
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just go somewhere else.
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Start to get kind of hot flushes
and you know...
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memories of murder.
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Well, there's plenty of that around,
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but one of the key questions
in any episode of Midsomer
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is not just whodunnit,
but more like who's in it?
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How wonderful.
But no.
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I was one suspected of murder myself.
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Apart from the person who killed him,
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I was probably
the last person to see him.
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Because across the past 25 years,
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the series has played host to
a Who's Who of
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the British acting profession.
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We get fantastic guests.
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Over the years,
there was just the entire range of
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the British acting profession.
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I took an order earlier,
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three tiered Dungeons & Dragons
in white and dark chocolate.
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As an actor,
I always think Midsomer Murders,
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it's one of those boxes
that has to be ticked.
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What was brilliant about
my character is that she was
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the suspected murderer
for pretty much the whole episode.
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Do you really think I would
kill Dominic and keep the weapon?!
293
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I mean, do you honestly believe
that I would be that stupid?!
294
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The twist was she actually wasn't
the murderer.
295
00:15:46,245 --> 00:15:48,055
That was ideal for me.
296
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And there was one TV comedy
national treasure
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who set the wheels in motion
for guest stars to come.
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An early one was Richard Briers.
Legend.
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In Death's Shadow, from 1998,
the star of The Good Life
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was playing the village priest
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and Call The Midwife's
Judy Parfitt, his wife.
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00:16:06,085 --> 00:16:08,324
I have a police inspector
coming to see me.
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00:16:08,404 --> 00:16:09,855
Oh, don't tell me, Stephen,
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00:16:09,935 --> 00:16:12,165
you've been found with
your hand in the steeple fund.
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Don't be ridiculous.
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He came along to play a priest
and he was wonderfully enthusiastic.
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Yes, vicar.
308
00:16:20,404 --> 00:16:23,055
Looks as if we are gonna have
the weather for it. Absolutely.
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00:16:23,135 --> 00:16:27,725
Did you manage to find someone
to open the fete, a celebrity?
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No, not yet, but I may have had
an idea. I'll be back forthwith.
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We were sitting waiting to go into
the church
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where there was gonna be
the big scene, the reveal,
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that Richard Briers, who, you know,
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the loveliest man in the world
kind of thing,
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does turn out to be the bad guy.
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And I'm sitting with him
and he says to me,
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"I'm gonna do some acting in
this scene."
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And I went, "Are you, Richard?"
Yes.
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He said, "I'm not gonna blink."
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And I went, "Wow."
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00:16:57,064 --> 00:16:59,274
And that's exactly what he did.
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It was terrifying.
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00:17:00,583 --> 00:17:03,553
Stephen Wentworth,
we're arresting you for the murders
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00:17:03,633 --> 00:17:07,114
of Richard Bailey, David Whiteley
and Simon Fletcher.
325
00:17:07,194 --> 00:17:09,423
You don't have to say anything
but it may harm your defence
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if you do not mention when questioned
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something which you later rely on
in court.
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00:17:13,354 --> 00:17:15,784
It was him.
There was no planning,
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no calculation,
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he had to die by your hand
before his operation.
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And it was all the more shocking
because it was Richard Briers,
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cos you didn't expect it.
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Please come in.
334
00:17:36,024 --> 00:17:37,704
It was a lovely bit of casting.
335
00:17:37,784 --> 00:17:41,194
Many a famous face has popped up
in Midsomer Murders,
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00:17:41,274 --> 00:17:44,784
but the cast list also includes
some now well-known names
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who weren't quite so familiar
at the time.
338
00:17:47,633 --> 00:17:49,274
Edward, what was all the noise about?
339
00:17:49,354 --> 00:17:51,503
It was a police car.
Police car?
340
00:17:51,583 --> 00:17:55,503
In 2009, the Causton Police
were called to investigate
341
00:17:55,583 --> 00:17:57,423
the very strange death of a young man in
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Midsomer's miniature village.
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00:17:59,383 --> 00:18:03,584
What they found was future
Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman
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playing the unlikely suspect, Bernice.
345
00:18:06,583 --> 00:18:10,784
The police have found a body.
Here in the village.
346
00:18:10,864 --> 00:18:12,024
A body?
347
00:18:12,104 --> 00:18:13,914
Oh, Edward, that's terrible.
348
00:18:13,994 --> 00:18:15,704
She wasn't a huge star then.
349
00:18:15,784 --> 00:18:18,984
She just has a kind of truthfulness
as an actor.
350
00:18:19,064 --> 00:18:21,024
I was just gobsmacked.
351
00:18:21,104 --> 00:18:27,344
She had that extraordinary ability
of being 100% within the part.
352
00:18:27,424 --> 00:18:28,984
I just know you're going to win.
353
00:18:29,064 --> 00:18:31,584
I'll be cheering for you
all the way. Oh, for God sake,
354
00:18:31,664 --> 00:18:33,194
leave me alone, will you?!
355
00:18:33,274 --> 00:18:35,394
She just can't
step an emotional foot wrong.
356
00:18:35,474 --> 00:18:37,344
I don't think she could do it
if she tried.
357
00:18:37,424 --> 00:18:39,874
'She didn't like me putting flowers
on the graves.
358
00:18:41,944 --> 00:18:43,399
'She smashed them.
359
00:18:47,144 --> 00:18:48,639
'So I smashed her.'
360
00:18:50,994 --> 00:18:53,144
# And the green grass grows
All around, all around
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00:18:53,224 --> 00:18:55,984
# And the green grass grows
All around. #
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00:18:56,064 --> 00:18:59,503
I'm not in the least surprised
that she's gone on to be
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00:18:59,583 --> 00:19:02,608
a great lady of English acting.
Not at all surprised.
364
00:19:04,914 --> 00:19:09,114
But amongst a cast of more than
1,000 actors over 23 series,
365
00:19:09,194 --> 00:19:10,984
there have been some surprises.
366
00:19:11,064 --> 00:19:13,024
Are you still seeing that girl?
367
00:19:13,104 --> 00:19:17,224
I wonder what she'd say
if she knew about me.
368
00:19:17,304 --> 00:19:18,224
Get lost, Laura.
369
00:19:18,304 --> 00:19:20,704
I used to do mentoring
at the Guildhall School
370
00:19:20,784 --> 00:19:23,344
and one of my mentees was Orlando Bloom
371
00:19:23,424 --> 00:19:25,834
and the minute I met him,
I knew he was gonna be a movie star.
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00:19:25,914 --> 00:19:28,474
And so I read the current script
and I thought,
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00:19:28,554 --> 00:19:30,664
"Well, Orlando could do that so easily,"
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00:19:30,744 --> 00:19:32,834
so I put his name forward
to the casting director
375
00:19:32,914 --> 00:19:33,914
and there you go.
376
00:19:33,994 --> 00:19:36,114
You're Peter Drink water?
And you're police.
377
00:19:36,194 --> 00:19:38,558
It's the same smell.
You can always tell.
378
00:19:40,583 --> 00:19:42,933
And then he went on to be an elf,
there you are.
379
00:19:43,503 --> 00:19:47,194
And Midsomer was the starting point
for another British movie star.
380
00:19:47,274 --> 00:19:50,274
Spotted here
by Harry Potter's David Bradley,
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00:19:50,354 --> 00:19:52,944
who's worked with a fair few
budding actors himself.
382
00:19:53,024 --> 00:19:55,623
Nice day for it, young'un.
383
00:19:55,703 --> 00:19:58,394
It was my last episode
and there was this young boy...
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00:19:58,474 --> 00:20:03,224
really handsome and he was quite
a gentle soul, a really nice guy.
385
00:20:03,304 --> 00:20:05,704
I just thought I hope
he doesn't get eaten up
386
00:20:05,784 --> 00:20:07,274
and spat out by this business.
387
00:20:07,354 --> 00:20:08,999
I will drive straight over you!
388
00:20:12,444 --> 00:20:14,944
Henry Cavill went on
to do rather well for himself.
389
00:20:16,403 --> 00:20:19,004
Unfortunately for the future star
of Superman,
390
00:20:19,084 --> 00:20:22,414
Henry's Kryptonian powers
weren't quite developed enough
391
00:20:22,494 --> 00:20:25,419
to save him from death by Midsomer.
392
00:20:30,324 --> 00:20:32,443
But there was one
fleeting appearance that would
393
00:20:32,523 --> 00:20:34,628
blossom into something
far more long-term.
394
00:20:37,214 --> 00:20:39,573
Excuse me.
395
00:20:39,653 --> 00:20:42,004
Neil actually had appeared
in Midsomer Murders
396
00:20:42,084 --> 00:20:45,643
in a fairly early series, I think,
playing a gardener.
397
00:20:48,214 --> 00:20:50,573
He spent a lot of time in
the hothouse being quizzed
398
00:20:50,653 --> 00:20:52,523
and being generally suspicious.
399
00:20:52,603 --> 00:20:54,523
Where are you going?!
Back to the garden.
400
00:20:54,603 --> 00:20:56,604
I'm a gardener, remember?!
401
00:20:56,684 --> 00:21:00,573
A particularly randy gardener
who flirted with Joyce Barnaby.
402
00:21:00,653 --> 00:21:02,084
Much to Tom's irritation.
403
00:21:02,164 --> 00:21:04,643
I've brought you a few Pennington gems.
404
00:21:04,723 --> 00:21:06,854
Oh, that's very kind of you, Daniel.
405
00:21:06,934 --> 00:21:09,244
Bear in mind,
the white Bedder is vigorous.
406
00:21:09,324 --> 00:21:12,804
I think that was only time
anybody flirted with Joyce Barnaby.
407
00:21:12,884 --> 00:21:16,134
I'd be quite happy to come back
and make sure everything's nicely...
408
00:21:16,214 --> 00:21:18,084
Bedded 'm'?
409
00:21:18,164 --> 00:21:19,773
That was a fun day of filming.
410
00:21:19,853 --> 00:21:22,004
Right. I'll, er...
411
00:21:22,084 --> 00:21:23,084
I'll be off, then.
412
00:21:23,164 --> 00:21:25,523
I'd already watched the show
since beginning and loved it,
413
00:21:25,603 --> 00:21:27,044
so when my agent rang up and said,
414
00:21:27,124 --> 00:21:28,934
"Ooh, do you wanna do
an episode of Midsomer?"
415
00:21:29,014 --> 00:21:31,214
I said, "Oh, that'd be fantastic,
that'd be brilliant."
416
00:21:31,294 --> 00:21:34,414
So I jumped at the chance.
Little thinking that, erm,
417
00:21:34,494 --> 00:21:37,643
I might return for a longer stay.
418
00:21:37,723 --> 00:21:39,854
It was nine years later
419
00:21:39,934 --> 00:21:43,294
when that moment finally came
for DCI Tom Barnaby
420
00:21:43,374 --> 00:21:46,494
and actor john Nettles to retire
from this hotspot of murder
421
00:21:46,574 --> 00:21:48,804
and mayhem.
422
00:21:48,884 --> 00:21:51,164
Whoa. Champagne!
423
00:21:51,244 --> 00:21:55,443
Well, I did it for 13 years.
A long, long time.
424
00:21:55,523 --> 00:21:58,323
I was getting on for 70
and I couldn't run any more.
425
00:21:58,403 --> 00:22:01,164
I couldn't think of
any more reactions to dead bodies,
426
00:22:01,244 --> 00:22:02,604
to be honest with you, I couldn't.
427
00:22:02,684 --> 00:22:04,684
So, are we saying it's suspicious?
428
00:22:04,764 --> 00:22:07,523
Well, the question is —
was she dead before immersion?
429
00:22:07,603 --> 00:22:09,724
There's no obvious signs of struggle.
430
00:22:09,804 --> 00:22:11,724
I'll know more when
I've opened her up, Tom.
431
00:22:11,804 --> 00:22:13,884
Torn.
432
00:22:13,964 --> 00:22:14,989
Sir.
433
00:22:16,684 --> 00:22:19,773
Ah, yeah, well, I suppose
I'd better get changed.
434
00:22:19,853 --> 00:22:24,643
When john decided to retire,
we started quite a long process
435
00:22:24,723 --> 00:22:29,964
of quite a long list
of potential replacements.
436
00:22:30,044 --> 00:22:32,724
After two years, it was finally decided
437
00:22:32,804 --> 00:22:36,443
that Neil Dudgeon
was the man for the job.
438
00:22:37,934 --> 00:22:39,494
Barnaby.
439
00:22:39,574 --> 00:22:40,934
It's John.
'Oh, John!'
440
00:22:41,014 --> 00:22:42,604
He was on everybody's shortlist.
441
00:22:42,684 --> 00:22:44,134
This isn't personal, is it, Tom?
442
00:22:44,214 --> 00:22:47,494
Oh, no, no.
This is preventative detection.
443
00:22:47,574 --> 00:22:50,643
OK. I'll, er, dig a little deeper.
444
00:22:50,723 --> 00:22:54,134
But there was something of
an unusual hurdle
445
00:22:54,214 --> 00:22:57,604
for anyone replacing
Inspector Tom Barnaby.
446
00:22:57,684 --> 00:23:00,054
In Britain, Midsomer Murders
is known as Midsomer Murders,
447
00:23:00,134 --> 00:23:02,494
whereas in a lot of territories
around the world,
448
00:23:02,574 --> 00:23:04,684
it's called Barnaby or Inspector Barnaby,
449
00:23:04,764 --> 00:23:06,884
so somebody came up with the idea
that Tom Barnaby,
450
00:23:06,964 --> 00:23:09,523
John Nettles' character,
has a cousin who's also
451
00:23:09,603 --> 00:23:11,164
a police detective chief inspector
452
00:23:11,244 --> 00:23:14,364
and his name of course,
being his cousin, is John Barnaby.
453
00:23:14,444 --> 00:23:16,773
That was miraculous. Ha-ha-ha!
454
00:23:16,853 --> 00:23:20,628
Yeah, he was a cousin
who had come from...
455
00:23:22,294 --> 00:23:24,044
...Cousin Land.
456
00:23:24,124 --> 00:23:28,004
This is the new DCI Barnaby,
cousin of the other DCI Barnaby.
457
00:23:28,084 --> 00:23:29,084
Oh.
458
00:23:29,164 --> 00:23:31,323
And I certainly didn't think,
"Oh, I'm going to Midsomer
459
00:23:31,403 --> 00:23:32,443
"and change anything."
460
00:23:32,523 --> 00:23:35,214
I'll go to Midsomer and do what John
was doing cos it was brilliant.
461
00:23:35,294 --> 00:23:36,443
It's a great show.
462
00:23:36,523 --> 00:23:38,628
You're the local. You take it.
463
00:23:40,164 --> 00:23:43,604
My first scene as John Barnaby,
once John had left
464
00:23:43,684 --> 00:23:45,244
and I'd kind of moved in,
465
00:23:45,324 --> 00:23:47,294
it was in the sort of pathology lab
466
00:23:47,374 --> 00:23:49,773
and then all these people came into
this little room
467
00:23:49,853 --> 00:23:51,934
and they were all having a look
going, "Can he do it?
468
00:23:52,014 --> 00:23:53,004
"Is he gonna be all right?
469
00:23:53,084 --> 00:23:55,724
"Is this OK or are we all gonna be
looking for another job next week?"
470
00:23:55,804 --> 00:24:00,214
But somehow we have to encompass...
this little news item.
471
00:24:00,294 --> 00:24:02,573
"Palmer was never keen on driving
a Lotus X4,
472
00:24:02,653 --> 00:24:07,084
"because being a left-hander,
he found the positioning of
473
00:24:07,164 --> 00:24:09,854
"the gear lever more awkward
than usual."
474
00:24:09,934 --> 00:24:12,214
See, rig ht—handed heads hot, easy-peasy,
475
00:24:12,294 --> 00:24:15,578
bang, as per your photos.
But, as a lefty...
476
00:24:16,884 --> 00:24:18,084
...damn near impossible.
477
00:24:18,164 --> 00:24:19,628
Conclusion...?
478
00:24:23,244 --> 00:24:26,299
Precisely. See you later.
479
00:24:30,014 --> 00:24:33,084
But the real test would come when
we saw the new Inspector Barnaby
480
00:24:33,164 --> 00:24:37,414
on TV, along with his wife Sarah
and dog Sykes.
481
00:24:37,494 --> 00:24:39,693
When we first took over,
482
00:24:39,773 --> 00:24:43,443
there was lots of talk of there
being sort of "big shoes" to fill.
483
00:24:43,523 --> 00:24:46,573
I think, for fans,
there was a mixed reaction,
484
00:24:46,653 --> 00:24:47,964
I think at the beginning.
485
00:24:48,044 --> 00:24:49,804
Mr Barnaby, Mrs Barnaby.
486
00:24:49,884 --> 00:24:52,443
I was certainly concerned, but actually,
487
00:24:52,523 --> 00:24:54,364
the reception was very warm.
488
00:24:54,444 --> 00:24:57,084
I hope Sykes didn't disgrace himself.
489
00:24:57,164 --> 00:24:59,684
Oh, he did make some amorous
advances towards two of my bitches,
490
00:24:59,764 --> 00:25:01,084
which wasn't the best of starts.
491
00:25:01,164 --> 00:25:05,364
But I think from Sykes's
point—of—view, it was top banana.
492
00:25:05,444 --> 00:25:07,004
Consider him part of the pack.
493
00:25:07,084 --> 00:25:08,443
Fantastic news, thank you.
494
00:25:08,523 --> 00:25:10,724
I get people who sort of see me
in the street and go,
495
00:25:10,804 --> 00:25:12,964
"Oh, yeah, you are the new
Mrs Barnaby, aren't you?"
496
00:25:13,044 --> 00:25:15,134
And you think,
"I've been doing it for ten years,
497
00:25:15,214 --> 00:25:16,934
"how long do I need to do it?"
498
00:25:17,014 --> 00:25:20,134
Here we are, ten, 12 years later,
it's, erm,
499
00:25:20,214 --> 00:25:24,364
we're still 'ere talking about it,
so fingers crossed.
500
00:25:24,444 --> 00:25:28,573
Coming up,
how Midsomer Murders went on to make
501
00:25:28,653 --> 00:25:30,323
a killing around the world.
502
00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:33,573
It's just great in French.
503
00:25:33,653 --> 00:25:37,284
And Midsomer's greatest mystery
is finally solved.
504
00:25:37,364 --> 00:25:40,054
A lot of people think it's
the same village we keep going to.
505
00:25:40,134 --> 00:25:42,244
They look at you and then they say,
506
00:25:42,324 --> 00:25:44,874
"There can't be anybody left alive
in that village."
507
00:25:59,214 --> 00:26:01,323
In the Oxfords hire town of Thame,
508
00:26:01,403 --> 00:26:04,964
a place that has featured regularly
as the fictional town of Causton,
509
00:26:05,044 --> 00:26:09,284
a Midsomer Murders guided tour
is in full swing.
510
00:26:09,364 --> 00:26:12,284
Here we are, at, erm...
511
00:26:12,364 --> 00:26:17,004
Causton Town Hall,
the centre of Midsomer County.
512
00:26:17,084 --> 00:26:19,323
Of course, it's not really Causton,
513
00:26:19,403 --> 00:26:24,804
we are actually outside
Thame's Town Hall, as you can see.
514
00:26:24,884 --> 00:26:28,604
Indeed, one of the key attractions
of Midsomer Murders
515
00:26:28,684 --> 00:26:32,059
is its quintessentially English
chocolate box setting.
516
00:26:33,764 --> 00:26:35,964
The countryside's very important,
I think.
517
00:26:36,044 --> 00:26:38,244
When I used to watch it
before I was in the show,
518
00:26:38,324 --> 00:26:39,643
I'd be on the sofa with my wife
519
00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:42,414
and you'd have this opening shot
of some beautiful village
520
00:26:42,494 --> 00:26:45,214
and a Norman church
and lovely thatched cottages.
521
00:26:45,294 --> 00:26:46,693
We were sort of intrigued,
522
00:26:46,773 --> 00:26:48,604
"Where do they film that?
It's so beautiful."
523
00:26:48,684 --> 00:26:51,284
And I still, I find myself
in a beautiful village like this
524
00:26:51,364 --> 00:26:53,064
and I say, "Where are we exactly?"
525
00:26:55,214 --> 00:26:58,724
Midsomer is... Well, it's along
the M4, M40 corridor,
526
00:26:58,804 --> 00:27:00,164
usually west.
527
00:27:00,244 --> 00:27:03,573
It's Hertfordshire, it's Oxfords hire,
528
00:27:03,653 --> 00:27:05,724
it's Buckinghamshire...
529
00:27:05,804 --> 00:27:07,214
Anywhere the script demands.
530
00:27:07,294 --> 00:27:10,523
Hear that, dear viewers? A script.
531
00:27:10,603 --> 00:27:13,323
Because Midsomer,
home of the national collection
532
00:27:13,403 --> 00:27:14,773
of rural murders,
533
00:27:14,853 --> 00:27:18,414
is, we must remind you,
a completely fictional place.
534
00:27:18,494 --> 00:27:21,804
I don't know how many times
I've had to sort of explain that
535
00:27:21,884 --> 00:27:24,724
to people who go, "This little
village and all these murders?"
536
00:27:24,804 --> 00:27:27,214
They look at you first,
they set it up as a gag,
537
00:27:27,294 --> 00:27:29,164
and then they say,
538
00:27:29,244 --> 00:27:32,323
"There can't be anybody
left alive in that village!"
539
00:27:32,403 --> 00:27:34,084
"I bet it's cheap to buy house!"
540
00:27:34,164 --> 00:27:36,443
A lot of people think it's
the same village we keep going to,
541
00:27:36,523 --> 00:27:37,523
but it's not.
542
00:27:37,603 --> 00:27:40,284
We make up the names.
Got to hammer that home, it's not.
543
00:27:40,364 --> 00:27:42,004
It's not a village.
544
00:27:42,084 --> 00:27:45,498
It's a county, everybody, not a village.
545
00:27:47,044 --> 00:27:51,419
It is a huge English county
made up of beautiful villages.
546
00:27:52,684 --> 00:27:55,724
And made up of people who are insane
547
00:27:55,804 --> 00:27:58,284
and want to kill people!
548
00:27:58,364 --> 00:28:02,134
Suddenly, there was a rather weighty
object in my hand, and, well...
549
00:28:02,214 --> 00:28:05,084
What can I say?
She stepped out in front of it.
550
00:28:05,164 --> 00:28:08,804
Let's put Solomon Gorge
on the Psycho map!
551
00:28:08,884 --> 00:28:10,084
Are you ready?
552
00:28:11,773 --> 00:28:12,964
Three, two...
553
00:28:13,044 --> 00:28:16,924
Over 25 years, Midsomer County —
not Village...
554
00:28:17,004 --> 00:28:19,214
has delivered an impressive
number of murders...
555
00:28:19,294 --> 00:28:21,964
nearly 400 at the last count,
556
00:28:22,044 --> 00:28:26,628
with ever imaginative new ways
to tax the Causton police.
557
00:28:27,964 --> 00:28:29,854
I think what's genius about it
558
00:28:29,934 --> 00:28:35,173
is that it manages to marry together
all of the components
559
00:28:35,253 --> 00:28:37,373
of your Agatha Christie,
Margery Allingham,
560
00:28:37,453 --> 00:28:39,243
you know, all the greats
of the golden age
561
00:28:39,323 --> 00:28:40,482
of whodunnits in England,
562
00:28:40,562 --> 00:28:43,923
while being nominally contemporary.
563
00:28:44,003 --> 00:28:45,843
This is the essential contradiction,
564
00:28:45,923 --> 00:28:48,402
that all these beautiful,
look-at-me villages,
565
00:28:48,482 --> 00:28:50,602
the half timbered cottages and so forth,
566
00:28:50,682 --> 00:28:53,532
all this is subversive, of course,
in Midsomer Murders
567
00:28:53,612 --> 00:28:57,282
because your dear old lady
is a homicidal maniac.
568
00:28:57,362 --> 00:28:58,963
All human life is there.
569
00:28:59,043 --> 00:29:04,123
That chocolate box image
is frayed slightly in Midsomer.
570
00:29:04,203 --> 00:29:07,813
I always say that
ifjesus had played a sport,
571
00:29:07,893 --> 00:29:10,657
I'm sure it would have been cricket.
Come in.
572
00:29:12,763 --> 00:29:15,323
You're looking at beautiful cottages
and gardens
573
00:29:15,403 --> 00:29:18,898
while fetishes are going on
in the background!
574
00:29:20,763 --> 00:29:24,043
Behold, I was shapen in wickedness.
575
00:29:24,123 --> 00:29:27,203
People just like to see, especially
somewhere where you think,
576
00:29:27,283 --> 00:29:29,402
"This is all so beautiful,
this is all lovely.
577
00:29:29,482 --> 00:29:32,602
"Oh, my goodness, that man's
been eaten by a wild boar!"
578
00:29:32,682 --> 00:29:34,883
Most of his chest and stomach are gone.
579
00:29:34,963 --> 00:29:36,683
Not to get too technical about it,
580
00:29:36,763 --> 00:29:40,203
I'd say he's been eaten by something.
581
00:29:40,283 --> 00:29:42,173
That sort of contrast
of one with the other,
582
00:29:42,253 --> 00:29:45,323
I think, is sort of rich
and appealing to us,
583
00:29:45,403 --> 00:29:46,537
in some human way.
584
00:29:47,732 --> 00:29:50,963
It might seem like
the most British of TV dramas,
585
00:29:51,043 --> 00:29:53,203
but you might be surprised to hear
that Midsomer
586
00:29:53,283 --> 00:29:55,178
is exceptionally well-travel led.
587
00:30:05,812 --> 00:30:07,963
The international appeal of Midsomer
588
00:30:08,043 --> 00:30:10,543
is something that a lot of people
don't know about.
589
00:30:13,763 --> 00:30:15,652
It's massive in Scandinavia,
huge in Europe,
590
00:30:15,732 --> 00:30:17,963
Australia and New Zealand love it,
it's now in America.
591
00:30:18,043 --> 00:30:20,393
When I signed up to the job,
I didn't know that.
592
00:30:22,923 --> 00:30:25,683
I got recognised on my honeymoon
in Vietnam, of all places.
593
00:30:25,763 --> 00:30:27,843
And I was just like, this is crazy.
594
00:30:30,093 --> 00:30:31,923
John Kinsella.
595
00:30:33,812 --> 00:30:37,563
It's just great in French
because the man voicing me,
596
00:30:37,643 --> 00:30:39,883
he had the most beautiful voice
in the world
597
00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:44,093
and he made Tom Barnaby
sound like the most kind,
598
00:30:44,173 --> 00:30:47,173
loving man God ever put breath into.
599
00:30:56,283 --> 00:30:58,203
Denmark is one of the countries
600
00:30:58,283 --> 00:31:00,923
that has been a great supporter
of Midsomer's.
601
00:31:01,003 --> 00:31:05,482
When we got to the hundredth episode
of Midsomer,
602
00:31:05,562 --> 00:31:07,453
as a kind of celebration
603
00:31:07,533 --> 00:31:09,763
and a sort of thank you
to the international audience,
604
00:31:09,843 --> 00:31:11,602
somebody came up with the brilliant idea
605
00:31:11,682 --> 00:31:15,123
of setting part of the 100th episode
in Denmark.
606
00:31:15,203 --> 00:31:18,282
We were in Copenhagen
with some lovely actors
607
00:31:18,362 --> 00:31:20,813
who I'd only just stopped watching
in The Killing.
608
00:31:20,893 --> 00:31:24,402
Everything here tallies with the
crime scene at the Calders factory,
609
00:31:24,482 --> 00:31:28,018
which means...
he was killed in Midsomer.
610
00:31:29,203 --> 00:31:31,043
And that makes him your problem.
611
00:31:31,123 --> 00:31:33,453
Ann Eleonora Jorgensen
played the mother in The Killing
612
00:31:33,533 --> 00:31:35,652
and they said,
"What are you doing next?"
613
00:31:35,732 --> 00:31:37,323
She said, "Midsomer Murders."
614
00:31:37,403 --> 00:31:39,813
They go, "You're doing
an episode of Midsomer Murders?!
615
00:31:39,893 --> 00:31:40,883
"That's fantastic."
616
00:31:40,963 --> 00:31:44,453
She said they just go bonkers
for Midsomer Murders in Denmark.
617
00:31:44,533 --> 00:31:46,173
We're treated incredibly well.
618
00:31:46,253 --> 00:31:49,883
The name Midsomer or Barnaby
opened doors you would not believe.
619
00:31:49,963 --> 00:31:52,243
We were allowed to film
outside the Royal Palace,
620
00:31:52,323 --> 00:31:55,453
we filmed inside Copenhagen's
police headquarters.
621
00:31:55,533 --> 00:31:58,402
And we had a fantastic
couple of weeks in Denmark
622
00:31:58,482 --> 00:32:01,402
and I think made for a very good episode.
623
00:32:01,482 --> 00:32:03,093
You're sneaky.
624
00:32:03,173 --> 00:32:04,813
That impresses me.
625
00:32:04,893 --> 00:32:07,428
Well, I'm glad you're impressed.
626
00:32:09,003 --> 00:32:10,323
Coming UP"-
627
00:32:10,403 --> 00:32:14,043
Midsomer's greatest murderer
is finally unmasked.
628
00:32:14,123 --> 00:32:17,282
I believe I've killed 18 people,
and I'm still at large.
629
00:32:17,362 --> 00:32:21,258
And how Midsomer dines out
on the most savoury of deaths.
630
00:32:40,702 --> 00:32:43,752
Midsomer Murders has found a unique place
631
00:32:43,832 --> 00:32:45,292
in television history.
632
00:32:45,372 --> 00:32:48,542
Not just because it's been
killing people off for 25 years,
633
00:32:48,622 --> 00:32:53,292
or the volume of deaths it manages
to squeeze into each episode.
634
00:32:53,372 --> 00:32:55,193
No, it's the way they kill 'em
635
00:32:55,273 --> 00:32:57,783
that's really caught our imagination.
636
00:32:57,863 --> 00:33:00,263
The great joy about
Midsomer Murders, one of them,
637
00:33:00,343 --> 00:33:02,943
is that, for the slightest reason,
638
00:33:03,023 --> 00:33:04,542
people will kill.
639
00:33:04,622 --> 00:33:07,703
Wh-what are you doing?
I was just...
640
00:33:07,783 --> 00:33:10,542
She fell.
641
00:33:10,622 --> 00:33:12,703
'They don't have to have
great motive.'
642
00:33:12,783 --> 00:33:15,343
'Very short tempers.'
643
00:33:15,423 --> 00:33:17,422
In Midsomer, you don't wanna...
644
00:33:17,502 --> 00:33:20,143
go upsetting the apple cart
down there, mate.
645
00:33:20,223 --> 00:33:23,263
Just wanted to shut him up.
646
00:33:23,343 --> 00:33:27,783
And the bowling machine...
was right there.
647
00:33:27,863 --> 00:33:31,393
There are many favourite odd ways
that people have found
648
00:33:31,473 --> 00:33:32,677
to kill other people.
649
00:33:35,622 --> 00:33:38,943
It's not your urban murdery thing where,
650
00:33:39,023 --> 00:33:42,653
oh, it's some sort of drug-addled
mugging goes wrong.
651
00:33:42,733 --> 00:33:45,998
They're sort of escapist deaths,
fun deaths.
652
00:33:47,423 --> 00:33:49,292
Over 22 series,
653
00:33:49,372 --> 00:33:52,393
the pressure to deliver
ever more outlandish deaths
654
00:33:52,473 --> 00:33:57,168
has proved a grisly challenge
for the writers and set designers.
655
00:33:58,663 --> 00:34:01,833
I love the human candle,
which was particularly amazing
656
00:34:01,913 --> 00:34:03,292
to just see on set, actually,
657
00:34:03,372 --> 00:34:05,752
the way that they made the, sort of,
entire wax body.
658
00:34:05,832 --> 00:34:07,943
The human Roman candle.
659
00:34:08,023 --> 00:34:10,903
One of Nero's favourite ways
to kill naughty Christians.
660
00:34:10,983 --> 00:34:14,033
My favourite deaths in the show?
661
00:34:14,113 --> 00:34:16,473
There are so many to choose from
over the years.
662
00:34:16,553 --> 00:34:19,343
There was an episode called
The Dark Rider.
663
00:34:19,423 --> 00:34:22,542
It opened, there was a storm
over this castle...
664
00:34:24,663 --> 00:34:28,998
In the storm, he looks down
and sees a headless horseman.
665
00:34:36,752 --> 00:34:38,943
And I love it when I'm reading
an episode and think,
666
00:34:39,023 --> 00:34:41,143
"How are we going to sort of justify...
667
00:34:41,223 --> 00:34:44,038
"he, and we,
have seen a headless horseman?"
668
00:34:49,622 --> 00:34:53,502
Eye holes.
But no current occupant.
669
00:34:53,582 --> 00:34:57,752
And fans on our tourist trail
are about to discover
670
00:34:57,832 --> 00:35:02,143
the location of one of Midsomer's
most infamous crimes.
671
00:35:02,223 --> 00:35:05,703
Everything in this village centres
around one thing — the dairy.
672
00:35:05,783 --> 00:35:10,393
So, this is the beautiful,
picturesque village of Turville,
673
00:35:10,473 --> 00:35:13,422
which has been used frequently,
not only in Midsomer Murders,
674
00:35:13,502 --> 00:35:16,583
but in The Vicar Of Dibley
and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
675
00:35:16,663 --> 00:35:19,033
In fact, you can see
at the top of the hill,
676
00:35:19,113 --> 00:35:22,473
the very windmill that was used
in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
677
00:35:22,553 --> 00:35:26,223
And, of course,
also in Schooled In Murder,
678
00:35:26,303 --> 00:35:30,998
the episode where it particularly
featured in Midsomer Murders.
679
00:35:32,553 --> 00:35:36,238
The cheese one is the one
that everyone absolutely loves.
680
00:35:38,702 --> 00:35:40,193
Hello?
681
00:35:40,273 --> 00:35:42,903
People are forever saying, "Oh,
the one with Martine McCutcheon."
682
00:35:42,983 --> 00:35:45,113
What are you playing at?
683
00:35:45,193 --> 00:35:47,278
Because I'm not in the mood for games.
684
00:35:48,502 --> 00:35:50,198
Not today.
685
00:36:00,223 --> 00:36:02,672
Crushed by wheels of cheese.
686
00:36:02,752 --> 00:36:04,343
Brilliant.
687
00:36:04,423 --> 00:36:06,703
And I think that's really, sort of,
clever.
688
00:36:06,783 --> 00:36:09,223
Have we got a murder weapon?
You're standing in it.
689
00:36:09,303 --> 00:36:12,223
We kill people with cheese.
690
00:36:12,303 --> 00:36:14,933
There isn't another program me,
I think, that can do that.
691
00:36:15,013 --> 00:36:16,863
I mean, the writers,
692
00:36:16,943 --> 00:36:20,292
whoever are thinking up
all of these murders...
693
00:36:20,372 --> 00:36:23,422
how they keep going,
finding new ones, I'll never know.
694
00:36:23,502 --> 00:36:25,983
Picking a murder out of the air
is amazing.
695
00:36:26,063 --> 00:36:28,583
I spend most of the year
sending texts to myself saying,
696
00:36:28,663 --> 00:36:31,988
"This'd be a great murder."
"Oh, this'd be an even better one."
697
00:36:33,663 --> 00:36:36,502
Over the past eight years,
writer Jeff Povey
698
00:36:36,582 --> 00:36:40,783
has come up with some of Midsomer's
most talked about deaths.
699
00:36:40,863 --> 00:36:43,063
Hooking in some deadly fishing...
700
00:36:43,143 --> 00:36:45,783
The man in the vat of worms,
he was killed,
701
00:36:45,863 --> 00:36:48,933
and then dragged into the tackle shop.
702
00:36:49,013 --> 00:36:51,703
The actor was amazing, he said,
"Yeah, I'll get in there,
703
00:36:51,783 --> 00:36:53,473
"and they can crawl over me
if they want."
704
00:36:53,553 --> 00:36:55,903
...creepy comic book capers,
705
00:36:55,983 --> 00:37:00,223
and a somewhat gruesome adventure
in the art world.
706
00:37:00,303 --> 00:37:02,422
I had one where he was drowned in paint.
707
00:37:02,502 --> 00:37:05,542
You know what they say, Nelson, in art,
708
00:37:05,622 --> 00:37:08,343
everything has a deeper meaning.
709
00:37:08,423 --> 00:37:10,703
I think the process for a
spectacular death is, basically,
710
00:37:10,783 --> 00:37:12,958
what is your world?
What are you doing here?
711
00:37:15,223 --> 00:37:17,223
Come to tell me how great I am?
712
00:37:17,303 --> 00:37:19,983
When I did the cricket one,
I knew for a fact
713
00:37:20,063 --> 00:37:22,292
that they had these bowling machines
714
00:37:22,372 --> 00:37:24,502
that hurled balls down.
715
00:37:27,372 --> 00:37:30,223
I thought, "What if you were tied up
and you couldn't move?
716
00:37:30,303 --> 00:37:32,223
"And there was 100 balls
going 100 miles an hour,
717
00:37:32,303 --> 00:37:33,863
"it's bound
to kill you, isn't it?"
718
00:37:33,943 --> 00:37:36,063
And then we talked to a medical person
719
00:37:36,143 --> 00:37:38,622
and they said, "|t just takes one
to hit them on the heart
720
00:37:38,702 --> 00:37:40,542
"and it'll stop it"
or whatever, you know.
721
00:37:40,622 --> 00:37:41,988
And you go, "OK."
722
00:37:43,423 --> 00:37:46,783
That's probably one of my
favourite ones cos it's very visual.
723
00:37:46,863 --> 00:37:49,758
You could feel it,
you can really feel that.
724
00:37:52,863 --> 00:37:55,542
And I just think
the writerly imagination,
725
00:37:55,622 --> 00:37:58,502
you sometimes think, "Oh, get help.
726
00:37:58,582 --> 00:38:00,703
"Where has this come from?
What's wrong with you?"
727
00:38:00,783 --> 00:38:02,292
There's a few good deaths
in the next one,
728
00:38:02,372 --> 00:38:03,622
that's filming at the moment.
729
00:38:03,702 --> 00:38:06,263
Camera set! And action!
730
00:38:06,343 --> 00:38:09,473
As soon as you get this message,
grab Etta and get to the shelter.
731
00:38:09,553 --> 00:38:12,622
Including this latest episode,
I believe I've killed 18 people.
732
00:38:12,702 --> 00:38:14,783
And I'm still at large.
733
00:38:14,863 --> 00:38:16,752
Prior to his demise...
734
00:38:16,832 --> 00:38:18,833
he called two numbers.
735
00:38:18,913 --> 00:38:21,343
It's terrible to say,
but it's great fun killing people,
736
00:38:21,423 --> 00:38:23,528
it really is.
737
00:38:25,733 --> 00:38:27,703
But come every Midsomer murder,
738
00:38:27,783 --> 00:38:32,063
often the first person at the
death scene is not a police officer.
739
00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:35,672
Looks like she was immersed in this stuff
740
00:38:35,752 --> 00:38:37,343
when it was in liquid form.
741
00:38:37,423 --> 00:38:38,422
'For Kam,'
742
00:38:38,502 --> 00:38:40,622
I think one of her favourite murders,
743
00:38:40,702 --> 00:38:43,983
possibly,
was the incident at Cooper Hill,
744
00:38:44,063 --> 00:38:45,933
with the aliens and the spaceships,
745
00:38:46,013 --> 00:38:48,143
because she couldn't solve it.
746
00:38:48,223 --> 00:38:51,113
So, you're saying this stuff's afien?
747
00:38:51,193 --> 00:38:53,143
I'm saying is alien for me.
748
00:38:53,223 --> 00:38:55,063
'For her, that was probably fun,
749
00:38:55,143 --> 00:38:56,783
'for the actors,
but was probably not fun,
750
00:38:56,863 --> 00:38:59,033
'because they had to be put
into black bags'
751
00:38:59,113 --> 00:39:01,393
covered in black goo.
752
00:39:01,473 --> 00:39:05,113
I used to be very protective
over the murdered actors.
753
00:39:05,193 --> 00:39:07,903
Just because they had to hold
really uncomfortable positions
754
00:39:07,983 --> 00:39:09,752
for long periods of time.
755
00:39:09,832 --> 00:39:11,703
I would just make sure there's a pillow,
756
00:39:11,783 --> 00:39:13,473
or they could lean on something.
757
00:39:13,553 --> 00:39:18,502
In 2016, Manjinder Virk
became the fourth actor
758
00:39:18,582 --> 00:39:21,422
to take on the busy role
of Midsomer pathologist.
759
00:39:21,502 --> 00:39:24,183
'The first day on set,
it was quite surreal.'
760
00:39:24,263 --> 00:39:26,393
Please, call me Kam.
761
00:39:26,473 --> 00:39:29,183
There was something familiar
about being with Neil,
762
00:39:29,263 --> 00:39:30,983
it was part of my growing up.
763
00:39:31,063 --> 00:39:33,752
Don't suppose there's much you can
tell from an empty room, is there?
764
00:39:33,832 --> 00:39:35,933
Quite the opposite.
Right.
765
00:39:36,013 --> 00:39:38,113
'I took the job on
because I liked the character,'
766
00:39:38,193 --> 00:39:39,752
and I thought she was interesting.
767
00:39:39,832 --> 00:39:42,903
See this? The weft of the carpet?
768
00:39:42,983 --> 00:39:45,183
It's flattened in the same way.
769
00:39:45,263 --> 00:39:48,143
I didn't realise that it would be
part of a, sort of,
770
00:39:48,223 --> 00:39:49,863
controversial headline
771
00:39:49,943 --> 00:39:54,143
because I was the first person
of colour as a regular on the show.
772
00:39:54,223 --> 00:39:57,183
It's important to have this discussion.
773
00:39:57,263 --> 00:39:59,393
The thing about Midsomers is,
774
00:39:59,473 --> 00:40:01,033
it's so out there as a show,
775
00:40:01,113 --> 00:40:04,752
it's important to realise that
people from all walks of life
776
00:40:04,832 --> 00:40:05,783
can be represented.
777
00:40:05,863 --> 00:40:09,672
So, how are you finding the job?
778
00:40:09,752 --> 00:40:11,422
It's not what I was expecting so far,
779
00:40:11,502 --> 00:40:13,063
but I'm enjoying the challenge.
780
00:40:13,143 --> 00:40:15,477
Cheers.
Cheers. Cheers.
781
00:40:16,702 --> 00:40:19,863
Across the years,
the Midsomer pathologists
782
00:40:19,943 --> 00:40:22,672
have had one of the most
gruesome jobs on television.
783
00:40:22,752 --> 00:40:26,448
And not just because of the
criminally shapeless boiler suits.
784
00:40:27,863 --> 00:40:32,143
Fleur came into the series
peering into a vat of beer.
785
00:40:32,223 --> 00:40:35,903
Boiled human flesh isn't something
I work with every day.
786
00:40:35,983 --> 00:40:37,683
I'll need to consult a specialist.
787
00:40:38,863 --> 00:40:40,703
And possibly a cookbook.
788
00:40:40,783 --> 00:40:44,063
I believe there had been
five pathologists.
789
00:40:44,143 --> 00:40:48,063
Barry Jackson played
the first pathologist, of course.
790
00:40:48,143 --> 00:40:50,292
Where is it, then, the body?
791
00:40:50,372 --> 00:40:52,343
Most of it's in the hall.
792
00:40:52,423 --> 00:40:54,033
I know, of late,
793
00:40:54,113 --> 00:40:57,933
they have been often the
love interest for the sidekick.
794
00:40:58,013 --> 00:41:00,502
Do you remember when they took us
to watch a postmortem
795
00:41:00,582 --> 00:41:02,143
and the big Scottish guy fainted?
796
00:41:02,223 --> 00:41:04,063
You and I had to take him outside.
797
00:41:04,143 --> 00:41:06,473
Then you suggested we go
across the road for sushi,
798
00:41:06,553 --> 00:41:09,502
and he nearly fainted again.
Didn't know what he was missing.
799
00:41:09,582 --> 00:41:11,888
Fleur came in and she was not that.
800
00:41:13,372 --> 00:41:17,542
Sorry I'm late, I was removing
a chainsaw from a chest cavity.
801
00:41:17,622 --> 00:41:19,903
'She's a force of nature.
She always knows best.'
802
00:41:19,983 --> 00:41:22,143
She's always sort of solving
the crimes for us.
803
00:41:22,223 --> 00:41:25,863
And we sort of are scared of her,
love her, need her.
804
00:41:25,943 --> 00:41:28,393
Fleur has wonderful back stories.
805
00:41:28,473 --> 00:41:31,292
She's part of a female biker gang.
806
00:41:31,372 --> 00:41:33,143
'She's been married in Las Vegas.'
807
00:41:33,223 --> 00:41:36,263
It's bringing back memories
of my first wedding.
808
00:41:36,343 --> 00:41:38,983
I didn't know you'd been married.
809
00:41:39,063 --> 00:41:41,672
I've been down the aisle a few times.
810
00:41:41,752 --> 00:41:44,223
Although, it wasn't an aisle as such...
811
00:41:44,303 --> 00:41:46,292
in Vegas.
812
00:41:46,372 --> 00:41:49,703
So, Neil and I spend most episodes
pulling looks and going, "What?"
813
00:41:49,783 --> 00:41:52,223
What's that?
A shinai stick.
814
00:41:52,303 --> 00:41:56,183
With modifications.
They use it in kendo.
815
00:41:56,263 --> 00:42:00,393
I once shacked up with a local champion.
816
00:42:00,473 --> 00:42:02,473
She's some girl.
817
00:42:02,553 --> 00:42:06,863
Enrobed, that's how they
describe it, isn't it, on the box?
818
00:42:06,943 --> 00:42:10,113
Mind you, they're usually talking
about a hazelnut.
819
00:42:10,193 --> 00:42:13,863
My very favourite murder to explore
was death by chocolate.
820
00:42:13,943 --> 00:42:16,033
I won't be able to get stuff
out of his windpipe
821
00:42:16,113 --> 00:42:17,393
until I get him back to the lab.
822
00:42:17,473 --> 00:42:20,502
It'll be all the way into his lungs,
I shouldn't wonder.
823
00:42:20,582 --> 00:42:22,863
'Pathologists, traditionally,'
824
00:42:22,943 --> 00:42:25,502
are shown to be rather ghoulish,
dark humoured people.
825
00:42:25,582 --> 00:42:28,672
I'd say he died because
he got turned into a human lolly.
826
00:42:28,752 --> 00:42:30,223
'I think humour is very important.'
827
00:42:30,303 --> 00:42:32,542
It's a light-hearted show, really,
you know,
828
00:42:32,622 --> 00:42:35,183
we're not Line Of Duty,
that's the point of Midsomer,
829
00:42:35,263 --> 00:42:36,752
it's the other end of that spectrum.
830
00:42:36,832 --> 00:42:40,223
The comedy element, I think, is
a very important part of the tone.
831
00:42:40,303 --> 00:42:42,203
You missed a bit.
832
00:42:44,883 --> 00:42:49,003
It's what helps it to be cosy
rather than scary.
833
00:42:49,083 --> 00:42:51,283
It's not that we are glib.
834
00:42:51,363 --> 00:42:53,642
You have to worry about someone
who's been killed,
835
00:42:53,722 --> 00:42:56,772
and then be humorous to survive yourself.
836
00:42:56,852 --> 00:42:59,562
Now buzz off, let me get back to work.
837
00:42:59,642 --> 00:43:03,133
Barnaby stays very, very sane
and true straight through it.
838
00:43:03,213 --> 00:43:07,522
Mrs Dagmar, I'm here on
official police business. Oh!
839
00:43:07,602 --> 00:43:12,363
In that case I'm all ears, all eyes,
and all the rest of me.
840
00:43:12,443 --> 00:43:14,562
'He never jokes about victims,
never, ever.'
841
00:43:14,642 --> 00:43:18,003
Winter can, and he could get
admonished for it.
842
00:43:18,083 --> 00:43:21,083
Fleur can, cos she does,
she jokes about everything.
843
00:43:21,163 --> 00:43:24,493
That's the last time I go to a gym.
You go to the gym?
844
00:43:24,573 --> 00:43:27,923
But as long as Barnaby
doesn't succumb to it,
845
00:43:28,003 --> 00:43:29,843
we're on safe ground.
846
00:43:29,923 --> 00:43:31,363
Do you believe her?
847
00:43:31,443 --> 00:43:35,312
It all sounds plausible enough, but
something just doesn't feel right.
848
00:43:35,392 --> 00:43:36,923
I say this with some pride.
849
00:43:37,003 --> 00:43:39,312
Years ago, there was some sort
of survey among police
850
00:43:39,392 --> 00:43:42,133
as to what was the most accurate
851
00:43:42,213 --> 00:43:44,133
representation of the police.
852
00:43:44,213 --> 00:43:46,522
All right, I give up.
853
00:43:46,602 --> 00:43:49,258
Why did you cross the road?
854
00:43:50,573 --> 00:43:53,203
Like I said... it's my day off.
855
00:43:53,283 --> 00:43:56,723
And Midsomer, you'll be astonished
to hear this,
856
00:43:56,803 --> 00:44:00,442
Midsomer was adjudged
the least accurate representation
857
00:44:00,522 --> 00:44:01,953
of actual police work.
858
00:44:02,033 --> 00:44:03,493
Well, I was amazed.
859
00:44:03,573 --> 00:44:06,243
Which I think is probably
another part of its charm.
860
00:44:06,323 --> 00:44:10,243
We're not trying to be real,
it's a made-up land, you know,
861
00:44:10,323 --> 00:44:15,883
these stories are fantastical and
we're not gonna apologise for it.
862
00:44:15,963 --> 00:44:18,843
And I think that's probably
something that people enjoy,
863
00:44:18,923 --> 00:44:21,053
cos they're like,
"At least they're honest,
864
00:44:21,133 --> 00:44:23,203
"they're not trying to be anything
that they're not."
865
00:44:23,283 --> 00:44:25,058
Cheers.
866
00:44:26,642 --> 00:44:29,413
So, ladies and gentlemen,
867
00:44:29,493 --> 00:44:33,843
this is where our tour
of Midsomer County ends.
868
00:44:33,923 --> 00:44:38,493
Exactly where it began,
here in Badger's Drift,
869
00:44:38,573 --> 00:44:42,413
25 years after that very first episode.
870
00:44:42,493 --> 00:44:46,593
And so I hope that you've enjoyed
our little tour today.
871
00:44:46,673 --> 00:44:49,258
Thank you very much.
872
00:44:50,522 --> 00:44:52,843
This is actually my 25th year as well.
873
00:44:52,923 --> 00:44:55,203
I started filming in 1997.
874
00:44:55,283 --> 00:44:58,363
To be honest, it's as fresh today
as it was then.
875
00:44:58,443 --> 00:45:00,923
The story fines are...
876
00:45:01,003 --> 00:45:03,692
What we're working on at the moment,
is extraordinary.
877
00:45:03,772 --> 00:45:05,883
Killer reconfigured the venting system.
878
00:45:05,963 --> 00:45:08,593
25 years?
It's kind of incredible
879
00:45:08,673 --> 00:45:10,803
that any show could have within it
880
00:45:10,883 --> 00:45:14,243
the seeds of its own reinvention
so much that it can keep changing.
881
00:45:14,323 --> 00:45:17,203
There's no reason for it ever
to stop, as far as I can see.
882
00:45:17,283 --> 00:45:20,493
When you look at the rest
of the TV landscape,
883
00:45:20,573 --> 00:45:23,053
it's really, erm,
it's really astonishing.
884
00:45:23,133 --> 00:45:25,442
Are you retiring?
Me?
885
00:45:25,522 --> 00:45:27,642
Whatever gave you that idea?
886
00:45:27,722 --> 00:45:30,053
Well, you did. Sort of.
887
00:45:30,133 --> 00:45:32,283
All those pictures of quaint cottages.
888
00:45:32,363 --> 00:45:35,772
Retire? I'm in my prime, Winter.
889
00:45:35,852 --> 00:45:38,442
'I just want people to carry on
loving Midsomer murders,
890
00:45:38,522 --> 00:45:39,883
'as I do.'
891
00:45:39,963 --> 00:45:41,577
Happy birthday, Midsomer.
892
00:45:43,573 --> 00:45:46,803
Happy quarter-century, Midsomer Murders.
893
00:45:46,883 --> 00:45:50,697
Many, many happy returns.
894
00:45:52,573 --> 00:45:55,003
So many years, so many deaths,
895
00:45:55,083 --> 00:45:57,723
so many criminals caught.
896
00:45:57,803 --> 00:45:59,898
Well done.
897
00:46:02,323 --> 00:46:04,298
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