Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28498 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-10
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 10
• Running time: 940 minutes

Customer Reviews

Midsomer Murders 2 - 10 Episodes
I just love everything about these programmes. Neatly packaged, opens like a book. Only criticism would be not including a synopsis for each title. You just have to watch them to remember! This set includes 10 episodes:
Blue Herrings
Judgement Day
Garden of Death
Destroying Angel
The Electric Vendetta
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Dark Autumn
Tainted Fruit
Market for Murder
A Worm in the Bud

For some unknown reason, 'Beyond the Grave' has been omitted. This was broadcast in April 2000 after 'Judgement Day' bringing the third series to a close. Series 4 started with 'Garden of Death'. 'Beyond the Grave' may appear in a later set but it can still be obtained individually!

'In an English country garden...'
What more needs to be said about the finest detective drama series ever to grace the ITV schedules? Tireless Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his faithful sidekick Sergeant Troy return for another ten occasionally surreal and always bonkers adventures, in the fictional English county of Midsomer. Chocolate-box villages, all with a dark underbelly; furtive locals and crazed murderers with smiling faces inhabit this world, and the dynamic duo staunchly investigate and inevitably solve a series of crimes of passion, crimes of greed and crimes of sheer insanity amongst the leafy Midsomer copses (or should that be corpses?)

I have seen all ten of these stories at least once on TV, but I have found that I can revisit them again and again with a suitable break in-between. Midsomer Murders struck TV gold back in 1998 with its mix of unreal yet somehow recognisable settings and characters. John Nettles' phlegmatic DCI is the glue that holds the show together, as he and Troy seem to be the only working police detectives in the county! Sergeant Troy has matured somewhat from the first series; although he is still almost as mildly abrasive and gloriously un-PC as ever.

For the price this is a steal, so to speak; the box-set is beautifully packaged as a faux book, and sits nicely on the bookshelf, ready to be pulled down and savoured on those long winter nights. If you've never seen this programme I heartily recommend that you give it a go (and buy series one too!) Hole yourself up, pour a glass of Pinot Noir, grab a six-pack of Snickers bars and indulge in a feast of Midsomer Madness.

Excellent box set but missing an episode....Why ?
This box set contains 10 episodes from the 3rd and 4th series of Midsomer Murders. These 10 episode collections are very nicely packaged and can be picked up for a cheaper price if you shop around. The major annoyance and my reason for only giving this set 3 stars instead of 5, is that it is missing an entire episode - Beyond The Grave. While this episode is not one of the better ones it now means the set is incomplete as none of the subsiquent box sets have included it either. Even if they did include it on the 6th box set the story would be out of sequence as it has Troy rather than Jones or Scott. A real shame.