"Midsomer Murders" Ring Out Your Dead (2002)

Director:

Sarah Hellings

Writers:

Christopher Russell (screenplay)
Caroline Graham (characters)

TV Series:

"Midsomer Murders" (1997)

Original Air Date:

15 September 2002 (Season 5, Episode 3)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

In the village of Midsomer Wellow, someone is killing off the bell ringers of the parish church, in the week before a big bell-ringing competition. One young woman on the team is even shot dead in the churchyard on her wedding day.

Plot Keywords:

Church | Murder | Bellringer | Murder Investigation | Shot To Death

Cast

John Nettles	...	DCI Tom Barnaby
Daniel Casey	...	Sergeant Gavin Troy
Jane Wymark	...	Joyce Barnaby
Hugh Bonneville	...	Hugh Barton
Dugald Bruce Lockhart	...	Greg Tutt (as Dugald Bruce-Lockhart)
Harry Burton	...	Dennis Ebbrell
Graham Crowden	...	Reggie Barton
Jamie de Courcey	...	Marcus Steadman (as Jamie De Courcey)
Carmen du Sautoy	...	Rosalind Parr (as Carmen Du Sautoy)
Clare Holman	...	Sue Tutt
Gemma Jones	...	Maisie Gooch
Caroline Lintott	...	Jen
Lyndsey Marshal	...	Emma Tysoe (as Lyndesy Marshal)
Steven Pimlott	...	Judge
Adrian Scarborough	...	Peter Fogden

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:12 | UK:12

Filming Locations:

Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Bentley Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: With the bell ringers everything runs like clockwork. But not so the actual clock of the church. In all inserted shots of the tower, the clock gives 6:25 as the time. Is it out of order or did the director use the same shot all the time?

Quotes:

[Sue picks up Greg's trousers]
Greg Tutt: Not my trousers!
Sue Tutt: Why not? You're hardly ever in them!

Funny Scary

For many Americans, the past time of ringing church bells, much less, cut throat competition in it will seem a little screwball, and indeed, there are moments of burst out laughing in this episode.

There are also scenes of scariness, walk in the dark while something ominous pursues you, like bits from an old 1960's Hammer horror film. And even a few moments of real human pain and tragedy.

And in a sometime tradition of this series, the motive for the murders is totally off the wall wackiness with the murderer the last person you'd ever suspect.

Anyway, the scenery of a series that seems at times to come from House And Country Magazine is pleasant to look at.

All in all, a pleasant way to past an evening in front of the telly.