Deaths follow the discovery of a valuable musical manuscript sold cheaply at an auction.Deaths follow the discovery of a valuable musical manuscript sold cheaply at an auction.Deaths follow the discovery of a valuable musical manuscript sold cheaply at an auction.
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- TriviaThis is the last time that Rover automobiles are featured in the show, after the MG Rover Group failed in April 2005. Up to this point, DCI Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) has driven a Rover, including the iconic Rover 75 from season 3 through season 8. Sergeant Dan Scott (John Hopkins) drove a Rover 45 during the same period. The cars themselves were provided directly by MG Rover for filming of the show.
- GoofsWhen a character is tossed off the bridge, he and his assailant struggle and yell loudly. This happens within yards of a busy pub that has an open front door and people visible in a window that is in the direct line of site of the bridge. And yet nobody comes to the victim's aid, and there's not a single witness to or report of the struggle, neither of which seems possible given the setting.
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DCI Tom Barnaby: He was respected and admired, Scott, because he encouraged and inspired so many people, including the great Joan Alder.
Sergeant Dan Scott: Joan Alder? 'Midsomer Rhapsody'?
DCI Tom Barnaby: Yeah.
[surprised]
DCI Tom Barnaby: Do you know that piece?
Sergeant Dan Scott: My mum was a fan. She played it when she wanted us out of the house.
- ConnectionsReferences The Great Escape (1963)
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not bad but confusing
"Midsomer Rhapsody" from the eighth season is a good episode but I found it confusing.
The story centers around Joan Adler, dead when the episode begins. In Badgers Drift, her music teacher, Arthur, now retired, returns to his old house from his assisted living residence. He's trying to find something before the contents are auctioned. Someone hits him on the head and kills him.
Barnaby and Scott enter the case and realize that the murder, and whatever the teacher was searching for, have to do with Adler, composer of the famous Midsomer Rhapsody, which pays a fortune in royalties. Think of it as Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
The auction of Arthur's possessions take place. One man, Harvey Crane purchases some old manuscripts. In it he finds the original Rhapsody, written by hand. Since Scott searched the auction items carefully before handing them over, both he and Barnaby wonder if it's a forgery.
Several people wind up dead as Barnaby deals with forgeries, a long- lost daughter, a dead husband, a male lover, a lesbian lover, love letters, Joan's mother, a wedding, handwriting, music paper, and other assorted people and things. It gave me a headache, even though it was intriguing.
This is the last appearance of Scott, and I am sorry to see him go. I wasn't crazy about him at first, but he grew on me.
By the way, the Midsomer Rhapsody is really lovely.
Entertaining but you need to concentrate.
The story centers around Joan Adler, dead when the episode begins. In Badgers Drift, her music teacher, Arthur, now retired, returns to his old house from his assisted living residence. He's trying to find something before the contents are auctioned. Someone hits him on the head and kills him.
Barnaby and Scott enter the case and realize that the murder, and whatever the teacher was searching for, have to do with Adler, composer of the famous Midsomer Rhapsody, which pays a fortune in royalties. Think of it as Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
The auction of Arthur's possessions take place. One man, Harvey Crane purchases some old manuscripts. In it he finds the original Rhapsody, written by hand. Since Scott searched the auction items carefully before handing them over, both he and Barnaby wonder if it's a forgery.
Several people wind up dead as Barnaby deals with forgeries, a long- lost daughter, a dead husband, a male lover, a lesbian lover, love letters, Joan's mother, a wedding, handwriting, music paper, and other assorted people and things. It gave me a headache, even though it was intriguing.
This is the last appearance of Scott, and I am sorry to see him go. I wasn't crazy about him at first, but he grew on me.
By the way, the Midsomer Rhapsody is really lovely.
Entertaining but you need to concentrate.
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