During a total eclipse of the sun, an astronomer is bludgeoned to death by a meteor, and an astrologer claims to have predicted each subsequent murder.During a total eclipse of the sun, an astronomer is bludgeoned to death by a meteor, and an astrologer claims to have predicted each subsequent murder.During a total eclipse of the sun, an astronomer is bludgeoned to death by a meteor, and an astrologer claims to have predicted each subsequent murder.
Paul Blackwell
- Eclipse Observer
- (uncredited)
Chris Cowlin
- CID Officer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Moonstone disc displayed in the museum is a replica of a real bronze age artifact: the "Nebra sky disc" (Himmelsscheibe von Nebra), found 1999 near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. The description given by Catrina is spot on: dated around 1600 BC, and probably used to harmonize the moon and the sun year (354 vs. 365 days).
- GoofsWhen D.I. Barnaby asks amateur astronomer George Dormer where he was the previous night when a murder was committed, he replies that he was watching a transit of Venus. This occurs when Venus crosses the disc of the sun, and it would be impossible to see such an event at night.
- Quotes
DCI John Barnaby: With all your powers of divination, perhaps you can tell me who did this.
Mags Dormer: No. No, I foretell the future, Inspector. The past, and all its mysteries, is your department.
- Alternate versionsThis is S15E4 on FreeVee streaming in 2024.
- ConnectionsReferences Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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Interesting study of the stars and planets
The mystery is good but I did not like the story to much. It was supposed to be about stars and planet but it was mostly about occult stuff like horoscopes, predicting someone's future through the stars planets, meditation and yoga.
These are all things I do not believe in and 99 percent of the story is around these topics.
The story has opposing characters that study the planets and stars in a scientific way. Their project gets money funded in this area and the people have different ideas on the way the money should be used but they keep it a secret from each other.
The good thing about these Midsomer Murders is that they are not like American stories of murder like drugs, stealing etc. Their mystery is better not simple like a CSI or whatever. They usually are involved in finger prints not DNA.
There are several violent murders in this episode. They all seem to pan out with horoscope predictions which it seems the writer is trying to convince people the predictions are valid or the predictor may be the killer.
In the end the cops catch the murderer. British mystery series are good but don't make much sense on the role the police play. The detectives don't carry guns, They chase a killer that killed many people like in this story, and he calmly goes off with them.
In some series the police give tea to the ones they are questioning and seem to give alibis to criminals when trying to get the truth from them like in Wycliffe.
So unbelievable!
These are all things I do not believe in and 99 percent of the story is around these topics.
The story has opposing characters that study the planets and stars in a scientific way. Their project gets money funded in this area and the people have different ideas on the way the money should be used but they keep it a secret from each other.
The good thing about these Midsomer Murders is that they are not like American stories of murder like drugs, stealing etc. Their mystery is better not simple like a CSI or whatever. They usually are involved in finger prints not DNA.
There are several violent murders in this episode. They all seem to pan out with horoscope predictions which it seems the writer is trying to convince people the predictions are valid or the predictor may be the killer.
In the end the cops catch the murderer. British mystery series are good but don't make much sense on the role the police play. The detectives don't carry guns, They chase a killer that killed many people like in this story, and he calmly goes off with them.
In some series the police give tea to the ones they are questioning and seem to give alibis to criminals when trying to get the truth from them like in Wycliffe.
So unbelievable!
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- Sep 15, 2013
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