Each of these episodes is a classic British "cozy," fraught with villagers who are oftenextraordinaryly eccentric. (also a favorite British experience!) The mysteries are clever, Chief Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy are excellent, and all ends well. Highly recommended!

Got to experience Anthony Horowitz's "Foil's War" by accident and fell in love with the kind of screenwriting that puts most U.S. T.V. writing to shame. So, looked for his earlier works and came up with "Midsomer's Murders." Although, the "Foil's War" series was professionally more interesting to me as a historian of the World War II era, this series kept me entertained and guessing throughout as to who was responsible for these murders (always more than one).

Television's most murderous county is Midsomer, England, and the show has been solving multiple murders in episodes for over a decade. John Nettles, Midsomer's DCI Tom Barnaby, is the cop leading the investigation team. Expect some smiles (& LOL), a touch of romance, some awesome scenic footage of beautiful village life in England, of course crime mystery, some blood-but not too much, and a sensational support cast with always the sub-plots through relationships. If you are new to Midsomer Murders, they are based on books by Caroline Graham. And many leading British guest stars, as huge stars beg to be on an episode to kill or be killed.I have never watched a less-than GREAT episode of Midsomer Murders.

British TV shown in the US is usually superior to American-made drama. Unfortunately the fact that the British tend to mumble so much, yet seem to usually refuse to have Closed Captioning on their DVDs, surely limits sales.The British are likely *never* to speak clearly (at least not to American-English "ears"), but they certainly can *write* clearly, e.g., in Closed Captioning.

One of the DVD's ( Deaths Shadow)is so dark it is almost impossible to see. The others in the set are not as bad. I have four of the Midsomer series and this is the only one with problems.Told Amazon about the problem and they told me to send it back at no cost and a replacement was on the way the same day!! Awesome service that cannot be beat anywhere on the web!!!Amazon gets a 5 star for their care and service.

My husband and I just hated this series. We found it beyond boring, and I was so disappointed, because it was expensive to buy and ship. My mother, aunt, and older sister really enjoyed it though, and have watched the entire series on television. I wouldnt recommend it. At all!