MIDSOMER MURDERS

ORCHIS FATALIS

 

When one of the world's rarest orchids is smuggled illegally into Midsomer Malham, it triggers a catalogue of passion, jealousy and death. First a retired classics teacher and secret sexual siren is poisoned with hemlock, then compulsive collector Henry Plummer is strangled and his beloved orchids destroyed. Barnaby and Scott must find the delicate yellow Roth plant and root out who is prepared to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds, and commit murder, just to get their hands on it.

The episode mirrors the recent true life story of the stolen Lady’s Slipper Orchid, at Silverdale Golf Club, Lancaster where it had been protected for 20 years.

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LOCATIONS
CHENIES, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
GREYS COURT, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, OXFORDSHIRE
HADDENHAM, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
BOTANIC GARDEN, OXFORD, OXFORDSHIRE
STOKE TALMAGE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
WATLINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE
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CAST

CHARACTER

 

ACTOR

DCI Tom Barnaby

John Nettles

Sgt. Dan Scott

John Hopkins

Joyce Barnaby

Jane Wymark

Cully Barnaby

Laura Howard

Dr. Bullard

Barry Jackson

Madeline Villiers

Marty Cruickshank

Jimmy Fong

Stuart Ong

Margaret Winstanley

Harriet Walter

Henry Plummer

Richard Attlee

Deborah Plummer

Amanda Harris

Munro Hilliard

John Nettleton

Mrs. Hilliard

Helen Ryan

Feather

Richard Simpson

Jonathan Makepeace

Geoffrey Streatfield

Harry Rose

Matt Bardock

Brother Robert

Geoffrey Chater

Captain Tucker

Anthony Smee

Mrs. Maitland

Victoria Lennox

Mr. Jocelyn

Timothy Bateson

JAZZ BAND AT FETE - DEREK TATAM'S CHICAGOANS

 

Written By

Terry Hodgkinson

 

Directed By

Peter Smith

 

Produced by

Brian True-May
Betty Willingale

 

BASED ON CHARACTERS CREATED IN THE NOVELS BY CAROLINE GRAHAM

 

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