Not in My Back Yard is the seventh episode of the thirteenth series of Midsomer Murders and originally aired 12th January 2011.
A battle is raging in the village of Great Pelfe over the future of development in the village. Maureen Stubbs is a vocal advocate of maintaining the architectural and historical integrity of the village and at a recent house and garden tour, she accused James Otley and developer Geoff Rogers of setting out to destroy the village with their proposal for a new housing development. When Stubbs is stabbed to death with a broken bottle that very night, DCI Barnaby and DS Jones have a murder to solve. Elections are forthcoming and pro-modernization candidate Norman Swanscombe is up against traditionalist conservation candidate Major David Walsh who accuses Swanscombe of having a hidden agenda. Two others in the village will die however before Barnaby gets to the bottom of it all.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Law: The tellers outside the polling station at the by-election are shown, not only with party political leaflets, but actually trying to hand them to voters. This would never be allowed under UK voting law.
- Depraved Bisexual: One of the victims used seduction to manipulate several people of both sexes.
- Food Slap: The episode opens with a heated argument where Maureen Stubbs hurls a glass of champagne in Geoff Rogers' face. Needless to say, she becomes the first Victim of the Week.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: Maureen Stubbs is done in with a broken bottle.
- Not In My Back Yard: A group of conservationists object to the development of a pristine part of the village and adherents from both sides become victims of a mysterious killer.
- Pizza Boy Special Delivery: Fiona Conway does this (literally with the pizza boy).
