Trivia / Midsomer Murders

• Acting for Two:
  • James Callis, playing twins of very different character in "Dark Rider".
  • George Baker also plays the role of two twins in "The House in the Woods".
  • Emily Bevan plays twins (one a murder victim) in "Scarecrow Murders."
• Always Murder: Despite the name, not all the deaths are murders. In 2016, Series 18 began with the one and only (to date) murder-less episode, “Habeus Corpus”. People died, they just weren't murdered.
• Completely Different Title: Known in France as Inspecteur Barnaby ("Inspector Barnaby"). Germany as well, though they prefer the English spelling of Inspector Barnaby instead of German Inspektor. This was at least part of the reason as to why, when John Nettles left the show, Inspector Barnaby was replaced by his cousin who was also an Inspector called Barnaby — it was so they wouldn't have to rename the show for overseas markets.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Midsomer is a county, not one village, contrary to what TV announcers and others will tell you. The fact that there's an actual English village called Midsomer Norton really doesn't help. The "deadliest village in Britain" tag could be applied to Badger's Drift, a very common locale where (judging by rough guess) everyone in the town has died or been a murderer, but that's not generally how it's used.
• The Danza: Hugh "Lord Grantham" Bonneville, playing Hugh Barton in "Ring Out Your Dead".
  • Nigel Lindsay as Nigel Bellamy in "Dressed to Kill."
• Hey, It's That Sound!: One of the "something bad is happening/about to happen" sounds is the same as the Temple of the Damned from Warcraft III.
• The Cast Showoff: Nick Hendrix, who plays Winter, is also a singer who was in various stage shows before being cast in Midsomer Murders. He got to show off his talents in the episode "For Death Prepare."
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Due to editing of the episode “Electric Vendetta”, one of the crop circle bodies (Eddie Field) was never totally explained.
• You Look Familiar:
  • Neil Dudgeon, who plays John Barnaby, first appeared in the series a decade earlier as a murder suspect, a sleazy gardener who hits on Tom Barnaby's wife, Joyce!
  • Anna Massey played the killer in Season 1's "Written in Blood", then returned eleven years later playing a badass former spy in Season 12's "Secrets and Spies".
  • Guest stars from previous episodes turn up from time to time in different roles, which can be amusing if they got killed during their earlier appearance. This makes Dead Letters stand out all the more for having Barnaby actually react to this (the returning actors turns out to be playing sister and cousin, respectively, of their previous roles).