Midsomer Murders demystified and localised
We immensley enjoy Midsomer Murders, a popular British TV series
about murders that take place in the fictional English county
of Midsomer. It is based on the crime novels by the author,
Caroline Graham. First shown in the UK in March 1997,
filming is currently underway for the 11th season. The show enjoys great ratings and the feature-length drama attracts a number of well-known
British actors from the stage and screen in guest-starring roles.
Filming takes place on location in the English counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey which offer some of the most picturesque and cozy villages in the UK. For those who have said it would be great to visit those locations one day, thank Helen Hackwell of midsomermurders.net for adding the location photographs to her website as shown below for the episode 'The Killings at Badger's Drift'.
She organised them by episode, "each
includes the names of the towns and villages that were used for filming and a
simple gallery to display the photos." Helen also discovered that Buckinghamshire has created a website dedicated to following the Midsomer Murders trail to encourage tourism.
For those of the US fans that were struggling with the DVD publisher's illogical set numbering, I wrote the following review on amazon.com. "For those new to the series, I would recommend viewing the series in the order in which it was aired, not by the consecutive order of the Set numbers. For instance, "Set 5" is actually Season 1 which aired in 1998. "Set 4" is mostly Season 5 which aired in 2002."
Filming takes place on location in the English counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey which offer some of the most picturesque and cozy villages in the UK. For those who have said it would be great to visit those locations one day, thank Helen Hackwell of midsomermurders.net for adding the location photographs to her website as shown below for the episode 'The Killings at Badger's Drift'.
For those of the US fans that were struggling with the DVD publisher's illogical set numbering, I wrote the following review on amazon.com. "For those new to the series, I would recommend viewing the series in the order in which it was aired, not by the consecutive order of the Set numbers. For instance, "Set 5" is actually Season 1 which aired in 1998. "Set 4" is mostly Season 5 which aired in 2002."
