S17E03: The Ballad of Midsomer County

Could a ballad made famous by late, lamented folk singer Johnny Carver be an inspiration for murder? Did someone want to kill Toby Winning for threatening to take the Little Crosby Folk Festival away from Midsomer – or is the true motive something hidden for 20 years?

Season 1

The Killings at Badger's Drift
S1E1 / 23 Mar 1997
Written in Blood
S1E2 / 22 Mar 1998
Death of a Hollow Man
S1E3 / 29 Mar 1998
Faithful Unto Death
S1E4 / 22 Apr 1998
Death in Disguise
S1E5 / 06 May 1998

Season 2

Death's Shadow
S2E1 / 20 Jan 1999
Strangler's Wood
S2E2 / 03 Feb 1999
Dead Man's Eleven
S2E3 / 12 Sep 1999
Blood Will Out
S2E4 / 19 Sep 1999

Season 3

Death of a Stranger
S3E1 / 31 Dec 1999
Blue Herrings
S3E2 / 22 Jan 2000
Judgement Day
S3E3 / 29 Jan 2000
Beyond the Grave
S3E4 / 05 Feb 2000

Season 4

Garden of Death
S4E1 / 10 Sep 2000
Destroying Angel
S4E2 / 26 Aug 2001
Electric Vendetta
S4E3 / 02 Sep 2001
Who Killed Cock Robin?
S4E4 / 09 Sep 2001
Dark Autumn
S4E5 / 16 Sep 2001
Tainted Fruit
S4E6 / 23 Sep 2001

Season 5

Market for Murder
S5E1 / 16 Jun 2002
A Worm in the Bud
S5E2 / 23 Jun 2002
Ring Out Your Dead
S5E3 / 15 Sep 2002
Murder on St Malley's Day
S5E4 / 22 Sep 2002

Season 6

A Talent for Life
S6E1 / 03 Jan 2003
Death and Dreams
S6E2 / 10 Jan 2003
Painted in Blood
S6E3 / 17 Jan 2003
A Tale of Two Hamlets
S6E4 / 24 Jan 2003
Birds of Prey
S6E5 / 31 Jan 2003

Season 7

The Green Man
S7E1 / 02 Nov 2003
Bad Tidings
S7E2 / 04 Jan 2004
The Fisher King
S7E3 / 11 Jan 2004
Sins of Commission
S7E4 / 18 Jan 2004
The Maid in Splendour
S7E5 / 25 Jan 2004
The Straw Woman
S7E6 / 29 Feb 2004

Season 8

Things That Go Bump in the Night
S8E1 / 10 Oct 2004
Dead in the Water
S8E2 / 17 Oct 2004
Ghosts of Christmas Past
S8E3 / 25 Dec 2004
Orchis Fatalis
S8E4 / 09 Jan 2005
Bantling Boy
S8E5 / 16 Jan 2005
Second Sight
S8E6 / 23 Jan 2005
Hidden Depths
S8E7 / 13 Mar 2005
Sauce for the Goose
S8E8 / 03 Apr 2005
Midsomer Rhapsody
S8E9 / 02 Oct 2005

Season 9

The House in the Woods
S9E1 / 09 Oct 2005
Dead Letters
S9E2 / 26 Feb 2006
Vixen's Run
S9E3 / 05 Mar 2006
Down Among the Dead Men
S9E4 / 12 Mar 2006
Four Funerals and a Wedding
S9E5 / 24 Sep 2006
Country Matters
S9E6 / 10 Sep 2006
Death in Chorus
S9E7 / 03 Sep 2006
Last Year's Model
S9E8 / 17 Sep 2006

Season 10

Dance with the Dead
S10E1 / 12 Nov 2006
The Animal Within
S10E2 / 19 Jan 2007
The King's Crystal
S10E3 / 26 Jan 2007
The Axeman Cometh
S10E4 / 02 Feb 2007
Death and Dust
S10E5 / 08 May 2007
Picture of Innocence
S10E6 / 03 Jun 2007
They Seek Him Here
S10E7 / 27 Apr 2008
Death in a Chocolate Box
S10E8 / 11 May 2008

Season 11

Shot at Dawn
S11E1 / 01 Jan 2008
Blood Wedding
S11E2 / 10 May 2008
Left for Dead
S11E3 / 24 May 2008
Midsomer Life
S11E4 / 31 May 2008
The Magician's Nephew
S11E5 / 14 Jun 2008
Days of Misrule
S11E6 / 05 Jul 2008
Talking to the Dead
S11E7 / 05 Aug 2008

Season 12

The Dogleg Murders
S12E1 / 22 Jul 2009
The Black Book
S12E2 / 05 Aug 2009
Secrets and Spies
S12E3 / 29 Jul 2009
The Glitch
S12E4 / 23 Sep 2009
Small Mercies
S12E5 / 28 Oct 2009
The Creeper
S12E6 / 27 Jan 2010
The Great and the Good
S12E7 / 14 Apr 2010

Season 13

The Sword of Guillaume
S13E1 / 10 Feb 2010
The Made-to-Measure Murders
S13E2 / 12 May 2010
Blood on the Saddle
S13E3 / 08 Sep 2010
The Silent Land
S13E4 / 22 Sep 2010
Master Class
S13E5 / 06 Oct 2010
The Noble Art
S13E6 / 13 Oct 2010
Not in My Back Yard
S13E7 / 12 Jan 2011
Fit for Murder
S13E8 / 02 Feb 2011

Season 14

Death in the Slow Lane
S14E1 / 23 Mar 2011
Dark Secrets
S14E2 / 30 Mar 2011
Echoes of the Dead
S14E3 / 20 Apr 2011
The Oblong Murders
S14E4 / 25 May 2011
The Sleeper Under the Hill
S14E5 / 21 Sep 2011
The Night of the Stag
S14E6 / 12 Oct 2011
A Sacred Trust
S14E7 / 26 Oct 2011
A Rare Bird
S14E8 / 11 Jan 2012

Season 15

The Dark Rider
S15E1 / 01 Feb 2012
Murder of Innocence
S15E2 / 21 Mar 2012
Written in the Stars
S15E3 / 25 Sep 2012
The Sicilian Defence
S15E4 / 02 Jan 2013
Death and the Divas
S15E5 / 09 Jan 2013
Schooled in Murder
S15E6 / 30 Jan 2013

Season 16

The Christmas Haunting
S16E1 / 24 Dec 2013
Let Us Prey
S16E2 / 08 Jan 2014
Wild Harvest
S16E3 / 29 Jan 2014
The Flying Club
S16E4 / 05 Feb 2014
The Killings of Copenhagen
S16E5 / 12 Feb 2014

Season 17

The Dagger Club
S17E1 / 28 Jan 2015
Murder by Magic
S17E2 / 04 Feb 2015
The Ballad of Midsomer County
S17E3 / 11 Feb 2015
A Vintage Murder
S17E4 / 18 Feb 2015

Season 18

Habeas Corpus
S18E1 / 06 Jan 2016
The Incident at Cooper Hill
S18E2 / 13 Jan 2016
Breaking the Chain
S18E3 / 27 Jan 2016
A Dying Art
S18E4 / 03 Feb 2016
Saints and Sinners
S18E5 / 10 Feb 2016
Harvest of Souls
S18E6 / 17 Feb 2016

Season 19

The Village That Rose from the Dead
S19E1 / 18 Dec 2016
Crime and Punishment
S19E2 / 04 Jan 2017
Last Man Out
S19E3 / 11 Jan 2017
Red in Tooth & Claw
S19E4 / 18 Jan 2017
Death by Persuasion
S19E5 / 13 May 2018
The Curse of the Ninth
S19E6 / 20 May 2018

Season 20

The Ghost of Causton Abbey
S20E1 / 10 Mar 2019
Death of the Small Coppers
S20E2 / 17 Mar 2019
Drawing Dead
S20E3 / 19 May 2019
The Lions of Causton
S20E4 / 26 Aug 2019
Till Death Do Us Part
S20E5 / 07 Nov 2019
Send in the Clowns
S20E6 / 07 Nov 2019

Season 21

The Point of Balance
S21E1 / 21 Jan 2020
The Miniature Murders
S21E2 / 04 Feb 2020
The Sting of Death
S21E3 / 11 Feb 2020
With Baited Breath
S21E4 / 18 Feb 2020

Season 22

The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy
S22E1 / 04 Apr 2021
The Stitcher Society
S22E2 / 11 Apr 2021
Happy Families
S22E3 / 03 Oct 2021
The Scarecrow Murders
S22E4 / 29 May 2022
For Death Prepare
S22E5 / 28 May 2023
The Witches of Angel's Rise
S22E6 / 27 Aug 2023

Season 23

The Blacktrees Prophecy
S23E1 / 14 Apr 2024
The Debt of Lies
S23E2 / 16 Jul 2024
A Grain of Truth
S23E3 / 23 Jul 2024
Dressed to Kill
S23E4 / 10 Nov 2024

Season 24

The Devil's Work
S24E1 / 29 Dec 2025
Book of the Dead
S24E2 / 30 Dec 2025

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Fiona Dolman

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