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Dance with the Dead is first episode of the tenth series of the popular ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and was originally aired on 12th November 2006.
Synopsis[]
DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Ben Jones investigate the death of Simon Bright who is found dead inside an old World War II vintage Humber car parked at an abandoned airfield. From all appearances, the death appears to be a suicide, but the pathologist determines that the man suffered a severe blow to the head and may in fact have been unconscious when he died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Simon Bright's girlfriend, Laura Sharp, is nowhere to be found, but the death of the ageing village Lothario and the attempted murder of another of her friends narrows the list of possible murderers somewhat. Barnaby is convinced that one of Laura's ex-lovers is responsible but given her rather active life, the question becomes which one?
Plot[]
Cast[]
- John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby
- Jason Hughes as DS Ben Jones
- Jane Wymark as Joyce Barnaby
- Laura Howard as Cully Barnaby
- Barry Jackson as Dr. George Bullard
- Georgine Anderson as Rosemary Wood
- Felicity Dean as Frances Kirby
- Danny Webb as Tony Kirby
- Harriet Thorpe as Elaine Trim
- Derek Hutchinson as Richard Budd
- Nicola Redmond as Marissa Clarke
- Ifan Huw Dafydd as Paul Bright
- Wendy Wason as Carol Prentice
- David Henry as Eric Usher
- Geoffrey Leesley as Jim Druce (as Geoff Leesley)
- Lizzy Watts as Laura Sharp
- Edward Davenport as Simon Bright
- Isabella Furst as Bella Prentice
- Henry Pettigrew as Sailor
- Liza Pulman as Crooner
- Nigel Hyams as Sailor (uncredited)
- Paul Rawson as Mustard Johnny (uncredited)
Galleries[]
Body Count[]
Prior to the Episode
A pilot in the RAF. MIA and assumed dead after failing to return from mission in 1944.
In the Episode
Struck on the head with cane or pipe and placed in his car that was then filled with exhaust gas.
Struck on the head with cane or pipe and placed in the car with Simon, but regained consciousness and stumbled out of the car only to be struck on the head several more times. Her body was then buried next to the kennels where she worked.
Stabbed in the back several times with a kitchen knife while taking a torch from his car's trunk.
Supporting Cast[]
Episode Images[]
Video[]
Midsomer Murders Series 10 Episode 1 - Dance with the Dead Preview
Trivia[]
The singer at the 50's dance is Liza Pulman, whose mother is Barbara Young (The Killings at Badger's Drift, Last Year's Model) [1]
Notes[]
The following actors and actresses who appeared in this episode have also appeared in the following episodes:
- Felicity Dean - Dead Man's Eleven
- Georgine Anderson - Blue Herrings
- Derek Hutchinson - Down Among the Dead Men
- Danny Webb - The Silent Land
- David Henry - King's Crystal
- Nigel Hyams - Death and Dust