Series Five

Series Five
Episodes	5
1st Ep Date	2 June 2002
Finale Date	22 September 2002

Series Five of Midsomer Murders premiered 2 June 2002, and concluded on 22 September 2002.

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Main Cast

Name	Portrayed by	Occupation	Notes
Tom Barnaby	John Nettles	DCI Causton CID
Gavin Troy	Daniel Casey	DS Causton CID
Joyce Barnaby	Jane Wymark	Wife of DCI Barnaby
George Bullard	Barry Jackson	Chief pathologist of Midsomer County.	Did not appear in Ring Out Your Dead and Murder on St. Malley's Day.

Episodes

Ep Nr	Ep ID	Title	Director	Writer	Air Date
19	5.1	Tainted Fruit	Jeremy Silberston	Peter J. Hammond	23 September 2001
When Barnaby and Troy find the dead body of arrogant local beauty Melissa Townsend by a swimming pool at her manor house in Midsomer Malham, they uncover a seedy world of adultery and deceit within the affluent rural community.
20	5.2	Market for Murder	Sarah Hellings	Christopher Russell	16 June 2002
When the leader of a reading club used as a cover to run an investment portfolio is found battered to death, the club's secret activities are exposed and long-held secrets and desires return to haunt its members.
21	5.3	A Worm in the Bud	David Tucker	Michael Russell	23 June 2002
Susan Bartlett, who was depressed about her infertility, is found dead in a wood - with the appearance that she killed herself. But then Barnaby finds that Susan's emailed suicide note was sent after she was dead. The ensuing murder investigation uncovers old feuds, infidelity and witchcraft.
22	5.4	Ring Out Your Dead	Sarah Hellings	Andrew Payne	15 September 2002
The bell ringers at Midsomer Wellow are preparing for a National Striking competition but to retired Wing Commander Reggie Barton and other members of the community, they are the bane of their lives. The animosity in the village is accentuated further when one by one, the bell ringers are killed off.
23	5.5	Murder on St. Malley's Day	Peter Smith	Andrew Payne	22 September 2002
When schoolboy Daniel Talbot fails to cross the finish line of the annual St Malley’s Day race due to a fatal knife wound, Daniel’s father, Anthony Talbot, scion of the school’s founding fathers, automatically points the finger at the village. Barnaby and Troy however, are more interested in the bizarre events of the school’s Pudding club, a secret society open only to those elite students aspiring to the Diplomatic Service.