S7E6
The Straw Woman
Midsomer Murders · 2004-02-29 · 95 min
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what happens
When a traditional festival is revived at Midsomer Parva, it goes disastrously wrong, with the curate (or assistant priest) being burnt alive inside a straw effigy of a woman. Local property owner Alan Clifford holds a party at the Manor House, and it seems he has secrets... And then, just after finding a pig's head on the altar of the parish church, the dead curate's gay lover, the Reverend Jim Hale, dies too, seemingly of 'spontaneous combustion' - that is, he bursts into flames without any normal explanation. Barnaby refuses to believe in rumours of witchcraft and is vindicated when it proves that Hale's clothes had been sprinkled with phosphorus. Then, with Barnaby hot on the killer's trail, Liz Francis is knocked out with a candlestick and becomes the third villager to be burnt alive.
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S7E6 →who made it
- directed
- Sarah Hellings
- written
- Jeff Dodds
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Barry Jackson as Dr. George Bullard- AAlex Belcourt as WPC
Jemima Rooper as Jo Clifford
Richenda Carey as Margaret Hopkins
Maggie O'Neill as Agnes Waterhouse
Keith Barron as Alan Clifford- JJonathan Hackett as Rev Jim Hale
Daniel Weyman as Matthew Cole