Midsomer Murders Season 22 — start date, guest stars and everything you need to know.

Neil Dudgeon and Nick Hendrix in Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders Season 22.
Neil Dudgeon (right) and Nick Hendrix reprise their roles for a new series of Midsomer Murders (Image credit: ITV ) Midsomer Murders Season 22 is about to begin on ITV. And there is a buzz in the air when DCI Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) and his trusty sidekick, DS Jamie Winter, played by Nick Hendrix, find themselves called to beautiful manor house, Apley Court, producers of top of the range honey, for their first investigation.

Welsh actor and comedian Griff Rhys Jones stars as pompous Lord of the Manor and obsessive bee keeper, Ambrose Deddington, who finds himself under attack by a masked assailant and it's not long before a dead body is found, covered in swarming bees.

Midsomer, now on its 22nd series, has kept audiences around the world gripped with its gruesome and madcap murders and is the UK's longest running detective drama.

Filming on some of this year's episodes had to take place under strict Covid guidelines because of the pandemic. Neil, 60, said, "The first morning on set it was quite unnerving seeing everyone socially-distanced and in masks but within 15 minutes of filming I'd slipped back into the wacky world of Midsomer with frightening ease!"

Griff Rhys Jones and Imogen Stubbs star in Midsomer Murders 2021
Griff Rhys Jones and Imogen Stubbs star as siblings, Ambrose and Tamara, who run Apley Court in episode one.  (Image credit: ITV)
Midsomer Murders Season 22 release date.

Midsomer Murders Season 22 starts on Sunday March 21 at 8pm on ITV. It is likely to be heading to Acorn TV in the US. See below for lots of options to watch past series!
How many episodes will there be?

There will be four new episodes in total.
What intriguing new plots are there in Midsomer Murders and who are the guest stars?

Griff Rhys Jones stars in Midsomer Murders Season 22.
Ambrose Deddington is targeted by a mystery assailant in episdoe one.  (Image credit: ITV)
EPISODE ONE: The Sting Of Death

Beautiful manor house, Apley Court which produces top of the range honey, is targeted and the owner attacked by a mystery masked assailant. Before long, a body is discovered on the village green, swarming with bees.

GUEST STARS  include Griff Rhys Jones, Imogen Stubbs, Wendi Peters, Jack Fox and Derek Griffiths.

Wendi Peters stars in MIdsomer Murders Season 22.
Wendi Peters stars as disgruntled housekeeper Lynda Babbage in episode one.  (Image credit: ITV)

Derek Griffiths stars in Midsomer Murders 2021
Derek Griffiths stars as Rev. Nigel Brookthorpe who has a tense relationship with his daughter in episode one. (Image credit: ITV )
EPISODE TWO: With Baited Breath

Fishermen flock to the village of Solomon Gorge, desperate to catch the mysterious giant fish rumoured to be living in the lake. However, the anglers are up in arms when hundreds of lycra-clad sports enthusiasts descend on the area to take part in the Psycho Mud Run. When a body is found floating in the lake Barnaby and Winter are called to investigate.

GUEST STARS include Aneurin Barnard, Nicola Stephenson, Nitin Ganatra, Miles Jupp and Bronagh Waugh

Nitin Ganatra stars in Midsomer Murders 2021.
Nitin Ganatra plays Eric Skye, organiser of the Psycho Mud Run who clashes with the anglers in episode two.  (Image credit: ITV)

Nicola Stephenson stars in Midsomer Murders
Nicola Stephenson plays pub landlady Izzy Silvermane who is missing her daughter in episode two.  (Image credit: ITV )
EPISODE THREE: The Wolf Hunter Of Little Worthy

It’s Halloween and a local photographer wins an urban myth competition with his creation of The Wolf Hunter. But is there really something sinister lurking in the woods for real and has the myth now become a murderous reality?

GUEST STARS include Mark Williams, Siobhan Redmond and Louise Jameson.

Neil Dudgeon and Nick Hendrix in Midsomer Murders
Eleanor Fanyinka (left) plays Pc Jade-Marie Pierce, who hits it off with DS Winter, while Annette Badland reprises her role as pathologist Fleur Perkins.  (Image credit: ITV)
EPISODE FOUR: The Stitcher Society

A local outcast, who was acquitted of murder years previously, joins a social health club in Tamworth Springs for recovering heart bypass patients. When the club founder, Reuben, is discovered murdered, the fingers start pointing!

GUEST STARS include Keith Allen, John Thomson, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd and Nimmy March.

Vincent Franklin stars in Midsomer Murders 2021
Vincent Franklin stars as, Artie Blyth, a former detective and a friend of Barnaby's in episode two. (Image credit: ITV )
This will be Neil Dudgeon's tenth year in the role of DCI John Barnaby

DCI John Barnaby and his wife Sarah played by Fiona Dolman
Barnaby and his wife Sarah take part in a yoga session as part of Barnaby's investigations in episode one.  (Image credit: ITV )

Neil told us, "I never had any idea it would go on this long. When I first started I tho

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