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Faithful unto Death: Directed by Baz Taylor. With John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard. When the wife of a wealthy local businessman disappears, Barnaby finds that Fawcett Green harbors a complex web of financial and romantic entanglements.
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- 1998-04-22
Midsomer Murders: Faithful unto Death - Full Cast & Crew. A housewife's disappearance seems to perturb no one except for Insp. Barnaby and Sgt. Troy (John Nettles, Daniel Craig), whose ...
Douglas Watkinson. A craft centre in the old mill at Morton Fendle is losing money. Several locals have invested in the business and believe they have been swindled by Alan Hollingsworth, the man behind it. When Hollingsworth's glamorous wife Simone goes missing, Barnaby believes she has been kidnapped and puts Hollingsworth under observation.
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Faithful unto Death is the third episode of the first series of the popular ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and was first aired on 22nd April 1998.
A craft centre in the old mill at Morton Fendle is losing money. Several locals have invested in the business and believe they have been swindled by Alan Hollingsworth, the man behind it. When Hollingsworth's wife, Simone, goes missing, DCI Barnaby believes she has been kidnapped and puts Hollingsworth under observation.
A village fete starts this episode. Morris men are dancing. There is a pottery booth. Barnaby wins a coconut at one booth. Barnaby sees Simone Hollingsworth at a booth. Her husband, Alan Hollingsworth is with her. Cully sees actress, Elfrida Molfrey, with her husband, Bunny Dawlish. Nigel Anderson comes up in costume trying to sell a burger and his wife, Doreen Anderson asks if they'd like a veggie burger.
In the tea tent, Alan Hollingsworth and his partner Gray Patterson are arguing about the Craft Center. Alan and Gray had encouraged residents of Morton Fendle to invest in a craft centre at the local mill. Patterson has fallen out with Hollingsworth and tells the villagers that the mill is to close and they will lose their money. Gray asks for a show of hands of who wants Gray to kill Alan. Barnaby intervenes.
Later, Catherine Bullard tells Barnaby that she is chair of the planning committee and Gray tried to bribe her to put through the plans for the Craft Center. George Bullard says it is criminal. He threatened Catherine as well.
Reg Buckley invites Bunny Dawlish to the pub for a free pint for helping with the fete. Alan and Simone discuss going to the pub. Simone asks Alan if he really cheated all those people out of their money.
Barnaby and Troy arrive at Gray's home. Doreen Anderson is coming down the stairs. She says she is there to check on Gray. Gray comes downstairs and kisses Doreen goodbye. He says she enjoys cooking for him. It would be churlish of him to refuse. Barnaby says yesterday Gray threatened to kill Alan. Barnaby says, "Nevertheless, we can forget it all happened. For a price. More than you offered Catherine Bullard to push your plans through...Or perhaps it was one of those heat of the moment things again. Now you come to mention it - Unlike the threat you made, which to me sounded very prepared." Troy says, "If people don't get what's due to them, other people get hurt. And you have such a lovely face, Catherine. I'm sure you want to keep it." Barnaby says, "Any man who says that to a woman is either desperate, or downright evil. Which are you?" Gray says things were going badly at the mill and the bank had begun to call in its loan. Barnaby says he is going to speak to Alan and tells Gray to stay away from him and Catherine Bullard. "After all you have such a lovely face, I'm sure you want to keep it."
Barnaby and Troy go to see Alan Hollingsworth. They see Reg and Brenda Buckley and Elfrida and Bunny. Elfrida offers a fresh pot of tea. Reg points out Hollingsworth's house. They enter Alan's house and find him sprawled on the floor. They revive him. They tell him to drop by the police station tomorrow morning and then they will talk about it. He tells police that his wife is at bell-ringing practice. At the church, George Bullard tells the detectives that Simone hasn't shown up. Doreen says Simone isn't one for common courtesies. Felicity Buckley thanks Barnaby for stepping in yesterday at the tea tent. Nigel Anderson wants to know if the police are looking into the loss of their money.
•John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby
•Daniel Casey as Sgt. Gavin Troy
•Jane Wymark as Joyce Barnaby
•Laura Howard as Cully Barnaby
•Barry Jackson as Dr. George Bullard
•Paul Brooke as Nigel Anderson
•Sarah Lawton for the murder of Alan Hollingsworth.
•The murderer (s) of Brenda Buckley were not arrested as Sarah refused to testify against them.
The following actors and actresses that first appeared in this episode have appeared in subsequent episodes:
•Paul Chapman - The Great and the Good
•Tessa Peake-Jones - Breaking the Chain
•Sophie Stanton - The Oblong Murders
•Alwyne Taylor - Beyond the Grave, Death in Chorus, and Death and Dust
•Neville Phillips - Garden of Death, Dark Autumn, Birds of Prey, Vixen's Run, and The Black Book
•This is the first episode in which the main murderers get away due to lack of evidence. That is, until the very end of the episode, in which Sarah Lawton makes a phone call to Barnaby and is highly probable that she will testify against the murderers and they will end up behind bars.
•Catherine Bullard, George Bullard's wife, makes her first appearance in this episode.
•The Barnabys and the Bullards appear to be close friends.
•This episode introduces the first village fete/fair.
•Elements of the crimes and plot are actually similar to a real life American murder case. Celeste Beard is a widow who married a man twice her age, before he was shot in his bed and died from medical complications of the gunshot. Beard was revealed to have hired a woman she seduced, who confessed to the crime and kept silent about Beard's involvement for months. When Beard remarried, the murderer felt rejected enough to sell out Beard for her involvement, and Beard was convicted of capital charges and sentenced to prison for the rest of her life.
•Third episode where Cully Barnaby is in a play.
The novel was adapted by Douglas Watkinson into the fourth episode of Midsomer Murders, starring (alongside regulars John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard and Daniel Casey) Lesley Vickerage as Simone, Michele Dotrice, Peter Jones, Rosalind Ayres, Roger Allam, Tessa Peake-Jones, David Daker and Eleanor Summerfield. [4]
Guest Stars. Jane Wymark as Joyce Barnaby. Barry Jackson as Dr. George Bullard
