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DEATH OF A STRANGER DETAILED SYNOPSIS. Barnaby returns from a holiday in Provence to discover an unidentified tramp has been beaten to death in the woods near the village of Marshwood. In his absence Superintendent Ronald Pringle has put a local young man, Billy Gurdie, behind bars before retiring to his new home in the village.
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While Barnaby is away on holiday his replacement, the soon-to-be-retired Ron Pringle, arrests Billy Gurdie for the murder of a tramp who lived in the woods near the village of Upper Marchwood. When Billie's fatheris also found dead in the same woods some three weeks later, an apparent suicide, Barnaby seriously questions the coincidence. When the p...
It's nighttime. It's raining and lightning outside. Linda Wagstaffis sewing in her home, an old railway carriage. A tramp pounds on the window. "Let me in!" says the tramp. "Go away! Go away. I don't know you. You leave me alone," Linda says. The tramp pounds on the door. "Go away. Go away. I don't know you. I don't know you," Linda says. In the mo...
MURDER 1: The tramp goes to the woods and drinks his bottle of booze. The tramp runs into the woods and drops his bottle and bag. Someone is chasing him. The hunt continues with dogs barking and horses riding. The tramp falls into a hole and cries out. His foot is caught in an animal trap. Someone picks up a thick branch and clubs him. Billy Gurdie...
MURDER 2:The next morning, Ben's dead body is found. Linda Wagstaff found him. Ron Pringle tells Barnaby that Ben is the father of the boy who killed the tramp. He was depressed about his son's arrest. Ron implies that he committed suicide. Henry Carstairs is at the crime scene. He's a taxidermist looking for dead animals and birds. He is Grahame T...
The detectives tell Grahame and Marcia the Ben Gurdie was murdered. Grahame didn't notice anything unusual the day the tramp was killed. Barnaby asks if many people use the woods. Marcia replies, "This is private land. We don't allow trespassers." When they found out about the tramp, Marcia asked Grahame to run him off. Grahame says he was intendin...
MURDER 3:At the hunt, the horn is blaring, dogs barking, and horses whinnying. Pringle's horse begins to turn around in circles and then races off in the wrong direction. The horse jumps a stone wall and the other riders come by to find Ron Pringle dead on the ground. Barnaby consoles Betty Pringle. She says, "I've had a bad feeling about this plac...
Troy is told that James Fitzroy has been visiting a Mr. Rodale, a former employee. Mr. Fitzroy pays all of his medical bills. When Troy comes in his room, Mr. Rodale asks how the hounds are. Troy says they're fine. Rodale says, "Never... never, never forget that day. I thought the hounds were going mad that day... Mad. Mad. Sir,... sir, sir... Sir,...
MURDER 4: Grahame goes into his office and points a gun at himself. Marcia runs in and tells him " Grahame! Don't." Grahame says, "You ruined it for me, Mother. I had two loves. Because of you, they're both gone." Marcia says, "She'll bring him back to you." Grahame says, "Not with you here, Mother." James Fitzroy is slowly walking out. Barnaby say...
DEATH OF A STRANGER. A tramp is murdered in the woods near the village of Marshwood and Superintendent Ronald Pringle makes a quick arrest and retires in a blaze of glory.
Death of a Stranger. Midsomer Murders. Summaries. Fox hunting, taxidermy and Oscar Wilde are part of the backdrop as Barnaby and Troy investigate a series of murders, beginning with that of a tramp in the woods.
With John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard. Fox hunting, taxidermy and Oscar Wilde are part of the backdrop as Barnaby and Troy investigate a series of murders, beginning with that of a tramp in the woods.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Peter Cregeen
- 1999-12-31
Death of a Stranger is the first episode of the third series of Midsomer Murders and originally aired on 31st December 1999. While Barnaby is away on holiday his replacement, the soon-to-be-retired Ron Pringle, arrests Billy Gurdie for the murder of a tramp who lived in the woods near the village of Upper Marchwood.
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Det. Barnaby (John Nettles) reopens the investigation into the death of a tramp who fell into a pit during the Upper Marshwood fox hunt after a second death occurs during another hunt.
