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Apr 8, 2024 · It's been over a decade since John Nettles bowed out of Midsomer Murders after a 14-year stint as Causton's resident detective DCI Tom Barnaby. Following his departure, Neil Dudgeon has since...
Apr 2, 2020 · John, 76, who played Tom Barnaby, made the tough choice to leave the show in 2009, with his final episode airing two years later. His character's cousin then took over the reigns as the leading...
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Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Barnaby (born 20 April 1943) is a fictional detective created by English writer Caroline Graham as the protagonist in her Chief Inspector Barnaby novel series and adapted into one of the main characters in the ITV drama Midsomer Murders.
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Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby is a fictional detective created by Caroline Graham. DCI Barnaby is featured in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series which began with The Killing at Badger's Driftin 1987. Barnaby is also the main detective in Midsomer Murders, a popular television show based on the novels. There, Barnaby is played by John N...
Personality and Appearance
Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby is a kind, honest, and hardworking middle-aged policeman who often stands out from his fellow fictional detectives on television and in the novels, in that he is very ordinary and does not use violence to interrogate his suspects. Another thing which makes him stand out is that he is also a family man, being married to Joyce and having a daughter Cully, whom he gets on well with—which is also a rarity with most detectives in crime fiction. Tom Barnaby is...
As a DCI one of Barnaby's duties is to train and guide the development of the Detective Sergeants who assist him, and act as his partner. DCI Barnaby has had three partners. The first of his partners is Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy, who serves alongside Barnaby until he is promoted to Detective Inspector, after which he is transferred to a new pos...
Joyce Barnaby
Joyce is Barnaby's wife. She is known to have an interest in many things, depending on the focus of the episode—including painting, singing, tango dancing, arts appreciation, drama, cycling, running, cooking, charity work and crafts. There is at one point when she is taking part in the Midsomer Worthy Choir and she recommends that DC Ben Jones joins after she and Tom hear him singing in the shower in "Death in Chorus".
Cully Barnaby
Cully is Tom and Joyce's only child who appears frequently throughout the series. She is an actress, though in some episodes she has taken local jobs to help pay the bills. Though she has no interest in pursuing police work, she will occasionally help out her father in relation to his current case. Cully is quite close to both her parents, and she and Barnaby have a warm relationship.
John Barnaby
Tom Barnaby's cousin John makes his first appearance in "The Sword of Guillaume", where he is based in Brighton CID. He has a bluff and ironic personality but the two have a warm relationship. They join forces to solve the murders of both Hugh Dalgleish and Jenny Russell (whom Tom also had an amicable relationship with). The real reason for Tom going to Brighton was that he was suspicious of the plans of the mayor of Causton, Dave Hicks, who was going to buy up coastal lands for holiday chale...
In the episode Picture of Innocence, his full name was revealed as was his date of birth, 20 April 1943.In the episode Secrets and Spies, Barnaby revealed to his wife and colleagues that he previously worked for MI6.- 3 min
Apr 1, 2020 · MIDSOMER MURDERS star John Nettles quit in the leading role of Tom Barnaby almost a decade ago now, with the programme containing to run with his character's cousin manning the ship. Although...
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Feb 3, 2011 · The 67-year-old bowed out of the series on Wednesday after 14 years playing DCI Tom Barnaby. Nettles, who announced in 2009 he was quitting, will be replaced by Neil Dudgeon in the detective ...
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In 1995 Nettles was approached by Brian True-May to play Tom Barnaby in a new murder mystery series he was to produce called Midsomer Murders. [5] This was to be the second major role of his television career, again playing a police detective.
