Dead Man's Eleven

Overview

Troy is in the Midsomer Worthy cricket eleven for the annual match against Fletchers Cross, so he is on the spot when the wife of Robert Cavendish, the Team Captain and a big local landowner, is found bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat. As often happens, the death toll mounts before the killer can be unmasked. Why should the cricket team's scorer be stabbed to death with a Nazi dagger at the following match? Cavendish, as a mine owner, may have been responsible for the 'accidental' deaths of two of his employees in years gone by. If someone is out for revenge, who is it? Meanwhile, a protest march to maintain footpaths across Cavendish's land finds a foot-bridge has been sabotaged, and their leader takes a ducking...

Episode Information

Guest Stars

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Hilda Braid

Doreen Beavis

Annabelle Apsion

Ellen Barker

Terence Rigby

Ian Frasier

Robert Hardy

Robert Cavendish

Anthony Calf

Stephen Cavendish

Imelda Staunton

Christine Cooper