MIDSOMER MURDERS
SMALL MERCIES
MAIN CHARACTERS/ROLES
Harriet Compton - Margaret Tyzack
Harriet co-owns a model village in the tourist village
of Little Worthy with her sister Hilary. She is in her 60s,
straight-laced, religious and has never married.
Hilary Compton - Caroline Blakiston
Harriet's sister Hilary is less puritanical than her
sister and was once married - but her husband died when she was a
young bride.
Bob Moss - David Ryall
Bob is a lifelong bachelor who is employed by the
Compton sisters to care for and maintain the model village.
Richard Tanner - Jamie Treacher
Richard is in his late 30s and believes Little Worthy
should not be changed in any way. He's a larger-than-life character
in a small world.
Jackie Tanner - Sanchia McCormack
Jackie is Richard's half sister and runs Little
Worthy's craft workshop.
Rebecca Rix - Emma Stansfield
Little Worthy's nursery school teacher, Rebecca was
once Richard Tanner's lover and still resents being rejected by him.
Edward Palfrey - Paul Bentall
Edward owns the gloomy Franklin's Hotel. He's a
forlorn and lugubrious man whose wife ran off with a brewery rep,
leaving him to bring up his infant daughter.
Christa Palfrey - Matilda Sturridge
Edward's daughter Christa is 17, rebellious and a
touch Goth. She suffers the hotel even though it is her home and has
little respect for her father's partner Bernice.
Bernice - Olivia Colman
Bernice is simple, homely and trustingly childlike.
She answered an advert for a waitress-cum-maid at the hotel and soon
began a relationship with Edward.
Annabel Johnson - Abigail Thaw
Annabel runs Little Worthy's suffocatingly chi-chi
gift shop 'Browse Awhile' and is married to Mike.
Mike Johnson - Jesse Birdsall
Mike helps his wife in the gift shop and likes the ladies.
Kate Dove - Michelle Butterly
Kate owns and runs the Butterball Tea Rooms with her
husband, and she's Mike's lover.
Steve Dove - Ian Targett
Steve is 40 and is the put-upon and cuckolded husband
of Kate.