Orchis Fatalis

One of the world's rarest orchids is smuggled into Midsomer Malham from Borneo at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds, setting off a series of passionate events which lead to murder. Retired classics teacher Madeleine Villiers is poisoned with hemlock, then an orchid collector called Henry Plummer is found strangled. Brother Robert, a monk, obliges by translating Madeleine's diaries of her lurid sex life from the Latin. Barnaby has to find a plant of the Roth Orchid and at least one obsessive killer, while he is busy moving house.

CAST

Madeleine Villiers- Marty Cruickshank

Jimmy Fong- Stuart Ong

Margaret Winstanley- Harriet Walter

Henry Plummer- Richard Attlee

Deborah Plummer- Amanda Harris

Munro Hilliard- John Nettleton

Mrs. Hilliard- Helen Ryan

Feather- Richard Simpson

Jonathan Makepeace- Geoffrey Streatfield

Harry Rose- Matt Bardock

Brother Robert- Geoffrey Chater

Captain Tucker- Anthony Smee

Mrs. Maitland- Victoria Lennox

Mr. Jocelyn- Timothy Bateson

Written by:

Terry Hodkinson

Directed by:

Peter Smith

Produced by:

Brian True-May and Betty Willingale