Tainted Fruit

 

The beautiful but arrogant and spoilt daughter of the manor of the village of Midsomer Malham, Melissa Townsend, receives death threats. Drugs and syringes are discovered stolen from the local veterinary surgery of Raif & Georgina Canning, and a local district nurse, Sally, is found at the wheel of her crashed car in a confused state. Fearing for Melissa Townsend's life, Barnaby & Troy race to Malham Manor, but it is too late: they find her dead by the swimming pool.

 

CAST

Sally Rickworth- Claire Price

Hugo Balcombe- Benjamin Whitrow

Cherrie Balcombe- Ann Bell

Joan Farley- Ellie Haddington

Frederick Bentine-Brown- Miles Richardson

Archie Townsend- Terence Harvey

Melissa Townsend- Lucy Punch

Raif Canning- John McGlynn

Adam Keyne- Adrian Rawlins

Georgina Canning- Eleanor David

Liz Keyne- Sara Mair-Thomas

Derek- Brian Poyser

Lord Hislop- Charles Collingwood

Lady Hislop- Pamela Miles

Postman- Richard Clothier

 

Written by:

David Hoskins

Directed by:

Peter Smith

Produced by:

Brian True-May

 

Victims How?
Melissa Townsend

Deadly drugs injected with syringe.

Adam Keyne

Fell through sawn through beams in barn and onto plough, while trying to pick up money.

Ralph Kennings Deadly drugs injected with syringe

...and the murderer was: Georgina Canning.

 

"Tainted Fruit" was filmed in:

Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire

Which village (fictional)?

Midsomer Malham

When?

April- May 2001

It was shown in the UK:

23rd September 2001