Midsomer Murders: Happy Families
10:00 pm - 11:50 pm, Sunday, December 28 on ITV3 (10)
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Happy Families
Season 22, Episode 3
As the owners of Karras Games gather for a murder mystery weekend, the immersive experience takes a puzzling twist when a killer strikes for real. Gathering at Hulton Manor, a sprawling edifice on its own island, a storm rages outside adding to the immersive experience of the fictional murder playing out in front of them, until one of them tumbles down the stairs, and is impaled by a life-size Egyptian figure - killing him for real
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Cast & Crew
Neil Dudgeon
(Actor)
.. DCI John Barnaby
Nick Hendrix
(Actor)
.. DS Jamie Winter
Annette Badland
(Actor)
.. Fleur Perkins
Fiona Dolman
(Actor)
.. Sarah Barnaby
Paul Bazely
(Actor)
.. Paul Matheson
Adrian Edmondson
(Actor)
.. Hugo Welles
Vanessa Emme
(Actor)
.. Danni Karras
Aki Omoshaybi
(Actor)
.. Noah Adomakoh
Caroline Quentin
(Actor)
.. Helen Welles
Georgina Rich
(Actor)
.. Alicia Matheson
Rachael Stirling
(Actor)
.. Eleanor Karras
Stuart Milligan
(Actor)
.. Victor Karras
Ed White
(Actor)
.. Andrew Welles
Greg Lockett
(Actor)
.. Joshua Kilbride
Michele Buck
(Executive producer)
Louise Pedersen
(Executive producer)
Carol Ann Docherty
(Producer)
Audrey Cooke
(Director)
Nicholas Hicks-Beach
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Neil Dudgeon
(Actor)
.. DCI John Barnaby
Born:
January 01, 1961
in
Doncaster
Best Known For:
Being the new Barnaby in Midsomer Murders.
Early-life:
Born in Doncaster in 1961. His dad drove a bread delivery van and his mum was an assistant supermarket manager, although they both also performed on the club circuit. Neil credits his own love of acting to a teacher who forced him to read aloud in an assembly _ it was supposed to be a punishment for misbehaving in class, but Neil found he actually enjoyed it. He went to appear in school plays, before studying drama at Rada.
Career:
Neil made his film debut in 1987 with an uncredited role in Prick Up Your Ears, and went on to appear in London's Burning on TV the following year. He's worked pretty steadily since then in a wide range of TV shows, although he admits he's most frequently cast as a cop _ he's starred in Inspector Morse, Out of the Blue, Between the Lines, Messiah and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking. Last year it was announced that he would be taking on his most high-profile police role to date when he took over from John Nettles as the star of Midsomer Murders. He has also starred alongside Caroline Quentin in the sitcom Life of Riley.
Quote:
On joining Midsomer Murders: "My secret dream is that viewers will switch on, watch it all the way through and not notice there's a new bloke in it."
Trivia:
He has starred in a number of dramas on Radio 3 and Radio 4.
Nick Hendrix
(Actor)
.. DS Jamie Winter
Annette Badland
(Actor)
.. Fleur Perkins
Born:
August 26, 1950
in
Birmingham
Best Known For:
A string of TV, stage and films roles.
Early-life:
Annette was born in Birmingham on August 26, 1950. She trained at the East 15 Acting School in London. In 1975, she made her TV debut as a tap dancing pupil in The Naked Civil Servant. Her next project was the film Jabberwocky (1977).
Career:
During a long and prolific acting career, Badland has made appearances in a number of popular TV shows, including Shoestring, The Gentle Touch, Minder, Bergerac, All Creatures Great and Small, Making Out, Love Hurts, Outside Edge, and The Bill. Her film credits include The Grotesque (1995), Little Voice (1998), Beautiful People (1999) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). More recently, she has starred in Doctor Who, All the Small Things, You, Me & Them, Man Down, Father Brown, Wizards vs Aliens, and Outlander. In 2014, she joined the cast of EastEnders, playing Babe Smith.
Quote:
"The sea has always been a strong force for me - if I want to think about things I tend to go off to the coast."
Trivia:
Badland was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award with her fellow cast members for Little Voice.
Fiona Dolman
(Actor)
.. Sarah Barnaby
Born:
January 01, 1970
in
Findhorn, Moray
Best Known For:
The Royal Today, Heartbeat and Midsomer Murders.
Early-life:
Fiona Jane Dolman was born in Findhorn, Moray, on January 1, 1970 to Rosemary and Gordon. She is the youngest daughter of four children. Her father worked in the RAF and he moved his family to Gibraltar when Fiona was 15. In 1993, she made her TV acting debut in Crime Story.
Career:
Roles followed for Dolman on the small screen in Strike Force, A Touch of Frost, The Knock and Ultraviolet. In 1998, she joined the cast of Heartbeat playing Jackie Lambert. She went on to have a recurring role in The Royal Today. In 2011, she began playing Sarah Barnaby alongside Neil Dudgeon in Midsomer Murders.
Quote:
On working with the Barnaby's dog on Midsomer Murders: "We have sausages strapped to bags and in pockets so the dog follows you around."
Trivia:
At the age of 16 and 17 years, Dolman won awards at the Gibraltar RAF ladies windsurfing championships.
Paul Bazely
(Actor)
.. Paul Matheson
Adrian Edmondson
(Actor)
.. Hugo Welles
Born:
January 24, 1957
in
Bradford
Best Known For:
His comedy partnership with Rik Mayall.
Early-life:
Adrian Charles Edmondson was born in Bradford on January 24, 1957, the son of a teacher working for the Armed Forces. He was the second of four children. When Adrian was a year old, his family moved to Cyprus, then on to Bahrain and Uganda. At the age of 11, he was sent back to Britain to attend Pocklington School in East Yorkshire, where he was a boarder. At Manchester University, he met Rik Mayall, and later appeared in a one-man show at the National Student Drama Festival before joining forces with Mayall professionally.
Career:
The duo went down a storm at the Edinburgh Festival in 1979 and became one of the main attractions at The Comedy Store and The Comic Strip clubs in London. Edmondson's TV debut came in November 1982 when The Comic Strip Presents… was shown on Channel 4's opening night. Days later, The Young Ones made him a famous face on BBC Two. Since then, he's starred in Saturday Live, Filthy, Rich and Catflap, Bottom, Guest House Paradiso (1999) and Jonathan Creek. He has directed television shows and pop videos, appeared in numerous stage plays, and written the novel The Gobbler. Edmondson showed his talent for serious acting when he spent three years in Holby City. He teamed up with Mayall once again in the winning performance on BBC One's Let's Dance for Comic Relief in 2011. Edmondson has appeared as a presenter on The Dales, Ade in Britain, That's Britain and Ade at Sea. He won Celebrity MasterChef in 2013. In 2016, he took part in The Great Sport Relief Bake Off and starred in an adaptation of Bits Of Me Are Falling Apart at the Soho Theatre in London.
Quote:
"From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour."
Trivia:
Married comedy actress Jennifer Saunders in 1985.
Vanessa Emme
(Actor)
.. Danni Karras
Aki Omoshaybi
(Actor)
.. Noah Adomakoh
Caroline Quentin
(Actor)
.. Helen Welles
Born:
July 11, 1960
in
Reigate, Surrey
Best Known For:
Playing Dorothy in 1990's sitcom Men Behaving Badly.
Early-life:
Born Caroline Jones in Reigate, Surrey, on July 11, 1960. She has three older sisters. She learnt her trade at the Tring Park School, a boarding school focusing on the performing arts, which would eventually give her the platform to forge a TV career. Her first proper job, however, came on stage in Lowestoft, where, at the age of 16, she was a member of a chorus line. A director spotted her and offered her a job at London's Royal Court Theatre.
Career:
During the 1980s, Quentin had small, supporting roles in a number of projects. In the early 1990s she made appearances in Harry Enfield and Chums before landing the role of Dorothy on Men Behaving Badly in 1992, which eventually ended in 1998. Jonathan Creek offered Quentin a chance to delve into slightly more serious territory. Acting projects since include Life Begins, Blue Murder, Life of Riley, Just William, Dead Boss, Switch and Dancing on the Edge. Quentin also presents Restoration Home (she has dabbled in property restoration herself on numerous occasions) and has begun a second TV career as a travelogue presenter thanks to series such as A Passage Through India and Caroline Quentin's Cornwall.
Quote:
"Reaching 50 is a reason for great celebration, if you ask me, because we all know people at this stage who haven't made it. In the end, it's so much better than the alternative."
Trivia:
In 2004, Quentin received a special recognition gong at the National Television Awards.
Georgina Rich
(Actor)
.. Alicia Matheson
Rachael Stirling
(Actor)
.. Eleanor Karras
Best Known For:
Tipping the Velvet.
Early-life:
Rachael Atlanta Stirling was born on May 30, 1977, in London. She's the daughter of actress Diana Rigg and her second husband, Archibald Stirling, a theatre producer and Laird of the Keir estate in Stirling, Scotland. She has two older half-brothers from her father's first marriage, and a younger half-brother from his third. Rachael studied art history at Edinburgh University, where she also appeared on stage with its theatre company. She can also speak Russian and is a skilled equestrian.
Career:
Stirling's first major stage role was a 1996 National Youth Theatre production of Othello, in which she played Desdemona opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor. Two years later she made her film debut in the British comedy Still Crazy, opposite Bill Nighy and Jimmy Nail. In 2000, she featured as the young Rebeccah in the miniseries In the Beginning; her mother played the character at an older age. But it was the BBC's 2002 adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel Tipping the Velvet that made her a star. Since then Stirling has appeared on stage in Theatre of Blood (playing the same character her mother portrayed in the 1971 film version), Look Back in Anger, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Priory and An Ideal Husband. Films include Maybe Baby, Complicity, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Snow White and the Huntsman.
Quote:
"I was only vaguely aware when I was little that Ma was famous. I can remember people pointing at her in Marks & Spencer. But she kept work and home very separate."
Trivia:
In 2012, Stirling appeared alongside Mark Gatiss at the Donmar Warehouse in The Recruiting Officer. He'd already starred with her mother in a stage version of All About My Mother. He then wrote an episode of Doctor Who entitled The Crimson Horror, with parts especially written for them both - it aired in May 2013 and was the first time the two actresses had appeared on screen together.
Stuart Milligan
(Actor)
.. Victor Karras
Ed White
(Actor)
.. Andrew Welles
Greg Lockett
(Actor)
.. Joshua Kilbride
Michele Buck
(Executive producer)
Louise Pedersen
(Executive producer)
Carol Ann Docherty
(Producer)
Audrey Cooke
(Director)
Nicholas Hicks-Beach
(Writer)
