Midsomer Murders (1997)

Midsomer Murders is the long-running British mystery series that follows a detective inspector unraveling grisly, often eccentric killings. These killings span the sleepy villages of fictional Midsomer County. Beneath the tweed and tea cozies lurks a steady undercurrent of scandal, and the archive here holds two scenes that prove it. Emily Mortimer turns up in one of her earlier roles, well before her Hollywood profile grew, in a scene that shows a franker side of the genre. Amanda Ryan also features, adding her own brush with the show's rare bursts of skin beneath all that quaint homicide. Together the two clips offer a glimpse of English countryside crime with its guard down. For fans tracking either actress through her early screen work, it's a small but notable find.