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== Vickers Mk1 ==
== Vickers Mk1 ==
A [[Vickers Mk1]] machine gun is used as a weapon of murder in "Shot at Dawn".
A [[Vickers Mk1]] machine gun is used as a murder weapon in "Shot at Dawn".
[[Image:Vickers_gun.JPG|thumb|400px|none|Vickers gun with ribbed water jacket - .303 British]]
[[Image:Vickers_gun.JPG|thumb|400px|none|Vickers gun with ribbed water jacket - .303 British]]
[[Image:MidsomerMurders-S11E1-Vickers-01.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A local dog is interested by the machine gun.]]
[[Image:MidsomerMurders-S11E1-Vickers-01.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A local dog is interested by the machine gun.]]
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[[Image:MidsomerMurders-S11E1-Vickers-03.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The remotely controlled Vickers fires with a large muzzle flash.]]
[[Image:MidsomerMurders-S11E1-Vickers-04.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The police expert Dr. Bullard ([[Barry Jackson]]) inspects the machine gun.]]
[[Image:MidsomerMurders-S11E1-Vickers-04.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The police expert Dr. Bullard ([[Barry Jackson]]) inspects the machine gun.]]
[[Image:MidsomerMurders-S11E1-Vickers-05.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Disassembled Vickers is studied in police lab.]]
[[Image:MidsomerMurders-S11E1-Vickers-05.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The disassembled Vickers is studied in the police lab.]]
== Browining L3A3 (M1919A4) ==
== Browining L3A3 (M1919A4) ==
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Midsomer Murders
A logo for Midsomer Murders
Country
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Channel
ITV
Creator
Caroline Graham
Genre
Detective
Broadcast
1997 – Present
No. of Seasons
15
No. of Episodes
95
Main Cast
Character
Actor
Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby
John Nettles
Joyce Barnaby
Jane Wymark
Cully Barnaby
Laura Howard
Sgt Gavin Troy
Daniel Casey
Sgt Daniel Scott
John Hopkins
Sgt Benjamin Jones
Jason Hughes
Chief Inspector John Barnaby
Neil Dudgeon
Sarah Barnaby
Fiona Dolman
Doctor George Bullard
Barry Jackson
Doctor Kate Wilding
Tamzin Malleson
The following weapons are seen in 'Midsomer Murders:
Revolvers Webley .38 Mk IV Webley .38 Mk IV the murder weapon in "Ring Out Your Dead". One if its rounds was identified as "Enfield .38", but the shape of the front sigh treveals teh weapon as a Webley.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Webley Mk IV - .38 S&W Error creating thumbnail: File missing The murderer aims his Webley in "Ring Out Your Dead". Error creating thumbnail: File missing DS Gavin Troy (Daniel Casey ) finds the first revolver in the house of the suspect. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Masie Gooch (Gemma Jones ) holds the second revolver in the final scene. In "Four Funerals and a Wedding" Tom Barnaby (John Nettles ), who is a guest of honor on the fair in Broughton, fires a blank-firing revolver to start the race. This revolver looks like a converted Webley .38 Mk IV with 4" barrel though it differs in several details including the shape of trigger guard.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Webley Mk IV, 4" barrelled "Duty" model - .38 S&W Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tom Barnaby readies to fire. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Barnaby holds the revolver. Webley .455 Mk VI Webley .455 Mk VI is seen in "Shot at Dawn" both in the flashback scene that takes place during the WW1 and in modern time. The revolver was carried by Lt. Duggie Hammond (Josh Stanley ) in 1916, before being preserved in the Hammond family museum and later used to commit murder. The police expert correctly identyfied it as "a .455 service revolver produced about 1916".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Webley Mk. VI - .455 Webley Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lt. Duggie Hammond (Josh Stanley ) draws his revolver from the holster in the flashback scene in "Shot at Dawn". Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at Lt. Hammond's revolver in the same scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The murderer holds a Webley revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the barrel. The shape of the front sight allows to identify the revolver as .455 Mk VI model. Bruni Olympic 6 A Bruni Olympic 6 blank-firing starting revolver is fired to start the Midsomer Regatta in "Dead in the Water".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bruni Olympic 6 with composite grips - .22 blanks Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gasser M1870/74 Montenegrin A Gasser M1870/74 Montenegrin revolver is seen in Frances Le Bon's (Gwen Taylor ) collection of old handguns in "Ring Out Your Dead".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gasser M1870/74 Montenegrin - 11.75 x 36mm Gasser Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gasser M1870/74 Montenegrin (1) is seem along with Remington 1858 New Army (2) and several flintlock or percussion cap pistols. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view at the collection. Also can be seen a pepperbox revolver (3), an unidentified revolver (4) that looks like a so-called "transitional" revolver of mid XIX century (like Butterfield or Westley Richard revolvers), and a long barrel (5) of one more unidentified revolver. Remington 1858 New Army A Remington 1858 New Army revolver is seen in Frances Le Bon's (Gwen Taylor ) collection of old handguns in "Ring Out Your Dead".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Remington 1858 New Army - .44 caliber. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Remington 1858 New Army (2) is seem along with Gasser M1870/74 Montenegrin (1) and several flintlock or percussion cap pistols. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view at the collection. Also can be seen a pepperbox revolver (3), an unidentified revolver (4) that looks like a so-called "transitional" revolver of mid XIX century (like Butterfield or Westley Richard revolvers), and a long barrel (5) of one more unidentified revolver. Unidentified revolver 1 A very old-fashioned revolver is seen in Frances Le Bon's (Gwen Taylor ) collection of old handguns in "Ring Out Your Dead". It looks like a so-called "transitional" revolver of mid XIX century (like Butterfield or Westley Richard revolvers).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The forementioned revolver (4) can be seen along with a Gasser M1870/74 Montenegrin (1), a Remington 1858 New Army (2), a pepperbox revolver (3), a long barrel (5) of one more unidentified revolver, and several flintlock or percussion cap pistols. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The screenshot is blurry but we can see several handguns behind DCI Tom Barnaby (John Nettles ): two unidentified revolvers (4 and 5), a pepperbox revolver (3), and a long flintlock pistol. Unidentified revolver 2 A long-barreled old-fashioned revolver is seen in Frances Le Bon's (Gwen Taylor ) collection of old handguns in "Ring Out Your Dead".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing This revolver is under number 5. Pistols Bruni 1911 A Bruni 1911 8mm blank firing replica of the M1911A1 is carried (but never used) by Sean O'Connell (Sean McGinley ) is "Who Killed Cock Robin?".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bruni 8mm M1911 Blank gun (First Pattern). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Beretta 92SB Beretta 92SB is used by Tony Carter (Matthew Marsh ) during the bank robbery in "Painted in Blood". Its round trigger guard and the shape of the front sight match 92SB model but due to strict UK firearms law this pistol is supposed to be a blank firing version.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Beretta Model 92SB - 9x19mm (note rounded trigger guard and flat bottom magazine). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tony Carter cocks the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Carter aims his pistol at the bank clerk. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Carter fires the pistol. Beretta 92FS In the opening scene of "Days of Misrule" Alec Grainger aims a pisol at James Parkes (Joseph Millson ). The pistol seems to be Beretta 92FS but it isn't seen clear enough to be identified for sure.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Beretta 92FS - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Grainger aims his pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The trigger guard can be seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing One more view at the pistol. Browning Hi-Power A Browning Hi-Power used to commit murder 18 years previously is found an abandoned house's chimney in "The House in the Woods".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Classic Commercial Browning Hi-Power (Belgian Mfg) - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dr. Bullard (Barry Jackson ) and Tom Barnaby (John Nettles ) study the pistol. Sgt Benjamin Jones (Jason Hughes ) is seen at the background. Umarex RWS C225 Frances Le Bon (Gwen Taylor ) owns two Umarex RWS C225 Target pistols (CO2 powered air pistols based on the SIG-Sauer P225 ) in "Ring Out Your Dead". She correctly identifies them as "sporting pistols, not living weapons", and then "gas replicas".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Umarex RWS C225 Target, a CO2 powered air pistol based on the SIG-Sauer P225 - .177 pellets Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the trigger. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the barrel. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A view from the muzzle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two pistols are seen in weapon safe. Shotguns Double Barreled Side by Side Shotgun Double barreled side by side shotguns are seen in many episodes, either for hunting or murder. In "Ghosts of Christmas Past" the shotgun is identified as 12 gauge while in other episodes the caliber is not mentioned.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dr. Trevor Lessiter (Bill Wallis ) loads his shotgun in "The Killings at Badger's Drift". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Phyllis Cadell's (Selina Cadell ) shotgun is seen on the tea tray in "The Killings at Badger's Drift". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Grahame Tranter (Dominic Mapham ) holds a shotgun in the final scene of "Death of a Stranger". Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the shotgun shells in "Garden of Death". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Danny Pinchel (Jo Stone-Fewings ) holds a shotgun in "A Tale of Two Hamlets". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lawrence Haggard (Raymond Coulthard ) shows his Holland & Holland shotgun to Chief Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles ) in "The Maid in Splendour". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Michael Bannerman (William Gaunt ) holds his shotgun in the final scene in "The Maid in Splendour". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jennifer Carter's (Haydn Gwynne ) shotgun explodes during the hunt due to double loading in "Ghosts of Christmas Past". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sgt Benjamin Jones (Jason Hughes ) inspects the supposed murder weapon in "Down Among the Dead Men". This shotgun is of Purdey & Sons production. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dorothy Hutton (Stephanie Cole ) holds her shotgun in "Death and Dust". Double Barreled Over and Under Shotgun A double barreled over and under shotgun is seen in hands of several hunters in "Country Matters".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Frank Hopkirk (Tim Hardy ) fires a double barreled over and under shotgun in the opening scene in "Country Matters". Rifles FN Trombone A pump action .22 rifle is used by a trio of yound hoodlums during their night hunt in "The Green Man". Later this weapon is used to kill two of them. Due to the design of the pump, the large screw on the receiver and the shape of the ejection port it can be identified as an FN Trombone .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing FN Trombone - .22 LR Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of the trio fires the rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The pump can be seen in this shot, note the spacing of the grooves and the position of the screw which matches the Trombone. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the receiver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A view from another side. Note the shape of the ejection port of the Trombone, being square at the back and rounded at the front. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Simon Mayfield (Henry Cavill ) holds the rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A handful of cartridges. Steyr Mannlicher .22-250 rifle A smallbore bolt action rifle is seen in "Vixen’s Run". The old gamekeeper Amos Brown (Leslie Schofield ) calls the rifle "Mannlicher .22-250". It is supposed to be a Steyr Mannlicher Model L .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Steyr Mannlicher Model L - .22-250 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Young Michael Butler (Matthew Tennyson ) trains with the rifle in the barn. Note the opened bolt. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Amos Brown (Leslie Schofield ) holds the rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Amos Brown fires at the targer. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the bolt. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A spent cartridge. Unidentified bolt action sniper rifles Several bolt action sniper rifles are used during the shooting competition in the Broughton village in "Four Funerals and a Wedding". The rifles are supposedly of various models. One of these rifles is later used as a weapon of murder.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rev. Anthony Gant (Richard McCabe ) reloads his rifle. Note the absence of iron sights. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Peggy Aynscombe (Sian Thomas ) aims her rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Roland Marwood (Joseph Kennedy ) aims his rifle. Note the different shape of the bolt handle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fiona Aynscombe (Jessica Brooks ) aims her rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Henry Marwood (Dominic Jephcott ) holds his rifle. This rifle has iron sights. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Henry Marwood aims his rifle. Martini-Henry rifle Two rifles are seen on the wall of the pub in "Destroying angel" and "Who Killed Cock Robin?": a Martini-Henry and a Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Martini-Henry Mk. IV (1888-1889) - .577-.450 caliber Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Martini-Henry rifle is seen on the wall. Below it a Lee-Enfield is seen partially. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view at Martini-Henry and Lee-Enfield rifles. Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* A Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* is seen on the pub wall in "Destroying Angel" and "Who Killed Cock Robin?" Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* are also seen in "Shot at Dawn", both in the 1916 flashback and in the present.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* - .303 British. This was the main battle rifle of British and Commonwealth forces during the First World War, introduced in 1907 it has seen action throughout the 20th century. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Martini-Henry rifle is seen on the wall. Below it a Lee-Enfield is seen partially. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view at Martini-Henry and Lee-Enfield rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pvt. Tommy Hicks (Will Featherstone ) weakly moves through the battlefield with his Lee-Enfield rifle in the flashback scene in "Shot at Dawn". Error creating thumbnail: File missing The firing squad aim their rifles in the same scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mickey Ryan (Lloyd Hutchinson ), a member of a WW1 reenacting group, carries a Lee-Enfield rifle in "Shot at Dawn". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lee-Enfield rifles are for a rifle salute. Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.I Paul Bright (Ifan Huw Dafydd ) is seen with a Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.I in "Dance with the Dead".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.I - .303 British. This was the main battle rifle of British and Commonwealth forces during World War Two, however, it was supplemented heavily with the older Lee Enfield No.1 MK.III. First placed in service with the British military in 1941. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Paul Bright (Ifan Huw Dafydd ) aims his rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A view at the muzzle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing .303 cartriges. Sporterised Lee-Enfield Jack Tewson (Tony Haygarth ) is seen with a bolt action sniper rifle in "King's Crystal" that appears to be a sporterised Lee-Enfield rifle .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lee-Speed Sporter Rifle Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jack Tewson (Tony Haygarth ) aims his rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the scope and the bolt. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the trigger. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view at Tewson's rifle. Enfield L85 Enfield L85 assault rifles are seen in the depot of the Territorial Army unit in "A Tale of Two Hamlets". They are supposed to be training mockups, not real rifles. In "Days of Misrule" L85s are seen in hands of Territorial Army soldiers during the night training.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing L85A1 with SUSAT scope - 5.56x45mm NATO Error creating thumbnail: File missing A mockup of L85 is seen in the depot of the Territorial Army unit in "A Tale of Two Hamlets". Error creating thumbnail: File missing About two dozens of L85s are seen in gun racks in the depot in the same scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A photo of a British soldier with L85 is seen in "Days of Misrule". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Territorial Army soldiers with L85s at the night training in "Days of Misrule". AK During the 1980s Berlin flashback in "Secrets and Spies", East German soldiers carry AK-47 style assault rifles. They are seen very briefly and are possibly airsoft guns.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Type II AK-47 - 7.62x39mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing AK is seen at the back of East German soldier. Machine Guns Vickers Mk1 A Vickers Mk1 machine gun is used as a murder weapon in "Shot at Dawn".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vickers gun with ribbed water jacket - .303 British Error creating thumbnail: File missing A local dog is interested by the machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view at the Vickers muzzle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The remotely controlled Vickers fires with a large muzzle flash. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The police expert Dr. Bullard (Barry Jackson ) inspects the machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The disassembled Vickers is studied in the police lab. Browining L3A3 (M1919A4) An L3A3, UK version of Browning M1919A4 machine gun in .303 caliber, is seen in the turret of Ferret Mk 2 armoured car in "Dance with the Dead". It may be a real machine gun or a mockup of the barrel.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Browning M1919A4 - .30-06 Springfield Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Ferret Mk 2 armoured car armed with a machine gun is seen among old cars on the former airbase. Other weapons Flintlock pistol A flintlock pistol is seen on the wall of the pub in "Dead Man's Eleven". It is also seen in "Second Sight" where the same decoration is used for another pub.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tower Sea Service Pistol used by the British Royal Navy. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A flintlock pistol is seen on the wall in a pub in "Dead Man's Eleven". Error creating thumbnail: File missing A flintlock pistol is seen on the wall in a pub in "Second Sight". Flintlock Musket Flintlock muskets are seen during the filming of the historical movie about the French Revolution in the opening scene in "They Seek Him Here".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing French Charleville Mle 1766 - .69 cal Error creating thumbnail: File missing Blunderbuss Munro Hilliard (John Nettleton ) carries a flintlock blunderbuss in one scene in "Orchis Fatalis".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Flintlock Blunderbuss Error creating thumbnail: File missing Munro Hilliard aims his blunderbuss at Sgt Scott (John Hopkins ) whom he supposed to be an illegal collector of orchids. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closer view at Hilliard's weapon. Pepperbox revolver A pepperbox revolver is seen in Frances Le Bon's (Gwen Taylor ) collection of old handguns in "Ring Out Your Dead". It looks similar to Allen & Thurber Pepperbox but cannot be identified for sure.
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