MIDSOMER MURDERS: Death In Disguise - Parts 1 & 2

Thursdays, October 23 and 30, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Now in its 16th season on ITV in England, MIDSOMER MURDERS has been an international phenomenon since it first premiered in 1997. The pilot episode, "The Killings At Badger's Drift" was the highest-rated show on British television that year, and the series continues to garner stand-out ratings.

On "Death In Disguise" (Parts 1 & 2), one of the founders of a new-age commune, The Lodge of the Golden Wind Horse, dies in a fall down the stairs, apparently accidentally. But when the other founder is mysteriously murdered in front of a roomful of people, the first death looks like it may have been deliberate as well.