Daniel Casey who plays Sergeant Troy has left the series. The first episode of the seventh series entitled "The Green Man" was aired on 2 November 2003. In this series he played Sergeant Bergerac, a Jersey copper fighting alcoholism and has had uncomfortable relationships with several girlfriends, a role far removed from that of Inspector Barnaby. The series is notable in that it has brought John Nettles back to prime time TV after the "Bergerac" series finished in 1993. In the past six years since it made its debut on British television there has been nearly thirty episodes and there is no hint of the series finishing yet. These have included contributions from prolific and accomplished writers such as Anthony Horowitz ("Agatha Christie's Poirot"), Douglas Watkinson ("The Professionals", "Boon", "Emmerdale") and Christopher Russell ("The Bill", "Cadfael"). Having filmed the majority of Graham's novels featuring Barnaby (A Place Of Safety & Ghost In The Machine have not been filmed as yet) the producers turned to other writers to provide new stories for the subsequent five series. The initial series which followed was based on Graham's other four Inspector Barnaby novels, these were "Written In Blood", "Death Of A Hollow Man", "Death In Disguise" and "Faithful Unto Death". The film was based on the 1987 novel by Caroline Graham which was regarded by the Crime Writers' Association as being one of the Top 100 crime novels of all time. ITV announced it as a one off film but it was very successful with figures in the region of 13.5 million viewers, and the film won the Best Drama Award that year. All of the duo's cases take place in the picturesque yet fictional county of Midsomer which must have the highest death rate anywhere in the world! This highly popular detective series was first aired on 23 March 1997 when the pilot episode "The Killings At Badgers Drift" was transmitted. The cases of Chief Inspector Barnaby, a respectable middle-aged family man and a good old fashioned copper and his young sergeant Gavin Troy who is rather touchy and immature and is always jumping to conclusions during investigations. The late Clara Rockmore was the theremin's greatest virtuoso, and the instrument and its inventor were profiled in the documentary Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1993). This unique instrument has also been used on The Beach Boys' song "Good Vibrations". These sounds, perhaps most famously heard as the lead instrument of the long-running "Doctor Who" series, have also been put to use in other science fiction and movies, including Sir Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). The theremin has a range well in excess of eight octaves, and is capable of all kinds of strange effects. Similarly the proximity of the left hand to the other antenna controls the volume. The closer the right hand to one antenna, the higher the pitch. Its electronic circuits are controlled by two antennas, left and right of the instrument, toward which the player moves his or her hands. It predates the modern synthesizer by about forty years, but its uniqueness stems from the fact that it is the only instrument that is played without actually being touched. It was invented by Russian scientist Leon Theremin, and was first demonstrated in 1920. The solo instrument that produces the melody in the title music is a theremin.
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