Give yourself a break - forget Covid for five minutes and enjoy a few moments of fantasy.

As a spirit lifting exercise, when all around is doom and gloom, the property experts who provide the stats for the website Compare The Market have investigated house prices in the postcodes of filming locations of popular TV shows.

Not included in the comparison site’s list is Midsomer Murders, the chart-topping ITV who-dunnit.

When filming of series 22 was suspended due to Covid in October last year, the show largely shot in Bucks had been running oon and off since 1997. During a break for lunch one day John Nettles, who originally played the lead character DCI Tom Barnaby, told the BFP the main reason the producers were keen to choose locations close to London was to avoid paying “overnighters.”

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It saved the company picking up the bill for hotels and guest houses where actors and crew could stay if they lived too far away to make it worth going home when they were due on set first thing the following morning.

So it’s partly for this reason as well as for the beauty of the Chiltern backdrop that in recent memory the level of grizzly crimes – fortunately fictional - has soared in picture perfect towns and villages such as Amersham (nine episodes of Midsomer Murders) Beaconsfield (27 episodes), Chalfont St Peter (one), Chalfont St Giles (three), Chearsley (one), Chenies (13) and Chipperfield (four), as well as in idyllic places in leafy Buckinghamshire with names starting with letters further up the alphabet. Fans of the show will know that in 2009, after 14 years in the part, John Nettles called it a day and Neil Dudgeon stepped into the lead role as Tom Barnaby’s young cousin, DCI John Barnaby.

The producers say filming of the 22nd series will resume with the present cast as soon as lockdown is lifted.

Season 21 started airing this time last year so, with boredom at a record high in households throughout the nation, it is time the coppers in Midsomer county got back on the beat.

Meanwhile, fast forward to the production of the latest Netflix blockbuster Bridgerton.

READ MORE: This is where Bridgerton was filmed in Bucks

The show being filmed in Halton, Stowe and Dorney has given locals something to talk about other than the current news. And it could have a longer lasting benefit.

One of the advantages for homeowners in an area put on the map by a popular TV series can be a hike in house prices.

Here are three examples of how local property values have risen when a village or town has been the location for film cameras.

Local stats are based on Zoopla values for the past 12 months, and stats from Compare the Market.

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n The Vicar of Dibley: Geraldine’s quaint cottage in Turville – area postcode RG9.

Increase in property values in the village over the last 12 months: 4.58 per cent

Detached houses: £1,217,193 Semis: £661,715 Terraced:

£577,906. Flats: £429,460.

n Killing Eve: Carolyn’s chic new pad

Carolyn’s’s fancy pad was filmed on location at Clayton House in Prestwood. Local postcode: HP16

Increase in overall property values over the last 12 months: 3.48 per cent

Detached: £955,769. Semis: £556,271 Terraced: £417,436, Flats: £281,582.

n Friday Night Dinner: The Family Home

The Goodman’s family home is filmed at a house in Mill Hill, London, NW7

Overall increase: 5.42 per cent

Detached: £1,466,055 Semis £738,063, Terraced: £644,882, Flats: £435,3240.