Inspector Lewis

DI Robert Lewis and DS James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Cast:Kevin Whately , Laurence Fox , Clare Holman , Rebecca Front , Angela Griffin , Steve Toussaint , Nicholas Jones , Sally Scott , Kemi-Bo Jacobs , Alton Letto , Kirsten Foster , John Light , Mali Harries , Alison Steadman , Catherine Steadman , David Warner , Beatie Edney , Syreeta Kumar

0Season 1

S1.E0 ∙ Reputation

Sun, Feb 18, 2007

DI Robert Lewis teams up with DS James Hathaway to look into the murder of an Oxford mathematics student.

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Whom the Gods Would Destroy

Sun, Feb 18, 2007

A middle-aged Oxford graduate is found murdered. The investigation implicates a senior university figure and leads to a long-hidden secret.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Old School Ties

Sun, Feb 25, 2007

A former criminal computer hacker turned best-selling celebrity and one of his student sponsors are murdered after being invited to lecture at Oxford.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Expiation

Sun, Mar 4, 2007

When an Oxford housewife is found hanged in her home, Lewis and Hathaway unearth a far darker murder case than the initial suicide verdict suggests.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea

Sun, Feb 24, 2008

The murder of a maintenance worker at the Bodleian Library and the death of a popular Art student seem to be linked.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Music to Die For

Sun, Mar 2, 2008

Lewis investigates the garroting of an aging Oxford don planning an Wagnerian festival and discovers a tenuous connection to his former boss, Inspector Morse.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Life Born of Fire

Sun, Mar 9, 2008

The suicide of Hathaway's old friend tests his relationship with Lewis as he must come to terms with ambivalence about his own sexual past.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Great and the Good

Sun, Mar 16, 2008

Lewis and Hathaway become involved in the drugging and rape of a schoolgirl and discover that it is connected to several bizarre murders.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Allegory of Love

Sun, Mar 22, 2009

The fabulously successful Oxford-based fantasy novelist seems to Lewis to be the key to solving the bizarre murder of a beautiful woman with a mirror.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ The Quality of Mercy

Sun, Mar 29, 2009

Lewis investigates the murder of student Richard Scott. He was killed just before premiering The Merchant of Venice. During the investigation Lewis gets personally involved.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Point of Vanishing

Sun, Apr 5, 2009

A former religious fanatic who deliberately tried to kill an outspoken atheist in a car crash but only succeeded in crippling his daughter is murdered.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Counter Culture Blues

Sun, Apr 12, 2009

A teenager is found dead and, while his body was found elsewhere, the location of death is determined to be at the gates to an estate owned by a 60s rocker, a hero of Lewis's youth.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Dead of Winter

Sun, May 2, 2010

Murders occur in Crevecoeur Hall, a lavish Oxford estate where Hathaway's father was in service and he spent his boyhood.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Dark Matter

Sun, May 9, 2010

An Oxford professor, also an amateur astronomer and recently renewed churchgoer, is found dead in the school observatory under suspicious circumstances.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Your Sudden Death Question

Sun, May 16, 2010

A group of people gather at an Oxford college to compete in a quiz contest for a large prize. One of them, an annoying, know-it-all womaniser is murdered. Due to his personality quite a few people would loathe him, but murder him?

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Falling Darkness

Sun, May 30, 2010

During a Halloween, one of Dr Hobson's college roommates is found dead with a stake through her heart and a garlic bulb in her mouth.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things

Sun, Apr 3, 2011

At the reunion of former students of an all-female college, one of the attendees is murdered. Lewis suspects the murder may be linked to an attack at the college he investigated nine years earlier.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Wild Justice

Sun, Apr 10, 2011

During an ecumenical conference in formerly Catholic St. Gerard's college, the poisoning of a female black American bishop triggers a series of bizarre murders.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ The Mind Has Mountains

Sun, Apr 17, 2011

The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ The Gift of Promise

Sun, Apr 24, 2011

When a retired MI5 official writes her best-selling memoirs, a chapter in her book about an unsolved IRA cold case causes consternation and ultimately several murders.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ The Soul of Genius

Wed, May 16, 2012

A scholar obsessed with Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark" is found buried in the botanical gardens frequented by the author during his life.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Generation of Vipers

Wed, May 23, 2012

When it becomes widely known that a best-selling feminist author and lecturer has joined an Internet dating site, she apparently commits suicide.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ Fearful Symmetry

Wed, May 30, 2012

After a pretty graduate student moonlighting as a baby sitter is found bound on a bed and smothered, it is found that she posed for provocative bondage photos.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ The Indelible Stain

Wed, Jun 6, 2012

A visiting lecturer at the college of criminology who holds controversial theories on genetic predisposition toward criminal behavior is found hanged.

1Season 7

S7.E1 ∙ Down Among the Fearful: Part 1

Mon, Jan 7, 2013

A psychic, Randolph James, is found dead in his consulting rooms, murdered. Upon investigation it is discovered that he was living a double life: he is actually Rueben Beatty, a psychological researcher.

2Season 7

S7.E2 ∙ Down Among the Fearful: Part 2

Mon, Jan 14, 2013

Reuben's killer also murders his co-researcher and suspicion falls on fellow psychic Frank Mclean and tarot reader Justine Skinner.

3Season 7

S7.E3 ∙ The Ramblin' Boy: Part 1

Mon, Jan 21, 2013

When a body discovered in a wooded area is found already embalmed, the logical conclusion is that a murder victim must have been cremated in his place.

4Season 7

S7.E4 ∙ The Ramblin' Boy: Part 2

Mon, Jan 28, 2013

The suspected identity of the cremated corpse keeps changing as attempts are made on the lives of two of the students involved in the case are made.

5Season 7

S7.E5 ∙ Intelligent Design: Part 1

Mon, Feb 4, 2013

The day after an alcoholic college professor who killed a young girl in a drunken accident is released from prison and returns home, he is run over by his own car.

6Season 7

S7.E6 ∙ Intelligent Design: Part 2

Mon, Feb 11, 2013

While Benison College is being renovated, the desiccated body of a student who disappeared 15 years earlier is found in an attic and linked to Seager's murder.

1Season 8

S8.E1 ∙ Entry Wounds: Part 1

Fri, Oct 10, 2014

Hathaway has been promoted to inspector after an extended break, and Lewis is enjoying retired life until he's asked to team up with his old colleague again.

2Season 8

S8.E2 ∙ Entry Wounds: Part 2

Fri, Oct 17, 2014

A brain surgeon is murdered. Hathaway, now a Detective Inspector, is the investigating officer. Lewis is retired and living with Dr Hobson but is coaxed out of retirement by Chief Superintendent Innocent to help Hathaway on the case.

3Season 8

S8.E3 ∙ The Lions of Nemea: Part 1

Fri, Oct 24, 2014

After Lewis returns to his old job, he, Hathaway and DS Maddox are swept up in another murder investigation when an American classics student is killed.

4Season 8

S8.E4 ∙ The Lions of Nemea: Part 2

Fri, Oct 31, 2014

The investigation of American classics student Rose Anderson's brutal murder yields only secrets and murky motives.

5Season 8

S8.E5 ∙ Beyond Good and Evil: Part 1

Fri, Nov 7, 2014

Lewis' reputation is jeopardized when the very first case that he solved as a DI is reopened for appeal and new murders are committed with the original weapon.

6Season 8

S8.E6 ∙ Beyond Good and Evil: Part 2

Fri, Nov 14, 2014

Several suspects are caught in lies and an unexpected death leads the detectives to the solution.

1Season 9

S9.E1 ∙ One for Sorrow: Part 1

Tue, Oct 6, 2015

Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the apparent death by drug overdose of over achieving student and amateur taxidermist Talika Desai.

2Season 9

S9.E2 ∙ One for Sorrow: Part 2

Tue, Oct 13, 2015

Lewis' team must delve into the worlds of social media, drugs, taxidermy, alternative art and the homeless East European community.

3Season 9

S9.E3 ∙ Magnum Opus: Part 1

Tue, Oct 20, 2015

When College Dean Phil Beskin is found bludgeoned to death with a rock in local woodland, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

4Season 9

S9.E4 ∙ Magnum Opus: Part 2

Tue, Oct 27, 2015

The team must uncover the guilty secret their victims share in order to learn the identity of not just the killer but the potential victim too.

5Season 9

S9.E5 ∙ What Lies Tangled: Part 1

Tue, Nov 3, 2015

When an idyllic Oxford summer's day is torn asunder by a gruesome parcel bomb, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

6Season 9

S9.E6 ∙ What Lies Tangled: Part 2

Tue, Nov 10, 2015

With his six-month trip to New Zealand with Hobson on the horizon, Lewis is in a race against time to save both his career and relationship.