Inspector Morse

Chief Inspector Morse has an ear for Western classical music, a taste for beer, and a nose for crime. He and Detective Sergeant Robert Lewis solve intriguing cases in and around the Oxford area.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cast:John Thaw , Kevin Whately , James Grout , Peter Woodthorpe , Clare Holman , Liz Kettle , Amanda Hillwood , Maureen Bennett , David Baukham , Judy Loe , Norman Jones , Richard Huw , Mark Draper , Bernard Brown , Trevor Martin , Gary Powell , John Bleasdale , Philip Voss

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Dead of Jericho

Tue, Jan 6, 1987

Anne Stavely, a friend of Morse's, ostensibly commits suicide at her home in Jericho, though Morse isn't convinced this is what happened.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

Tue, Jan 13, 1987

The murder of a deaf university entrance examiner leads Morse and Lewis into a possible college cheating scandal.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Service of All the Dead

Tue, Jan 20, 1987

The members of a church who attended a particular service start to die one by one.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Wolvercote Tongue

Fri, Dec 25, 1987

During an exclusive tour an elderly woman dies suddenly and the priceless piece of Medieval jewellery she was going to donate to a local museum vanishes.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Last Seen Wearing

Tue, Mar 8, 1988

When Morse is assigned a cold case of a runaway teenager from school, he suspects that the girl's been murdered.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Settling of the Sun

Tue, Mar 15, 1988

Because Morse is a speaker at a University dinner when a Japanese becomes ill and is later found ritualistically murdered, he becomes everyone's alibi.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Last Bus to Woodstock

Tue, Mar 22, 1988

A young blonde hitches a late lift from a bus stop and ends up dead in a pub car park.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Ghost in the Machine

Wed, Jan 4, 1989

A vanished baronet and the theft of some of his collection of erotic art is investigated by Morse and Lewis.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ The Last Enemy

Wed, Jan 11, 1989

A headless, armless, footless body of a murdered academic is found in Oxford Canal and his investigation leads to petty hatred and jealousy among the local academia.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Deceived by Flight

Wed, Jan 18, 1989

Lewis goes undercover as a worker at the University so he can go undercover on the cricket team and discover the murderer of Morse's old college roommate.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Secret of Bay 5B

Wed, Jan 25, 1989

A bullying, controlling womanizer who also blackmails his conquests is found garroted in his car in a garage deck.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Infernal Serpent

Wed, Jan 3, 1990

An environmentalist professor is mugged and later dies of a heart attack after an attack on campus just prior to a controversial debate.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ The Sins of the Fathers

Wed, Jan 10, 1990

The managing director and heir apparent to a venerable family-owned brewery in dire financial straits is found drowned in a vat of his own ale.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Driven to Distraction

Wed, Jan 17, 1990

After two beautiful women are stabbed to death a month apart by the same killer, the only connection between the pair is their car dealership.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Masonic Mysteries

Wed, Jan 24, 1990

Morse finds himself framed for murder by an unknown mastermind and suspended as Lewis is seconded to DCI Bottomley, who is in charge of the case.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Second Time Around

Wed, Feb 20, 1991

Morse links the killing of a Deputy Assistant Commissioner on the night of his retirement to the 18 year old cold case murder of an 8 year old girl.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Fat Chance

Wed, Feb 27, 1991

After a young woman aspiring to the priesthood dies while taking her exams, possibly from poison, Morse connects the death to a weight loss company.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Who Killed Harry Field?

Wed, Mar 13, 1991

Struggling artist Harry Field is found murdered and thrown off an overpass but recent rains and a dry body lead Morse to conclude he was killed over a week earlier.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Greeks Bearing Gifts

Wed, Mar 20, 1991

Among the suspects in the murder of a Greek chef and his sister are a Ancient Greek scholar, a dodgy British entrepreneur, and a Greek shipping magnate.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Promised Land

Wed, Mar 27, 1991

Morse and Lewis go to Australia to find a witness who has been in witness protection for ten years, but this is one witness who doesn't want to be found.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ Dead on Time

Wed, Feb 26, 1992

A respected, dying Oxford don, husband of Morse's former fiancée, apparently shoots himself, but his doctor asserts that he was not capable of firing a gun.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Happy Families

Wed, Mar 11, 1992

The head of a wealthy but dysfunctional family is found bludgeoned to death in the family estate as Morse is forced to deal with the resultant media frenzy.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ The Death of the Self

Wed, Mar 25, 1992

Morse looks to mix a little pleasure with business when he and Lewis are sent to Italy to look into the suspicious death of an English woman near Vicenza.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Absolute Conviction

Wed, Apr 8, 1992

A convicted fraudster, one of three former business partners at an open prison, dies following an assault. Morse has to investigate the death while dealing with a brash subordinate and trying to avoid offending the prison authorities.

5Season 6

S6.E5 ∙ Cherubim & Seraphim

Wed, Apr 15, 1992

A new drug developed to combat senility is ironically being distributed to teens at all-night parties and driving some to suicide.

1Season 7

S7.E1 ∙ Deadly Slumber

Wed, Jan 6, 1993

When the head of a medical clinic is found asphyxiated in his garage, the father of a one of his brain-dead patients becomes the prime suspect.

2Season 7

S7.E2 ∙ The Day of the Devil

Wed, Jan 13, 1993

A sociopathic but clever murderer who believes in the occult escapes from prison and returns to Oxford, and it is up to Morse to stop him.

3Season 7

S7.E3 ∙ Twilight of the Gods

Wed, Jan 20, 1993

When Gwladys Probert, a world renowned mezzo-soprano, is shot by a sniper at Oxford, Morse, one of her biggest fans, sees a link with an earlier murder of a freelance journalist.

1Season 8

S8.E1 ∙ The Way Through the Woods

Wed, Nov 29, 1995

When a serial killer is murdered in prison, his deathbed confession disavows one of the murders he had previously confessed to. Morse wants to reopen the case.

2Season 8

S8.E2 ∙ The Daughters of Cain

Wed, Nov 27, 1996

An Oxford professor and fund raiser is stabbed to death at home with a weapon that is yet to be stolen from a university museum.

3Season 8

S8.E3 ∙ Death Is Now My Neighbour

Wed, Nov 19, 1997

When the next-door neighbor of a murdered woman is also killed, Morse suspects the first shooting may have been an error.

4Season 8

S8.E4 ∙ The Wench Is Dead

Wed, Nov 11, 1998

While Morse is in hospital for a bleeding ulcer, he takes an interest in an 1859 murder and becomes convinced its resolution was a miscarriage of justice.

5Season 8

S8.E5 ∙ The Remorseful Day

Wed, Nov 15, 2000

An ailing Morse involves himself in a year-old cold-case of a murdered nymphomaniac, when persons of interest connected to it turn up dead.