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