Endeavour: Series 1-8 [DVD] [2021]

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March 1967. Morse is disillusioned after spending time in prison following his last case, and even though he is exonerated, ponders his future with the police. Having relocated to an isolated lake front cottage, Morse is befriended by an unhappy millionaire and his friends. At a funfair on Cowley Green a young woman, Jeannie Hearne, is spirited away into the night, seemingly without explanation. When her body is found the next morning, Inspector Thursday investigates and discovers that Morse's new friends are involved. When Morse's millionaire friend is killed, but then appears the next day, Morse realises his future is as a detective and the solution lies at the funfair where Hearne went missing.

ENDEAVOUR: S2E2, NOCTURNE. Review + Locations, Literary References, Music etc. SPOILERS". Morse, Lewis and Endeavour. 12 June 2020.

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Sweeny, Mark (3 January 2012). "Endeavour pays off with 6.5m viewers". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 March 2013. The new season begins with Endeavour returning to Oxford after seeking help for his drinking problems. But life at Castle Gate police station is about to change… ITV commissioned a first series of four new episodes, filmed during summer 2012, [8] and broadcast them from 14 April to 5 May 2013. [9] In the penultimate episode, 'Uniform', Endeavour notices a link between the woman's disappearance and her former employer, which demands his attention. Meanwhile, reports are flooding in of stolen cars and criminal damage caused by a group of undergraduates wreaking havoc.

This is fun with the detective show,” says Shaun Evans. “There's a real lightness and Kevin was fantastic.” In the final episode, Morse finally sits his sergeant's exam and completes his paper well within the time allowed. An armed robbery takes place at a bank where Joan Thursday works. Morse happens to be in the bank at the time, investigating a killing and payroll robbery. As the robbery goes awry, Joan and Morse are kidnapped by the robbers who realize their identities. Joan sees a more brutal side of her father as he tried to rescue her and Morse from the now ruthless and murdering robbers. Although the robbers are arrested, Joan is emotionally affected by the ordeal. In a coughing fit, Thursday finally coughs up the bullet fragment, which has plagued him. A distraught Joan leaves Oxford despite encouragement from Morse to stay. Realising that Joan has gone, Thursday encounters Morse outside his house and realises that he saw Joan leave. Police Chief Superintendent (PCS), Oxford City Police, Cowley Police Station. Thames Valley Police CID, Castle Gate Police Station (Series 6–Series 9). June 1965. An investigation into the murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl and the apparent suicide of her boyfriend lead Oxford City Police to the discovery of illegal sex parties where under-age girls are procured for politicians, businessmen, Oxford dons, and policemen. Endeavour's superior, Detective Inspector Fred Thursday, recognising the young constable as a detective he can trust, takes him under his wing. Determined to break the case, he and Morse bring it to a successful conclusion. [a]April 1968. Ex-boxer Joey Sikes is killed on the night of a failed theft of the last Fabergé egg from the Oxford college where it is to be auctioned. Next day lecturer Robin Grey is also murdered and the link is sex worker and artists' model Eve Thorne, who was seen with both men. When the egg is stolen, suspicion falls on another of Eve's clients, latest victim Simon Lake. Morse, now a detective sergeant, discovers that Lake and Grey belonged to an elite club and were involved in a scam regarding the egg. In establishing whether the murders were linked to the club or the egg Morse must cope with a lazy new constable and the reappearance of Joan Thursday. As the episode closes, radio news announces the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in the US. [h] Series 3 (2016) [ edit ] Prytaneum Court in London, formerly Southgate Town Hall doubled as Cowley police station Hubbard, Lauren (29 May 2022). "Everything We know About Endeavour Season 9". Town and Country Magazine . Retrieved 26 June 2022. Series 9 was broadcast on 26 February 2023, with all three episodes set in 1972. [10] It is the final series produced, by agreement of PBS Masterpiece, ITV and the cast. [ citation needed] Russell Lewis wrote all episodes, with Shaun Evans, Nirpal Bhogal and Kate Saxon directing. The story comes to its logical end, telling how Inspector Morse developed into the character of the Morse series, across 72 hours of television episodes in ten years. Filming started in Oxford on 22 May 2022. [11] [12] The announcement of the final series was made a week or so before series 8 began airing in the US on 19 June 2022. [10] The formal release for audiences in the United States, via PBS 'Masterpiece' was Sunday, June 18 at 9:00 p.m. [13] No.

Sanderson, Mark (25 January 2016). "Endeavour, Series 3 Finale". The Arts Desk . Retrieved 25 November 2016. Set in the 1960s and 1970s in Oxford, the series centres on the early career of Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) after he left Lonsdale College in Oxford University late in his third year without completing his degree, spent a short time in the Royal Corps of Signals as a cipher clerk and then joined the Carshall-Newtown Police. The sixth series was shot during 2018 and premiered on 10 February 2019 in the UK. [3] There were four episodes. [16]Labourer Barry Finch is found dead in the garage of a local public house, and initial reports suggest the cause of death is strangulation. Meanwhile, Morse is asked to act as bodyguard to busybody Joy Pettybon, a moral crusader who since coming to Oxford to appear on a nightly television show, 'The Almanac', has received threats to her life. Her fellow guests on the show, pop group The Wildwood, whose record Pettybon has tried to have banned from the airwaves, are prime suspects for sending the threats - and when one of Pettybon's closest allies, Reverend Golightly, is poisoned shortly after her appearance on the show, suspicions on the tearaway group begin to grow. When one of the group's founding members disappears during a writing session, Morse and Thursday are thrust out into the dark cold Oxford night to try and find him. When he finally reappears, they discover he too has been given a concoction of mysterious poison. When further tests are carried out on Barry Finch's corpse, traces of the poison are once again discovered, and Morse finds himself on the trail of a possible triple murderer. a b Willis, Ciaran. "When is series six of Endeavour on TV? Who is in the cast? What will happen?". Radio Times. Immediate Media. ISSN 0033-8060. Archived from the original on 27 January 2019 . Retrieved 26 January 2019. While a series of deaths are announced in the newspaper before they have occurred, a biker is killed and storm clouds gather as the past continues to rear its ugly head. The plot draws heavily on The Lion in Winter and the Plantagenet family, with the firm owned by the Broom family (referring to the origin of the name Plantagenet), headed by the estranged couple Henry (referring to Henry II) and Nora ( Eleanor of Aquitaine) and their sons Richard ( Richard II) and Johnny ( John) after the death of the eldest son Harry ( Henry the Young King). Their home is Chinon Court ( Chinon Castle), whilst Henry's secretary is Alice Vexin ( Alys of France, Countess of Vexin). [3]

Oxford seethes as a protest at a hair salon exposes rising racial tensions in the city. Meanwhile, Thursday's son discovers a murder at his Army base, and Morse must uncover long-held secrets within the regiment to solve the case. Sam Thursday departs for his military deployment. [k]The murder of a cast member on a TV cop drama starring a popular actor ( Stonehouse’s Kevin R McNally) baffles the sleuths, while an elite undergraduate club causes mayhem. Pennington, Gail (1 July 2012). "TV review: 'Masterpiece Mystery! Endeavour' on PBS". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ISSN 1930-9600. OCLC 1764810. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.