
Scripted series · ITV1
Endeavour
A crusade in search of justice, risking everything for the truth ...
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Endeavour actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Endeavour reads strongest on Character Depth, Tension and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
The run
Seasons
9 seasons · 35 episodes.

Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20123 episodes
Best episode · S00E01 Overture (Pilot)

Season 1 · Complete
Series 1
20134 episodes
7.7IMDbBefore Inspector Morse, there was the rookie Constable Morse, fed up with police work and ready to nip his career in the bud by handing in his resignation.
Best episode · S01E02 Fugue

Season 2 · Complete
Series 2
20144 episodes
8.1IMDb1966 brings Endeavour a fresh quartet of baffling mysteries set to test his brain and body to breaking point. Though offset by the possibility of love unlooked for, against a backdrop of growing change in Britain and the wider world, Endeavour must face a challenge that threatens to take from him all he holds dear... Family. Friends. Colleagues. The old order changeth... but not without a fight. To the death.
Best episode · S02E04 Neverland

Season 3 · Complete
Series 3
20164 episodes
8.0IMDbLast seen languishing in a prison cell and framed for a crime he didn't commit, Endeavour is impelled to return to duty when a young woman's baffling murder requires his singularly cerebral mind to solve. As both men struggle to find their bearings amidst the rapidly changing climate of early 1967, four cases set against the dreaming spires of Oxford test their partnership in unexpected ways, as Colin Dexter's iconic detective is pushed to new extremes in his unrivalled commitment to truth and justice.
Best episode · S03E02 Arcadia

Season 4 · Complete
Series 4
20174 episodes
8.0IMDbIn Series four, barely a fortnight has passed since the events depicted in the series three finale, and we find Oxford’s finest picking up the pieces of their lives, both personal and professional. Endeavour waits to hear the result of his Sergeant’s Exam, and self-medicates to numb his heartache, but whisky and Tännhauser will only get a man so far. While Thursday and Win deal with their own sense of grief. Their home is empty, Sam gone to the Army and Joan… Who knows where? The stories that remain will take Endeavour and Thursday, together with the rest of Oxford’s Finest, into places hitherto unexplored – the worlds of 1960s pop; Doctors and Nurses; and an exploration of the English pastoral.
Best episode · S04E04 Harvest

Season 5 · Complete
Series 5
20186 episodes
7.8IMDbIt's now 1968. Endeavour’s promotion leads him to reluctantly mentor new recruit Fancy, while Thursday is thinking about life after the police. But in Oxford, crime never sleeps. Will things at Cowley Police Station ever be the same again?
Best episode · S05E05 Quartet

Season 6 · Complete
Series 6
20194 episodes
8.7IMDbWith the old Cowley team now scattered across Oxfordshire, Endeavour has reluctantly settled into a sedate way of life in an isolated countryside outpost. An uncomfortable Thursday also has a new role at the forbidding Castle Gate station, joining former adversary DCI Ronnie Box and his new sidekick DS Alan Jago. Strange has taken on a management role with Division, while Bright has been relegated to the Traffic department. The Summer of Love is well and truly over, and 1969 promises to be darker and more challenging than ever.
Best episode · S06E04 Deguello

Season 7 · Complete
Series 7
20203 episodes
8.5IMDbOpening on New Year’s Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged and new relationships will blossom.
Best episode · S07E01 Oracle

Season 8 · Complete
Series 8
20213 episodes
7.9IMDbSeries eight is set in 1971 and a death threat to Oxford Wanderers' star striker Jack Swift places Endeavour and his team at the heart of the glitz and glamour of 1970s football, exposing the true cost of success and celebrity, and with it, a deep-rooted division that is soon reflected much closer to home.
Best episode · S08E02 Scherzo

Season 9 · Complete
Series 9
20233 episodes
8.8IMDbIt's Spring, 1972. Two unexplained deaths turn up ties to the Oxford Concert Orchestra, while a body discovered in a derelict warehouse stokes fears that ‘London business' has yet again found its way to Oxford. Thursday and Endeavour's investigation unearths some unsettling connections to cases the duo believed were well and truly behind them.
Best episode · S09E01 Prelude
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S06E04
Deguello
When a librarian is gruesomely murdered at the Bodleian, Endeavour and Thursday have little to go on besides a set of muddy boot prints. With the two main suspects having their own motives for killing the librarian, Endeavour digs deeper into their backgrounds, tracking a trail that appears to connect to seemingly innocent college bequest.

S06E01
Pylon
With the Cowley team scattered across Oxfordshire, Endeavour finds himself policing a lonely country patch, and back in uniform. His day job is a monotonous investigation of missing livestock and stolen tractors. But when he discovers the dead body of a missing schoolgirl, it opens this quiet backwater to the roar of Castle Gate CID – now staffed by Thursday and an old adversary, the newly promoted DCI Ronnie Box, alongside sidekick DS Alan Jago.

S05E05
Quartet
An assassination attempt at an international sporting event opens a new case for Endeavour and Thursday, but their investigation is quickly brought to an unexpected end.

S02E04
Neverland
As 1966 draws to a close, the body of a disreputable journalist found in mysterious circumstances threatens to expose past horrors. As the investigation deepens, Endeavour and Thursday face corruption in Oxford's corridors of power.
- Directed by Geoffrey Sax

S07E01
Oracle
Whilst Endeavour sees in 1970 at a Venetian opera, a grisly murder on an Oxford towpath speaks to Thursday's intuition. Back in Oxford, Endeavour meets a kindred spirit.
- Directed by Shaun Evans
- Written by Russell Lewis

S05E04
Colours
A photo-shoot on an army base turns sinister when one of the models is found dead. But the investigation is complicated when Sam Thursday is revealed to be involved.
- Directed by Robert Quinn
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Michele BuckExecutive Producer
- Russell LewisExecutive Producer
- Tom MullensProducer
- Colm McCarthyProducer
- Edward BazalgetteProducer
- Damien TimmerExecutive Producer
Writing
- Russell LewisWriter
- Colin DexterWriter
Direction
- Kate SaxonDirector
- Robert QuinnDirector
- Zam SalimDirector
- Kristoffer NyholmDirector
- Ian AryehDirector
- Sandra GoldbacherDirector
Cinematography
- Stephan PehrssonDirector of Photography
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