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Endeavour

A crusade in search of justice, risking everything for the truth ...

8.1IMDb287 votesStrongly recommended
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2013 – 20239 seasons · 35 episodes~90 min per episodeTV-14Ended
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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.

Character DepthDefining9.5

How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.

TensionDefining9.0

The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.

Cliffhanger IntensityVery strong8.0

How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.

BingeabilityVery strong7.3

How hard it is to stop after one episode.

Emotional WeightVery strong7.0

How much the series is designed to affect you.

SerializedVery strong7.0

How much each hour depends on the one before it.

SpectacleLight3.5

Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.

World BuildingLight3.5

The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.

HumourLight2.5

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.

  • Official poster for Specials

    Season 0 · Complete

    Specials

    20123 episodes

    Best episode · S00E01 Overture (Pilot)

  • Official poster for Series 1

    Season 1 · Complete

    Series 1

    20134 episodes

    7.7IMDb

    Before 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

  • Official poster for Series 2

    Season 2 · Complete

    Series 2

    20144 episodes

    8.1IMDb

    1966 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

  • Official poster for Series 3

    Season 3 · Complete

    Series 3

    20164 episodes

    8.0IMDb

    Last 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

  • Official poster for Series 4

    Season 4 · Complete

    Series 4

    20174 episodes

    8.0IMDb

    In 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

  • Official poster for Series 5

    Season 5 · Complete

    Series 5

    20186 episodes

    7.8IMDb

    It'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

  • Official poster for Series 6

    Season 6 · Complete

    Series 6

    20194 episodes

    8.7IMDb

    With 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

  • Official poster for Series 7

    Season 7 · Complete

    Series 7

    20203 episodes

    8.5IMDb

    Opening 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

  • Official poster for Series 8

    Season 8 · Complete

    Series 8

    20213 episodes

    7.9IMDb

    Series 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

  • Official poster for Series 9

    Season 9 · Complete

    Series 9

    20233 episodes

    8.8IMDb

    It'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.

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S06E04

Deguello

9.1IMDb9 votes

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.

3 Mar 201990 min
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S06E01

Pylon

8.8IMDb11 votes

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.

10 Feb 201990 min
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S05E05

Quartet

8.7IMDb10 votes

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.

4 Mar 201890 min
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S02E04

Neverland

8.7IMDb9 votes

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.

20 Apr 201490 min
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S07E01

Oracle

8.7IMDb7 votes

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.

9 Feb 202090 min
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S05E04

Colours

8.6IMDb9 votes

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.

25 Feb 201890 min

Recently aired

Latest Episodes

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S00E03

Morse and the Last Endeavour

12 Mar 202347 min
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S08E03

Terminus

8.0IMDb3 votes
26 Sept 202190 min
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S08E02

Scherzo

8.0IMDb3 votes
19 Sept 202190 min

The craft

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Executive production

Writing

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