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

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ITV broadcast a television pilot in the UK on 2 January 2012; in the United States, PBS aired it on 1 July 2012. In July 1966 at the Museum of Natural History, almost empty, save for some schoolgirls, Adrian Weiss, a specialist in heraldry and genealogy, is murdered. The similar murder of a 12-year-old girl at her boarding school leads Morse to delve into a 100-year-old murder mystery involving a wealthy family with connections to India and an inheritance. The girls staying for the summer, as they cannot reach home for the vacation, play pranks based on the book about the murdered family 100 years earlier, but do not own up until afterwards. The fifth generation descendant of the owner of the large family home, now the school for girls, thinks he might finally inherit with a change in laws for a bastard child. He murders those in his way, worked out by Morse by reading Weiss's detailed files. A masonic ring connected to the case goes missing. [e] Inspector Morse & Endeavour". All Allam. 27 March 2013 . Retrieved 31 May 2017. In Endeavour he starts out being entirely abstinent, but he develops a taste after being given a pint by Inspector Thursday. It is implied that the reason for his sobriety is his disinclination to turn out like his father. Later he claims he 'thinks better' over a pint. July 1965. An unknown menace stalks Oxford, appearing at first to be just another deranged lunatic, killing at random. But Detective Constable Endeavour Morse uncovers an underlying method to the madness: the elaborate staging of the crimes suggests that the killer shares Endeavour's passion for opera. With Oxford city police scrambling to find the next potential victim, it seems that Endeavour has finally met his intellectual match. As the body count increases, letters containing cryptic clues, goading the police for their failures, are sent to the Oxford Mail. Only a detective of Endeavour's intellect can break them. [c] Endeavour series nine finale: the heartbreaking ending explained". Hello. 15 March 2023 . Retrieved 25 June 2023.

In 'Scherzo', the team investigates the murder of a cab driver near a naturist resort and the seemingly unconnected shooting of a Catholic priest in his confessional. Jim Strange begins a timid courtship of Joan Thursday. 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. Endeavour is a British television detective drama series on ITV. It is a prequel to the long-running Inspector Morse series. Shaun Evans portrays the young Endeavour Morse beginning his career as a detective constable, and later as a detective sergeant, with the Oxford City Police CID. Endeavour is the third of the Inspector Morse series following the original Inspector Morse (1987–2000) and its spin-off, Lewis (2006–2015). Series 7 took place in 1970, with Russell Lewis writing the episodes. In the US, series 7 aired on consecutive Sundays, August 9–23, 2020 on PBS as Masterpiece Theater.May 1971. A cab driver is found dead in his taxi, owing a large debt to a colleague. Investigations into his death lead Endeavour and the team first to a nudist colony, where guests are making the most of the spring sunshine, and later to the heart of a blue movie outfit in London’s Soho. Meanwhile, at home, Endeavour receives a guest who reminds him of a past he’d sooner forget. As the investigation into the cab driver’s murder unfolds, Endeavour starts to retreat from those close to him and appears set on a course of wilful self-destruction.

Series 3 (2016) [ edit ] Prytaneum Court in London, formerly Southgate Town Hall doubled as Cowley police station In August 2019, ITV announced that the series had been recommissioned for an eighth series. [5] Filming for series eight, set in 1971, began in March 2021 and concluded in June 2021. Filming for the ninth series, set in 1972, began on 22 May 2022. The next day, it was confirmed that it would be the last. [6] Filming ended on 26 August 2022, and the series was broadcast between 26 February and 12 March 2023. In the United States, the first episode was broadcast on 18 June 2023.Sanderson, Mark (25 January 2016). "Endeavour, Series 3 Finale". The Arts Desk . Retrieved 25 November 2016. 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]

Endeavour to mark Morse anniversary with 'tips of the trilby' ". BBC News. 1 June 2016 . Retrieved 25 November 2016. 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] a b c d e f g h i j "Weekly top 10 programmes". BARB.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014 . Retrieved 2016-11-25. Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) (formerly Detective Inspector), Thames Valley Police CID, Castle Gate Police Station.

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Sproule, Luke (3 February 2016). "Endeavour set to return for a fourth series". Oxford Mail . Retrieved 25 November 2016. Grant, Olly (29 December 2011). "Endeavour: Will the frosty reception for the new Morse thaw?". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 31 May 2017. In December 1966, a boy with a brutal father is reported missing from his home. The body of a journalist is found on a railway line and within days an escaped convict, with only a month of his sentence remaining, is found dead. The two men have connections with Blenheim Vale, a disused correctional facility for boys in Kidlington, soon to be redeveloped as a police station for the new Thames Valley Police, into which Oxford City Police and Oxfordshire Constabulary are about to be merged. Thursday's and Morse's investigation leads to a property developer and corruption in high places including missing police evidence in Morse's last three investigations. Morse is in jail and Thursday lies shot as the episode closes.