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

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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. January 1970. Morse, on holiday in Venice, strikes up a sexual relationship with Violetta Talenti. During Morse's two-week absence, Thursday investigates the murder of Molly Andrews on a towpath and suspects her boyfriend, Carl Sturgis, but he has an alibi. Come April, Morse is asked by Chief Superintendent Bright to take a second look at the case, and he is led to scientists researching "latent brain activity" ( ESP) using volunteers, one of whom was Andrews. Soon, one of the researchers, Dr. Benford, is found dead; Benford had a highly gifted volunteer, Jenny Tate, who saw the murder in her mind. Morse has his wallet stolen in the street and an old Oxford classmate, Ludo, comes to his aid; Ludo later turns out to be Violetta's husband. [q] 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. In addition to the face-in-the-mirror scene, Endeavour includes another recognition of Thaw. His daughter, Abigail Thaw, appears as the editor of the Oxford Mail, whom Morse questions. [19] Abigail Thaw, daughter of the original Morse actor John Thaw, played the part of Dorothea Frazil in a scene at the Oxford Mail. At the end of the scene she pauses for a moment, then asks if she has met him before, eventually noting it may have been "in another life". [20]

a b Young, Kari (30 April 2018). "13 Things We Know (and Think We Know) About Endeavour Series 6 – We Will (Once Again) Be Dragged Through the Morse-Joan Thursday Storyline". popsugar.co.uk. San Francisco: Popsugar, Inc. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018 . Retrieved 18 June 2022. 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). 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]Hooton, Christopher (12 March 2012). "ITV commissions full series of Morse drama Endeavour". Metro. Northcliffe House, Kensington High Street: DMG Media. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012 . Retrieved 18 June 2022. 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. This is fun with the detective show,” says Shaun Evans. “There's a real lightness and Kevin was fantastic.” After ten phenomenally successful years, producers Mammoth Screen, screenwriter Russell Lewis, Shaun Evans and Roger Allam have mutually decided to bring the internationally renowned Endeavour to a close with Season 9, currently filming in Oxford (Season 9).

The fourth episode of series 3, "Coda" has Jerome Hogg in a small role; Hogg was also seen in the Morse episode "Greeks Bearing Gifts". [21] Additionally, the episode "Prey" (series 3, episode 3) is set at Crevecoeur Hall, the setting for "The Dead of Winter" (episode 13) of Lewis. One of the last lines in series 8, episode 3 (Terminus), "It's beginning to thaw", is also considered to be a nod to Thaw's portrayal of the character. [22] [23] [24] MASTERPIECE Executive Producer Susanne Simpson adds, “ Endeavour has been one of our most beloved MASTERPIECE series. Though we hate to see it end, we have been so proud to present this wonderful series to our viewers.” Morse is drinking too much and struggling to cope with the effects of events in Series 7, including the death of Violetta. He is missing work, and the drinking is beginning to affect his performance. His colleagues are aware of the problem and feel the need to handle it carefully. Fred Thursday repeats his advice to Morse that "the drink is a good servant but a poor master" and advises him to take leave and get help. Griffiths, Emmy (27 September 2021). "Endeavour: Viewers are saying the same thing about season eight finale". Hello!. Wellington House, 69-71 Upper Ground London. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022 . Retrieved 18 June 2022. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: location ( link) Series 1 was released on DVD on 6 May 2013, series 2 on 5 May 2014, series 3 on 1 February 2016, and series 4 on 30 January 2017. [34] DVD ReleasesDetective Chief Inspector (DCI) (formerly Detective Inspector), Thames Valley Police CID, Castle Gate 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. 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. In the closing moments, as Thursday asks Morse where he sees himself in 20 years, Morse looks in the rear view mirror and the face of Thaw is shown in the reflection. At the same time, the original series music begins and plays through the credits. This effect is repeated in the closing scenes of the last episode of series 9.