Inspector Morse: The Infernal Serpent

Episode score 8.4 Great

The Infernal Serpent

  • 12.
  • Season: 4
  • Episode: 1
  • First Aired: 1/3/1990

EPISODE OVERVIEW

1 Review | 20 Votes

Morse investigates a tangled web of academic intrigue around the baffling murder of Dr Julian Dear, who was a college don and a famous environmentalist. Dear was killed just minutes before he was due to give a controversial lecture.

It soon appears that the most respectable of academic families can have skeletons in the cupboard, but Morse has to put his job on the line to get at the truth. Add a recap »

Writers:
Alma Cullen
Director:
John Madden
Stars:
John Thaw (Chief Inspector Morse)
Kevin Whately (Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis)
Recurring Role:
Colin Dexter (Man at funeral)
Guest Star:
Irene Richard (Imogen Garrett)
Sydnee Blake (Mrs McGovern)
Michelle Wesson (Mandy Hopkirk)
Catherine Terris (Hopkirk's housekeeper)
Phillipa Howell (Ward Sister)
Denys Hawthorne (Chief Superintendent Rennie)
John Joyce (Gray)
Pearce Quigley (Mick McGovern)
Geoffrey Palmer (Matthew Copley-Barnes)
David Neal (Dr Julian Dear)
Michael Attwell (Parsons)
Ian Brimble (Phil Hopkirk)
Cheryl Campbell (Sylvie Maxton)
George Costigan (Ron Garrett)
Barbara Leigh-Hunt (Blanche Copley-Barnes)
Tom Wilkinson (Jake Normington)
  • Rated PG in both the UK and Ireland edit »
  • With Dr Grayling Russell gone from the show, there was a vacancy for a regular pathologist - but until The Way Through the Woods (1995), a number of different pathologists appear, all of them just once, and some not even named. edit »
Show Score 8.0 great
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