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Sunday 8:00 PM on ITV Premiered Jan 02, 2012 Between Seasons

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A prequel to Inspector Morse, Endeavour was a one-off drama marking the 25th anniversary of the launch of the original show in 1987. Shaun Evans played the younger Endeavour Morse in a story in which we discovered what shaped the great detective, and where he got his love for crosswords, cal music, real ale and c cars. Following the success of the film, ITV decided to commission a full series.

Endeavour Morse is a Mammoth Screen production for ITV.

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AIRED ON 5/5/2013

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Season 1 : Episode 4

Episode Guide

S 1 : Ep 4	Home	Aired 5/5/13
S 1 : Ep 3	Rocket	Aired 4/28/13
S 1 : Ep 2	Fugue	Aired 4/21/13
S 1 : Ep 1	Girl	Aired 4/14/13
S 1 :	Endeavour	Aired 1/2/12

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Shaun Evans	DC Endeavour Morse
Roger Allam	DI Fred Thursday

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In 1965, a lonely, reserved, but also slightly arrogant young police detective investigates the murder of a 15-year-old girl in Oxford.

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By orswel, Jan 05, 2012

The writing of a "prequel" usually makes great play with what we already know about the leading characters, and this early case of the future Inspector Morse drops lots of details to make old Morse fans smile. The young Detective Constable eyes a maroon Jaguar keenly, discovers a taste for real ale (his abandonment of abstinence in the course of the episode is the first hint that he's beginning to lose his up-tight reserve) and is dangerously entranced by a former opera singer. We learn what we always guessed from the John Thaw shows, that Morse's love of music stems from its providing solace for him during a lonely and drab childhood. We also meet a young academic , Alexander Reece, who, as Sir Alexander, would reappear in Morse's life (and be murdered) in the 1989 episode, "The Last Enemy", where he was played by Barry Foster. All these links are interesting to long-term Morse fans, but writer Russell Lewis also can't resist the schoolboy in-jokes that he introduced into his episodes for "Lewis" - Morse lodges at a grim boarding-house, where he is told that he has a room previously occupied by a Mr. Bleaney (the suicidal eponym of a Philip Larkin poem), and that the other two current guests, whom we never see, are a Mr. Goldberg and a Mr. McCann - the cross-talking hit-men of Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party". Oh, dear. Still, the mystery is quite interesting, the period detail is handled sparingly (just one reference by a cabinet minister to "Harold" and a Secret Service type to "Cliveden") and the actors are good.moreless
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