Inspector Morse, Series 8
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Description
John Thaw stars as Detective Chief Inspector Morse in five feature-length crime dramas, where the famed beer and classical music loving sleuth solves intriguing murder mysteries. The final special culminates in the famed detective's final outing.
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- EPISODE 1
The Way Through the Woods
The Lovers' Lane killer is dead. The man accused of killing five people has himself been killed in a prison fight before his trial. But is the case now closed? The body of a young woman on a day trip to Oxford was never found and Morse is convinced that her remains are in Wydam Woods. But will the woods at Wydham yield their secrets to the investigators? Featuring Malcolm Storry (The Last Of The Mohicans) and Michelle Fairley (Births, Marriages And Deaths).
The Lovers' Lane killer is dead. The man accused of killing five people has himself been killed in a prison fight before his trial. But is the case now closed? The body of a young woman on a day trip to Oxford was never found and Morse is convinced that her remains are in Wydam Woods. But will the woods at Wydham yield their secrets to the investigators? Featuring Malcolm Storry (The Last Of The Mohicans) and Michelle Fairley (Births, Marriages And Deaths).
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- EPISODE 2
The Daughters of Cain
Murder strikes at the heart of Oxford's academic world when a retired university fellow is cold-bloodedly stabbed to death. A complicated investigation uncovers undergraduate suicide, drugs in the college and the subsequent dismissal of a loyal college scout. Suspects abound and so do their alibis. Then a ceremonial knife goes missing from a museum and a body is washed up on the banks of the river Cherwell. Featuring Tony Haygarth (Our Friends In The North, Bramwell).
Murder strikes at the heart of Oxford's academic world when a retired university fellow is cold-bloodedly stabbed to death. A complicated investigation uncovers undergraduate suicide, drugs in the college and the subsequent dismissal of a loyal college scout. Suspects abound and so do their alibis. Then a ceremonial knife goes missing from a museum and a body is washed up on the banks of the river Cherwell. Featuring Tony Haygarth (Our Friends In The North, Bramwell).
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- EPISODE 3
Death Is Now My Neighbour
Murder strikes in an Oxfordshire village and exactly 24 hours later another murder takes place using the same gun. Investigations begin to unearth links between the two but the murders also take Morse and Lewis into the hothouse atmosphere of the election for the Master of Lonsdale College, over which the malicious retiring master presides. Featuring Richard Briers (The Good Life), Judy Loe (The Chief) and Maggie Steed (Pie In The Sky).
Murder strikes in an Oxfordshire village and exactly 24 hours later another murder takes place using the same gun. Investigations begin to unearth links between the two but the murders also take Morse and Lewis into the hothouse atmosphere of the election for the Master of Lonsdale College, over which the malicious retiring master presides. Featuring Richard Briers (The Good Life), Judy Loe (The Chief) and Maggie Steed (Pie In The Sky).
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- EPISODE 4
The Wench Is Dead
Morse investigates a murder that takes him away from the familiar setting of twentieth century Oxford to solving a canal murder in Oxford in 1859. Morse becomes convinced that the boatmen publicly hanged for the murder were victims of a gross miscarriage of justice and, nearly 140 years after their deaths on the gallows, sets out to establish the true facts of the case. Featuring Lisa Eichhorn (Yanks), Judy Loe (The Chief) and Clare Holman (The Lakes).
Morse investigates a murder that takes him away from the familiar setting of twentieth century Oxford to solving a canal murder in Oxford in 1859. Morse becomes convinced that the boatmen publicly hanged for the murder were victims of a gross miscarriage of justice and, nearly 140 years after their deaths on the gallows, sets out to establish the true facts of the case. Featuring Lisa Eichhorn (Yanks), Judy Loe (The Chief) and Clare Holman (The Lakes).
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- EPISODE 5
The Remorseful Day
Morse faces his final challenge when Yvonne Harrison is murdered and suspicions are focused on three men connected to the Harrison family. But when Morse is suddenly taken ill, it is left to Lewis to wrap up the case. Starring alongside John Thaw and Kevin Whately are Clare Holman (The Lakes) and Jesse Birdsall (Bugs).
Morse faces his final challenge when Yvonne Harrison is murdered and suspicions are focused on three men connected to the Harrison family. But when Morse is suddenly taken ill, it is left to Lewis to wrap up the case. Starring alongside John Thaw and Kevin Whately are Clare Holman (The Lakes) and Jesse Birdsall (Bugs).