Final endeavour

This last episode of the Inspector Morse prequel had issues to wrap up — and did it with style. From brilliantly excruciating moments to its intriguing ending, final endeavour, it stayed true to itself.

That was the main emotion felt by Endeavour fans as the credits rolled on the series finale. Not only had this excellent drama gone out on a high, but beloved character DCI Fred Thursday had survived. The whole Thursday lot lasted out the series, with barely a scratch on them. Breathe out. What a relief. In the finale, Thursday disappointed his protegee so deeply that Morse severed all ties with him.

Final endeavour

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Series nine, which ended in March, were the final scenes ever shot for the show which was filmed in Oxford. The pilot episode of Endeavour was screened in and attracted 8. Janice Troup, head of ITV programme publicity, confirmed in March that millions of viewers tuned in to the final series. She said: "The first episode of Endeavour series nine - Prelude - which aired on Sunday, February 26, consolidated with an audience of five million viewers. Millions of viewers tuned in to see the final episode on Sunday, March 12, and critics gave it glowing reviews, including the final scene at Blenheim Palace. In the final moments, Endeavour star Shaun Evans left the stately home following a choir performance in a black Jaguar, driving past John Thaw's iconic red Jaguar.

This last episode of the Inspector Morse prequel had issues to wrap up — and did it with style. From brilliantly excruciating moments to its intriguing ending, it stayed true to itself. F ans of a TV show always fear the finale will end with death. In the case of Endeavour, which has just bowed out after 11 years, we knew the police protagonist — Sgt Morse, played by Shaun Evans — must survive. He needs to hand over the role to John Thaw in Inspector Morse, which preceded Endeavour on our screens but follows it in the story of the Thames Valley detective created by Colin Dexter. The writer of all 36 episodes, Russell Lewis, acknowledged that the real challenge of the last Endeavour was to explain why, in the 33 episodes of Morse, he never once mentions Thursday. The logical reason is that the earlier years were written later, but Lewis had to make this psychologically plausible. But that body turned out not to be his, and neither did a second one. A subplot involved death notices in the Oxford Mail, sometimes for people still alive. Screenwriter Lewis included lots of neat quotations from the franchise: the young copper singing in a choir matched a scene in the first Inspector Morse, a shot of the officer in a hospital bed shadowed one in the final Morse.

Final endeavour

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Joan insists on driving as Morse collapses alone. Series nine, which ended in March, were the final scenes ever shot for the show which was filmed in Oxford. April Sort by Oldest first Newest first Highest scored Lowest scored. It's great that something can live for us so much that you would feel bereft when it's done. Win and Thursday take an emotional farewell of their house as Morse, on his way to choir rehearsal at Blenheim Palace, stops by to take Thursday out for a farewell beer, and Sam, now sober, announces he is joining the force. And I imagine they'd be pretty depressing. His first case immerses him in a world he loves—orchestral music—where the performances are divine, but the personnel can be petty, dictatorial, and even homicidal. And then it's independent of you. When one of the group's founding members disappears during a writing session, Morse and Thursday are thrust out into the dark cold Oxford night to try and find him. We got new insight into the beleaguered and brilliant Endeavour Morse Shaun Evans by watching him evolve from a neophyte detective constable into someone more like the jaded loner played by John Thaw in the original series. But then at 10 o'clock when I knew that it had finished, my phone just exploded with messages, emails, texts from people who I hadn't seen for years and years and years. What's all this about? Thursday can never see Morse again.

Clearly the killer knew their victim well, but who are they? Fortunately our hero, music-loving DS Endeavour Morse, who is having a decorous flirtation with Poole, is in the audience.

Andy Wilson. An Indian takeaway driver is lured to his death at a flat of a TV cooking-show personality, Oberon Prince, who has gone missing. And how lucky we are as humans to have stories and to be able to tell one another stories. When further tests are carried out on Barry Finch's corpse, traces of the poison are once again discovered, and Morse finds himself on the trail of a possible triple murderer. Of its staff only organist Leslie Garnier can recall him having a secret conversation. Also in episode 1, which is directed by Evans, Morse and Thursday investigate a gangland slaying targeting a police informant, known to Thursday. The passengers seek refuge at a hotel where years earlier there had been a massacre. Read the rules here. Mid-October Chief Superintendent Bright's wife is fatally electrocuted in a freak accident and Morse's claim that an insurance fraud of buying up life policies viaticals and then killing off the insured is behind the accidents is dismissed by Thursday and Bright. Craig Viveiros.