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The Best Episodes of Endeavour

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The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Endeavour Season 9 Episode 3 - Exeunt
    9.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Exeunt

    S9:E3

    A series of death notices in the Oxford Mail, each with a cryptic message, provides clues to Endeavour’s final investigation, while Thursday’s past catches up with him.

    Director:Kate Saxon
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  2. Endeavour Season 6 Episode 4 - Deguello
    9.1/10(9 votes)

    #2 - Deguello

    S6:E4

    When a librarian is gruesomely murdered at the Bodleian, Endeavour and Thursday have little to go on besides a set of muddy boot prints. With the two main suspects having their own motives for killing the librarian, Endeavour digs deeper into their backgrounds, tracking a trail that appears to connect to seemingly innocent college bequest.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Endeavour Season 9 Episode 2 - Uniform
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Uniform

    S9:E2

    Endeavour suspects a connection between a woman's disappearance and her past employer but another missing persons case demands his attention. This time, it's a notable artist, whose work adorns the covers of a series of paperback mysteries.

    Director:Nirpal Bhogal
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  4. Endeavour Season 6 Episode 1 - Pylon
    8.8/10(11 votes)

    #4 - Pylon

    S6:E1

    With the Cowley team scattered across Oxfordshire, Endeavour finds himself policing a lonely country patch, and back in uniform. His day job is a monotonous investigation of missing livestock and stolen tractors. But when he discovers the dead body of a missing schoolgirl, it opens this quiet backwater to the roar of Castle Gate CID – now staffed by Thursday and an old adversary, the newly promoted DCI Ronnie Box, alongside sidekick DS Alan Jago.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Endeavour Season 2 Episode 4 - Neverland
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #5 - Neverland

    S2:E4

    As 1966 draws to a close, the body of a disreputable journalist found in mysterious circumstances threatens to expose past horrors. As the investigation deepens, Endeavour and Thursday face corruption in Oxford's corridors of power.

    Director:Geoffrey Sax
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Endeavour Season 5 Episode 5 - Quartet
    8.7/10(10 votes)

    #6 - Quartet

    S5:E5

    An assassination attempt at an international sporting event opens a new case for Endeavour and Thursday, but their investigation is quickly brought to an unexpected end.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Endeavour Season 7 Episode 1 - Oracle
    8.7/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Oracle

    S7:E1

    Whilst Endeavour sees in 1970 at a Venetian opera, a grisly murder on an Oxford towpath speaks to Thursday's intuition. Back in Oxford, Endeavour meets a kindred spirit.

    Director:Shaun Evans
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  8. Endeavour Season 5 Episode 4 - Colours
    8.6/10(9 votes)

    #8 - Colours

    S5:E4

    A photo-shoot on an army base turns sinister when one of the models is found dead. But the investigation is complicated when Sam Thursday is revealed to be involved.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Endeavour Season 4 Episode 4 - Harvest
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    #9 - Harvest

    S4:E4

    When a body is found in Bramford Mere, a marshland outside of Oxford, everyone assumes they are the remains of Dr Matthew Laxman, an Oxford botanist who mysteriously disappeared near the site five years earlier.

    Director:Jim Loach
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Endeavour Season 6 Episode 2 - Apollo
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    #10 - Apollo

    S6:E2

    As the highly-anticipated moon landings of Apollo 11 draw near, Endeavour finds himself investigating the death of a promising young astrophysicist and his girlfriend. Their deaths seeming to be a result of a tragic car accident on first inspection, with the clues pointing to foul play, Endeavour enlists the help of an injured Thursday to uncover the truth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Endeavour Season 6 Episode 3 - Confection
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Confection

    S6:E3

    The murder of a chocolate factory owner during a local hunt leads Endeavour to the sleepy village of Chigton Green. When he learns of a vicious campaign of gossip and rumour, it seems likely that two murders are connected. One of the targets, a beautiful, single mother, captures Endeavour's attention, giving him food for thought about the future.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Endeavour Season 7 Episode 3 - Zenana
    8.5/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Zenana

    S7:E3

    Endeavour uncovers a potential link between a series of peculiar accidents leading him to an all-women Oxford college determined to eschew co-education.

    Director:Kate Saxon
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  13. Endeavour Season 1 Episode 2 - Fugue
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #13 - Fugue

    S1:E2

    There is a new kind of killer haunting the Oxford twilight. Endeavour and Thursday find the city's dreaming spires giving way to waking nightmare.

    Director:Tom Vaughan
    Writers:Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis

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  14. Endeavour Season 2 Episode 2 - Nocturne
    8.3/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Nocturne

    S2:E2

    A murder investigation sends Endeavour and DI Thursday to a girls' school which is haunted by memories of an atrocity committed a hundred years earlier.

    Director:Giuseppe Capotondi
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Endeavour Season 2 Episode 3 - Sway
    8.3/10(9 votes)

    #15 - Sway

    S2:E3

    As a multiple murderer haunts the city strangling married women with a silk stocking, Endeavour and DI Thursday's emotional lives are turned upside down.

    Director:Andy Wilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Endeavour Season 5 Episode 2 - Cartouche
    8.3/10(9 votes)

    #16 - Cartouche

    S5:E2

    Hollywood glamour comes to Oxford as the stars of a new horror movie sequel begin filming in the city. Meanwhile, the unexplained poisoning of a former detective sergeant leads Endeavour and Thursday to a local cinema, which is playing host the film's stars in a special event.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Endeavour Season 7 Episode 2 - Raga
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #17 - Raga

    S7:E2

    It's the lead up to 1970's general election and as racial tensions escalate in Oxford, tragedy strikes in an Indian restaurant, testing family loyalties.

    Director:Zam Salim
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  18. Endeavour Season 1 Episode 1 - Girl
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Girl

    S1:E1

    The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected despite Morse's theories. Chief Superintendent Bright, the new commanding officer of the Oxford City Police, unimpressed with Morse's zeal, protests to Thursday that the bagman's position is a Detective Sergeant's job and the young constable is too inexperienced. Following the shooting of a vicar, Morse is reduced to general duties for dismissing a beautiful, but mentally unstable girl as a suspect and must continue his investigations alone despite warnings of possible dismissal from his superiors.

    Director:Edward Bazalgette
    Writers:Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis

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  19. Endeavour Season 1 Episode 3 - Rocket
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #19 - Rocket

    S1:E3

    When a worker at a missile factory is murdered, Bright wants the case resolved quickly, but Endeavour remains unconvinced that the crime is such an open-and-shut case.

    Director:Craig Viveiros
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Endeavour Season 4 Episode 3 - Lazaretto
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #20 - Lazaretto

    S4:E3

    Whispers that Cowley General contains a cursed ward - and a seemingly innocuous death - set off a chain of events that lead Endeavour to investigate.

    Director:Börkur Sigthorsson
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Endeavour Season 4 Episode 1 - Game
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #21 - Game

    S4:E1

    As Endeavour and Thursday deal with the heartbreak of Joan's departure, a death at East Cowley Slipper Baths hurls Oxford's Finest into their darkest adventure.

    Director:Ashley Pearce
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Endeavour Season 8 Episode 2 - Scherzo
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Scherzo

    S8:E2

    Morse and the team are called to investigate the murder of a taxi driver found dead in his cab on the outskirts of Oxford, and worry that a recent string of assaults on cab drivers has escalated to murder. As the inquiry unfolds, the detective finds the case hits too close to home and starts to retreat from those close to him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Endeavour Season 8 Episode 3 - Terminus
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Terminus

    S8:E3

    It is the winter of 1971 and the team is split up by a snowstorm while investigating the murder of a college don, and Endeavour is stranded at an abandoned hotel where he becomes the subject of a revenge plot.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Endeavour Season 9 Episode 1 - Prelude
    7.8/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Prelude

    S9:E1

    Endeavour's return to duty at Castle Gate with a newfound sobriety coincides with a gruesome discovery in a college garden linked to an Oxford orchestra.

    Director:Shaun Evans
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  25. Endeavour Season 8 Episode 1 - Striker
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Striker

    S8:E1

    Opening the series in 1971, a death threat to Oxford Wanderers’ star striker Jack Swift places Endeavour and his team at the heart of the glitz and glamour of 1970s football, exposing the true cost of success and celebrity, and with it, a deep-rooted division that is soon reflected much closer to home.

    Director:Shaun Evans
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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Best Episodes Summary

"Exeunt" is the best rated episode of "Endeavour". It scored 9.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Kate Saxon and written by Russell Lewis, it aired on 3/12/2023. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Deguello".