The Best Episodes Written By Colin Dexter

Every TV Episode Written by Colin Dexter Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 0 Episode 4 - The Wench is Dead
    8.7/10(6 votes)

    #1 - The Wench is Dead

    S0:E4

    While Morse is in hospital for a bleeding ulcer, he takes an interest in an 1859 murder and becomes convinced its resolution was a miscarriage of justice.

    Director:N/A

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  2. undefined Season 0 Episode 2 - The Daughters of Cain
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    #2 - The Daughters of Cain

    S0:E2

    An Oxford professor and fund raiser is stabbed to death at home with a weapon that is yet to be stolen from a university museum.

    Director:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Fugue
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #3 - 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:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Girl
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #4 - 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:N/A

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  5. undefined Season 0 Episode 3 - Death Is Now My Neighbour
    8.1/10(8 votes)

    #5 - Death Is Now My Neighbour

    S0:E3

    When the next-door neighbour of a murdered woman is also killed, Morse suspects the first shooting may have been an error.

    Director:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Expiation
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #6 - Expiation

    S1:E3

    When an Oxford housewife is found hanged in her home, Lewis and Hathaway unearth a far darker murder case than the initial suicide verdict suggests.

    Director:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - The Dead of Jericho
    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #7 - The Dead of Jericho

    S1:E1

    Morse is passed over for promotion and gets a new working partner in the shape of Lewis, who is not sure what to make of his new boss. Their first case together is a murder, when Anne Staveley, who was Morse's friend in a choral society, is found hanged in her house in the Jericho area of Oxford. The death looks like suicide, but Morse has his own reasons for treating the case as a murder investigation. A parking ticket and Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, come to his assistance.

    Director:N/A

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  8. undefined Season 0 Episode 1 - The Way Through the Woods
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    #8 - The Way Through the Woods

    S0:E1

    When a serial killer is attacked and left for dead in prison, his dying confession disavows one of the murders he had previously confessed to. Morse wants to reopen the case.

    Director:N/A

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Colin Dexter Ratings Summary

"The Wench is Dead" is the best rated episode written by Colin Dexter. It scored 8.7/10 based on 6 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 11/11/1998 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Daughters of Cain".