The Best Episodes Written By Colin Dexter

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.7/10(6 votes)

   #1 - The Wench is Dead

   S0:E411/11/1998

   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.

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   8.5/10(8 votes)

   #2 - The Daughters of Cain

   S0:E211/27/1996

   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.

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   8.3/10(10 votes)

   #3 - Fugue

   S1:E24/21/2013

   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.

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   8.2/10(13 votes)

   #4 - Girl

   S1:E14/14/2013

   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.

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   8.1/10(8 votes)

   #5 - Death Is Now My Neighbour

   S0:E311/19/1997

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

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   7.9/10(7 votes)

   #6 - Expiation

   S1:E33/4/2007

   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.

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   6.9/10(11 votes)

   #7 - The Dead of Jericho

   S1:E11/6/1987

   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.

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   6.7/10(11 votes)

   #8 - The Way Through the Woods

   S0:E111/29/1995

   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.

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