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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 5 Episode 1 - Second Time Around
    8.1/10(8 votes)

    S5:E1

    The mysterious death of a former deputy police commissioner brings Morse into reluctant contact with an old rival, Ch Insp Dawson. Morse and Lewis, in uneasy tandem with Dawson, spot a link with the unsolved murder of a young girl 18 years earlier. To find the latest killer they have to unravel the first case again.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  2. undefined Season 7 Episode 1 - Deadly Slumber
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    S7:E1

    The owner of a private hospital is found murdered in his car, after a series of anonymous threatening letters. Suspicion falls on a retired book-maker whose daughter suffered severe brain damage as a result of negligence during an operation some years before. Morse spends a lot of effort in investigating the possibility that the dead man was criminally negligent, and concludes that he was. While he does his best to bring the killer to justice, Morse does not seem very troubled that at the end of the day he is unable to nail him.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  3. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - The Falls
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E1

    Rebus investigates a series of murders where the killer leaves distinctive clues by the butchered bodies of his victims.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  4. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - No Man Is an Island
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E5

    Personal crisis takes Hamish to a remote island from which he intends never to return. But he is not alone. Meanwhile, his absence from Lochdubh is keenly felt when his over-zealous replacement makes himself a nuisance.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  5. undefined Season 7 Episode 2 - The Day of the Devil
    7.9/10(9 votes)

    S7:E2

    Morse and Lewis hunt a violent rapist who has escaped from prison. They find themselves drawn into an under-world of satanists, and some of them seem more respectable than others.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  6. undefined Season 6 Episode 2 - Happy Families
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    S6:E2

    Business tycoon Sir John Balcombe is found murdered at his country house, Balcombe Castle, with no signs of a break-in. As a result, the dead man's wife and sons come under suspicion. Morse finds that the family is strangely untroubled, and several of his prime suspects have flawed characters and dark secrets - and then the Balcombe family suffers another killing. Meanwhile, Morse has to cope with journalists who try to turn his own personality into a story - and he also suffers from an unhelpful Chief Superintendant, covering for the station's usual boss, who puts pressure on him to crack the case in a hurry. In the end, though, Morse is vindicated and his various tormentors get their comeuppance.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  7. undefined Season 6 Episode 1 - Dead on Time
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    S6:E1

    Morse investigates the apparent suicide of a terminally ill Oxford don and finds he has a personal connection with the family. As the case develops, Lewis worries that Morse's professionalism is being undermined.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  8. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Fleshmarket Close
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    S2:E2

    A Kurdish asylum seeker is murdered on a notorious Edinburgh estate in an apparent race-hate attack, but Rebus suspects there's more to it. A local MSP reports a missing Kosovan girl, last seen with a known criminal, who also seems to have vanished.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  9. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - Black Book
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E1

    The body of a missing prostitute is found, and the circumstances recall an unsolved murder from twenty years before. Rebus is convinced that the prime suspect from the earlier case has struck again.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - The Great Lochdubh Salt Robbery
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S1:E1

    Police constable Hamish Macbeth is baffled by two apparently unrelated mysteries: a huge quantity of table salt has been stolen from Rory Campbell's general store; and Geordie Robb, a local bully, is missing. Hamish outwits his superiors when he makes a connection between the two mysteries.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Wee Jock's Lament
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E5

    A strange premonition, two escaped convicts on the run who injure Hamish's dog, Wee Jock, lead Hamish on a quest for revenge. TV John rounds up a posse to prevent Hamish from doing something he'll regret.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - A Perfectly Simple Explanation
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E1

    A hellfire sect leader sees the town as the new Gomorrah. Hamish's reputation is undermined and his tolerance stretched to the limit when he is denounced as the devil incarnate.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - Radio Lochdubh
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E4

    Hamish turns a deaf ear to the local pirate radio station which is having a remarkable influence on the town. But when the radio authority sends a defector van to close down transmission, he is caught up in a conflict of loyalties.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Whom the Gods Would Destroy
    6.7/10(15 votes)

    S1:E1

    Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate case involving one of the Oxford University's most prominent figures.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  15. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - The Lochdubh Deluxe
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E6

    A family feud at the funeral parlour comes to a head. It is suggested that space aliens have snatched a body from the local burial ground.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  16. undefined Season 3 Episode 7 - Destiny (1)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E7

    TV John's long-lost brother, the one-eyed, one-legged, one-armed Kenneth McIver, is Sprung from a South American gaol by millionaire Torquil Farquar McFarquar. Ex-patriate McFarquar has a passion for all things Scottish and has heard that Kenneth knows the whereabouts of the real Stone of Destiny, coronation stone of the ancient Scottish kings. Scenting a fortune in the offing, Kenneth sets off for Lochdubh, accompanied by mysterious hypnotist Ava Grimm. Meanwhile, TV John has had premonitions of the impending death of someone very close. How can the villagers convince him it's all in tile mind?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  17. undefined Season 3 Episode 8 - Destiny (2)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E8

    Kenneth and Ava have stolen the Stone of Destiny, and TV John is missing. Hamish, Isobel and a posse from Lochdubh embark on a death-defying trek across mountain and moorland in order to rescue their friend and save a treasured symbol of the nation's heritage. As adversity brings Hamish and Isobel closer together, myth begins to merge with reality and the ghosts of Scotland's past appear to help them on their way, but ultimately there's no salvation without sacrifice.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  18. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - The White Knight Stratagem
    5.8/10(6 votes)

    S1:E4

    When the acquaintances of a suicide victim are found murdered, opposing opinions about the investigation ignites a feud between Dr. Bell and an old adversary from the police department.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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  19. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Deferred Sentence
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E2

    Holidaying alone oil the island of Laggan-Laggan, Hamish is drawn into a twenty-year old mystery which has poisoned the community. Why do the islanders shun Hamish's hosts, the Catholic priest, Father McPhail and his Protestant sparring partner, Enoch McDuff? Anxious to avoid being caught in their inter-dominational crossfire, Hamish pretends to be Jewish. He is intrigued by Laura McDuff's allegations concerning the mysterious death of her mother all those years ago, but is his interest in her simply that of a policeman Who Suspects foul play?

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    Writer:Daniel Boyle

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Daniel Boyle Ratings Summary

"Second Time Around" is the best rated episode written by Daniel Boyle. It scored 8.1/10 from 8 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on February 20, 1991. It is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Deadly Slumber".