Inspector Morse

On the data. Three series, one detective, and a shape that is unusual on television: a thirteen year run, a sequel that carries on from the lead's death, and a prequel that lands on the first episode of the original. The counting is where sources disagree, so it is worth setting out. Inspector Morse is thirty three films, January 1987 to November 2000, and every source agrees on thirty three, but not on how they divide. The DVD sets call it eight series. What is really there is seven proper runs from 1987 to 1993 and then five annual one-offs from 1995 to 2000, which the box sets gather up as series eight. Series two is the other small trap: it opened with The Wolvercote Tongue on Christmas Day 1987 and finished in March 1988, so you will see it dated either way. Lewis is also thirty three, and here the disagreement is real rather than cosmetic. Reputation went out in January 2006 as a one-off, and the first proper series of three followed in 2007. Wikipedia folds the pilot into series one and calls it four episodes; other sources hold it out. This page holds it out, which is why the series here add up to thirty two and the total is still thirty three. From series seven onwards each story was cut into two hour-long parts for first broadcast in the United Kingdom and shown whole everywhere else, so the same three series are counted as nine films or as eighteen episodes depending on where you are watching. Neither count is wrong. Endeavour is thirty six: a 2012 pilot and nine series, thirty five films, running from 1965 to 1972. Series five is the long one at six films, and series seven, eight and nine are three each. On the books, all thirteen novels were adapted, though several were loosened almost past recognition. The Riddle of the Third Mile became The Last Enemy and The Secret of Annexe 3 became The Secret of Bay 5B, and in both cases the setting, the victim and the solution were changed. Traffic ran the other way too. The Wolvercote Tongue was written for television in 1987 and Colin Dexter turned it into a novel, The Jewel That Was Ours, four years later. The screen changed the books in smaller ways as well: Morse drove a Lancia in the early novels and a Jaguar afterwards, because that is what the programme had put him in. Morse's first name is withheld for twelve novels and given up in Death Is Now My Neighbour in 1996, which is a piece of information the prequel is named after, so anyone starting with Endeavour has had the answer handed to them before the question exists. On what comes next: Endeavour ended in 2023 and its writer has described it as finished, tying the last scene to the first Morse episode. No fourth series in this world has been announced. Colin Dexter died in 2017, so the thirteen novels are all there will be.

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