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Inspector Morse, Season 1 — watch online on iFILM: three feature-length mysteries, ITV, 1987. The season introduces Chief Inspector Morse (John Thaw) — Oxford-educated, opinionated, opera-obsessed, and constitutionally allergic to paperwork — alongside his new partner, Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately), who spends most of these first three films quietly baffled by his boss.
Each episode runs nearly two hours and works as a standalone whodunit rooted in Oxford: a woman Morse knew personally turns up dead in a quiet back street; a member of the Foreign Examination Syndicate is poisoned with cyanide after overhearing something he shouldn't; and a churchwarder is stabbed on consecrated ground, leaving a vicar and his parishioners as the unlikely suspects. Closed worlds, too many secrets, a detective who solves cases in spite of himself.
The series set the template for British detective drama for a generation — and the character still holds up. Early guest turns include a young Rachel Weisz and Brian Cox. Stream Inspector Morse Season 1 online on iFILM.
3 episodes
S1·E1The Dead of Jericho
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.
S1·E2The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
Someone at Oxford's Foreign Examination Syndicate is selling exam secrets. Nicholas Quinn, a member of the board, overhears something he shouldn't know about and is soon found dead at his cottage, poisoned with cyanide - but Nicholas was deaf. Then crossword compiler Philip Ogleby has his skull smashed in. During his investigations, Morse is attracted to Monica Height. She works for the Syndicate and may be mixed up in the corruption which led to Quinn's murder, and perhaps to Ogleby's as well.
S1·E3Service of All the Dead
Morse investigates murder on hallowed ground. A quiet country church is an unlikely setting for the killing, and a vicar and his voluntary helpers are the unlikely suspects. Among them is Ruth Rawlinson, whom Morse is attracted to. Then it appears that a serial killer is at work.
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