John Thaw

Helped by the church cleaner, Inspector Morse investigates five ruthless and gruesome killings in and around a quiet country church.

Real ale buff Inspector Morse is in his element when he investigates foul play at a family-run brewery.

Harry Field was an artist, a raconteur, a drinker, and not averse to forging the odd painting. When he is mysteriously killed, Morse takes over the investigation and is plunged into the arty world of Harry's Bohemian friends.

Inspector Morse returns when a schoolgirl from a wealthy family is missing. Morse is convinced she has been murdered and his investigations reveal that there is more going on at her exclusive school than meets the eye. But before he has unravelled the mystery, he finds another murder on his hands.

In Episode 1 of the series, Inspector Morse, who never quite finds romance, thinks that at last things will turn out differently. He meets the beautiful Anne Stavely, but it is a love not destined to be when Anne is found hanging from a beam under mysterious circumstances. Morse suspects murder and sets out to discover the truth with the help of Sergeant Lewis.

James Kavanagh Q.C., brilliant, relentless and sometimes exasperating, he will push to extremes to see justice served--even as his professional triumphs mask a private life at times more troubled than those of his clients.

Inspector Morse is called in to investigate one of the most puzzling murder cases yet. Someone is selling examination secrets at Oxford and making a killing in more ways than one. Nicholas Quinn is the hard-of-hearing member of an examinations board until one day he is found dead at home. Can Morse match up the clues with the killer?--Container.

"On a June morning in 1859, the body of a young woman was found by the Oxford Canal. In the present day, recovering after an operation in hospital, Morse is visited by Adele Cecil (Judy Loe) and American scholar Millie Van Buren (Lisa Eichhorn) whose book on the murder becomes his preoccupation. Morse soon becomes convinced that the two boatmen publicly hanged for the murder of the respectably married Joanna Franks were the victims of a gross miscarriage...

Inspector Morse and his partner solve mysteries and bring murderers to justice.

Brilliant, relentless and sometimes exasperating, James Kavanagh, Q.C. will push to extremes to see justice servied--even as his professional triumphs mask a private life at times more troubled than those of his clients.