Endeavour

Endeavour's last ever series has arrived on ITV1 - here's a full run down of who's on the cast. The hit detective drama returns for its ninth and final.

Meanwhile, grisly London business turns up in Oxford and a criminal from the Smoke is brutally murdered in a derelict warehouse. James Doherty plays Lee James Anderson plays Fergus

Endeavour returns for season 9 on ITV but who stars in the Inspector Morse prequel series? Plus guest stars and returning actors.

[ITVX](https://www.itv.com/watch/endeavour/2a1229?gclid=CjwKCAiA9NGfBhBvEiwAq5vSyxPCif6BZXZdqZW3OeenZKQZaJb3DKVDL6lzwQi8iOnuIoz58k7I4RoCxJoQAvD_BwE) now. He has also directed episodes of [Casualty](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/soaps/eastenders-nigel-harman-casuality-clinic-lead-newsupdate/) and Endeavour, and has directed the first episode of Endeavour season 9. Crookshanks and has also had roles in Lovesick, The Crown, Shetland, Man Down, Privates, Taggart and Scottish crime drama, [Guilt](https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-6qlfuh/guilt/). [subscribe now](http://radiotimes.com/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article). It opens in the spring of 1972 with two unexplained deaths leading Endeavour and Thursday to the Oxford Concert Orchestra. He also stars in BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series [Conversations from a Long Marriage](https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/radio/joanna-lumley-roger-allam-conversations-from-a-long-marriage/) opposite Dame Joanna Lumley, to name a few of his appearances. He has also starred in Medici, Pennyworth, The Loch and That was so vast with Fred fighting in North Africa and the Italian campaign which was pretty awful. "And there is something – something goes wrong in it that results in a kind of parting of the ways for Morse and Thursday. Morse's friend, colleague and former roommate, Strange is a younger version of Morse’s boss from the original Inspector Morse series. So he has taken some time off and been away for a number of months in what is said to be the West Country to get his act together. Our two detectives find themselves entering a new era of change both professionally and personally with the return of some familiar faces along the way including Fred's son Sam, who arrives back from Northern Ireland following his service in the British Army.

Endeavour is returning for its ninth and final series. The much-loved Morse prequel follows the life of young Inspector Morse at the beginning of his career ...

Abigail is the daughter of John Thaw, who played Morse in Inspector Morse and she has also starred in Black Mirror and the BBC medical drama Casualty. James Bradshaw plays Dr Max DeBryn and he has starred in The Grimleys and Sara has appeared in The Crown and Channel 4 show Man Down. Sean has starred in the mini-series Gunpowder and acted on stage. Caroline is well known for her role as Andrea Clayton in the ITV soap Jack is also known for his roles in The Imitation Game and the crime series Pennyworth. Anton has also starred in Game of Thrones, played Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in The veteran Detective Inspector Fred Thursday has worked alongside and taken Endeavour under his wing since the first series. Shaun Evans as Endeavour: Playing Endeavour, the young Inspector Morse, since the series began is Shaun Evans. In the opening episode, it's spring, 1972. And so his isolation and lonesomeness is completely cemented." Endeavour is returning for its ninth and final series.

Endeavour's drinking took him to the brink in Series 8. As Series 9 arrives, here's a recap of his struggles, Joan and Strange's romance, and Fred and Win's ...

[Prelude’](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/endeavour-series-9-episode-1-review-prelude-to-the-ending/), Morse investigates the death of an orchestra leader while Fred uncovers an unsettling connection to a past case when ‘London business’ turns up once again in Oxford… It turned out to be a conspiracy between the surviving relatives and friends of the unstable young man found responsible for the original killings, for which Morse found himself at the centre (the No. [Striker](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/endeavour-series-8-episode-1-review-the-inspector-morse-transition-begins/)’ – an Oxford college secretary killed by a parcel bomb at work, and a death threat against a Northern Irish star player in the Oxford Wanderers football team. [father-figure](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/endeavour-why-isnt-fred-thursday-in-morses-later-life/), Fred told Morse to seek help and to “break the habit before it breaks” him. [Scherzo](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/endeavour-series-8-episode-2-review-morse-haunted-by-ghosts-of-his-past/)’ was partly just that – a light and playful interlude, this one riffing on 1970s sex comedies with a nudist colony setting – combined with a darker story about an estranged father murdering the men involved in an illegal distribution network for blue films in which his daughter had performed. By the next morning, he accepted Fred’s offer and agreed to take leave to deal with his drink problem. The dance went well and Jim proved himself a gentleman when, out of Joan’s earshot, he curtly told off a cabbie who’d described her in sexist terms. While Endeavour was on a downward spiral, his former housemate Strange was on the way up. In Series 8, she was back from Stevenage, living in Oxford with a housemate, and working as a Welfare Officer. In Series 8, that transformation leapt ahead, taking Endeavour to the brink. Fred told Bright that after the Venetian ordeal, Morse “walks a step slower” and had “lost some of his bounce.” One thing’s for sure, said Fred, he was no longer the kid that got off the coach from Carshall-Newtown. As Series 9 arrives, here’s a recap of his struggles, Joan and Strange’s romance, and Fred and Win’s missing soldier son Sam.

If you're a fan of murder mysteries with scenic backdrops, puzzling plots and familiar faces, here are our top picks to celebrate the return of Endeavour.

[Midsomer Murders](https://www.hellomagazine.com/tags/midsomer-murders/) is one of the UK's longest-running detective dramas. Former Death in Paradise star Ben Miller leads the cast of this brand new detective drama set at Cambridge University. The esteemed actor even revealed he would be up for bringing the show back for a reboot. Well, PBS original Miss Scarlett and the Duke is exactly that. Five series are available to watch, with another two on the way. A Cambridgeshire clergyman finds himself investigating a series of mysterious crimes in his small village in this 1950s drama. Like Vera, Shetland is adapted from a series of novels by best-selling crime writer Ann Cleeves. The series began - like Endeavour - as a one-off in 2012 but proved so popular that it will soon return for its ninth series! Emmy-nominated actress Ashley Jenson stars as a PR whizz turned amateur sleuth in this quirky and irreverent series based on M. Over the years, the show has featured a succession of lovable British detectives who find themselves like a fish out of water when they join the police force on the luscious Caribbean island named Saint Marie. Set during and after the Second World War, it begins by following DCI Christopher Foyle in his tireless effort to pursue criminals taking advantage of the confusion the war has created. If you're a fan of murder mysteries with scenic backdrops, puzzling plots, and familiar faces, look no further as we've put together our top recommendations that we think fans of Endeavour will enjoy…

An unresolved Series 2 case is back for Endeavour's final run. Here's a reminder of the 'Neverland' abuse cover-up.

[Sway](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/endeavour-series-2-episode-3-review-sway/)’, when stabbing victim and Burridge’s employee Norman Parkis was said to have lived there as a child. We never really closed the circle at the end of ‘Neverland’ and this is an attempt to do that. The traumatising abuse suffered by the Blenheim Vale children – or as the report would have it “extraneous matters” – was hushed up, one scandal of many, unresolved…until now. We are also of a view that further investigation into other extraneous matters would not be in the national interest, to which end, all investigative materials relating to Blenheim Vale Boys’ Home are to be sealed for 50 Years.” He was later revealed to have been part of a child abuse ring operating in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the now-derelict Blenheim Vale Boys’ Home – the site of which Landesman Construction planned to redevelop as the new police Divisional HQ. Four men had colluded in the historic child abuse at Blenheim Vale: Assistant Chief Constable Clive Deare, town hall Alderman Gerald Wintergreen, Josiah Landesman and Dr Fairbridge, the home’s doctor who was well aware of the abuse and not only helped to cover it up but also allowed the sexual abuse of his young daughter Angela. Landesman was introduced as a wealthy pillar of the community whose company donated £1000 to the Police Widows and Orphans Fund. Quite possibly) and was in Oxford investigating the disappearance of his mother Brenda in September 1963. That company was first mentioned on Endeavour all the way back in Series 1 episode ‘Home’. Characters, place names, and in-jokes for vigilant viewers criss-cross them all, and nowhere more than in [Russell Lewis](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/endeavour-s-russell-lewis-on-the-show-s-longevity-we-re-getting-very-near-the-end/)’ reference-packed prequel. The murder victim was named Andrew Lewis (a Lewis from the North-East? From Colin Dexter’s novels to the Inspector Morse TV adaptation to spin-offs Lewis and Endeavour,

Endeavour returns to ITV for episode 1 of season 9 this week but who appears alongside Shaun Evans in the cast of Prelude?

- James Doherty as Mr Lee - Nicholas Boulton as John Graham-Scott - Simon Harrison as Ronnie Box

Endeavour, the Inspector Morse prequel, is finishing after nine seasons. · Endeavour: Roger Allam teases final · Related articles.

Express.co.uk has all there is to know about how to watch Endeavour season nine and what to expect from the series. And I feel like we’ve satisfied that." Starring Shaun Evans as the titular character and Roger Allam as his partner Fred Thursday, together, they investigate some of the toughest crimes affecting their side of the world. "We’d like to thank Shaun and Roger and all the other members of the Endeavour family on and off screen, and to the show’s fans both in the UK and abroad." This is most likely to be because this will be the final season of Endeavour as the network confirmed the news last year. How many episodes are in Endeavour season 9?

An incriminating note written on sheet music, a flirtatious musician, a pint of bitter … this intricate, sure-footed crime show's farewell is even more ...

In this episode, Morse has returned to work after going to Lyme Regis to dry out following the alcoholic debacles of the last series. Whether she is envious of the latter’s talent or imagines Christina is having an affair with Lermontov (Nicholas Farrell) is unclear. This kind of barmy plot device is regularly the fate of classical musicians in TV and cinema. The scene is Oxford, 1972, and Morse is a man out of temper with the times. Everybody, not just the violinists, is highly strung, has a silly name, and expresses themselves with rococo hubris or self-contempt. The tailor of Morse’s elegant suit is a stranger to flares, his barber intolerant of mutton-chop sideburns.

Past cases make an ominous return in an enjoyable and unavoidably poignant episode of Endeavour. Spoilers.

[Shaun Evans](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/endeavour-season-9-shaun-evans-melancholy-sad-satisfying-ending/) (once again the director of some of this drama’s most nuanced performances from its regular cast) conveyed Fred and Morse’s awkward affection to great affect. It will air on PBS Masterpiece in the US at a later date. Like Christ in the desert, Morse was tempted three times in the episode (Dorothea, Dr DeBryn and surprise returnee Ronnie Box all offered him drinks that he refused). But when he finally reached out for Joan, too late, and found her out of grasp, it took the ground out from under him. Sir Alex and Christina epitomised an unhealthy obsession with, and unwillingness to let go of, a protegee. And what do we make of murder victim Andy Lewis, down from the North-East. How well it will end for Fred and the Thursday family in two episodes’ time remains to be seen. Bright is retiring and he wants to see his men to safe harbour before he goes. The last time we were at Blenheim Vale in Series 2’s ‘ Add in the bent Soho police Fred encountered in last series’ ‘Scherzo’ (spot The Ostrich Fanciers’ Club card among Mickey Flood’s possessions?) and the stink of corruption that follows ex-copper Ronnie Box and any mention of Charlie Thursday around, and there’s a promising sense of building dread – helped in no small part by the tense string soundtrack provided by the Oxford Concert Orchestra. Whether it was the killer’s unconvincing wig that signalled her as suspicious from the off, or the unconvincing idea that anybody would rather commit murder than simply get a new job or break a friendship, the resolution felt rather arbitrary. until his offer to escort Miss Thursday to the next wedding in her diary meets the news that Joan’s next wedding will be her own.

As always, writer Russell Lewis is as equally invested in the emotional depths of these characters as the crime itself. MAMMOTH SCREEN FOR ITV ENDEAVOUR ...

Really, this final series is all about concluding the show’s solid work in laying foundations for But as Morse fans could predict, the success of rehab was short-lived and he was back in the pub after learning the gut-wrenching news that Thursday’s daughter, Joan – an ongoing potential love interest – was engaged to DS Jim Strange. For Morse, it meant everyone diplomatically enquiring about his “time away” (read: his spell in rehab to tackle his drinking problem). With a slimy orchestra manager, bitchy backstabbing from the musicians and a dictatorial conductor, there was plenty for our heroes to get their teeth stuck into. This was particularly distressing to Chief Superintendent Bright (Anton Lesser) who was thoroughly displeased to find the nastiness of London gangs infiltrating the otherwise If the much-loved Morse prequel must come to an end, a rousing on-screen score feels appropriate.

There are now only two more episode's of ITV's superb Morse prequel to go and we will miss Shaun Evans and Roger Allam's fine performances.

There is often a divide in Endeavour between the lead characters, who have emotional depth and complexity, and the ones who are only here for one episode and are often caricatures. Not my cup of lapsang.” One of the killings was carried out by a method that could have been plucked straight from an episode of The murder cases in Endeavour have never been the point. We know, obviously, that Morse will carry on policing for a very long time to come. Because this is the end: three episodes and then the show wraps up for good. "It’s a bit like planning your own funeral, really,” is how Russell Lewis, the writer of Endeavour (ITV1), described working on the final series.

The ninth and final series of “Endeavour” is bringing back an unresolved case from two series ago: the Blenheim Vale child abuse scandal.

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Shaun Evans, who plays Endeavour Morse, is a total catch on the detective drama- but what about real life? Find out if the star is in a relationship here.

"I'm totally gushing now, but as soon as I finished one of her books, I started it again, because I was so intoxicated with the atmosphere of it. However, he has previously joked about having a "crush" on Patti Smith after the American singer revealed that she enjoyed watching Endeavour. I just like to do my job and then go home and carry on with my life." Shaun was born on 6 March 1980 in Liverpool and has Irish parents. Here's everything you need to know about the TV star, from his acting career so far to his relationship history, and whether he is dating anyone at the moment... The [ninth and final and season](https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/20230216164483/endeavour-star-shaun-evans-heartbreaking-ending-character/) is set to commence on Sunday evening.

Endeavour fans were thrilled as series nine of the Inspector Morse spin-off returned to screens.

But can't help feeling something bad is going to go down with Thursday #endeavour." While @laura_jayne123 added: "Fantastic start to the series..... #endeavour." Fred asked before his boss cut in: "Well, in fact there is. [ITV](/latest/itv) viewers were also delighted to see the return of bent copper, Ronnie Box (Simon Harrison). [Endeavour ](/latest/endeavour)Morse (played by Shaun Evans) reuniting with Fred Thursday (Roger Allam) after taking some time off.

Well-loved ITV1 detective show Endeavour is back for its ninth series. Endeavour is a prequel to Inspector Morse and follows the life of young Inspector ...

What we wanted to do was to end Endeavour in a way that was fitting to all of the enormous work we had put into it over the last 10 years and also to all of the huge support we have had every year from the audience. The ninth series is set to bring an abrupt and dramatic end to Endeavour's relationship with the Thursday family as they are never mentioned in the later series of Inspector Morse. To leave people feeling emotionally satisfied." To not leave anybody feeling short changed. Many fans loved the show and are very happy to see its return on ITV1 on Sunday, February 26. And so his isolation and lonesomeness is completely cemented. He said: “I think Endeavour’s aloneness and isolation is cemented in this series. Shaun Evans, who has played Endeavour since the series began in 2013, said that Endeavour's aloneness and isolation is "cemented" in series nine. [ITV](https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/itv)1 detective show Endeavour is back for its ninth series. You can’t please all of the people all of the time. And that’s where I wanted to leave it. Endeavour is a prequel to Inspector Morse and follows the life of young Inspector Morse at the beginning of his career.